Dear Sister Flory,
I almost gave up on the impeachment process. I thought it was going nowhere. The defense team was succeeding in their suppression of evidences. The prosecution was fumbling all over the place. Some Senator-Judges were openly showing their dogged resolve to literally look the other way as the impeached pretender to the position of Chief Justice trampled on the very basic tenets of integrity and honesty. Like you, I had left it to the Good Lord to do justice in His own time.
But then your family, most especially you, came along. God indeed works in mysterious ways! The lawyers of Mr Corona and their misguided followers have done and will continue to do everything to discredit you, short of calling you a lying senile and disgruntled relative who wants more money. I saw your interview on TV, and you have that serenity about you. It is a peace of mind and soul that only true forgiveness can bring about. But you also have that resoluteness in your voice – firm, truthful and honest. You said charity made you forgive the Coronas, but truth and justice compels you to speak up and let the people confront the truth about Mr Renato Corona.
God has not only been good to you, He has shown even more compassion to us the Filipino people. While a lot of people your age would have been beset with illnesses of both body and mind, you have been blest with good health and a mind still so sharp and lucid. It is not so for no reason, I am sure. When the battle seemed lost, you came forth like a shining star to remind us not to lose hope. God allowed you to outlive your siblings so that the truth may be proclaimed in all its brutal glory, and not in the convoluted version being peddled to us by those who seek to block our nation’s search for justice.
Thank you for your courage in proclaiming the truth. Mr Corona might have succeeded in having his character flaws overlooked by the Judicial and Bar Council when he was planted by Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in the Supreme Court. He might have pushed his luck too far when he got his minions in the SC to legitimize his midnight appointment. I do not think he will be able to shut out the flames of truth that you now so resolutely hold in your hands. While they have everything to lose and will do anything and everything to cover up their lies, you only have your faith in God and his abiding fidelity to his promise that His justice will be supreme over all human frailties.
If it is not too much to ask, we will be forever grateful if you will do us a great favour – please take the witness stand. Please tell this nation how this man who claims the exalted position of Chief Justice as his unalienable right has done injustice to his own kin for more than 30 years. Please tell our Senators, who have been vested by our sovereign will with power in order to protect our nation’s interest, how the same power when wielded by someone who do not have the probity, integrity and moral uprightness not to be drowned by it can abuse the same to inflict harm on the very people he is supposed to serve and protect. You, who are old and weak, you whose only weapon is the truth, can teach our power-tripping Senators a most valuable lesson in humility and fairness.
I know it might be too much to ask from a frail, 90 year old servant of the Lord. But the stakes are too high – our future and those of the generations to come. If we allow this travesty to pass, we would have sold our souls to the devil. What are we teaching to our children? That as long as you can justify it in the rules of court, it is okay to be to be dishonest? That it is okay to do wrong as long as you can win it in court? That it is okay to do away with morals and the sense of what is right and what is wrong as long as there are good lawyers that you can pay to twist the facts and suppress the truth? Is this what we want for our country? Please say it isn’t so Sister Flory. For your family’s and for our country’s sake, please say it isn’t so.
And before I end this rather long letter, I would like to assure you that in case you do decide to take the witness stand and if Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago dare try to scare you off with her histrionics and self-serving plaudits to her perceived superior intelligence, and God forbids that something bad happens to you, I will march on the street even if I should do it by my lonesome self, and demand that God open up the ocean and swallow the entire Senate and everyone else who have dragged this country into the dark abyss.God is with you. We are with you. All right thinking Filipinos should be with you. Let us not stay in the dark. You have the light. Lead us to our redemption as a nation. God Bless you Sister Flory.
Sincerely,
Den
http://muntingtinigngpateros.blogspot.com/2012/03/open-letter-to-sister-flory-basa.html
NOTE: “Den” is Dennis Garcia of Hotdog fame.
I support you all the way. Truth needs to come out of this mess. Truth cannot be trampled upon by legal technicalities. Sis Flory needs our support and prayers.
Mr. Renato Corona mentioned that the family argument of his wife happened almost 30 years ago. It only proved that they have NOT change. The Coronas are still doing what they were doing 3o years ago. Are they trying to get more than what they deserve. The timing of this interview about their family problem is very timely. I wonder how Mr. Corona can get away with this.
Here is the classic confrontation of good and evil, between the devil and an ageless angel. Just look at his eyes. He looks like him.
Truth shall set us free. Let Sister Flory Basa subtly point out what is the “real truth” for the Senate to decide more objectively. Some members are putting a lot of mad into these basic truths that confuse the whole Filipino public. Let us continue to pray so we may have light at the end of this impeachment tunnel. Thank you sister Flory for your gentle light to show us the truth about the SJ and his wife real personalities.
Putulan daw ng leeg si Corona para siya mapaalis sa pwesto!
Yan ba ang Chief Justice na ang lenguahe ay pang-kanto lang at gamit ng mga siga-siga!
Mahiya naman tayo na ganyang uri ang asal at pagkatao ng naturingang Chief Justice!
CJ Corona mentioned that it happened almost 3 decades ago. So what? I think majority of the
Filipino people does not know what abuses you done to the kin of your in-laws. We just learned from the mouth of 90 years old Sister, who i think will not tell lies. I hope one of the Senator judge will invite Sr. Flory to tell the honorable court the truth.
I would just like to make a clarification on the note written by the editor of this blog. I am the original author of this open letter, and I am not Dennis Garcia of the “Hotdog” fame. I am just an ordinary concerned citizen, not a famous personality as Mr Garcia is.
Sister Flory we are all behind you. We believe in your truthfulness and sincerity. Your words will carry much weight against the CJ. God Bless you Sister Flory. Mabuhay Ka!
sinungaling na madre, matanda na sinungaling pa rin.
SANTIAGO IS BAD NEWS…..
HER EYES LOOKS LIKE CORONA
@ Romy Mindo Its true Santiago looks like Corona now.But I believe she still has a mind and heart to know between evil and truth…
Yes, the impeachment court should allow these gracious ladies tell their stories about the Corona couple. It may not make a lot impact on the decision of the senator judges but it may make a difference on the presentation of the true character of these people.
When the hand of God takes charge, the unforseen and the unimaginable happen. Let the learned speak, and those with conscience watch; however, those who cannot say anything, or powerless to compete with the perceived experts stay aside and make way for the truth to move forward and be unveiled… should anyone insist to be stumbling blocks.. God have mercy on you and your families.
Sister Flory, All that is needed for the forces of EViL to succeed is for good men to remain silent.
I believe that this impeachment is a battle between good and evil. You know who is evil group there that sold their souls to Satan and thereby make the Filipino nation in forever misery. There is no way to solve the problem except for all of us Filipinos to work for the Philippine Statehood to USA. If we remain as a Filipino Nation, we will reach nothing, decade after decade,the issues change colors but the substance remain the same because we don’t have the honest and sincere sympathy towards each other considering our mixed culture and mixed ideologies.
Dami pla AB-Noy supporters nagcocomment d2.
tama dave, marami silang naloko sa mga aquino, mostly mga tagalog. pati madre sinali na nila. singaling na madre.