“Leahy and his other senator-partners on the ban, along with Robredo, Lagman and the yellows salivating for power who are virtually brown-nosing America and its senators, should really start boning up on their respective Constitutions.

Yellows, especially Vice President Leni Robredo, are all over the place defending the United States and its senators legislating the denial of the entry to Uncle Sam’s land of Filipino officials involved in the incarceration of Sen. Leila de Lima. They insisted that the US ban on such Philippine officials “is an enforcement of American immigration laws and does not intrude into Philippine sovereignty,” as Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman said.

Robredo, for her part, echoed Lagman, saying that the United States can choose whom to allow or deny entry into its territory,” adding that, “We may not agree, but we cannot deny that it’s their right as a country. That’s why we apply for visa. They have the right to approve or deny our entry to their country.”

But the right of the US to ban any foreigner they please is not at issue and they know it, or ought to know it.

She stoutly defended America, stressing that the US uses this right to show other countries that there are values more important to the US and that it will use the power of its government to spread this message.

US Sen. Patrick Leahy, answering President Duterte’s spokesman’s description of the US senator being “ignorant,” hit back, saying that, “Every year, the United States provides large amounts of aid to the Philippines, and I have supported that aid. I assume President Duterte’s spokesman, who defended the wrongful imprisonment of Sen. De Lima, does not consider our aid to be ‘interfering in their sovereignty.’”

Leahy added that, “Our aid is not a blank check, and when Philippine officials abuse the justice system for the purpose of political retribution, we have a responsibility to report (it).”

Leahy just confirmed that the aid from the US, which is measly, given the fact that it keeps on saying that the Philippines is its strong ally in the Asean region, but has not kept the Philippine military with its ancient weapons, carries a lot of strings. Moreover, the Democratic senator certainly gives the impression that due to the aid given by the US to the Philippines, Uncle Sam, at any time, and for whatever reason, can infringe on the sovereignty of the Philippines.

And Robredo, as well as Lagman and other yellows, who virtually kiss the feet of Uncle Sam’ senators, appear to agree with Leahy and their amendment to the bill, with the little brown American Philippine vice president agreeing to the right of the US, showing her utter subservience to the former US master, America, during the colonial period, saying that “now America is using this right to show other countries that there are values that are important to it and it will use the power of its government to spread this message,” she added.

Leahy and his other senator-partners on the ban, along with Robredo, Lagman and the yellows salivating for power who are virtually brown-nosing America and its senators, should really start boning up on their respective Constitutions.

As pointed out by Philippine Senate President Tito Sotto, in a text message, he stated that, “The proposal of the two US senators fits the meaning of a Bill of Attainder, prohibited by both the US and the Philippine Constitutions. Maybe the legal staff of the two senators should study their Constitution.”

The “Bill of Attainder” “refers to the act of declaring a group of people guilty of a crime, and punishing them for it, usually without a trial. Officials have used bills of attainder to strip individuals of everything from their property to their lives.”

A simpler meaning of a bill of attainder is this: “A law that sentences a person, or group of people, to suffer punishment for a crime without being able to exercise their judicial rights in defending themselves.”

This is exactly what Leahy and his colleague, US Sen. Dick Durbin, have committed and continue to commit with their constitutional violation.

The Philippines also has the prohibition of a bill of attainder in its Constitution, and the country has proven that the detained De Lima, who has not been declared guilty of the crime and her judicial rights are being exercised in a proper and legal courtroom, through her many motions delaying her trial, as well as her moves to stop virtually all the government witnesses from testifying, being prisoners. She also wants a non-prisoner, her then appointed Bureau of Corrections chief, Rafael Ragos, also to be banned from testifying against her, insisting that he should also be her co-accused. This is hardly a move coming from a self-declared innocent woman.

And if the US senators argue the same way De Lima does on the prisoners being barred by the courts from testifying, Leahy and Durbin should recall that in the US, Salvatore “Sammy the Bull” Gravano, a former underboss of the Gambino crime family and prisoner, through his testimony, brought down the infamous Mafia boss, John Gotti.

Leahy and Durbin, along with the little brown American officials, Robredo and Lagman, who, without any evidence presented by her in claiming the innocence of De Lima and calling her a political prisoner, have the gumption to proudly state the US gives the Philippines aid with strings attached, which is for the Filipino officials, including the courts of law, to bow in subservience to America.

If I were Duterte, I would tell Leahy and Durbin to shove their aid with strings up their asses.