Kaban ni D_BystandeR: PANAHOM

Note: In reply to "farmerpo" whose comment in reaction to PDI editorial, "Finding Marcos loot," 

seems to belittle the case against the loot of the Marcoses now being handled by PCGG because 

of their having been elected to different electoral posts.

Your line of thinking seems to err on the side of one's populariy. After citing the Marcoses as hugging the "limelight" for becoming a senator, a representative and a governor, you ask a hypothetical question, "Magnanakaw ba yan?" For all you know, winning an elective position does not necessarily exculpate anybody of a wrong doing especially that the trial has been going on for more than two decades and with no end in sight. This Inquirer editorial laying a systematic approach so the public may know how far have we gone at this point is a move in the right direction. The PCGG should provide a comprehensive listing of "all the things" we want to recover as part of the loot and another list containing the cases we won and lost, and another 

detailing the on-going development on cases remaining and subject to litigation. The editorial 

cited its dismay that early this year, "locally, government efforts to recover the Marcos loot remain wanting  with the dismissal of the P50B ill-gotten wealth case against the Marcos and Ver families, former trade minister Roberto Ongpin, and the participants in the so-called Binondo central bank, which served  as an underground dollar market in the 1980s."  

In the States, even how high the position you occupy in the government, it is not a guarantee that you will not be tried in court if you commit "wrong doings." And one example of that is the recent conviction of the Governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, who was  sentenced to 14 years imprisonment.