Kaban ni Lino Labra: NAKABAWI SI MANONG JOHNNY
Manong Johnny
I was in grade two when he announced the declaration of Martial Law over the radio. I heard his name often over the airlane but I had not seen him in the TV screen until I went to the city to study in 1981. My inclination to politics and law had something to do with my hatred to Enrile and his boss, Ferdinand Marcos. My father was a marginal farmer. Imposing coco levy on his meager income from coco was the reason why my father hated the triumvirante of Enrile, Marcos and Danding Cojuangco.
I often heard my father's favorite radio program hosted by Natalio Bacalso who fearlessly attacked Marcos and Enrile on issues related or not to Martial Law. From my father, I learned to hate Enrile and his Martial Law buddies.
When I was recruited by militant student organization while a college student in the city, I did not have a second thought of joining their ranks. The first rally that I attended on December 8, 1982 was against Enrile's visit in Cebu. I remembered having shouted words and slogan against him but I was certain that we were not heard because on the following day, the issues that we raised in the streets were not given the courtesy of attention from him as Marcos' top cabinet secretary.
When he became one of the EDSA heroes, my hatred melted into dislike. When he turned into the side of the rebellion against Cory's administration, the more he was the politician that I wanted to hit in the list to be assasinated.
Of all the things he had done and undone in our country, I was wondering why many people still love him and adore him as a political personality. One of his avid fans is my partner in the law office whose hairdo, dermeanor and mannerism in arguing in court are copy cat of Manong Johnny.
I could not recall of having voted for him once in any electoral exercises in the country after EDSA REVOLUTION. But when I watched him as presiding officer of the impeachment court of the Chief Justice, my admiration on him started to unfold its wings.
There were several occasions that I was not in comformity with him on the interpretation of the rules and too much liberality in its application to accommodate the respondent's opportunity to be heard. He appeared to be biased against the prosecution whose lackadaisical performance so deserving to be chastised for inefficiency in legal homework.
I was predicting that he would vote for acquittal but he surprised me even more on his speech as justification of his guitly verdict. In reaction to the plan of the defense to bring the decision of the Senate to the Supreme Court via a petition for certiorari, he did not have a qualm of challenging them to square off with the Senate on this constitutional issues. He warned them of a constitutional crisis for he is prepared not to honor any decision of the Supreme Court on issue of exclusivity of the jurisdiction of the Senate over impeachment cases.
At the age of 87 years old, he remains sharp as legal luminary of the country. As veteran politician, he had already carved a niche in the political history of the Philippine politics that no one among the young and old generation of poticians of his time worthy to tie the lace of his sandal in the path of public service.
(Bug-os ang pasalamat sa KAHAYAG ngadto sa nagsulat niining artikulo nga si ATTY. PAULINO B. LABRADO, Senior Partner sa P.B. LABRADO and PARTNERS. Magsusulat ug magpaambitan siya sa iyang mga hunahuna mahitungod sa nagkalain-laing hisgotanan nga makita sa maukiton niyang mata ug mga kasikas nga madungog sa iyang maabtikong dunggan.)
Manong Johnny
I was in grade two when he announced the declaration of Martial Law over the radio. I heard his name often over the airlane but I had not seen him in the TV screen until I went to the city to study in 1981. My inclination to politics and law had something to do with my hatred to Enrile and his boss, Ferdinand Marcos. My father was a marginal farmer. Imposing coco levy on his meager income from coco was the reason why my father hated the triumvirante of Enrile, Marcos and Danding Cojuangco.
I often heard my father's favorite radio program hosted by Natalio Bacalso who fearlessly attacked Marcos and Enrile on issues related or not to Martial Law. From my father, I learned to hate Enrile and his Martial Law buddies.
When I was recruited by militant student organization while a college student in the city, I did not have a second thought of joining their ranks. The first rally that I attended on December 8, 1982 was against Enrile's visit in Cebu. I remembered having shouted words and slogan against him but I was certain that we were not heard because on the following day, the issues that we raised in the streets were not given the courtesy of attention from him as Marcos' top cabinet secretary.
When he became one of the EDSA heroes, my hatred melted into dislike. When he turned into the side of the rebellion against Cory's administration, the more he was the politician that I wanted to hit in the list to be assasinated.
Of all the things he had done and undone in our country, I was wondering why many people still love him and adore him as a political personality. One of his avid fans is my partner in the law office whose hairdo, dermeanor and mannerism in arguing in court are copy cat of Manong Johnny.
I could not recall of having voted for him once in any electoral exercises in the country after EDSA REVOLUTION. But when I watched him as presiding officer of the impeachment court of the Chief Justice, my admiration on him started to unfold its wings.
There were several occasions that I was not in comformity with him on the interpretation of the rules and too much liberality in its application to accommodate the respondent's opportunity to be heard. He appeared to be biased against the prosecution whose lackadaisical performance so deserving to be chastised for inefficiency in legal homework.
I was predicting that he would vote for acquittal but he surprised me even more on his speech as justification of his guitly verdict. In reaction to the plan of the defense to bring the decision of the Senate to the Supreme Court via a petition for certiorari, he did not have a qualm of challenging them to square off with the Senate on this constitutional issues. He warned them of a constitutional crisis for he is prepared not to honor any decision of the Supreme Court on issue of exclusivity of the jurisdiction of the Senate over impeachment cases.
At the age of 87 years old, he remains sharp as legal luminary of the country. As veteran politician, he had already carved a niche in the political history of the Philippine politics that no one among the young and old generation of poticians of his time worthy to tie the lace of his sandal in the path of public service.
(Bug-os ang pasalamat sa KAHAYAG ngadto sa nagsulat niining artikulo nga si ATTY. PAULINO B. LABRADO, Senior Partner sa P.B. LABRADO and PARTNERS. Magsusulat ug magpaambitan siya sa iyang mga hunahuna mahitungod sa nagkalain-laing hisgotanan nga makita sa maukiton niyang mata ug mga kasikas nga madungog sa iyang maabtikong dunggan.)
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| Manong Johnny |
I was in grade two when he announced the declaration of Martial Law over the radio. I heard his name often over the airlane but I had not seen him in the TV screen until I went to the city to study in 1981. My inclination to politics and law had something to do with my hatred to Enrile and his boss, Ferdinand Marcos. My father was a marginal farmer. Imposing coco levy on his meager income from coco was the reason why my father hated the triumvirante of Enrile, Marcos and Danding Cojuangco.
I often heard my father's favorite radio program hosted by Natalio Bacalso who fearlessly attacked Marcos and Enrile on issues related or not to Martial Law. From my father, I learned to hate Enrile and his Martial Law buddies.
When I was recruited by militant student organization while a college student in the city, I did not have a second thought of joining their ranks. The first rally that I attended on December 8, 1982 was against Enrile's visit in Cebu. I remembered having shouted words and slogan against him but I was certain that we were not heard because on the following day, the issues that we raised in the streets were not given the courtesy of attention from him as Marcos' top cabinet secretary.
When he became one of the EDSA heroes, my hatred melted into dislike. When he turned into the side of the rebellion against Cory's administration, the more he was the politician that I wanted to hit in the list to be assasinated.
Of all the things he had done and undone in our country, I was wondering why many people still love him and adore him as a political personality. One of his avid fans is my partner in the law office whose hairdo, dermeanor and mannerism in arguing in court are copy cat of Manong Johnny.
I could not recall of having voted for him once in any electoral exercises in the country after EDSA REVOLUTION. But when I watched him as presiding officer of the impeachment court of the Chief Justice, my admiration on him started to unfold its wings.
There were several occasions that I was not in comformity with him on the interpretation of the rules and too much liberality in its application to accommodate the respondent's opportunity to be heard. He appeared to be biased against the prosecution whose lackadaisical performance so deserving to be chastised for inefficiency in legal homework.
I was predicting that he would vote for acquittal but he surprised me even more on his speech as justification of his guitly verdict. In reaction to the plan of the defense to bring the decision of the Senate to the Supreme Court via a petition for certiorari, he did not have a qualm of challenging them to square off with the Senate on this constitutional issues. He warned them of a constitutional crisis for he is prepared not to honor any decision of the Supreme Court on issue of exclusivity of the jurisdiction of the Senate over impeachment cases.
At the age of 87 years old, he remains sharp as legal luminary of the country. As veteran politician, he had already carved a niche in the political history of the Philippine politics that no one among the young and old generation of poticians of his time worthy to tie the lace of his sandal in the path of public service.
(Bug-os ang pasalamat sa KAHAYAG ngadto sa nagsulat niining artikulo nga si ATTY. PAULINO B. LABRADO, Senior Partner sa P.B. LABRADO and PARTNERS. Magsusulat ug magpaambitan siya sa iyang mga hunahuna mahitungod sa nagkalain-laing hisgotanan nga makita sa maukiton niyang mata ug mga kasikas nga madungog sa iyang maabtikong dunggan.)
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