The Wily Filipino

A Thief And A Dictator? You Don't Say!

Oh dear. This woman doesn't look very happy, does she? Indeed, she looks a little haggard, though I can't imagine that she actually loses sleep over anything.

This woman is a little weepy because she has just filed a libel suit against Presidential Commission on Good Government commissioner Ruben Carranza (and a good chunk of the Today staff, including publisher Teodoro Locsin Jr.) for calling her husband a "thief and a dictator... terms which have unjustly blackened the memory of my deceased husband."

How dare they, indeed! However, she thinks that truth will prevail: "Let them not take the truth because truth is God," she said. She continued, in a stellar example of her wit and wisdom:

Money and power, you can't take with you to the grave. Truth and honor you take with you beyond the grave, beyond infinity and eternity. This is what I am fighting for.

Shudder. All this talk about the grave is a little too morbid for my taste. I certainly don't want her to join her husband any time soon -- at least do a few more interviews, girl!

Old and bitter, that's more like it. But you're already there.

(AFP photo reproduced with no permission from this article.)

Posted by the wily filipino at October 3, 2003 09:15 AM