The right to be stupid

We are entitled to our own stupidity.” This is what power-hungry Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez said, referring to Magdalo Party-list Rep. Gary Alejano after the latter filed an impeachment complaint against President Duterte.

So is Alvarez; he is entitled to his own stupidity. In fact, he has exerted his entitlement to “his own stupidity”—and manifested it publicly—by claiming, without any basis or evidence, that Vice President Leni Robredo is in a hurry to be in power, and that she is involved in the filing of the impeachment case. And the Speaker is now stupidly asserting, again without any basis, that former senator Bongbong Marcos won the vice presidential race.

But the Vice President has never been abusive nor publicity- or power-hungry—unlike Alvarez, Solicitor General Jose Calida and Sandra Cam. And Robredo has never been involved in any corruption scandal, unlike the Speaker who lasted only more than a year as transportation secretary during the Arroyo administration for reasons that the public must be familiar with by now.

RAFFY REY HIPOLITO,

raffy_hipolito2005@yahoo.com