NOW that the tables have turned against the Dutertes, their calls for respect for human rights, the rule of law and the Constitution sound almost comical when you think about how they bastardized all these just a few years ago.

"Our country has never been in a more tragic state [than] it is today. Rights have been trampled upon and our laws derided," former president Rodrigo Duterte said on Saturday as he condemned the police raid on the Kingdom of Jesus Christ (KoJC) compound to serve arrest warrants for his long-time friend and benefactor, Pastor Apollo Quiboloy.

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