Trillanes the Real Villain

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrels, as a wise man once said. Reminds me of this quote when I totally understood the clash between Senator, the former, Juan Ponce Enrile, and Senator, the former too, Antonio Trillanes IV in a Senate hearing some years ago. In truth it was the confrontation that interest us. A simple argument turned out to be personal. The quarrel what made us amused and not the content of what was revealed.

The backdoor talk with the Chinese was the highlight. Trillanes didn't want that. The Enrile 'favoritism' issue in the Senate should have been the agenda. But no. Trillanes failed. Enrile is too wise a man and too old a man you can outsmart. It's too difficult to win with this man. How can you argue with this man? 94 Years Old with a brain still sharp. Imagine the experience he had undergone. The history he witnessed that you can only read in books. This heated exchange revealed some dark secret of Trillanes. Trillanes was caught in his own actions. Like frying in its own oil. Trillanes blew himself up. Had it not been for his privilege speech he would have been saved from that embarassment. He threw himself off a high cliff. This is where I discovered his capacity to commit evil. It's only now I realized the more evil in him. It's only now I understood the whole story, what he really did on that backdoor talk with Chinese officials. It is only now that I learned all these because I watched and listened carefully the video up to the end. Well, there is always the other side of the story. Maybe. Maybe what Enrile told us was the only story we could digest. Maybe the other side of the story could have been worse. That's politics anyway. A man doesn't choose evil because it is evil. He only mistaken it for the good he seeks. We can always settle at that.