Feb. 24, 2017, was the day I witnessed—for the first time in my 76 years of life—an unspeakable injustice committed by a lawyer, the secretary of justice at that, whose basic calling is to ensure not only that everybody gets justice but also that injustice is not inflicted upon any human being. This is the injustice that lawyer Vitaliano Aguirre, an alumnus of San Beda College of Law, has done to Sen. Leila de Lima when he orchestrated the filing of trumped-up charges against her.
But no less shameful is the silence of the San Beda College of Law authorities in the face of this shameful travesty of justice by one of its alumni.
On a larger picture, we are driven to ask: Have honor and decency fled from this venerable institution following the involvement of some of its alumni, specifically lawyers Al Argosino and Michael Robles, in the Jack Lam bribery scandal case?
San Beda College is named after an English monk, St. Bede or Venerable Bede. It’s a shame that some of its alumni are not so venerable.
CARLOS ISLES, carlosisles@gmail.com