Kaban ni D_BystandeR: ANG SUBO NGA KAMATUORAN SA PAKISUSI SA SENADO

It's a sad reality that people who are believed more "influenced" by the BRSC inquiry against Binay are now clamoring for Binay to submit himself to the mercy of the BRSC (BlueRibbon Sub-Committee), whose panelists, Trillanes and Cayetano, are already widely known and perceived to have prejudged Binay, regardless of whether Binay will attend their sponsored inquiry or not. Binay has already answered point by point all the charges hurled against him in the PICC forum. We have to be guided by the reality that this BRSC inquiry is only  made "in aid of legislation." It has no power to declare guilt or innocence except that it has in its hands ample power to destroy somebody's image the way it wants to do. The panelists have all the parliamentary powers in their hands to favor the accuser or to deliberately cut off a testimony of a witness they believed he comes to represent Binay in a manner that the said witness will lose his bearing for he is being unjustly demonized. Ernesto Mercado is given a "red-carpet" treatment by the two panelist even if what Mercado is doing is to dump all manufactured and unsubstantiated allegations against Binay.and before the TV audience it is easy to destroy Binay's name just like what Mercado is doing now. But can you trust Mercado? As he was pictured by a testimony of a former Makati City Administrator, this man - Mercado - is a kind of gambler who is ready to sell his soul to the devil, just so he can go on with his gambling binge! He lost millions in the casino and now he just wants to destroy Binay with the kind of evil motive that a gambler of his stature can do. The case against Binay is already in the Ombudsman and let us wait for the proper court to handle its own investigation based on the accepted legal procedures where the accused is given the chance to present his side to refute and disprove all the charges filed against him. And besides, this Senate inquiry is only wasting the taxpayers money to the tune of P50M per day. And we cannot afford to squander our limited resources  just to go on endlessly with this useless political circus exhibited by politicians of the ruling party to destroy the chances of Binay to become the next Malacanang caretaker when P-Noy's term expires in 2016. When P-Noy asked Drilon to windup the senate inquiry to redirect its efforts to more fruitful legislative agenda to solve more pressing problems affecting the nation and the people, maybe the President has already realized how our lawmakers have just wasted the  golden opportunity to work for more meaningful focus to improve the lot of the common man. The President's message is a wake-up call to the Senate leadership under Drilon to shape up or ship out!

Footnote: This comment came out in reply to somebody using a name of "jvv123" which appeared in Cebu Daily News in a news item, headlined, "Binay and Drilon." It came out on 11/18/14.