[Dash of SAS] We are all Leila de Lima

'Freeing Leila will be like freeing parts of ourselves that someone else had always laid claim to.' ThoughtLeaders Opinion

Over the weekend, Solita “Winnie” Monsod tweeted that she was denied a visit to Leila de Lima at Camp Crame. Monsod, her husband Christian, and Chel Diokno were set to visit De Lima on her 63rd birthday.

Duterte and De Lima faced off years before he became president. When De Lima was head of the Commission on Human Rights, she led an inquiry into the Davao Death Squad, Duterte’s band of vigilantes. Duterte had never forgotten it and vowed to make her pay. Manny Pacquiao ousted De Lima as committee chairperson. Pacquiao’s own track record shows a number of extramarital affairs and gambling. He was consistently singled out as the legislator with the most absences. Former Justice Secretary Aguirre proposed to show it in a congressional hearing as evidence. Meanwhile, other evidence implicated Aguirre in the multi-million “pastillas” bribery scandal in the Bureau of Immigration. He later resigned from his DOJ post.

Harry Roque, the opportunist who capitalized on gender rights and equality as legal counsel to Jennifer Laude’s family kept mum when Duterte granted absolute pardon to US Marine Joseph Scott Pemberton who was convicted of killing Laude in 2016. When he was press secretary, Roque abandoned his position on gender rights and defended the misogynist and sexist tirade that we were all subjected to under Duterte.

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