TheDAILY TRIBUNE’s philosophy — “Without fear, without favor” — is very much alive, lives more, for publicizing the lies and deception, perhaps treason, unearthed at the Senate committee hearing chaired by Sen. Imee Marcos on the surrender of FPRRD (Former president Rodrigo Roa Duterte) by high administration officials to foreign agents.

Some Filipinos again displayed mediocrity, subservience to foreigners, and treason, no less. These negative traits, however, do not apply in general to all but the government officials whose main focus are power and their pockets. I don’t think there will be disagreement there.

Power because the objective, this early, is to annihilate the main bulwark of opposition led by FPRRD. This is pretty obvious because what used to be the strong stand against cooperation with the International Criminal Court became the reverse, diametrically.

The three Senate hearings showed nothing but a complete turnaround, with even the DILG Secretary (Jonvic Remulla) pointing to National Security Adviser Eduardo Año, Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla, DND Secretary Gilbert Teodoro and himself as doing the planning and execution using the abusive and traitorous General Torre as the hatchet man.

It’s a national shame that one Filipino, a PNP general who should live up to the motto “To serve and protect” did the reverse and sucked up to the international tribunal agents.

Firstly, so that by doing so he would be appointed successor to the current chief of the Philippine National Police, who has the same blood type.

The Office of the Ombudsman acted after Senator Imee Marcos urged it to file charges against the top government officials involved in the arrest of FPRRD. She asked the antigraft body to investigate the Remulla brothers, PNP chief Gen. Rommel Marbil and CIDG director Maj. Gen. Nicolas Torre III.

Marcos thought Justice Secretary Remulla may be liable for violation of RA 3019, the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act, for allegedly authorizing, or initiating what she described as the invalid administrative arrest of former president Duterte.

“I don’t even know if that’s a real committee report. We’re not afraid of it,” was the response of the justice secretary who committed to cooperate with the OMB investigation. Good answer. Additionally, Secretary Boying Remulla may also be charged with usurpation of judicial functions, grave misconduct, and conduct prejudicial to the best interest of public service. Oh, that’s a lot for the full-blooded Caviteño to handle, who may have projected ahead what is in store for him before the bar of justice.

As most expected, as the fruit of the poisonous tree, recommended too was the filing of charges against Jonvic Remulla for arbitrary detention and violation of the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act for inducing Torre and his boss, Marbil, to violate the law, aside from grave misconduct and conduct prejudicial to the best interest of the service.

Torre, who forcibly arrested Duterte, may be charged with arbitrary detention and violation of Republic Act 7438 for not allowing Vice President Sara Duterte to see her father and for forcing his lawyers to leave him. He too faces a complaint of grave misconduct and conduct prejudicial to the best interest of public service.

Special Envoy on Transnational Crimes Markus Lacanilao, who it appears should be better called a Special Liar, may face charges for usurpation of official functions under Article 177 of the Revised Penal Code, false testimony and perjury.

FPRRD faces a crimes against humanity charge at the ICC over his war on drugs during his terms as Davao City mayor and the Philippines’ president from 2011 to 2019. What is a crime against humanity? No admission, but maybe the case authors think we have no working justice system. Because not even one of the so-called victims’ families, not even the grandstanding Reps. Flores, Castro, Paduano, Ortega, Chua, Abante, came out to file case/s against FPRRD.

Maybe, just maybe, or perhaps there was no money, then, to be taken. My readers may know better why it’s a nasty, shameful consequence.

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