It's time to throw pies at her. Again

*I just visited the website of our home organization (The Assembly) today, and little did I know that one of the stuff that I wrote was published. So, here is the article.

(sourced from here)

As President Macapagal-Arroyo’s immunity to impeachment complaints come to an end recently this October, it seems like the opposition, especially those who are against her, seem to be throwing their evil spells against the recently-vulnerable president.

And now that the president is finally vulnerable with impeachment complaints, here goes the opposition, doing all the things possible to oust the president. Is it a wise and worthy decision? Well not really, in what I am seeing now.

There are several factors that I oppose to such ouster of our current president. First of all, each impeachment complaint would mean and demand a lot of funds from the people who will complain, and given the fact that the whole world is suffering from a financial crisis, with the financial sector of the United States collapsing and going into a recession, getting funds would seem to be not easy. Well not unless the opposition makes a shortcut, that is, through corrupt ways like using the people’s money for their selfish desires of ousting the president where in fact I do not think people would like such idea. If ever they would do such, this would just result into a greater chaos, where people would go against these opposition members who have used every citizen’s hard-earned money for going against the president.

Second, impeaching the president is a stupid idea, considering that the elections are coming near already. Could the opposition bother to even wait it out instead of wasting precious money on impeachment complaints? Seriously, impeaching her prior to the elections plus the financial crisis the world is facing? I do not think that would sound really good to an ordinary citizen like me. For me, it is inappropriate for the people to launch such attempt at the premature way; it would be in fact better to just let the president do the best that she can possibly do in the next one or two years she has left. We all know that she has made a significant number of mistakes recently, like her recent approval of executive pardon to the cold-blooded murderer Claudio Teehankee Jr., but in my opinion, her last one or two years as president of the Philippines would be just enough (assuming she uses her remaining years wisely) for Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to make up for her mistakes.

I’m not being pro-Arroyo (nor am I anti-Arroyo), but for me, she has made both good things and bad things. We cannot say that she is corrupt per se, but let’s just give her a chance. Think of it this way: we all made good and bad deeds as well, right? So why impeach the president anyway.

And lastly, by impeaching the president prior to the elections would mean that our government will be the one to choose the replacement for Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo as she is impeached. This indeed becomes unjust to the masses, the masa, as they once again lose their rights on selecting their leader / president through elections, which happened during the impeachment of Joseph Estrada during People Power two.

So if I were the opposition, I would rather just sit down, chill and do things normally rather than standing up enraged and throwing pies at her simultaneously with other fellow opposition members. Let’s give her the last hurrah in her last years (hopefully) as president.