More exercises of cruelty

THE Sandiganbayan’s decision to order the suspension of Congresswoman Gloria Macapagal Arroyo for 90 days has once more given an opportunity to politically obsessed and hate-consumed Filipinos to commit cruelty.

Mrs. Arroyo is under hospital arrest in the Veterans Memorial Medical Center in Quezon City for plunder. The Sandiganbayan ordered her suspension because she is facing graft charges in connection with the scandalous proposed $329-million National Broadband Network-ZTE deal with China. The former president, however, stopped the project when allegations surfaced that Philippine officials were exacting huge kickbacks from the state-owned China telecoms corporation.