Zeny Ducut can return to Lubao like a conquering hero

The pork barrel scam, had it unraveled in societies with rock-solid civic virtues, would inevitably lead to a national soul-searching. Which would lead to the mending of ways. And to the redirection of lives—and characters—gone awry. There would be an effort, at all levels of society, to make pariahs out of those who brazenly dealt with Janet Napoles and her phony NGOs. The judicial system would be unsparing in its pursuit of the guilty and in the clearing of innocent names dragged into the scam without basis.

But this is the Philippine context. And the better question to ask is: What soul-searching are you talking about?