{"id":44223,"date":"2015-03-06T20:46:08","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T12:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=44223"},"modified":"2015-03-06T20:46:08","modified_gmt":"2015-03-06T12:46:08","slug":"miriam-opposes-house-arrest-for-enrile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/03\/06\/miriam-opposes-house-arrest-for-enrile\/","title":{"rendered":"Miriam opposes house arrest for Enrile"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Veteran Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago (Facebook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA — For Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago, it will not be a good idea to grant house arrest for Senate Minority Leader Juan Ponce Enrile while former\u00a0President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo remains under hospital detention.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy should President Gloria Arroyo, a former president of the Philippines, be granted hospital arrest only while Enrile, who is just a former Senate president, should be granted house arrest?\u201d<\/p>\n

This, according to her, will violate the equal protection clause of the Constitution.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s already a violation of the equal protection of the law,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The senator also commented on Enrile’s health condition, adding that she sees no proof that Enrile is really suffering pneumonia.<\/p>\n

She also added that ordinary cold can easily be confused with pneumonia.<\/p>\n

\u201cPneumonia mimics a cold,\u201d she said. \u201cSo if you are coughing then you could already be placed under house arrest? You might as well just keep on coughing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere will be an epidemic of pneumonia in the jails,\u201d she said. \u201cI am certain of that.\u201d<\/p>\n

She also added that granting house arrest because of age is not right from a legal standpoint.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow many people of his age have died in jail waiting for their appeals to be decided?\u201d she asked.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy are we making an exception for him? If we want persons of that age to stay out of jail, let us have a law, that is the procedure. You don\u2019t ask for an exception for one person in a democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Santiago also said that granting the house arrest for the argument that Enrile’s right to life includes the right to be taken away from a correctional facility will trivialize the constitutional principle.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt does not meet the threshold of a possible threat to the life of a person because every person is entitled to life, but not in that sense,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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