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Reprinted from the May 4, 2009 iaaue of The Philippine Daily Inquirer

Theres The Rub

Liar, liar
By Conrado de Quiros
Philippine Daily InquirerFirst Posted 01:28:00 05/04/

They want to jail Jun Lozada for perjury. Which means they want to jail Lozada for telling lies about his kidnapping and about the NBN. Which means they want to jail Lozada for being a liar.

They have Mike Defensor. He is the fellow who abducted Sen. Panfilo “Ping” Lacson’s chief witness in the Jose Pidal case and called it a rescue. (If it was a rescue, how come they never charged Lacson with kidnapping?) He is the fellow who brought an American expert to prove the “Hello Garci” tape was a fake only to have the fellow prove that it was his (Defensor’s) claim that it was fake that was fake.

And they want to jail Jun Lozada for being a liar.

They have Defensor’s boss, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. She is the person who was proclaimed president in the dead of night with only the crickets and cicadas to greet it, which were reported to have fallen silent that night out of protest. She is the person who vowed on the grave of the most honest Filipino, Jose Rizal, that she would not run for president in 2004, but ran for president in 2004. She is the person who apologized for having talked to “an election official” during the counting but refused to say who it was, regretting later not the fact that she talked to “a Comelec official” but the fact that she acknowledged it. She is the person who despite all this calls herself president.

And they want to jail Jun Lozada for being a liar.

They have the First Gentleman. He is the presidential spouse who by simply calling himself First Gentleman already strains the limits of truth, given the prefix “gentle.” He is the one who filed a libel case against a horde of journalists—thereby calling them liars—because he insisted he was not a public figure, only a private one. He minded that the journalists insisted he could not distinguish the concepts of public and private, being prone in particular to regard the public treasury as private property. The journalists fought back, filing a class suit against him, to prove he was in fact a very public figure, meddling in elections, negotiating with the generals and telling people to back off.

And they want to jail Jun Lozada for being a liar.

They have Pampanga Rep. Juan Miguel “Mikey” Arroyo. He is the presidential son who says he hasn’t got anything to do with Charter change (Cha-cha), it is something hatched from the brain of Prospero Nograles despite the fact that that brain is connected to his like effect is to cause. He continues to call Nograles the Speaker of the House when Nograles is just the Loudspeaker of the House magnifying somebody else’s voice. In fact he continues to call Nograles Prospero when Nograles’ real name is Prosperous. Mikey is the presidential son as well who, even as he furiously mounts Cha-cha, insists that his mom will live a quiet and reclusive life as a schoolteacher after her term.

And they want to jail Jun Lozada for being a liar.

They have the congress of vultures. They are the people who thrive not far from the Payatas dump in Quezon City but exude a smell stronger than Payatas. The smell from the “smoky mountain” of Payatas can be smelled only in Payatas, or on a bad day when an ill wind blows, in immediate environs. The smell from the Batasan can be smelled across the entire country when the winds stand still and the country is caught in a squall. They are the ones who blocked the efforts to impeach their boss saying the “Hello Garci” tape could not be used as evidence when the evidence was first presented by the press secretary himself. They are the ones who go to Las Vegas every time the Pacman fights and say they are using their own money for it. They are the ones who call themselves representatives when all they represent are the manifold manifestations of the legions of Hell.

And they want to jail Jun Lozada for being a liar.

They have Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile. He was the man who admitted to having faked the ambush on himself that triggered martial law, but who recanted later on, a case not of compounded rebellion (a legal concept he invented) but of compounded prevarication. We have Sen. Joker Arroyo who still calls himself a human rights lawyer, who still regards himself as feisty and independent, who still claims that with him “pag bad ka, lagot ka,” without adding “joke lang.” We have Miriam Defensor-Santiago who calls herself sane.

And they want to jail Jun Lozada for being a liar.

They have Anthony Golez, Lorelei Fajardo and Jesus Dureza. Golez is the one who said we Filipinos have become more mature than the Thais because the Thais have found People Power, the one thing that brought his boss to power, while we have lost it. And got a rebuke from the Thai ambassador. Fajardo is the one who makes two Malacañang press conferences necessary, the first to say what Malacañang wants to say, and the second to correct what she said Malacañang wanted to say. Dureza is the one who prayed at the opening of a Malacañang meeting for God to keep Ms Arroyo in power forever, and got a severe tongue-lashing because for the first time in his life he told the truth.

And they want to jail Jun Lozada for being a liar.

They have the coven in Malacañang. They are the people who have elevated lying, cheating, stealing and murder into national policy, etching them in tablet as the 10 commandments for all public officials to obey without thought and practice without exception. They are the people who presume to govern when all they have done is to divide and confuse, to root out all that remains good and decent in this country, to conspire to thrive forever while swearing before God, before Jose Rizal and before Juan de la Cruz, they would go gentle into that good night. They are the people who have stolen the vote of the Filipinos, the lives of the Filipinos, the future of the Filipinos.

And they want to jail Jun Lozada for being a liar.