Kaban ni D_BystandeR: DAGKONG KANTIDAD ANG GIBUHIAN ARON PAGHUGAWHUGAW NI BINAY

You can just imagine how a man who has taken in stride the insidious campaign initiated by the P-Noy administration against him to malign, insult and destroyhis reputation and most notably it is through the SBRC that took the lion's share in conducting the demolition job against him trying to chop him into pieces by conducting the longest Senate investigation ever made on a single person with all the charges that came up through what we call a "witch-hunting expedition" which is all directed against Binay and his family. And this constant display of excessive abuse of power by the P-Noy administration against the person of Binay has consequently eroded the honorable image and respectability not only of his own person but to the very office that Binay holds being the 2nd highest official of the land. And you can just easily recognize the disastrous effect of that shameless campaign against Binay that you can easily spot comments from different readers of news items in the internet that perhaps even the most wicked man in the street shows his disrespect by calling him names like, "Ikaw ay isang magnanakaw sa kaban ng bayan." And this has all resulted to reach to this point because the P-Noy administration is seen by the people not respecting the Office of the Vice President. And if VP Binay has reached his breaking point to resign from his Cabinet posts and to lash out against the P-Noy administration, it is just fitting and proper that he should do that. But we know, any person pitted against the President with all the awesome powers of the President at his command will be like a Quixotic effort. But at least the people will know that when somebody is already pushed against the wall, he has no other option and recourse but to fight back. And this is what VP Binay is doing right now. But as long as the election will be done in a clean, orderly and honest way to determine the real sentiment of the people, the 2016 elections will be anybody's guess and it cannot be claimed by the P-Noy administration as already "in the bag" for them, unless they will employ their "hocus pocus" to stay in power at all costs. But the people now are vigilant and they will not allow their rights trampled upon just by sitting down without putting up a decent fight for justice.

President Noynoy Aquino could now be troubled by his conscience why he has allowed his administration's "attack dogs" - Pimentel, Trillanes, and Cayetano - using SBRC as a convenient vehicle to malign, insult and destroy the reputation of VP Binay culminating in the filing of plunder charges against Binay in the Ombudsman after completing 21 sessions considered as the longest ever Senate investigation conducted against one person alone just  for the purpose of putting him out of the presidential race in 2016 elections so that Mar Roxas will have a smooth sailing to become his successor in Malacanang when he steps down from office in June 2016. He has no other one to blame but himself why VP Binay has finally decided to resign from his 2 Cabinet posts. And now, after sensing the resultant effect of Binay's resignation, Aquino still has the gall to claim innocence, claiming that he has given Binay all the necessary assistance for him not to become "a spare tire" in his administration by appointing him to the 2 sensitive spots in his Cabinet and yet this is all Binay gave to him in return. BS Aquino is still in his younger age at 54 and we cannot claim he is now a victim of old age sickness called dementia but he seems to be stricken with the loss of memory by failing to account how he gave his marching orders to his subalterns to destroy the reputation and political well-being of the man who has shown incomparable degree of loyalty and sincerity to his mother, President Cory, during her administration that was rocked with a series of "kudeta." Aquino's reasoning now given to explain his side cannot extricate him from his culpability in masterminding the similar plot against Binay intended to ruin him morally and politically that Binay has finally decided to burn the bridges of his friendly connection to Aquino's family during President Cory's time. We know VP Binay is aware of how important it is to stick to the memory of his lasting friendship and loyalty to President Cory, Aquino's mother, but the extreme realities that he is subjected to all the awesome powers of Malacanang to destroy him morally and politically because of Aquino's obsession that once Binay is out of the presidential race in 2016 elections, it will be a smooth sailing for his Mar  Roxas to become his successor in Malacanang. And this has all triggered Binay to resolutely decide to resign from his Cabinet posts.

Footnote: This comment came out in connection with a news item in Philstar, entitled, "Binay: Noy government inept, insensitive to people." It came out on June 24, 2015.