They also, like Leila, cry that her arrest brings a chilling effect on all those who oppose Rody Duterte, while Leila keeps on claiming that she is being charged, arrested and detained for opposing Duterte and exposing him as the brains behind the extrajudicial killings, as a Davao City mayor and now President of the Republic, thus as her logic goes, making her the first "political prisoner" under the Dutere presidency.


If such is her logic, what then were the three opposition senators whom she and her buddy, Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales, who charged them and had them detained, also political prisoners under Aquino, together with former President Gloria Arroyo?


All those officials arrested, charged and detained under the Aquino administration were known to oppose Noynoy Aquino, and it was made clear by Noynoy even then that he would make his political foes his exhibits in his war against corruption.


Compared to Rody, Noynoy was worse, by way of framing his political foes with trumped up charges, whether it was the late Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona, or Gloria Arroyo or the three then opposition senators, Juan Ponce-Enrile, Jinggoy Estrada and Bong Revilla.


Noynoy and Leila, as his justice chief, certainly charged all of them with manufactured evidence and coached testimonies from perjurers and crooks, with a lot of help from the Ombudsman and the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) under Julia Bacay Abad, whose so-called analysts went into ballooning the bank accounts of Corona, and even leaked the bank accounts of their foes whom they wanted destroyed, to ensure the LP candidates' victory at the polls.


To the credit of Rody and the Department of Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre, the drug-related cases of Leila rests on solid evidence — and not just on the testimonies of the convicted prisoners who had testified against her. There is a paper trial that can be produced.


But there went Leila yesterday with her drama before she was finally arrested and with this drama of hers of returning to her home and back to the Senate, to spend the night at her Senate office, even as she had earlier challenged the DoJ to arrest her then and there. Yet when the arresting officers came for her, she came up with a lot of excuses not to be arrested immediately.


Leila even claimed that her case rests on testimonies of drug convicts who are not credible witnesses at all. She even went to the extent of claiming that she had never heard of a drug lord being made into a witness, portraying this as unheard of in the world.


What? Even in the United States, a mafia drug and organized crime lord, Sammy “The Bull” Gravano, a mobster turned government witness, is best known for testifying against his mafia associates and Gravano became the highest-ranking mafioso in history to turn government witness. His testimony helped to jail 36 of his former mafia associates and, as part of the deal, admitted to the murders of 19 people, including that of his brother-in-law. 


In the late 1990s, Gravano began a multimillion-dollar Ecstasy trafficking faction in Arizona, and in 2000, he was arrested on trafficking charges. In 2001, he pleaded guilty to federal and state drug-trafficking charges, and the following year, he was sentenced to 20 years in prison. He is currently serving his sentences in a Colorado prison.


So what's the difference in utilizing convicted criminals to testify against Leila?


Leila is worse. She tapped shady characters, who pocketed millions from the alleged pork scam of senators, and manufactured evidence and came up with false testimonies and a fabricated external hard disc as evidence against the three senators, so much so that even that “evidence” was so compromised since this was clearly mangled.


How politically motivated are the charges against the three senators can easily be noted, since neither Leila nor Ombudsman Morales charged any other senator, especially the LP senators and allies of Noynoy with plunder. Yet, as these Noynoy yellows, such as Morales and de Lima claim that selective Commission on Audit special audit, is solid evidence of plunder committed by the three senators but not the other senator-allies who were also named in the same CoA special report.


Did these yellows who now scream illegal justice for Leila, give the same cry when the three senators were charged and detained? Of course not. These frigging yellows were all ecstatic over the charges and detention and made a feast out of their imprisonment.


If Leila committed a crime, then she must be arrested, charged and detained without bail. Let the law and justice take their course.
If you ask me, Leila, for all the wrongs she did to all of Noynoy's and with her as Justice secretary, deserves it.
So does Noynoy, who has violated the law with impunity.



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No political martyr, she by Ninez Cacho-Olivares , February 25, 2017, <a href="https://goo.gl/lykk68" target="_blank" class="news_link" title="Source">The Daily Tribune</a>
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De Lima gets the punishment she deserves, no political martyr