The vox populi, vox Dei scenario

MANY are afraid the Senate Electoral Tribunal will declare Sen. Grace Poe Llamanzares not a natural-born Filipino and therefore not eligible under the Constitution to sit in the Senate or seek the presidency. The SET chairman, Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio, has already said so. Carpio has not ruled for the SET, but the ruling when it comes, unless politicized by the senator-judges, cannot possibly be much different from his statement. Yet the promoters of Mrs. Llamanzares’s unconstitutional candidacy seem unfazed by this distinct probability. They seem to believe that with their power and money they could put her name on the ballot before the Supreme Court rules her ineligible for the office. Then supported by all the fraudulent surveys, and the rigged voting machines, all they have to do is shout, “vox populi, vox Dei!” (the voice of the people is the voice of God!”

Both Mrs. Llamanzares and her intended running mate, Sen. Francis Escudero, already gave us a foretaste, a preview of it when they announced their bid for president and vice president respectively, by invoking the grace of God to bless a constitutionally abhorrent act. Escudero went one step further by invoking the blessing of the Virgin Mary, whom Catholics revere as “the Mother of the Son of God” in an apparent effort to identify with the vast Catholic majority whose fight for human life, the family and their right to practice their faith without the intervention of the apostate Aquino government has never enjoyed his support.