Kaban ni D_BystandeR: DILI MABANGBANG ANG KAPUNGOT NI MIRIAM SA GIDUMTAN NIYANG TIGULANG

I find the furious "blast" of Miriam Defensor Santiago against JPE (Enrile) as expected because  she has always shown in every opportunity that she can find an opening for her fury to castigate Enrile not to let it pass but to make it "big and most hurting" against the sickly, 91-year-old legislator. Mercy is out of the picture, even if he is already looking too fragile to stand a court trial, i.e., if we are to consider that during his "heydays" he has caused his "powerful hand" to send countless people to their graves at a time when he became the second-most-powerful man in the country during the Marcos dictatorship. But I find Miriam's contention not strong enough if she is to equate the granting of "house arrest" unfair to GMA, who was herself an Ex-President, compared to only a Senate President. The quality of mercy is not defined  according to the kind of position the man or woman had previously occupied, whether he or  she was a "king or a queen" in their own right, but it is defined according to the wisdom in meting out the kind of punishment commensurate to the transgression he or she has been found criminally liable. In my take, both of them do not qualify for a house arrest. If we already knew  of so many who died or rot in jail, why make the two personalities the exception?

Footnote: This comment came out in connection with a news item in Philstar, entitled, "Miriam bucks house arrest for Enrile." It came out on March 5, 2015.