The benefit of the doubt

THE inclusion of the names of former governor and now Fifth District Rep. Amado T. Espino Jr., Board Member Raul Sison and former Provincial Administrator Rafael Baraan as among the principal characters in the New Bilibid Prison drug trade has shocked and confused Pangasinenses.

As most are aware, the three were never mentioned in any local media report even insinuating at the very least, that they are involved in the drug trade in the province. How was it possible that they would dip their fingers in the drug trade, as if in conspiracy with then DOJ Sec., now Sen. Leila de Lima? Except for the matrix showing lines of connection, it offered no verifiable facts of the allegation.

What is noteworthy is their confidence and readiness to face their accusers and give lie to the allegations at the proper forum.

So until then, the three deserve the benefit of the doubt inasmuch as President Duterte deserves the same for his best of intentions in the government’s war contra drugs.

 

Marcos children

IN death, as in life, Marcos has become a pain in the neck for the Filipino people.

As dictator from 1972-1986, Marcos has caused the untimely demise of more than 3,000 of his political foes, involuntary disappearances of no less than 8,000 freedom fighters and the torture of nearly 12,000 democracy-loving Filipinos.

Today, 27 years after his unlamented death in Hawaii, his corpse remains unburied.  Why, because his widow, Imelda, insists he deserves a hero’s burial at the Libingan ng Mga Bayani—conveniently forgetting that she had signed a deal in 1992 with then President Ramos to have Marcos buried in Ilocandia.  To make matters worse, President Duterte has agreed to the Libingan internment.  The issue is now being argued at the Supreme Court.

Cannot the three Marcos children—Imee, Bongbong and Irene—convince, please, their mother to abide by the 1992 agreement for Marcos’ burial to be done in the dictator’s native Ilocos?

For once, can’t they do a bit of something “good” for the country?

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