Breaking News:Ex-President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo goes home today

      Former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo walks free today from her detention at the Veterans Memorial Medical Center (VMMC) after having posted a one-million-peso bail a couple of hours ago for the poll sabotage case filed against her last year. Bayan members are holding an “emergency picket” in front of the VMMC to protest the impending release of the accused and what the protestors called the “incompetence” of the government prosecution team in handling the case. 

      Electoral sabotage is a capital offense, non-bailable if the evidence of guilt is strong. The principal witness in this case gave hearsay testimony while the corroborating witnesses disappeared or refused to testify. 

     As of press time, the accused and her legal team are waiting for  a copy of the release order and preparing for her release. 

          (do you like my lead…? it’s complete, it’s real-time! it’s picturesque, gives the necessary consequence  that she walks free today. commentaries later!  have to go to media law classes, the assignment and lecture today is freedom from prior restraint;  i don’t really lecture for seven hours, i do a song- and- dance number in between to entertain.           )

The next news post probably is: Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo holds thanksgiving mass. Then a small dinner party. Then a bigger “unity party”. Those who wanted her charged and jailed are not invited.