Kaban ni D_BystandeR: DILI PATAS ANG HALWA SA MGA KABOS UG MGA SENADOR???

When Sen. Antonio Trillanes was asked in a TV interview with Karen Davila about "special treatment" accorded to Bong Revilla and Jinggoy Estrada because they are given better living quarters compared to ordinary lawbreakers, he said there's nothing wrong with it because even in other countries the trend is now to give them better accommodations in order to rehabilitate them.

Under the present system, prisoners who are less privileged compared to senators and other high ranking government officials are given substandard accommodations that one can easily predict they cannot be expected to successfully rehabilitate because of the difficult environment they suffered inside and most likely they become a liability to society when they get out that most often they are seen coming back as hardened criminals.

But if only these errant lawmakers had religiously followed their sacred oaths of office and did not succumb to the  temptation to enrich their own pockets to the detriment of the people whom the money was intended to help them improve their lives, things would have gone better for everybody including the improvement of prisoners' lives under incarceration. It is lamentable that the  lawmakers involved in the pork barrel scam have lost  their rare chance to become useful pillars of our  country for they allowed themselves to sink into the quagmire of irredeemable greed!

Footnote: This comment came out in connection with an Editorial in The FREEMAN, "Food for thought."