Murderous Miriam unleashed—again

By Al S. Mendoza

 

THE script was the same.

She was sick and so, will someone please allow her to do her act ahead of the pack?

We Filipinos are more fun than any other race.

We love not to lose being a gentleman if given the chance.

And so, senators like Alan Peter Cayetano, acceded.

Give way to the damsel, well, in a hurry to drop her bombs.

Dyarran!  Enter Miriam Defensor-Santiago.

But it was immediately evident that, barely after rattling off her initial blast, she didn’t appear at all to be under the weather.

So tell me, was she sick?

The way Miriam grilled Janet Lim-Napoles on Nov. 7 at the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee probing the P10-billion scam, she looked fit as a fiddle.

She was in her trademark element.  Feisty. Uncompromising. Direct to the point. Daring. Fearless.  All guns ablaze.  Mocker to the hilt.  Hell’s angel on the loose.  Freddie’s fiancé on Elm St.  Carrie. Medussa.  Pistol-packing Mama.  Murderous Miriam. Name it, she was it.

But for once, her prey proved elusive, evasive if you will.

“Save yourself,” Miriam told Janet. “Be the least likely suspect in the scam for you to qualify as a state witness.  Name the mastermind.”

The bullet looked palatable.

But Napoles didn’t bite.

“There’s no need for me to turn state witness,” Janet said.  “There is no scam to talk about in the first place.”

Miriam spoke the longest among the honorable senators present.

It netted her nothing.

Seeing the futility of her sugar-coated urgings for Napoles “to tell all,” Miriam detoured from purgatory to hell.

She called Rene Villa, who lawyered for Napoles, a mere “OFW” (Overseas Filipino worker) and not an “expert on international trade law.”

Did she not, in effect, belittle our OFWs, our modern-day heroes, the biggest props of our economy for years now—dollar remittances-wise?

Derisively, Miriam said, “Sayang, Ilonggo pa naman siya (Villa).  Kababayan ko.”

Miriam called Sen. Serge Osmena as “not even a college graduate and he has the gall to insult me—me being a former trial judge who even holds a doctorate in law.  Inggit lang siya (Osmena).”

And then came her nuclear bomb:  “Enrile is the mastermind of the P10-billion scam.”

And she urged, no, intimidated Napoles:  “Baka ipapatay ka niya.  Kawawa ka naman. Gantihan mo na habang buhay ka pa.”

A friend asked me:  “By saying that, did Santiago not slander, libel, Enrile?”

Maybe. However, like the rest of our politicians, mostly our senators, Miriam has immunity from suits.

And, again, when Miriam opens her mouth, be ready, brace up.  Her wrath even dwarfs Yolanda’s fury.

For, name me any one, senator or not, whom Santiago has not, never, slandered?

Surely, you will end up empty-handed.

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