The people Napoles lured into her scam were not helpless and desperate, they were rich and powerful. They knew perfectly well what they were getting into and got exactly what they paid for. In fact they weren’t lured at all. This is a case of mutual exploitation, the senators and congressmen who put their pork barrel funds in Napoles’ hands using Napoles as much as Napoles used them. If not indeed more so: The pork barrel funds were burning a hole in their pockets. It was loot waiting to be laundered, it was stash waiting to be converted into usable cash. If Napoles had not existed, the crispy-pata-loving senators and congressmen would have invented her. They and not Napoles are the guiltiest here. Their crime goes beyond the amounts of kickbacks they got from the pork scam. Their crime is of the stuff that gets presidents themselves impeached. As the congressmen who prosecuted Erap themselves cried out then, that is betrayal of public trust. Napoles is nothing, she is an ordinary citizen, even if she is an extraordinary scoundrel. FROM:PDI
Posted on: Tue, 03 Sep 2013 02:44:49 +0000
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