RUMINATION IN MENIFEE

     This 90-year old senator is currently detained in a Philippine prison facility after plunder and graft charges were filed against him for the alleged misuse of his pork barrel or Disbursement Acceleration Progam. He allegedly pocketed more than P100-million in kickbacks in connection with the P10-billion scam involving senators, government functionaries and other high-ranking officials.  
     "I will win this case," he boasted to media, even if he is his own lawyer in the plunder charges.
     Nevertheles, he has hired as counsel Estelito Mendoza, one of the country's most brilliant lawyers and a factotum of the martial law regime of Ferdinand Marcos.
     He was the alleged architect of martial law that enabled the strongman to rule for more than ten years.
     The man was then at his prime, morally and intellectually.
     He may not have declined intellectually, but it appears he has deteriorated morally.
     His estranged wife claimed he has some 35 paramours. Does the number include his chief of staff who is also detained in the same facility for plunder charges?
     Can he redeem himself before he rides into the sunset and reconcile with his wife by whom he had two children, one of whom is following his footsteps as a politician?
     Can he be again in the good graces of the Filipino people who regarded him as hero of the Edsa Revolution that toppled his fellow Ilokano from power?
     Can he see the light like the former Saul who saw the light on his way to Damascus? Saul who became Paul was the persecutors of the Biblical Christians.
    
       
    

Part of Tribu Paraiso in Diadi, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines