Malacañang is burning

In the last few months, President B. S. Aquino 3rd has managed to ignore completely the call coming from the National Transformation Council, and repeatedly articulated by its moral and spiritual leaders, for him to step down. The Council believes Aquino had “won” the presidency in an “illegitimate and illegal election” conducted by a foreign company (Smartmatic) on behalf of the Commission on Elections, (which has the exclusive mandate to conduct elections), using the precinct count optical scan machine, after it had been divested, in violation of law, of all its safety features and accuracy mechanisms. To them, therefore, he is no more than a de facto president.

In addition, Aquino has casually violated the Constitution, and gravely abused the pork barrel system, which the Supreme Court has declared unconstitutional, in order to corrupt and control Congress, the Commission on Elections and the other constitutional commissions, and to intimidate the Judicial Branch. He has become impeachable for culpable violation of the Constitution, bribery, graft and corruption, other high crimes and betrayal of public trust, and perhaps even treason, but has remained unimpeached simply because of his ‘pork’-fed relationship with the congressmen and senators, who alone have the power to impeach and remove the President.