JPE THE FB ROCKSTAR

By now, I am sure you are familiar with the postings of Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Juan Ponce Enrile on Facebook, and the Duterte trolls who swarm his posts like wandering flies with ad hominem attacks varying from his long life and old age to memories of Martial Law with the tag "architect of martial law.' And his writings are not even yesterday's garbage but relevant still to this very day. Matter of fact, they even call for the boycott of huis daughter Katrina's Delimondo corned beef as if they don't love the product. Recently, he was trending again when he wrote about the achievements of former President (now ICC inmate) Rodrigo Duterte when he was the country's chief executor er executive. JPE went on to say that many of those projects remain unfinished and are still in the process of being finished under the Marcos administration. And this is where it even gets more interesting: JPE asks where Duterte got the money to fund these projects? And as we all the believe the money came from taxes, truth is Duterte drew out a loan from China which caused the swelling of the country's loans during his tenure. It's in the national records, says JPE. No wonder the Chinese just keep on training their water cannons on our Filipino fishermen. They don't respect us as a people simply because they think they own us. Guess who's paying for these loans today? The Marcos administration is paying for those loans today! And, according to JPE, if we compare previous loans from previous presidents, Duterte's loans top the list as the biggest. The ad hominem attacks came right after insisting that Duterte is the best President we ever had. Time and again, these fanatics patiently wait for JPE's Facebook posts, ready to unleash their meanest comments on the 101-year old FB rockstar as if reaching that ripe old age was a crime. During a recent dinner with him, he reminded me that he knew PBBM as early as when he was a young boy even in his pre-teens. But of course because JPE served under his later father's government beginning in 1966 as Customs Commissioner. PBBM was a 9-year old boy that year. Most of JPE's current bashers on Facebook were not even born that year or even some years after. This reminds me of Senator Risa Hontiveros when she talked about being a martial Law victim. How could this be when Risa was only 6 years old in 1972 when ML was declared? She was born in 1966. And just like many of JPE's bashers on Facebook, their arguments simply make no sense at all. This is both a direct insult to an icon of Philippine history and government and an amusement and a source of laughter for him. Many of them insist that he has utilized the services of a ghostwriter that even i was suspected of being the one. Truth is, Juan Ponce Enrile is his own man and nobody can fathom his intellect just easily as to write that deep and the historical grasp is too wide to ingest quickly. For me, Enrile is the best president we never had. But let us not fret as we still have a chance for that someday in his daughter Katrina.