21 Nov. 2017
A highly-successful but low-profile
lawyer/businessman from Makati sent me his observations on Leila de Lima:
She is running out of issues and arguments.
She no longer argues her case. What a pity that she now looks like a fool who
comments on almost each and every move the Duterte government makes just to
have something bad to say against the President. An undeniably desperate move
just to be always in national media like her obvious ally Inquirer.
Like her latest comment on the Philippines ‘No’
vote on the United Nations deliberations on the Myanmar refugee issue. De Lima
said the vote was out of the Duterte Administration’s fear of further exposing
human rights’ violations.
Who is she to talk about human rights
violations? She is not from Myanmar. She is not a human rights official of the
current government. She has been in jail since February. So it’s disgusting and
ridiculous, if not insanity, for her to have the nerve to still prejudge the
government’s ‘No’ when she does not have first-hand knowledge of the issue
since she’s behind bars. Most of all,
she shamelessly committed human rights violations when she blocked former President Gloria
Arroyo from leaving for abroad for medical treatment despite an approval by the
Supreme Court.
De Lima should be reminded that she hardly
enjoys any credibility now. The only way for her to regain some is to confront
the drug cases against her and prove her claim of innocence. Mere media
presence is not, and will never be, the solution. 30
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