WHAT DID THAT MAKE SP SOTTO DO IT

By his impassioned display to protect Trillanes, SP Sotto has created a spectacle drawing shockwaves rippling around endless road of slum and slime. The Senate Hall must not be used as a haven for thugs especially if he is a menace to the society like Trillanes. That seems to be the issue that PDU30 and Sotto must start to go in opposite directions.

We, Filipinos know, as an actor-comedian SP Sotto was humiliated in that actress Pepsi Paloma rape case. Maybe, because of it, Sotto is looking for a source of pride to redeem his reputation. However, putting yourself in anybody’s basket whose actions poses danger to our country as Sen. Trillanes, was a corrupt intent and surely, Sotto’s desires boomerang to humiliate him once more.

The issue about Senators’ arrest was not without precedence contrary to what SP Sotto inappropriately led us to believe. Sometime in June of 2014, Sotto, as a Senator, was a witness to the arrest without a warrant of Senators Enrile, Estrada and Revilla in the Senate Hall during Session for non-bailable charges of plunder. Why did Sotto not “protect the tradition and dignity of the Senate”?

SP Sotto in much of his rhetoric of maintaining the tradition and dignity of the Senate is just a creative license fitted to be treated as immature discourse and a cesspool of political bias that we’ve seen. This is a gross violation of the principle of separation of powers of the 3 branches of the government; that there are aberrations and they cannot become the new norms. That way, the country must not succumb with such tattered standards and sunken expectations. Our task is quite simply to keep alive the respective independence of the 3 branches of the State, namely: the Executive, the Legislative, and the Judiciary.

Even if putting it for the nonce, that Sotto resented such arrest of Trillanes without a warrant, he has no right to obstruct what has been the exclusive undertaking of the Executive Branch and let the Judiciary Department take its course, if indeed there was an issue of illegal arrest. As it is, the stand of SP Sotto is the height of misplaced arrogance by going beyond the limits of his authority and power in such a capricious and whimsical manner.