In the run-up to the presidential election, Aquino has been busy maneuvering to ensure that the candidate who wins the presidency is one who will not do what he did to President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo – cast him in jail and file plunder and other cases against him.


This is why he practically commanded the Liberal Party leadership to install Mar Roxas as the presidential standard-bearer. This is why BS has never stopped courting the favors of Grace Poe and stealthily maneuvering to replace Roxas with Poe as the administration candidate.


The the other candidates – Binay, Duterte and Santiago – do not declare that, if elected, they will work to bring BS to account.


They are afraid of what Aquino will unleash on them if they dare say that they will strive to put BS in jail, and will keep him there until convicted.


Imagine one candidate taking up this daunting challenge – solemnly declaring to jail Aquino. It will be front-page news for days. The cases that can be filed are many.


He or she would promise to create an independent commission to investigate the full extent of abuse, corruption, graft, negligence, incompetence and mismanagement of the nation's affairs by the Aquino administration.


The probe would be a kind of autopsy and strategic audit of the Aquino presidency.


The new administration will make Aquino pay for Mamasapano, Kidapawan, Zamboanga, Hacienda Luisita, the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP), the Malampaya fund mess, the administration's record in the handling of extra-judicial killings, murders of journalists, and other abominations.

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BS Aquino is the one most Filipinos want to see on the rack, because he has been vicious and relentless in inflicting pain and misery on those whom he considered his rivals or enemies.


He never wore the nation's flag pin on his chest; he defiantly used instead his family's crest and symbol. Yellow, one doctor has told me, is the color of bile. And bilious is the adjective that most aptly describes BS Aquino's six years of leadership and management of this country.


Some politicians, notably Bongbong Marcos, have forsworn a policy of retribution toward Aquino, because it will condemn the nation to perpetual bitterness and conflict. The nation will be impossible to unite; and the society will not change.


But others say that it is not right for public officials to get away with their transgressions and abuses in office. The Catholic doctrine of forgiveness is too easy and lenient.


In reaction to the spectacle of Binay and Duterte pledging to send each other to jail and examining the substance of these pledges, it occurred to me that sending BS Aquino to jail is far more interesting and worthy of serious consideration.


I daresay that the candidate who pledges to put BS in jail will be swamped by votes.


Let us see whether there is a candidate out there who has the courage of conviction to make this pledge.



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More votes, more worthwhile, if they pledge to jail Aquino instead, <a href="http://www.manilatimes.net/more-votes-more-worthwhile-if-they-pledge-to-jail-aquino-instead/256354/" class="news_link" target="_blank" title="Source">Yen Makabenta, http://www.manilatimes.net/, April 16, 2016</a>
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Serious pledge to jail Noynoy Aquino will generate more votes for candidate