by Edcer Escudero
Roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet,” and idiots get to our nerves.
Yes, indeed, having idiots under our skin can be emotionally upsetting and may ultimately shatter our mental equilibrium.
After reeling dizzily from the spooky effects of the recent Halloween nonsense, high-ranking officials of the Aquino government pricked the national consciousness with their idiotic outbursts and arrogant posturing vis-à-vis controversial issues – one pending in Congress, the other awaiting judicial action.
Aquino’s chief legal anchor Justice Secretary Leila Delima unleashed traces of idiocy as she tried to untangle the legal cobwebs pestering her mind, if not her conscience.
To allow, or not to allow former President Gloria Arroyo to leave the country for medical treatment by specialists in a foreign land.
That is the question that taunts, challenges and titillates the former human rights commission chief. She acts with contempt dangling her own created Allow Departure Order (ADO) over Mrs. Arroyo’s head like a big brother holding a piece of lollipop above the head of a tip-toeing younger brother.
Weeks earlier, Delima hinted that she would allow GMA to leave only after she has answered the formal charges of electoral sabotage. She even called her plan or decision as Solomonic.
Last week, the Supreme Court issued a TRO that allows Mrs. Arroyo to travel abroad. But Delima, feeling high and mighty, defied it and insisted Mrs. Arroyo must not be allowed to leave the country. The Supreme Court , she declared is wrong!
Thus spoke P-Noy’s justice secretary. Step aside Corona & Co. Here comes Leila playing God, King Solomon and Supreme Court all rolled into one.
As chief dispenser of justice Delima’s actions and pronouncements on the Arroyo travel issue, highly questionable. It is clear that she has been influenced by her own doubts and suspicions on the future movements of the Arroyo camp. She even ordered a probe on talks about political asylum based merely on text messages sent to reporters. It’s incredible.
Delima placed herself in a dilemma of her own making, exhibiting autistic treatment of a simple legal and constitutional issue concerning the right of a citizen (not necessarily a former president) to travel outside the country.
But arrogant Leila Delima wants to give her actions a touch of royalty by invoking King Solomon’s wisdom.
Samson had her Delilah, P-Noy has his Leila. Don’t forget what happened to Samson.
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Here’s another touch of idiocy showed by a P-Noy ally – Vicente Sotto III, a.k.a. Tito Sotto, Senator of the Republic.
This guy needs no further introduction having been in politics for decades.
Sotto was a front page item the other week when he was reported to have said that 14 billion people can live in the state of Texas, USA. And where did he get that incredulous thought? From the calculation of Pro-Life Phil. Foundation which, like Sotto, opposes population control. Both reject the RH Bill, and both believe that God will provide the needs of His creatures.
Who is Tito Sotto? He is the brain behind Eat Bulaga, a noontime variety show and the defunct Iskul Bukol where he graduated Summa Cum Laude with a doctorate degree in toilet humor during the ‘70s – 80’s. As a senator, he is uninspiring and inconsequential. He has a shallow intellect.
