Miriam!

Miriam has been getting a lot of flak lately for her "assassination plot" charge against Tita Cory and Sen. Drilon.

From Lito Banayo:

Itong binubunganga ni Senadora Miriam Defensor Santiago ukol sa diumano’y narinig ng isa niyang kakilala ukol sa "assassination" plot o dili kaya’y kudeta laban sa kanyang Donya Gloria ay isa lamang panggulo sa mga isyu. Isang kathang-isip ng palasyo na si Senyora Miriam ang ginawang tagapagsalita.

Hindi na nga sana dapat patulan pa, lalo na’t ang diumano’y nagsasabwatan ay sina dating Pangulong Cory Aquino at Senate President Franklin Drilon. Drawing na, bulok pa. Pero dahil si Senyora Miriam ang nagbunyag, pinatulan ng mga pahayagan ang kababalaghang ito.

Sa totoo lang, siste ng mga alipores ni Donya Gloria ang ganito. Kapag nababalik sa pananaw ng sambayanan ang Hello Garci at dayaan sa nagdaang halalan, gagawa ng panakip. At pampagulo ng mga isyu. Lahat ito’y sa pag-asang makakalimutan din ng tao na sila’y dinaya, na sila’y ninakawan, at sila’y pinagsisinungalingan ni Donya.

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Sadya nga lamang makulay itong si Senyora Miriam, kaya’t sa mga mamamahayag siya’y "good copy". Nitong huling mga araw ay kung anu-ano na namang maaanghang na pananalita ang namutawi sa kanya. Pati si Representante Rolex Suplico, kapwa niyang taga-Iloilo, ay binanatan. Naging estudyante raw niya sa UP, at dapat daw ay binagsak niya.

Ngunit sino kaya sa kanila ang totoong nakakaintindi ng batas? Dakdak ng dakdak ang Senyora Miriam, triple hearsay lang pala ang isasambulat. Ganyan ba ang magaling na abogada? Kung sabagay, sabi nga ni Suplico, kung siya ay "nincompoop at dimwit" gaya ng paratang ni Miriam, e bakit kaya mas mataas ang grado niya sa bar exams kaysa natamo ni Senyora Miriam?

Ernesto Maceda also comments:

Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez and Speaker Jose de Venecia have come out to support Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago's charge that former President Corazon Aquino and Senate President Franklin Drilon are engaged in an oust- GMA plot, including an assassination plan.

Gonzalez and De Venecia must now come out with the basis and details of their statements. Failing to do so, they are guilty of irresponsible rumor-mongering, carried by all news organizations all of which contributes to the destabilization of the Arroyo government.

It is significant that the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) intelligence community admitted it has no report of such coup-slay plot.

Gonzalez as secretary of Justice must be careful and circumspect in his statements considering it is he who decides whether charges of sedition will be filed against Cory Aquino and Frank Drilon. Gonzalez may be guilty of prejudging the investigation he ordered the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) to undertake on the charges of Santiago.

The big error here is to involve Cory Aquino, a very religious woman as a mastermind of the slay plot. Nobody believes in such ludicrous claim by a usually ballistic senadora.

And finally, this from de Quiros:

I know that Miriam's PRO asked me some weeks ago to stop attacking her person and concentrate on her ideas. My problem with that is the same one I had with Manuel Morato many years ago: What ideas? In their cases, the person is the idea, or lack of it.

Heh.