Sex video, prison riot: de Lima drama continues
ON top of the corruption scandal involving multi-million peso bribes, they added to the brew multiple lovers of Sen. Leila de Lima, a sex video with her in it, and now a prison riot whose casualties included high-profile convicts.
Or so de Lima contends, alleging mafia-like tactics to scare prisoners to testify against the former Department of Justice chief.
When will the “drama” stop? Probably when she will have been charged and arrested or when President Duterte will have a change of heart about the woman whom he sees as his tormentor on human rights cases.
Whichever comes first, although Duterte’s flip about her fate is extremely unlikely. Not responding to her foul-baiting whether he wanted her sexually, Duterte said she should take a break and stop yakking.
The sex video has titillated internet watchers, wondering how she’d come across on the screen with scant or nonexistent clothes.
But the prison riot, which de Lima suspects was staged, introduces the element of violence, which makes the “reality show” involving the senator more riveting to the audience.
One high-profile prisoner, convicted drug lord Peter Co, was killed while at least three others, including one of de Lima’s alleged lovers, were wounded.
The de Lima drama catches attention as interest in extrajudicial killings flags.
‘Na in love kasi’
PEOPLE are wondering though if the sex video, which Duterte talked about last Aug. 24 yet, actually exists. “It’s for real,” the president said then. And he must have seen it as he described it thus: “Lumabas ang lahat, pati ang kalokohan sa kama.” The man wanted it recorded and the woman “pumayag naman (consented), he said, “Na in love kasi.”
The man must be the new lover whom Duterte identified as Warren, a motorcycle-riding guard from the Metro Manila Development Authority assigned to de Lima’s detail at the DOJ.
Not Jesus, not a saint
DE LIMA said the president is not like Jesus who brought Lazarus back from the dead, referring to Duterte’s apology after shaming a governor and two board members by linking them to the drug trade. Once a reputation is killed, it can’t be resurrected, she said.
Sen. Antonio Trillanes said he’s surprised that his colleagues are treating Duterte like a saint “when he never pretended to be one.”