Accountability Knows No Distance’ — Pero Ba’t May Exempted?

ICI asserted that cases will be filed “regardless of whereabouts.”
In principle, this is reassuring — accountability should follow every official, whether local or abroad.

But recent events complicate the narrative.

A key figure in the flood control anomaly has already flown to the U.S., unhindered.
No warrant.
No hold order.
No delay.

Meanwhile, a supposed “ICC warrant” against Sen. Bato spread rapidly — only to be contradicted by The Hague itself, saying no such warrant exists.

This disconnect creates a theatre of contradictions.
One official’s departure seems invisible.
Another official becomes the subject of an invisible warrant.

The public sees the irony, and satire becomes inevitable.

If accountability truly knows no distance,
then truth should know no exception.

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