Golez: con-ass a 'treacherous attack' like one on Pearl Harbor

"A treacherous attack" like the one staged by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor back in 1941. That's how Rep. Roilo Golez of Parañaque described the passage early on Thursday of a resolution allowing the House of Representatives to turn itself into a constituent assembly (con-ass) to amend or revise the Constitution. In a message texted to GMANews.TV Thursday evening Golez said: "I Just realized (that) today, Dec. 7, is d anniversary of d treacherous attack on Pearl Harbor. It was called a day that will live in infamy. It was an early dawn attack, just like d early dawn treacherous con-ass attack on the Constitution. This day will also live in infamy." The attack on Pearl Harbor (actually Dec. 8 in Manila), which drew the US into World War II in 1941, was followed shortly by an attack on Clark Air Field (now Clark Air Base) in Pampanga, a province north of Manila. After hours of bitter debate, at times punctuated by some shouting, the House majority used its numbers to get the con-ass resolution passed despite attempts by opposition solons to block it. Opposition solons and ordinary citizens opposed to Charter change view the con-ass passage as a "railroading" that violated the Constitution it sought to change. The resolution, they said, also excluded the Senate, which as Sen. Juan Ponce-Enrile said in an interview with GMA's 24 Oras is also part of the Congress. But the Charter change solons, led by Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. insisted that the House could change its rules to allow con-ass, even without the participation of the Senate. Earlier on Thursday, Senate President Manuel Villar Jr. said at most only three of the 23 senators would likely attend the first session of the constituent assembly that the House had scheduled on Tuesday, Dec. 12. - GMANews.TV