Detained opposition senator Leila De Lima is firing
back at Department of Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin, Jr. , for calling as “idiotic” a US Senate resolution
calling for her immediate release.
Over the weekend, Locsin said “(E)ven a
Philippine Senate resolution is not one of the ways of ending a criminal trial;
there’s only acquittal or conviction or dismissal by a demurrer to evidence.”
“But a US Senate resolution? Aside from separation of
powers there’s the independence of nations,” the DFA Sec. pointed out.
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| DFA Sec. Teddy Boy Locsin Jr., and Senator Leila De Lima (photo credit to owner) |
The Liberal Party senator has been in detention since
February 2017 on illegal drug charges, and such fact has not deterred her in
attacking or criticizing the current President Rodrigo Roa Duterte administration.
The Lady senator more than a couple of times denied
the so-called trump up charges filed against her.
“You cannot be that naïve or close-minded in failing
or refusing to see what the rest of the world sees: that the charges against me
are pure fiction, a product of orchestrated lies assembled by certain officials
and operators on explicit orders of Duterte as the highlight of his personal
vendetta against me,” de Lima said
She explains that the US senators only wanted to point at that “there are consequences to my continuous persecution by Duterte and his officials” including the entry ban and and freezing and forfeiture of US assets.
She explains that the US senators only wanted to point at that “there are consequences to my continuous persecution by Duterte and his officials” including the entry ban and and freezing and forfeiture of US assets.
“Locsin knows or ought to know that this threat of
consequences is perfectly legal and binding insofar as the US is concerned,” The
opposition senator went on.
De Lima said the foreign affairs secretary could still
choose whether to “continuously identify” himself as “among the cohorts or
enablers, or regain your brilliant legal mind.”
“I am sure the former is already tiresome, as you
yourself must admit that among them, you are in the company of idiots,” she
said.
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