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I pity her
By Al S. Mendoza
DE LIMA’s first name isn’t Leila anymore?
Change that from Leila to Lost?
And so, do we now have a Lost de Lima?
De Lima seems lost these days that she has started acting strangely, almost unlike a senator, that a new middle name might crop up for her.
How about Desperate?
Lost Desperate de Lima from hereon then?
I pity her, really.
Her press appearances have even become pathetically revolting.
She shouts at her audience in an exclusive girls school.
She inserts in her monologues impertinent questions directed at no one.
She rails at people she hates a la Bomba Arienda and Damian Sotto in the olden days of acid-laden radio talk shows.
My heart now melts each time I hear her speak in public.
No, not a heart melting because of love. Fools rush in and I’m no fool.
My heart shrinks at the sight of her doing her thing.
No, not a heart shrinking because of sympathy. Only the gullible give in so easily.
Who is she?
She can’t steal my heart.
But I feel for her.
It is because watching her on TV, I feel something deeper than the deep blue sea.
Seeing her unleash her histrionics also makes me taller than the tallest tree in the Caraballo Mountain.
Lost de Lima now resorts to desperate measures.
Has she gone crazy?
Why must she charge President Duterte of abuse of power?
Has she really put flesh to such an idea wilder than Trump’s wailing wall at the US-Mexico border the minute he becomes US President?
Isn’t L.D. de Lima a former Justice Secretary?
And Commission of Human Rights chief, too?
Why the sudden major slip on her part about laws of the land, which she is supposed to know like the palm of her hand?
Digong is immune from suits and even Pokwang knows that.
The Constitution says so.
In fact, Digong can have Lost de Lima arrested for ignorance of the law.
But the President will not do that, of course.
Lost souls need help.
Lost de Lima may have signs of dementia, if not Alzheimer’s, and Digong will only be too willing to help.
Un-vindictive to the hilt, Digong might even offer Lost de Lima copies of both our 1935 and 1987 Constitutions.
Both Constitutions contain it: “The Philippine President is immune from suits…”
Or, has Lost de Lima started relying on the Constitution of the Republic of Rebutsikik?
I can’t blame crime watchdog Dante Jimenez for calling De Lima a laughingstock.
And so, if I were L.D. de Lima, about time she got help from Merceditas Gutierrez, the predecessor of Ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales.
If you will recall, Merceditas, when her kitchen had become scalding hot, got out quick.
That stopped a storm hovering over her head.
Goodbye shame. Enter serenity only a life of peace can offer.
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