An idiot’s tale signifying nothing

What a farce, what a travesty.

- TONY LOPEZ

The most guilty of all is the thief who should have been arrested a long time ago, handcuffed, strapped with an e-carceration tag to limit his movements and languishing in some dingy terrorism-proof cell surrounded by rats, cockroaches and SWAT operatives. Instead, he is a devil-may-care charlatan in some prime resort overseas and trying to bring down the government of President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr.

Almost daily on national TV and YouTube, resigned Ako Bicol party-list congressman Zaldy Co makes astonishing disclosures. That Marcos Jr. talked to him to secure P100 billion of insertions so the President could parlay P25billion SOP (commission or bribe), the cash delivered in expensive pieces of luggage to Malacañang no less and mansions in Forbes Park. That it was former speaker Martin Romualdez’s idea — upon the prodding of Marcos Jr. - that he left (July 19) before the July 28, 2025 SONA and take it easy until further advised.

Then on Nov. 14, 2025, Co suddenly realized he was being set up as the principal culprit - the poster boy, according to him — behind the P1-trillion floodgate (flood control scam ala Watergate of Nixon). And that no less than Martin Romualdez had threatened to hire assassins to silence him for good.

The Zaldy Co disclosures fit perfectly into what Shakespeare calls “a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”

Indeed, grossly emaciated with broken teeth, Co looks and sounds like an idiot. His drab light brown blazer makes him perfect for a prisoner’s sartorial look. And this is the guy who will bring down the Marcos government?