{"id":6394,"date":"2026-07-15T07:55:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T06:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/balitangklik.com\/?p=6394"},"modified":"2026-07-15T07:55:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T06:55:14","slug":"try-insanity-as-saras-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balitangklik.com\/?p=6394","title":{"rendered":"Try insanity as Sara\u2019s defense"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Diego Morra<\/strong><\/p>\n

It has become too taxing for TV viewers to hear the shrill but pathetic line of arguments by the defense lawyers of Vice President Sara Zimmerman Duterte before the Senate impeachment court. For one, it is doubtful whether lead defense counsel Sheila Sison and her 15 colleagues crafted the legal theory Sison discussed in her opening statement for the simple reason that Sara\u2019s signature is there for all to see. Aside from denying everything on their client\u2019s behalf, the defense warned the senators not to fiddle with Sara since she was elected by 32-million digital voters and must be accorded due respect.<\/p>\n

It is not a defense at all for it is a silly argument consistent with Sara\u2019s lie that she did not do anything wrong. Sino idol ni Sara? Si Donald Trump at ang handler nito, ang nasirang Roy Cohn, who failed to argue his case against the AIDS virus? If the client insists on having her way, and the defense team failing to convince her that the Senate, and the larger court of public opinion, is not buying her theory, the only logical, decent and smart thing to do is resign.<\/p>\n

Or her lawyers can simply admit before the impeachment court that Sara is not competent to stand trial owing to her mental troubles, and that she has great difficulty processing reality. In France, that leads to a thorough examination of the respondent, as in the case of Louis Althusser, and prosecutors may just say non lieu. They will not prosecute due to the psychological state of the accused. Jacques Lacan was Althusser\u2019s analyst. Yet, that option is certainly not in the best interest of Sara. C\u2019est parfait! While Sara has a fraught relationship with reality aside from bungling with her grammar and corrupting logic, she has not retreated from her obsession that her god has groomed her to be the president of this benighted republic.<\/p>\n

However, with the weight of evidence adduced by the complainants, secured from official documents from the COA, Department of Budget and Management (DBM), the Office of the Vice President (OVP) itself, the Office of the President (OP), the Philippine Army (PA), the Department of Education (DepEd) and local government units (LGUs), the NBI and other investigative agencies, it is practically impossible for the defense to secure a nolle prosequi from prosecutors. The issues have been joined and no matter how the defense works, its theory that \u201cvox populi, vox dei\u201d should be the basis of any Senate decision. Of course, this doesn\u2019t wash but Sara is not concerned about the facts, the evidence and the universal condemnation of what she has done.<\/p>\n

Sara herself demanded a bloodbath and mistakenly quoted the verses from William Henlety\u2019s \u201cInvictus\u201d to show that she is being persecuted and mauled only to be victorious in the end. Henley suffered a debilitating disease, his extremities amputated but he soldiered on. Sara? She mauled a court sheriff, issued threats against former Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV and threatened to kill Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and his wife as well as former Speaker Ferdinand Martin Romualdez. Rephrase Mark Antony\u2019s eulogy on the funeral of Julius Caesar as written by William Shakespeare: \u201cThe evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones\u2026\u201d The same holds true for the evil that women do.<\/p>\n

On July 14, 2026, Bastille Day, Sara issued a one-page statement on the impeachment trial, saying in gist that the proceedings are bogus and typical of kangaroo courts. What she cannot say before the trial court, she dishes out in truncated English to assail the prosecutors for persecuting her. At the trial, the issue discussed was the death threat against the Marcos couple and Romualdez, whom she cursed. \u201cOn Day 4 of the impeachment trial, the country witnessed what I have been saying all along: The complaint is not supported by evidence.\u201d (Emphasis supplied. Thus, she denied issuing the death threats on the video footage her camp produced and which her defense did not debunk. Sara is her best hostile witness.<\/p>\n

\u201cRepeatedly claiming that there were threats where none existed, inventing an assassin where there was none, and fabricating evidence to support those claims does not (sic) transform fiction into fact. Instead, such actions undermine the integrity of public institutions, erode public trust, waste public resources, and corrupt the search for truth,\u201d Sara argued. These sentences should be taken as proof that Sara does not believe in her own declarations, has contempt for the truth and has no truck with sincerity, honesty and morality. They prove that Sara swims in Duterte’s DNA.<\/p>\n

Sara then takes the bully pulpit and proceeds with her stream-of-consciousness message: \u201cAn impeachment proceeding should be grounded in credible evidence, not speculation, manufactured narratives, or unsupported allegations. The rule of law depends on facts, not fiction.\u201d Are we going to believe a woman who has confessed that she lies as a matter of course, misquotes Bonifacio to show that a little learning is a dangerous thing and who denies her own video, her felicitations to Ramil Madriaga, a guy she doesn\u2019t know, and manufactured a horde of paid informers to enable her to spend P125-million in 11 days? By the way, Sara was not entitled to a single centavo in Confidential Funds (CFs) from July to December 2022 since the budget she was misusing was still the Robredo OVP budget. Robredo had zero CF from 2016 to 2022.#<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Diego Morra It has become too taxing for TV viewers to hear the shrill but pathetic line of arguments by the defense lawyers of Vice President Sara Zimmerman Duterte before the Senate impeachment court. For one, it is doubtful whether lead defense counsel Sheila Sison and her 15 colleagues crafted the legal theory Sison […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4140,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editoryal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t