While melvinsky said: “Justice Carpio is one of martial law’s lost generation. If there was no martial law and no generations was lost he could have run and won as a senator of the republic in the early ’80s and by this time he now belongs to the senior leaders full of wisdom.”

melvinsky further adds: “I fervently hope and pray that Justice Carpio is one of the idealist”sleepers” , untainted and with moral ascendancy to elevate this nation from trapo politics. I admire Justice Carpio for standing up to pressure. I hate to think that there is a hidden agenda in his magnificent ponencia.”

Abe is a lawyer and he must be aware of buzz within the profession about who are the potential Chief Justices. As melvinsky points out, Justice Carpio belongs to martial law’s “lost generation” and he was detained for several months, right after martial law. However, the reason for his detention had more to do with Sigma Rho being involved in frat violence. As the head of Sigma Rho at the time, he took command responsibility for what happened and was consequently kept in detention. He missed a year of law school due to that incident, but still managed to graduate with honors and land among the bar topnotchers the following year.

It is doubtful, however, whether Justice Carpio would have ever run for the Senate, or any other elective position in government, since he shuns the public glare and is very protective about his family’s privacy. He could have had almost any position he wanted in the Ramos administration but instead chose the low-profile position of legal adviser. He probably also thought it was the best way to keep a close tab on FVR and to keep him out of mischief. And, to Carpio’s credit, when he realized that FVR’s ears were turning to other more enticing voices, he resigned without fanfare.

As to now belonging to a generation of “senior leaders full of wisdom”, that could be appropriate. And, at 57, Justice Carpio still has 13 more years on the bench. Plenty of time to become CJ someday. Whether the desire for the most exalted position a person in the legal profession can aspire for can become a “hidden agenda”, only time will tell.

You’re right. “ULAP maintains its unqualified support to the agenda of Her Excellency President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo for constitutional reforms.”

So that’s why she was hurt about “gigantic fraud” because it implied that Arroyo’s personal agenda included foisting another fraud on the people.

korek ka dyan. kaya let’s formulate an alternative intelligent line up. time to shake the rotten fruits off the tree.

I presume the picture is tasteless, but I haven’t looked at it and don’t intend to. It is best ignored for those who tolerate other forms of mocking religion (and that includes the Noli and the Fili, the films of Almadovar, the Daily Show, etc.). The petition is juveline and the ridiculous kind of reaction that makes a mockery of religion. Whatever he may be (a publicity hound, vacuous, tasteless, decadent, etc. to his critics) BB is not the AntiChrist.

A petititon to manifest displeasure with BB’s insensitivity to Christians would have been a moral obligation for practicing Christians but this particular petition trivializes any objections they may reasonably have.

where was this bryanboy educated? can this party animal truly be what he is–nothing more than an animal?