A television station featured last week a number of action movies starring Sen. Bong Revilla. In one scene, he endured and survived the agony of being tied and dragged by a horseman. In other scenes, he was tortured and even hanged upside down but there was nary an anguished cry from him.

I was still thinking of Bong Revilla the actor’s stoic reaction to physical torture when I heard reports of his complaining about the heat in Camp Crame where he’s detained on charges of plunder. In the movies, he could endure physical torture. In real life, he couldn’t withstand the heat, unlike us ordinary mortals who could tolerate high temperatures without a whimper.

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