How then, given the fact that these US senators haven’t even bothered to check on the evidence and weigh it, can they quickly and credibly portray De Lima as a political prisoner?

An analyst whose supposed analysis is usually too biased in favor of yellows recently claimed that the reason for the US senators and their panel for calling for a ban of Philippine officials who jailed Sen. Leila de Lima — whom these US senators demanded to immediately be set free from her detention — is not about sovereignty but the upholding of human rights.

Antonio La Viña, a former Ateneo Law dean, claimed that the Philippines is merely being told to uphold its commitment to human rights.

“There’s nothing against our sovereignty here. The Philippines has a long tradition of commitment to international human rights,” he was quoted as saying in a TV interview.

He added that, “We have already agreed to human rights norms historically. We’ve signed every human rights treaty and we’re violating that. So, therefore there’s no interference. We’re just being told to do what we had promised to do.”

That’s quite a spin from the former Law dean, considering that, in reality, the main issue raised by these Uncle Sam boys was the demand for the Philippines to release accused drug trader, former Justice secretary and now detained Senator De Lima.

This demand has nothing to do with human rights, in that De Lima is being tried in the courts of law. This clearly proves that not only is the Philippine judicial system being interfered in by the US Senate panel, but more importantly, the Constitution and De Lima’s constitutional rights and the laws are being upheld.

Ironically, it is these US senators, Patrick Leahy and Dick Durbin, who are the very ones who appear to be committing human rights violations, since the call for a ban is on Philippine officials who were doing their bounden duty to uphold the law and respect the courts’ orders and for obeying the law and the Constitution.

To put it simply, these US senators demand Philippine officials to immediately free detained De Lima from her prison, not in the Muntinlupa city jail, where the courts normally send the accused, but at the Philippine National Police Custodial Center where she has a room of her own, free of bars on windows, and a bathroom all her own, so unlike the detainees in city jails.

So, pray tell, La Viña, who is upholding human rights? The US senators or the Philippine courts, or the “banned from entering the US” Philippine officials who are deemed by these American senators to have had a hand in De Lima’s detention and drug trafficking cases lodged against her that are being heard in our courts today?

Worse, these US senators have the gumption to insist that De Lima is being politically persecuted, which impression no doubt was created by the detained senator and her yellows, all of whom are critics of the current administration and government, a line these US senators swallowed hook, line and sinker.

They clearly haven’t even bothered to review the evidence from the prosecutors and the Department of Justice, as well as read up on the testimonies from officials, along with the national penitentiary prisoners who dealt with Leila on drug trading. And these American senators brand De Lima a political prisoner and virtually proclaim her innocence that is just a put-on theatrical act done by Leila, of which the general public is tired.

How then, given the fact that these US senators haven’t even bothered to check on the evidence and weigh it, can they quickly and credibly portray De Lima as a political prisoner?

This is really laughable, since it was De Lima, then the Justice chief, and her political patron, former President Noynoy Aquino, who lodged cases of plunder against opposition foes of her yellow patron. She even went into coaching her planted witnesses to testify against the presidential foes — all then opposition senators. It was Leila who had detained them at the PNP Custodial Center and for a much longer period than the bitching De Lima.

What a laugh! Leila is a political prisoner while the then opposition senators are not?

Strange that the country didn’t hear cries of rights violations or even a ban on the then Philippine officials from Leahy, Durbin, Marco Rubio and other US senators when the opposition leaders were detained.

Yet La Viña even claimed that it was “normal for US senators” after “seeing the injustices being done to a fellow senator,” referring to jailed De Lima.

He even added that “there are many parliamentarians all over the world. it’s not just the US. They have been very, very strong about freeing Senator de Lima. The US senators are not unique, but they’ve taken it to the next step, which is to take action,” he said.

That’s pure crap the self-proclaimed analyst spews. Where were their “normal” cries when they saw the “injustices” committed against the fellow senators who were politically charged with plunder by De Lima and her yellow patron? What, silence in the face of yellow injustice and political persecution?

Yellow analysts and little brown Americans like La Viña would be taken as a credible and serious analyst by the general public if they don’t put a spin on issues, and come up with a so-called analysis that has nothing to do with the issue of human rights violations when it comes to a former political persecutor called Leila de Lima.