Excerpt from a month-old Inquirer editorial on Senator Ping Lacson, who is suspected of money-laundering and drug-trafficking…

That Lacson considers Marcos the greatest president the country ever had speaks volumes about the senator’s values and sense of right and wrong. As members of the younger generation would say, “Hello?” Never heard of the decision of a Hawaii court validating the slaying and torture of close to 10,000 victims of human rights violations during the martial law regime? Doesn’t he know that Marcos and his heirs are facing several cases for the recovery of billions of pesos in ill-gotten wealth? Never heard of the citation in the Guinness Book of World Records of Marcos having committed “world-class theft”? Doesn’t he know that Marcos during his 14-year dictatorship corrupted, debased and destroyed the country’s institutions, from the Supreme Court down to the military and the police?