THE beleguered Justice Secretary Boying Remulla just rolled with the punches from the legal flurry of Senator and lawyer Rodante Marcoleta until the clown and non abogado Senator Erwin Tulfo alluded to Marcoleta with a thundering voice that reverberated from the Babuyan Islands to the lair of the Abu Sayaff in Jolo Sulu that the law should bend sometimes.
“Mga sigaw ng taong bayan na libo-libo sa People Power Movement sa Luneta. Hindi lang po ang pagnanakaw, they were also shouting ibalik iyong pera nila. And I believed the Secretary of Justice heard that and I believed Malacanang heard that. Kaya nga po doon po sa mga kontraktor, mga opisyal isuli ninyo ang pera ng taong bayan! Hindi po batas ang pinag-uusapan. Wala ho tayong pakialam sa batas. SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO BEND THE LAW TO BE ABLE TO PLEASE THE PEOPLE…,” the miniscule in height Senator hissed for all and sundry to hear.
I met and spoke in Cebuano before with Tulfo when was a reporter of TV-5 covering a narco raid by cops in the dangerous Muslims' compound at Bonuan Gueset in Dagupan City.
Sanamagan, so what happens now to the entrenched legal Latin maxim's Dura Lex Sed Lex (the law is harsh but it is the law)?
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