THE late Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for 17 years for his effort to topple an abomination called apartheid and build a new South Africa from its ruins. Former senator Leila de Lima was in detention for more than seven years on account of the whim of a former city mayor-turned-president she once investigated for human rights violations.
Her 'crimes' were nonexistent; the money trail for her supposed bounty from being a top protector of illegal drugs, probably tracked with the help of Anti-Money Laundering Council personnel, yielded not a single bank account.How she soldiered through and maintained her equanimity and peace of mind during the Kafkaesque wait for her ordeal to end — a senator of the realm jailed on the whim of a vengeful power — is one amazing story of human endurance.
Propping up our fragile democracy and protecting it from extraconstitutional challenges happens to be the traditional roles of political opposition in a democracy. The opposition is doing precisely that, and whether that action benefits the Marcos administration is a matter the opposition does not even bother to contemplate.
Opposition's Unwavering Commitment To Democracy
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