Kenkoy Case Filed by Abetting Pulis Patolas": Rene Saguisag JULY 26, 2019

Kenkoy case filed by abetting Pulis Patolas”
BY RENE SAGUISAG | JULY 26, 2019
MIGHT I have been the only Pinoy not to watch Manny Pacquiao defeat Keith Thurman last
Sunday by a split decision? The other day, Russian Maxim Dadashev, a loving husband and
father, died after being punished in the ring by Puerto Rican Subriel Matias, who caused his
brain to bleed last weekend
So, I agree that boxing is the manly art of modified murder (McGeehan); its sole unchristian
objective is to harm a fellow human being, for fame and fortune. Last Sunday, I had to settle on
TV for the British Open, for golf, said to be a horrid form of capitalistic abuse, particularly so in
our country. We misallocate the use of land for pleasure while countless individuals are landless
and homeless, many from the unwashed mob whose hungry ranks the SWS says are on the rise.
If a free society cannot save the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich (JFK).
Disrespecting the Senate

From where I sit, I have no problem with Manny’s relentless fame-and-fortune campaign. But I
continue to be disturbed by his continuing disrespect of the Senate, where, ssshhh, I once toiled.
Homophobic, looking down on gays, he should resign or be expelled, 1) to return after he retires;
2) to settle his tax issues in the billions, as reported; 3) to preach; 4) to stage concerts; and 5) to
avoid tangling with the No. 1 in the 2018 bar exam, gay, and proud of his sexual orientation,
despised by Manny. Hail Atenean Sean James Borja, who is worse than an animal in Manny’s
eyes.
From where I sit, how Manny misbehaves is arguably unethical. Top House Absentee contender
and now, I am told, undisputed Senate Absentee champion, not even attending last Monday’s
boring SONA, which might have had a perfect attendance otherwise. Great Boxer, no doubt, but
a Greater Pretender as a congressman and senator he is. Governor or mayor would have suited
the public interest better since there is a vice. But billions can blind in a materialistic crass
culture.
A fault-finder, aren’t I? I can’t help it. Asking the foolish questions of the day has been the story
of my life. An incurable addiction. Unreasonable? George Bernard Shaw said the reasonable
person adapts himself to the world around him, the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt
the world to himself, ergo, all progress depends on unreasonable people. Pasensiya na, Senator
Manny.
Charges vs Veep Leni
For other foolish questions, popular Mayor Isko brags about turning down millions in bribes.
Why didn’t he entrap the briber manqué then? Can he give us names, dates and times? Why
doesn’t he? Instead of sorta compounding a felony? But, I applaud his directive to the Pulis
Patolas to respect human rights, just violated, from where I sit, by Kenkoy, ooops, Bikoy,
Advincula, who filed a case only Pulis Patolas could take seriously. The Palace quickly distanced
itself from the egregious excrescence. With a wink? (Now the Solgen says he helped,
sandbagging his office in case of theoretical appeals. He may not review his own work.)
The charges against Veep Leni, et al. include inciting to sedition — but every idea is an
incitement, per Holmes — cyberlibel, libel, estafa and harboring a criminal/obstruction of
justice. Also named respondents were members of the religious and former and current senators.
Otso Diretso senatorial candidates also made the honor roll, as well as Integrated Bar of the
Philippines (IBP) current and former head honchos, human rights activists, et al., 36 in all.
PNP chief Director General Oscar Albayalde said the complaint against the opposition leaders
“ay nasa korte” (Manila Times, July 23, 2019). No, sir, excuse me, the charges are still just being
readied for preliminary investigation by the Department of Justice (DoJ), now possibly the
Department of Injustice, not in court. That is how sloppy police articulation is, unless they know
something we don’t. Wink, wink.
Another Pulis Patola, Lt. Col. Arthur Thomas Ibay, said there is a “conspiracy to malign the
name of President Rodrigo Duterte.” Huh? Josme naman. The undisputed heavyweight
champion in maligning is the proud and profane Prez himself. If he can dish it out, and he can —
and how — he should be able to take it, I’m sure.
The Injustice Secretary said Leni is not immune, fine, but adds that the President is, explaining
“that the 1987 Constitution does not grant the vice president immunity from criminal suit while
in office, unlike the president” (Philippine Star, July 22, 2019).
President not immune from prosecution

If he or anyone else can point to me any provision in the 1987 Charter that says that the Prez is
immune, I’ll eat it. If Digong is charged with murder or rape, he should not have to be able to
say, “You cannot sue me, dugong bughaw ako, I have immunity under the DOI Constitution.”
We borrowed the concept from America, which has no blue blood provision emanating from a
rejected royalty. Kennedy, Nixon and Clinton raised the defense, and were shot down by
courageous independent judges. All three settled. We should have no royalty, either. The
Emperor from Imperial Davao is not immune from charges not related to the performance (such
as rape or murder), even if merely colorable, of his office. No lèse-majesté here.
“I’ll end my term fighting,” said the Prez. Not the Chinese he hasn’t started to fight though and
with whom he has a closed-door secret oral covenant on our natural resources while the Senate
sleeps. Who has seen it? It may even be unconstitutional if indeed military facilities have been
installed in our own territory. Mga senador, gising na po! Pinipindeho/a na po yata kayo. Listen
to military grammarians expounding on “position” and “possession.” Maybe a misreading of
Kama Sutra?
No, the Prez should not double down, fight and kill our very own people until his term ends.
Instead he should heal and unite us, beginning now. He can do it.
No! then to extrajudicial killing and the anti-poor death penalty, judicial murder in my eyes.
What the Lord giveth, only He taketh away. Make more Pinoys less hungry and angry till your
term ends, Mr. Prez. The poor have suffered enough. No criminal carries the penal code in his
pocket and examines what he can and cannot afford — the discredited deterrent or supermarket
theory of the criminal law. Only the certainty and swiftness of conviction may deter.
Heal and unite, not kill and fight, before you step down in 2022 in retirement.
Kudos and thanks, Justice Mar

Retiring next week is SC Justice Mar del Castillo after decades of loyal, honest and efficient
service. I first met him when he was a municipal court judge in San Mateo in the 1990s. San
Beda gave him a good AB foundation in political science which could not be shaken in the finest
law school in the entire Rockwell Complex.
Hardworking, he is leaving the SC the same way he did the Court of Appeals: with a zero
backlog.
Kudos and thanks, Mr. Justice, a credit to the judiciary and the profession. He reminds me of
Justice John Paul Stevens, who passed away last July 16. Time magazine quoted him — ”I just
tried to do my best. That’s a goal that every judge should seek to achieve” — in an obit in praise,
in its current issue.
Not to worry, Justice Mar. Not a eulogy, this fragment isn’t. Justice Stevens left this vale of tears
at 99 but I’ll never forget that, dissenting in a 5-4 flag-burning case, he wrote in praise of “the
Philippine Scouts who fought at Bataan.” Texas v. Johnson, 491 US 307, 439 (1999)
Mr. Prez, if attacked or threatened, the Pinoy can fight in a fight he hasn’t started. In Bataan and
Edsa ‘86, courageous Pinoys gained the world’s admiration as ready to give our all for the
Motherland. Lead us then, not in appeasement.

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Kenkoy case filed by abetting Pulis Patolas”

BY RENE SAGUISAG | JULY 26, 2019

Disrespecting the Senate

President not immune from prosecution

Kudos and thanks, Justice Mar

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