Press Statement

11 July 2014


On Ms. Enrile Chief of Staff panic attack and fear of commingling with
alleged NPAs in jail:


If her attack is contrived or feigned, then this is comical. If real, then by all means, let a doctor see her
and give her immediate, necessary and appropriate medical care. But the hoity-toity are not the only
children of a greater god. We really need to hold a medical convention of experts to validate the direct
correlation between detention and worrisome illnesses and health disorders that affect only the rich and
famous. This is alarming already.

There are scores of poor and destitute, many charged with lesser or petty crimes, literally languishing
inside jails; yet this government couldn't care any less. Dirt-poor creatures like pregnant Andrea Rosal
had to go through undeserved perdition because she is no Gigi Reyes, well-coiffed aristocrat on
pedestals used to a life of comfort if not ostentation like her former principal who has spurned her just like
that to save his own skin.

Her "panic attack" is out of touch with reality and seems delusional. If she sees her own demons in the
company of principled, rational and honorable women political prisoners she pejoratively labels as NPAs
all, then she should really seek some professional help. They should not be the ones in jail in the first
place.

But she might be jolted and humbled if she eventually discovers that these people she disdains and
looks down at could probably be the most level-headed, humane, merciful, and selfless people she could
find. She might even be enlightened about the proximate cause how jails become and are kept decrepit,
filthy, infernal and squalid, though she fights tooth and nail to not even breathe the same air in these little
hells.


Reference:

Edre U. Olalia
NUPL Secretary General
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