"Bilibid" or not: A question of credibility
At the end of the day, it is the people who shall decide whom to believe. If we compare the witnesses against Senator Leila de Lima in the House investigation, the stories of de Lima's mysterious witness, Edgar Matobato in the Senate will most likely confuse, bewilder, and perplex many of our countrymen.
Many of us are astounded at how men and women, even those we used to hold in high regard, can do such evil and silly things. Perhaps all in the name of greed for wealth, thirst for power, or just plain lust for momentary physical pleasures and stolen excitements.
Certainly, the testimonies under oath about the highly controversial drug trades inside the Bilibid National Penitentiary almost defy human belief and comprehension. We simply cannot imagine how such illegal, immoral, and decidedly obnoxious activities could have been allowed to be perpetrated inside a government institution, right in front of the noses of justice and prison officials.
How could such nefarious crimes ever be allowed by public officials, personnel and civil servants? How such shenanigans have happened under an administration that unabashedly claimed to be treading along the straight and narrow path?
It is extremely difficult, if not impossible for simple folks like most of us, to ever accept that such honorable men and women, who have projected themselves as the paragon of virtues and official dignity, degenerate into the lowest forms of rascals and scalawags in high places.
How could they have possibly choose to trample on the very laws and regulations they have been sworn to uphold. Matobato wove tales of hundreds, if not thousands of Filipinos who were kidnapped, ambushed, abducted, and taken away to be tortured and then murdered, massacred, and eliminated like crazy. Then the House witnesses revealed so many sordid details of human capability at most despicable acts.
While Matobato has portrayed the president and his men to be a bunch of conscienceless mass murderers and serial killers, not unlike the Grim Reaper, the House witnesses unfolded lurid details of how men and women in high places could have abused their powers to amass wealth, arrogate power, and covetously elicit quick and forbidden sex.
While the president has been presented as torturers of suspected drug pushers and of petty and heinous criminals, the former secretary of justice has been pictured as a reckless lady boss of some drug syndicates with ambition in love, romances, and politics.
All these horrendous episodes that display how men and women could bend themselves too low, and virtually reducing themselves into maniacal animals and inhuman species, in the lowest level of the animal kingdom, are beyond our ability to understand. We simply cannot believe how people we hold in awe and admiration could turn out to be extremely abominable.
At the end of the day, what matters most is that we get into the bottom of all these, and decide for ourselves, who are in the side of truth and rectitude.
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