Poetic justice …

WELL…well, it seems that the “Barefoot Lady from Naga” has been making the headlines quite a lot these days. And it’s not that she finally admitted that Cong. Bolet Banal is…

 “It’s not that I object to his affection but to let him kiss you, stroke your hair is hardly in your line”

Oh, you wish it were just a simple case of “PDA” or a “public display of affection, then that stuff would just be confined to the shows of Cristy Fermin or Vice Ganda. But it’s much more than that. It’s all about credibility, electoral fraud, massive cheating at the last presidential elections and our survival as a nation.

Former senator and vice presidential candidate Bongbong Marcos has filed a protest claiming that the camp of Leni Robredo has cheated their way for Leni to become vice president.

To make a long story short, the protest has resulted into a vote recount of several sample areas or provinces in the country.

The Presidential Electoral Tribunal or PET has just started the recount after two years of delaying tactics from the camp of Leni Robredo.

Lo and behold, several ballot boxes from Naga were found to contain wet ballots and cut grass.

Very clear proof that the ballot boxes were tampered or opened illegally at the very least; at worst the wet ballots and grass were very crude attempts to manipulate and cover cheating.

But we’re not here to talk about the “Barefoot Lady from Naga”, her sexual escapades or her “cheating her way to the vice presidency”; that’s another column.

This is what we are going to talk about: Excerpts from the April 9 issue of Panay News:

Duterte to Sereno: ‘I’m now your enemy’

MANILA – Rodrigo Duterte made it clear that Supreme Court Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno has made an enemy in the presidency.

In a speech in Davao City before departing for overseas trips, Duterte lashed at Sereno who insinuated that he had a hand in the moves to unseat her.

“Ikaw Sereno, sinabi ko na sa’yohindi ako makialam, but if you are insisting I have a hand in your impeachment, then count me in. I am now your enemy,” said the President.

Duterte urged the House of Representatives to make the removal of the chief justice quick.

“I will see to it that you will be removed from the Supreme Court,” said Duterte. Addressing the House, he said: “Kindly fast-track the impeachment complaint. Sereno is bad for the Philippines.”

And it’s not often that the President of the Republic publicly declares that you are his enemy.

This lady who was instrumental in bringing down at the impeachment trial the late former Chief Justice Renato Corona now finds herself on the opposite side.

Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno is now facing a double whammy, a quo warranto complaint at the Supreme Court and impeachment in Congress.

Talk about “poetic justice”; this is the very essence of “getting a dose of your own medicine.”

And what is “poetic justice” anyway?

Poetic justice is a literary device in which ultimately virtue is rewarded and viciousness is punished. In modern literature it is often accompanied by an ironic twist of fate related to the character’s own action.

Some people are saying that what happened to Sereno is “karma” and karma’s a bitch.

That she’s a bitch most of the natives of these islands will agree but to say that what is happening to her now is “karma” is stretching it a bit too far.

In religions such as Hinduism and Buddhismkarma is the belief that your actions in this life affect all your future lives.

Quite simply, “karma” has all to do with reincarnation and nothing to do with Sereno’s current situation.

Poetic justice indeed!

Remember the “little lady” during the impeachment of the late Chief Justice Corona? We all know that she was a figment of the imagination of Congressmen Umali and Tupas while the testimony of Sereno where a figment of her imagination.

Maria Lourdes Sereno is the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Republic of the Philippines who never saw the insides of a courtroom as a trial lawyer; her experience as a trial lawyer is next to nil.

She was a mediocre lawyer who spent most of her career as a lecturer in the University of the Philippines, and even there she never attained full Professor.

Her only qualifications why that nincompoop Noynoy Aquino appointed her as Chief Justice was that they were classmates and she was willing to protect the Aquinos and Hacienda Luisita from the full implementation of land reform which was mandated by law.

As that demi-god of the New People’s Army and all the pseudo-communists, Joma Sison said in an interview: “Si Sereno muchacha ni Aquinoyan.” So there. (brotherlouie16@gmail.com/PN)

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