A RETIRED CHIEF JUSTICE of the Philippines who wishes to maintain his PERSONAL DIGNITY and the INSTITUTIONAL DIGNITY of the JUDICIARY as an INDEPENDENT AND CO-EQUAL BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT should not be employed as a SALARIED BUREAUCRAT of the EXECUTIVE, regardless of the high rank and salary grade accruing to the position.
I REJECT the hypocrisy that the retired Chief Justice merely desires "to continue serving his country" as a civil servant and as a legal expert under the day-to-day supervision and control of the Executive. Let us face it, their real motives are the maintenance of POWER AND WEALTH as aristocrats in the government hierarchy.
The honorable ways for a retired Chief Justice to serve his Nation, in general, and the Bench and the Bar, in particular, aside from enjoying the retirement phase of his remaining lifespan with his grandchildren, are by being a LEGAL SCHOLAR, LEGAL ACADEMICIAN, LEGAL AND SOCIAL CRITIC, LEGAL AUTHOR, and LEGAL ELDER OF SOCIETY in general.
Retired Justices should be happy with their retirement status and should live modest lives within the amounts of the retirement benefits granted to them by government (the gross amounts of which are not really that "modest" compared to the amounts of the retirement benefits received by regular government officials and personnel).
They should preserve the NOBILITY of their positions, names and memories as RETIRED HIGHEST RANKING ADMINISTRATORS AND DISPENSERS OF JUSTICE by refusing regular active employment in the Executive Branch as SALARIED INFERIORS OF THE EXECUTIVE.
