Mood swing of the Justice System

Haven't you notice why is that the symbol of the justice system of the Philippines is a woman carrying a balance?

I am from the judiciary but I myself has not inquired into this seemingly superficial detail, until this morning in the middle of my reading when all other people are soundly asleep. It dawned to me yes it deems fit why the justice system embraced the figure of a woman as its symbol.

The Theory of Mood Swings. Yes. You read it right.

Judiciary ranks in the same footing as women does if we are to qualify both in the scale of mood wings.
Both will champ the scale surely.

Woman are so unpredictable in all ways. They have a very complicated mind and a very hard to comprehend attitude. This nature is inherent on us. No woman can ever disagree that they have their own ways of annoying their spouse, their family, their friends or even themselves. Usually, mood swing is something that is expected from us. And most of the time, this also serves as a good alibi whenever your guy quarrels or argues with us.

Judiciary, likewise, seems to be characterized by mood swings. The system to which the law revolves is a very complex one. Even though there is the Constitution that guides the three branches of government, there is the Rules of Court that supervises procedures, there is the Civil Code and the other Civil Laws that watches the private relationship of the people, there is the Revised Penal Code that limits the conduct of the society and other divisions of law thereof, it seems that all these are never enough to create a justice system that is strict to its rules and straightly bounded to the laws and statutes. Perusal of the jurisprudence and the cases precedent as well as decisions promulgated and issues that has been resolved would reveal that justice is characterized by mood swings like that of the women, only herewith it clothed the expression that system were just being subjected to the various interpretations of the application of the law

I see nothing wrong in mood swings. Being a disclaimer as it may seem, this is natural occurrence and this is just admitting that we are all human and that we are bounded by the limited and finite capability to understand everything.

What is just being stressed here is that the justice system should be aware that constant changes from the interpretations of one law is disturbing as it is annoying for a woman to change mind and attitude as quick as one blink of an eye.

I am proud to be a public servant

Today at the bank, I was asked by a personally known teller when will there be a vacancy of position in our office. I sadly informed her that maybe not in the near future will there be a vacant item in our sala. At most that she can hoped to is if our clerk of court will be promoted if ever he passed the bar exam. And by then of course a tedious procedure will still happen as there will be a reshuffle among the positions inside our office. While I was at the middle of my explanation, she suddenly remarked that that really is how government offices are ( Ganyan talaga sa gobyerno.) It then came to me that people think that we are like crawling insects who just stick to their jobs no matter what happen and not human being who have qualifications to be promoted and earn positions for ourselves. It appears to me that citizens think government employees, like I am, are just easy workers who are not serious on our job. I was hurt by that snide remark. May be she did not realize that I am sensitive when it comes to issues like degrading the capabilities of government employees. That is why I opt to stand on my position that we deserve our job. 

We give back to you by means of service what you people pay for us. Yes, we are not like private staffs that usually devote their lunch breaks at their desks working, but we work hard with the compensation that usually is not enough and boarders to being meager.

Yes we are not like the private companies that are usually quick and fast when it comes to service but will you blame us if in the first place we are very much exhausted working in a hell like place where we stay for eight hours (or less) together with the termites and all those pests dwelling with us in our offices. 

Yes, we might not be as effective as your fortune 500 companies but we are the one doing all the jobs that enables them to at least have a policy that would look over all their graft and money making practices.               

You may degrade our being as simple and humble public servant but you cannot also refrain me from talking back that we deserve to be here. I may even say that maybe that snide remark is just a sign of jealousy because I belong to this elite team.

Crime is a result of poverty.

In the Philippines, the crime rate need not to be tabulated but rather observed. Watching the news you will see how Filipinos crime rate is increasing. News with police reports is airing more time now than it was before. Due to increase in robbery, petty theft, riots, murders, homicides and crime lists goes on.

But what I wanted to point out is this, crime as a result of poverty. It boils down to the question, why are these Filipinos doing such a lowly act? Why are they comprising their life outside the prison bars? 

The answer is they have no other choice. 

Take this for instance, if your family is well provided, your children all going to a quality school, you and your wife working in a stable job, you have the basic necessities and some sort of luxury, what is it that would make you kill a man for his wallet? None right? You need not to fight your conscience in robbing a man and getting him killed because he fought back because in the first place you need not to.

But, in the case of a father, who needs to pay the bill of his wife whom had just given birth to their ninth child and need to provide for his eight other offspring food on their table, have no other choice because he had no other job after his contract ended from a construction firm for being a contractual contractor. His only other option he can think of with his empty stomach is to rob that naive looking young professional.

You see the difference between the two? Crime is a result of poverty. And I don't attribute the blame of the increase in crime rate on Filipinos; rather I pity them because they are victims of their own government. Their own government watching their constituents either die with empty stomachs or die behind bars with empty pockets.

  At last our "short-list" of the next Chief Justice of the Philippines is out for the President to decide whether whom will be fitted for the job. The short list submitted by the Judicial and Bar Council. (See link http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/08/13/12/de-lima-out-cj-shortlist-source

Technically, this short list doesn't seem like a short list to me. How come they came up with 8 candidates when in fact they promised to deliver maximum of 5 nominees. Does the JBC played safe in this choice? My god, they deliberated for almost a month and then came up with this crap. I don't know, but I feel they should have at least trimmed down their supposed to be "short list" to at least two or three nominees for the president to choose from. Where is our taxes going? You guys are paid to do your job, well as a taxpayer, may I ask, did you deliver???

I have the impression that you just came up with a list that would say "Oh, at least you were in for the short-list". I mean, does that short list serves as a consolation prize for the nominees.
Nominees, when you accepted the nomination for the Chief Justice post, you should know the rule, that only one of you will be appointed by the President! This is not a politicking supposedly.

And then there's the other one, sour graping around the corner. Getting interviews of some sort and saying that she was singled out. Well, I think you deserve to be singled out. In the first place, you should not have been nominated, the heck happening to this country. Don't you have at least the delicadeza to not accept the nomination? And for accepting the ominous nomination, that should be your trophy.

Peace Be With Us

I wrote this emotionally disturbed , so pardon, if I offended anyone with anything. Anyway, this is a free country and sorry for you that I have the right to say anything that I wanted to, even if it is grammatically wrong. :p

  Last night, I was able to start reading my very first criminal law lesson. Criminal law as it was defined, crime as it was discussed, sources of criminal law in the Philippines and discussion on no common crime law in the Philippines--specifying that unless there is a provision in the revised penal code or special penal law, an act, even it be socially or morally wrong, cannot be punished for its commission.
  Little knowledge, I hope I may be able to widen. I am still looking forward to my other law lessons.

I am starting this new blog as a way to express myself. It will also serve as an inspiration for me to start taking Law seriously.
I wanted to become a Lawyer. But the means for me to study is still limited. I am the sole bearer of the responsibility to provide for our family, to put in school my siblings and to handle other finances that go at hand. Needless to say, I wanted but I am still not capable of.
But the funny thing is, God seems to talk to me. People at times are trying to convince me to enroll in law school. Judges, lawyers, co-workers and relatives, out of nowhere, will always ask when will I become an Attorney. And then I will have to explain myself.
However, I realize, I am a lady of alibis. There is a saying in the Philippines, "Kung ayaw may dahilan, kung gusto may paraan" ( If you don't want, there's a reason. If you want, there's always a way.). If I tend to explain for myself why am I still not in Law school, maybe I can also help myself in trying to make up for lost times.
Today, I just got hold of my first criminal law book I borrowed from my Aunt who is a retired lower court judge. Maybe I can spend a little more serious hours on that book and ponder on the legal aspect of human life and lessen my time in front of the computer roaming around other people's statuses.

  Being in the Judiciary is not an easy task as everyone would have thought it is. Even though it is in the government service and people think that we are lax in our job, you all got us wrong. Our work demands us time and effort as it is in the private service. Our work mandates us to be firm and just in our ground because people will look unto us as the individuals bringing justice to our system. We should maintain a work that is honest, clean and graft and corruption free, for a little slip will cost us our job and the benefits that it entails