TRENDING: De Lima Subrang Galit Dahil Sa 2k Hate Messages Sa Kanyang Cellphone
Last Tuesday;the House Committee on Justice conducted a hearing on the alleged proliferation of illegal drugs right inside the New Bilibid prison while Senator Leila De Lima was still Justice Secretary and while she should have been the one stopping it.
In the said hearing, Herbert Colangco was placed in the witness stand and asked for his testimony, in one of his statements, he gave a cellphone number that he said was De Lima’s. Before Colangco was done and before a new witnessed arrived, Congresswoman Garcia asked to be heard.
She said that when the number was given, she tried calling it with her phone, to her surprise, it was De Lima’s name that appeared.
But because the number was publicly announced, it is natural that the public also got the number and were able to do what Garcia did.
In a statement, De Lima said she had received almost 2,000 text messages as of 8 p.m. on Tuesday.
“I have been bombarded by text messages, numbering almost 2000, and phone calls from unknown persons, threatening me, harassing me, calling me the vilest of names,”She added that she is dismayed at the carelessness of the one who announced her number.
“no adequate words to express my utter dismay about the lack of foresight and/or utter lack of sheer humanity displayed today during what I can only describe as a blatant exercise in harassment and persecution that is the so-called House of Representatives ‘inquiry’.“I condemn and vehemently protest the sheer indecency and foulness of allowing my cellphone number and home address to be publicly disclosed. They have victimized me over and over again, and just when I thought I could not feel more betrayed, they have once again proven that I have underestimated their audacity and evilness,”After the hearing where her number was mentioned, De Lima added that her right to privacy was removed.
“They have basically destroyed my right to privacy and security in my communications and in my abode. I am now literally a persecuted person displaced from my home. Worse, they have turned people into weapons of destruction,This is the country that we live in today. We shame ourselves before our countrymen and the world that we dare compare ourselves to Singapore in terms of making people feel safe. What the people have to realize is that this is not just an offense against me, but against everyone, They are making me into an example of what will happen to those who dare criticize and call out the abuses of those in power. Who would dare stand up for others now? The real victim here is the people, the oppressed. God save us all,”[source]
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