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Napoles will not settle for anything else but immunity, according to reports. A recent FB post showed a picture of Napoles on a hospital bed with dextrose attached to her arm. The FB post reported that due to stress and health reasons, Napoles was again making another demand, this time, to be transferred to a more comfortable place.

Her manicured fingers, however, gave her away. She must be comfortable enough where she is as she is still able to maintain manicured fingers!

Why is someone who admitted to skimming millions from public funds allowed to make demands? Why is a self-confessed thief like her allowed to enjoy the perks of a special detention area? Must people in this country have to steal millions to be assured special detention areas and privileges?

Even without the Napolist, why has Napoles not been charged and convicted and sent to a regular prison reserved for criminals?

Because she is key to the full truth about the PDAF scam? Can truth come out of a self-admitting thief?

Why not prosecute her immediately and allow her to stay in a regular jail fit for criminals and thieves and murderers? For her self-confessed criminal act, let her pay as well for all the costs of accommodation and security that the government granted her, all at the expense again of the Filipino people. Ensure that the funds she stole for many years all be restored to the Filipino people soonest.

Let her be punished to honor every Filipino she deprived of food or health services or homes. Let her be punished for the deprived who lost their lives because the funds for their survival were siphoned for luxurious houses, cars, and other items by Janet and her Napoles family.

She fears for her life and her security?  She certainly did not think so while she was preoccupied with the PDAF scam.

What about the millions who died and those who continue to struggle to survive because the funds intended for them went instead to Napoles and her greedy partners? Should we also not remember that their lives were and are just as precious?

At the soonest time, stop the privileges afforded to a self-confessed thief and render full justice to compensate for the enormous loss of funds and resources stolen from the people! Prosecute her now and punish her soonest so that our people will regain their trust in our justice system, so that our youth will understand that crime does not pay, that criminals are duly punished and not afforded special privileges, especially those that steal millions from public funds.

Very diligent and well-researched defense and data can easily have the guilty sent to jail. Sadly, however, so far, government has not been successful in presenting convincing evidence against the truly corrupt. The abusive officials have been found not guilty NOT because they did not commit the abuse but because the defense unsuccessfully lacked the effective system of presenting solid data and evidence which a very skilled research team should have been able to unearth and systematize to win court cases! Learning from all these recent cases of failure, government should learn how to win their cases with solid data and evidence and convincing presentation soon. Let truth free our people and our country!

Let the court case versus Napoles begin soonest and let her privileged and manicured days be over. She was very aware of the irregularity of their scam but she and her partners were oblivious to the needs of millions of Filipinos. Let her finally experience soonest the harsh life, her corrupt practice imposed on millions. Let her soonest experience how much she deserves her dirty hands and fingers.

Her testimony and proof of the PDAF scam involvement of others in Congress should not be used as the reason for further delay of the prosecution and conviction of the guilty!

She has confessed to the PDAF scam. It may be in jail when the guilty may find themselves closest to the Lord and repent and reveal the complete and nothing but the truth!

Let the guilty be punished soonest! No more privileges and deals please. Tama na, sobra na, ipakulong na!

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