Perhaps it can now be proven that United Nations (UN) special rapporteurs, human rights groups, Amnesty International and European parliamentarians just condemn governments they want to destroy or make them kowtow to these groups without even once checking why certain known critics of President Duterte are charged and, at times, jailed even as the rule of law is respected.

A recent report of a UN special rapporteur regarding the situation of claimed human rights defenders in the Philippines was described by the Palace as “highly misplaced.”

The Palace spokesman said: “Attributing the detention of Sen. Leila de Lima, the unseating of Atty. Ma. Lourdes Sereno as Chief Justice and the filing of charges against Ms. Maria Ressa as part of the President’s policies and alleging that their unfortunate situations were designed by the government to silence them and discourage broader dissent are the same false narratives peddled by the usual cynics of the administration.”

The report was authored by UN special rapporteur Michel Forst on the situation of women human rights defenders around the globe.

Forst cherry-picked from the report, claiming that prime examples are the cases of De Lima, Sereno and Ressa whom he claimed are women leaders targeted for speaking out on pressing social issues.

Where and how did Forst come to this conclusion? Certainly, he failed to even check on these cases and got most, if not, all his information from the pseudo martyrs named De Lima, Sereno and Ressa. If Forst so much as took the first initial steps to go over the “situations” they are in today and if he were a truly independent rapporteur, he would have realized that all he got from them were lies for the international bodies to gain their sympathy.

More to the point, these have also been proven, given the attention these international bodies have been giving the cases of Leila, even demanding her release, Sereno and today, Ressa, who has become a drama queen in creating for herself a portrait of a victim of Duterte’s “persecution,” with her “rights” she claims were violated.

Gee, Ressa. What rights are you complaining about? Are you such an entitled journalist that you can’t be slapped with libel? That you can’t be arrested for libel and jailed, too, if you don’t pay bail prior to the warrant of arrest presented by law enforcement agents?

If Forst doesn’t know it yet, then he ought to know that libel is a criminal offense, but is a bailable crime in this country.

Ressa could have avoided all of this by voluntarily surrendering before the court and paying her bail instead of purposely waiting for her arrest and, of course, the detention she herself engineered by not paying bail immediately — and all in aid of soliciting sympathy here and abroad.

As for Leila, she remains in detention because the crime she allegedly committed is drugs related, which is non-bailable. As for the claim of these women that their being sued by the state is to silence them, this is probably the most ridiculous claim from these foreign meddlers, since daily, Leila is always criticizing Duterte through her “daily diatribes” as Ressa does.

The media are so tired of her diatribes that they hardly report on them.

Did Forst and the others ever ask Leila why up to this day there have been no court hearings? The truthful answer is that she has been intentionally delaying her trial and trying to block the government witnesses from testifying, apart from getting the judges hearing her case to reschedule through some motion for their inhibition!

Sereno has been ousted through a quo warranto, which questioned her right to be seated as Chief Justice of the Philippines, as she has been found to have lied blatantly and even falsified her Statements of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth, which she failed to file, which is a criminal offense.

But it also should be asked of these claimed international human rights groups with hearts bleeding for the pseudo martyrs, why have they been so selective in blasting government for the three women but said nothing when Leila, along with the then Ombudsman and the Commission on Audit chairman, had three opposition senators jailed for years on manufactured evidence and all because they posed an electoral threat to the plans of the yellow President and his yellow clique to be in power for 12 years and more? Allies of the yellow President were not prosecuted and instead protected.

And the yellow media ripped the three opposition senators’ reputation to shreds — on manufactured evidence!

There was nary a condemning word from these hypocritical international groups for the yellow President, Noynoy Aquino. Why not? Why did these same groups and UN rapporteurs keep silent in the case of the three opposition senators, namely, Juan Ponce Enrile and Jinggoy Estrada, both of whom were granted bail, and Bong Revilla, who has been recently acquitted?

This is a clear case of political persecution of the three senators, yet they remained silent, which only proves these international groups of critics with their hypocritical bleeding hearts’ agenda may likely be in collusion with the government critics such as Leila, Ressa, Sereno and Trillanes to bring down the Duterte government!

They kept silent during the reign of both Aquinos, but chatter away under the reign of Duterte! Talk about double standard!