“They” are Regional Trial Court (RTC) Judges Rodolfo Azucena Jr., Arlene Lirag Palabrica, Andres Soriano and Alexander Tamayo, who, by their decisions on certain critical cases, have fired up the despondent imagination and provided leeway for the public to think that things can possibly get better, that there might be a way out of this slough.
Three of the cases involve uniformed men, active or retired, representing the might of the state that, as in the bad old days of Ferdinand Marcos’ martial law and continuing into the Duterte administration’s centerpiece war on drugs, appears to allow the military and police to get away with murder.
The fourth involves a senator of the realm, himself a former military man and longtime critic of the administration that by its behavior seems to view him as an enemy of the state.
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