By refusing to reform CARP, GMA is corrupt just the same

In response to my piece on Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP), Herbert Docena, a researcher at  Focus on Global South, has this to say:

It cuts to the heart of the land reform issue and exposes the anomaly in the way the public reacts to — or is made to react — to corruption. I suspect that part of the reason why most in the middle class are not outraged enough to want GMA out is because they still think she's "not corrupt" — in the usual sense of the word, i.e. she has not pocketed government funds. And yet her very inability — or refusal — to extend and reform CARP allows her and her family, as well as those of her class, to get away with blatant corruption — that of using the government to hold on to their lands, as you correctly point out.