What all of this means is that the war has just begun and the public should prepare not only for a classic give and take of legal and constitutional punditry, but also for the agony of witnessing its democratic institutions in a mad, mad brawl that may test the limits of Philippine democracy.
It is easy to say that justice has been served and Arroyo, considering the prostitution to which she subjected our institutions during her regime, is getting a dose of her own medicine. But the more worrisome prospect really is Philippine democracy not surviving the weight and strain of its institutions colliding with one another and going beyond the arena of legal niceties of checks and balances and into the uncharted territory of a take-no-prisoners war and the total annihilation of each other. We are seeing a growing polarization of our institutions and to some extent everybody should share the blame for our democracy having become such a sorry spectacle. But then again, the agony and the war have just begun.
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