Today's exchanges between Cong Chel and the senator-siblings were particularly instructive. On one hand, we saw how law can be used to clarify issues and promote accountability. On the other, how law can be used to muddle issues and defend privilege.
Malinaw naman who's who. ๐
I remember our law profs saying:
"If the law is on your side, pound on the law
If the facts are on your side, pound on the facts
If neither is on your side, pound on the table!"
This was swift: The Philippine authorities have already surrendered former President Duterte to the ICC in The Hague to face trial for the alleged crimes against humanity of murder.
The man who said, โmy job is to killโ and who oversaw the shootings to death of victims โ including children โ as part of a deliberate, widespread and well-organized campaign of state-sanctioned killings
the man who once was all-powerful, so much so that he could openly threaten anyone who questioned his war on drugs;
This man is now on his way to the Hague and an ICC jail.
To all those in power now who think they are above the law - think twice, think carefully.
Time will come: you will not enjoy impunity forever, no matter how powerful you are now.