William Esposo continues his attempt to justify the viability of a Third Force. Every time he uses history as base of his arguments, the more he loses my respect.

While it is true that both the Liberal and Nacionalista Parties have a glorious political tradition, the truth is that this fact is no longer relevant to the issue. Besides, these parties are good as forgotten, what with the tendency of our people to forget.

Second, these parties are historically contrapelo. The Liberal Party was formed as an offshoot of the Nacionalista Party, being its liberal wing. And now that the two will coalesce smacks of something that Esposo accuses that of UNO and the administration slate.

Esposo should instead base his arguments on the realities of the day, not on what has gone before and is largely forgotten.

On the other hand, Katrina Legarda scoffs at all slates. It seems she will not vote this year. Or maybe she’d go for admin, since she spared the admin slate from words that Legarda used to describe the UNO and the Third Force.

As of now, the Third Force is more of a feeler slate more than anything else, nothing but speculations, like the latest from Senator Ralph Recto, who this time named names. Of course, until the certificates of candidacies are filed, take his words with a ton of salt.

John Marzan suggests a name change for UNO: Unity Coalition. Of course, the parameters for such unity MUST be defined first.

ExpectoRANTS has a reaction to MLQ3’s column in the PDI about EDSA 2. While I was at EDSA on 19th January 2001, I believe that the proper conclusion was for Erap to resign. A confession: I was then working for a defunct technical school, and we were “asked” by the boss to be there “for marketing purposes”. He even gave an order to make sure that the school banner could be seen by TV cameras. So not everyone there are really well-meaning folks, Resty.

Aside from that, if there was travesty of justice, it happened when the prosecutors of the impeachment walked out of the proceedings, effectively hijacking the process. If there was travesty of justice, it happened when the presiding officers of the Impeachment Court did not even dared hailing these hijackers to return. Heck, they were not even cited in contempt.

And the greatest injustice happened when well-meaning people were unwittingly used by people who planned all of these all along.

And the greatest injustice still happens, when the user remains free and wielding power.