Askers supporting the president in detention are equally wondering why the authorities arrested the former president without a warrant of arrest. That wayward question went viral and ignited a sentimental reaction from the gullible lot of blind followers. It ignited calls for supporters to rally behind their president in detention to call for his return home to the country that he wrecked with mayhem in a bloody war on drugs. It was a campaign promise that duped those who were victims of drug addicts wanting to end drug addiction in the country. They were swayed into a bandwagon that turned into a mob of blind followers ranting at the police and military officers who arrested their idol. The throng stayed behind while their idol was flown into space without details of its destination.
Getting confirmed information of their idol’s whereabouts, they directed their ire against the International Criminal Court (ICC) that issued the warrant of arrest. Likewise, they barked at the International Police (Interpol) that coordinated with Philippine law enforcement authorities to implement the warrant of arrest. Aside from the police and military officials who surrounded to protect the president in detention, the mob of blind supporters are barking at the magical president for cooperating with the ICC that resulted in arrest of their idol. All efforts went to naught as their idol was placed in detention had been subjected to pretrial under the ICC.
In the meantime, laymen came out to raise sentiments supporting the president in detention posing as experts in international law. The sentimental proposition mostly calls for humane treatment, portraying their idol as a victim of injustice and oppression for having been denied what they call as due process of law. It is the same due process of law that their idol president in detention deprived innocent victims of the bloody war on drugs. Hapless poor victims were butchered in that bloody war on drugs that were never given the right to be heard and defend themselves, much more the right to due process of law.
Peace loving people are united in the position that the president in detention must be afforded that fundamental due process of law. Lawyers who have true credentials as international law experts had opined that the president in detention was given his desired due process of law. The allegation that the law enforcers who arrested the president in detention was arrested without the requisite warrant of arrest is blatantly false. In many expert opinions, the arrest may be effected without the copy of the warrant and may be shown should the suspect require a copy. The opinion is in accordance with the rules and jurisprudence but there is one true common interpretation of existing laws, rules and rules that indeed the arrest was based on a valid warrant.
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