RODRIGO Duterte was not at the EDSA 31 rites. Neither was Benigno S. Aquino III. No big deal.
Saturday to Sunday an “unofficial” rally was held where its name said it should be, EDSA. If that was a “yellow” event, there had to be a Duterte “show of force” at the Luneta. Tit for tat.
FVR promised, or he was promised, that next year’s EDSA will be back to “en grande” proportions. Ask and you shall receive.
The fly in the ointment was Executive Secretary Medialdea’s statement that “we have to move on,” “we cannot get stuck in the past”! What’s wrong with DU30’s mouthpieces? Don’t they have any respect for the power of words?
Moving on to another topic, the spectacular charges against a lady senator and her spectator-worthy arrest, covered live on TV showing her in the same dress she had worn earlier in the day, until agents of the law took her away to her lonely cell.
Colleagues and former President Aquino worried for Senator Leila de Lima’s safety. Who is she not safe from – Jinggoy Estrada or Bong Revilla, whom she had jailed? A PNP official said her security “is a given.” Coming from PNP? Oh my!
DoJ Secretary Aguirre’s dilemma is to disprove the allegations of his predecessor’s lawyers that the warrants for her arrest were filed in haste. When all along, Secretary Aguirre was telling the world to be patient, he needed to build an air-tight case. Repeat again, please.
Lawyers speak their own language, they are able to argue both sides of a case as counsel for the defense AND prosecution if need be. Their arguments can be creative, original, dramatic. Headline writers do not have the same elbow room!
One newspaper bannered the De Lima arrest as happening “after a long chase across the metropolis,” sounding like a replay of OJ Simpson in his white van being pursued by L.A. police.
No, no, no! Ms. De Lima waited in her office for the arresting agents, and she did it without having to say, “Come and get me!” To report that the accused took flight or tried to run away is a disservice to such a strong and defiant lady, she who did not even have to be cuffed. (Jullie Y. Daza)