Alan Peter Cayetano made a complete fool of himself on Monday, June 1, as he tried to stop law enforcers from serving a Sandiganbayan arrest warrant on Senator Jinggoy Estrada.
It was almost painful to watch.
Here was a Senate president — someone who had just lectured another senator about voice volume — shouting at the top of his voice and waving his arms around as if these were enough to somehow override a court order. Just days earlier, he and Senator Robin Padilla were crying foul over Senator Kiko Pangilinan’s tone during a Senate debate. Yet there was Cayetano, tossing aside his own standards the moment they became inconvenient.
His argument on Monday was as ridiculous as it was childish.
He pleaded with authorities to simply walk about five minutes outside the Senate before carrying out the arrest, as though a valid warrant suddenly becomes invalid depending on distance from the chamber. The whole thing had the feel of a little boy’s tantrum, trying to negotiate for a toy his parents had already said no to.
