EROSION OF FAITH IN THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM

JUNE 30, 2016  SALUTATION Dear Chief Justice Sereno, et al: MESSAGE As magistrates of the PHILIPPINE SUPREME COURT concerned about  the social ills profoundly discussed by President Duterte,  you have in your discretion to accept or deny the fact that  there is peoples' erosion of faith in our judicial system, as part of the real problems confronting the nation today.   You might have listened to the sound bite or read notes regarding this issue but to reiterate the president's  lamentations I have the excerpts provided especially for you: "There are many among us who advance the assessment the problems that bedevil our country today which need to be addressed with urgency are  CORRUPTION both in high and low echelons of government,  CRIMINALITY in the streets, and  the rampant sale of ILLEGAL DRUGS in all strata of Philippine society  and the breakdown of LAW AND ORDER True but not absolutely so, for I say these ills are symptoms of a viral social disease  that creeps and cuts into the moral fiber of Philippine society.  I sense a problem deeper and more serious than than any of those  mentioned, or all of them put together, but of course, it is not to say that we will ignore them,  because they have to be stopped by means, by all means that the law allows.   Erosion of faith and trust in the government, THAT IS THE REAL PROBLEM that confronts us, resolving that from,  I see the erosion of the peoples' trust in our country's leaders,  the EROSION OF FAITH IN OUR JUDICIAL SYSTEM,  the erosion of confidence in the capacity of our public servants to make the peoples' lives BETTER, SAFER AND HEALTHIER. " _President Rodrigo Roa Duterte from his Inaugural  speech  June 30, 2016 The president, in case you deny the veracity of his observations and continued to preserve the status quo for your own client and personal benefit and interest and relentlessly resumed your corrupt and wicked ways and farther fanned the flames engulfing the remaining pillars of faith the people have in you, then, he may,  as expected resort to the political options of impeachment as  means to catapult reforms in the judicial system as maybe necessary.   In this regard,  you may want to re-evaluate your position regarding the manner you are treating me. Time is on my side. Every ticks file up to my benefit as it amounts to prolonged and sustained pain and injury, you,  with evil motive,  meant and intended against me and my family and convincingly serve as evidence of collusion between you and Shell being having unity of purpose,  through your grave abuse of discretion, to perpetuate the injustice,  pain and suffering to my family and myself which we are are experiencing since 2003 up to the present time. May you be guided by the following:  "SEC 200_ Where-ever law ends, tyranny begins, if the law be transgressed to another's harm; and whosoever in authority exceeds the power given him by the law, and makes use of the force he has under his command, to compass that upon the subject, which the law allows not, ceases in that to be a magistrate; and, acting without authority, may be opposed, as any other man, who by force invades the right of another. This is acknowledged in subordinate magistrates. He that hath authority to seize my person in the street, may be opposed as a thief and a robber, if he endeavours to break into my house to execute a writ, notwithstanding that I know he has such a warrant, and such a legal authority, as will impower him to arrest me abroad. And why this should not hold in the highest, as well as in the most inferior magistrate, I would gladly be informed. Is it reasonable, that the eldest brother, because he has the greatest part of his father's estate, should thereby have a right to take away any of his younger brothers portions? or that a rich man, who possessed a whole country, should from thence have a right to seize, when he pleased, the cottage and garden of his poor neighbour? The being rightfully possessed of great power and riches, exceedingly beyond the greatest part of the sons of Adam, is so far from being an excuse, much less a reason, for rapine and oppression, which the endamaging another without authority is, that it is a great aggravation of it: for the exceeding the bounds of authority is no more a right in a great, than in a petty officer; no more justifiable in a king than a constable; but is so much the worse in him, in that he has more trust put in him, has already a much greater share than the rest of his brethren, and is supposed, from the advantages of his education, employment, and counsellors, to be more knowing in the measures of right and wrong."         _ John Locke : Second Treatise of Civil Government,           Chapter xviii : Of  Tyranny May this message serves as the 28th PERSUASIVE APPEAL for you to reconsider your position with respect to your appreciation of cases GR-183273 and AC-10084 and institute through your own volition disciplinary actions against erring guardians of law in relation to the cases mentioned as preliminary to showing convincing evidences proving that the court is not acting in collusion with Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Corporation,  its officers and managers, jointly and severally,  to perpetuate pain and suffering and  injustice against me and my family. Otherwise, you all, are in admission of the act of collusion between Shell, her lawyers and you, having unity of purpose,  to perpetuate injustice, pain and suffering against me and my family, as charged. Sincerely, Antonio L. Buensuceso Jr.