Enrile posts cryptic remark on ‘pathetic irony, gasping for justice’
Juan Ponce Enrile (INQUIRER FILE PHOTO)
MANILA, Philippines — Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Juan Ponce Enrile on Tuesday said he finds it ironic that those who reportedly committed injustices are now “drowning and gasping” for justice.
Enrile did not mention or specifically refer to anyone in his online post but has commented previously on the arrest of former President Rodrigo Duterte and his legal woes before the International Criminal Court.
“What a pathetic irony! Those who allegedly committed acts of injustice are drowning and gasping for justice. In their desperate distress, they called for widespread national prayer rallies to a God they called ‘STUPID!!!’” Enrile wrote on Facebook on Tuesday evening.
Duterte’s supporters and allies organized a “Bring PRRD Home” event over the weekend, praying for the former leader’s “health and safe return” in the Philippines.
The former president was served an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court (ICC) over his alleged crimes against humanity committed during his administration’s drug war.
To recall, Duterte, who is an open critic of the Catholic Church, ranted about God and called him “stupid” for the concept of “original sin” in a speech he delivered on June 22, 2018.
Days later he even said that he would not — in a million years — apologize for calling God stupid.
“They blame nearly everyone else, except themselves, for their miseries, lust, which they themselves created because of their arrogance, hubris, and hunger for power and pelf. They now claw for straws of support to extricate themselves from the tight situation they created for themselves,” Enrile added.
