Sen. Jinggoy Estrada forgets that he was once arrested for plunder. That is why it is in such bad taste for him to gloat over the arrest of former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
At least former President Joseph Estrada has the decency to watch his mouth and be magnanimous to GMA, saying he doesn’t want GMA, being a woman, to go through what he went through. But 10 years after his own arrest on plunder charges, Jinggoy likes to rub it in with statements, like Arroyo could use his father’s pony in Tanay. Statements like this leave a bad taste in the mouth, especially coming from someone who was similarly arrested for plunder to begin with. Just because he now enjoys freedom in the comfort of a new sprawling mansion in Corinthian Hills (which BIR Commissioner Kim Henares should inspect, by the way) does not give him any right to wish ill or step on others. He has no moral authority to speak on Arroyo’s arrest.
He may have forgotten but the Filipino people haven’t.
—ROMINA POSADAS, romina posadas@gmail.com