Be the best!!!

Struggling to be the best! That’s how I’ve known our great senator is,Miriam Santiagao--- intelligent, sharp and now in denial. In denial of what she became. She had gone too far. She is known of twisting facts--- as well as denying the obvious situation.

The eccentric lady senator is claiming that the Supreme Court did not censure her when it stressed in its recent decision that she had “undoubtedly cross[ed] the limits of decency and good professional conduct” when she called the Tribunal’s members “a Supreme Court of idiots.”

How can she deny the fact that she wasn’t censured by the high court when it pointed out that she had violated Canon 8 and Canon 11 of the Code of Professional Responsibility, which enjoins lawyers from using abusive and offensive language and from disrespecting the courts and judicial officers?

The Court’s decision was based on a privilege speech she delivered in the Senate in 2006 after the Judicial and Bar Council struck her name from the short list of nominees for the post vacated by Chief Justice Artemio Panganiban. The JBC had then ruled that non-Supreme Court justices were ineligible to vie for the post of Chief Justice.

“The court wishes to express its deep concern about the language Senator Santiago, a member of the bar, used in her speech and its effects on the administration of justice,” the high tribunal said in its decision.

Moreover, the Supreme Court noted that her colleagues in the Senate had failed to discipline Santiago for her improper remarks.

It said “her peers bent over backwards and avoided imposing their own rules on her.”
Santiago had chosen to overlook all these statements which clearly showed the high tribunal’s disapproval of her behaviour and said that instead of censuring her, the Court even praised her! She had deliberately taken the Court’s words out of context to suit her purpose. In the proper context, the Court’s words meant that it had expected more out of Santiago when it comes to exhibiting proper decorum and behavior, given her achievements as a lawyer.

I wouldn’t deny the fact that I voted her—for being a true and loyal genuine Ilongga she is--- now, I am ashamed of what she did and is still doing! And I am talking it aloud, I vouch not to be an ally in any way I could, for her and for her kind.a