Burning house infested with rats is not right solution to problem

This is a comment on the letter titled “Court decisions for sale now the norm?” by Samuel Yap. (Inquirer, 1/2/12)

I don’t know if Yap is a lawyer. But even if he is not, for writing the letter, it is presumed that he may have had some unpleasant experience as a litigant to support his allegations of graft and corruption against judges and justices.

But for Yap to tie the alleged graft and corruption of certain judges and justices to the pending conviction of Chief Justice Renato Corona betrays a lack of understanding of the issues in this case; and to insinuate that the judges and lawyers who are on the side of Corona and the Supreme Court want to preserve the status quo because they are benefiting from it, is less than fair.

Yap is entitled to his own opinion, but to suggest the destruction of the Judiciary, particularly the Supreme Court, just because there are corrupt judges or justices, is like Yap wanting to burn his house because there are rats in it.

—VICENTE D. MILLORA,

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