After the spectacle at the House of Representatives and the foiled attempt of the allies of the Arroyo government to convene a constituent assembly without the participation of the senate, Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Oscar Cruz has only one thing to say – “it’s time for the national leadership to go.”

“The logical conclusion is but-one: it appears that the time has come for the national leadership to go, to renounce the office, to move somewhere, to leave everything behind,” he said.

Cruz cited the many “serious and standing socio-moral predicaments and political adversities” confronting the Arroyo government as it “continues to be accused of lying, cheating and stealing, the long hanging threat of impeachment proceedings, the actual worsening economy notwithstanding all loud and repeated official protestations to the contrary,  people’s hunger grows while their death for lack of medicine multiplies and there is not only less education available for the children but also less educated youth.”

He noted the President’s often failed attempts at “having power more than that allowed by law” and pointed to the “fast becoming gun-powder mentality that translates into many and still continuing political killings and disappearances.”

He said the resurgence of “more and more rallies of dissent plus bigger and bigger marches of contempt” against the national leadership and that it has even become “the target not only of creative jokes but also the object of sickening texts”.

Cruz also said its pretence at “super regions” is simply met with super typhoons. “Pure coincidence or actual design, there are one too many natural disasters coupled with many man-made calamities”, he said.

Cruz also cited problems on illegal drugs, illegal gambling, graft and corruption that continue to hound the national leadership.

He described the latest failed charter change effort as a “desperate government plan of changing the fundamental law of the land – for any and all conceivable reasons except the common welfare.”

“There must be another planet where those possessed and obsessed proponents of CHA-CHA (Charter Change) come from to preach that national abundance, progress and development are necessarily connected with a parliamentary form of government,” he said.

Cruz also chided the Arroyo government for canceling the ASEAN summit “for simple climatic reasons.”

“National leadership: time to go?” Cruz asked. — EVA

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