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Luis Tabuena vs Hon Sandiganbayan & PEOPLE [DISSENTING OPINION, ROMERO, J.]

LUIS A. TABUENA, petitioner, vs. HONORABLE SANDIGANBAYAN, and THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, respondents.

G.R. Nos. 103501-03 | 1997-02-17

DISSENTING OPINION
 
ROMERO, J.:

Obedience, rightly directed, is a virtue well-worth cultivating - obedience of children to their elders; obedience to lawful authority by citizens; obedience to the behests of what is highest and finest in one's self.

Misguided, such as indiscriminate obeisance to questionable mandates, no matter if emanating from authoritative figures whose slightest whisper and scribbled orders are law, this can lead man to perdition.

In government, a pliant bureaucracy that is disinclined to resist unethical, immoral, even downright illegal directives from "above" is easily corrupted and can only bring...