Who are the real liars in the Senate?

Who are the real liars in the Senate?
Philippine Daily Inquirer

TO ACCUSE THE 12 SENATORS who signed the report on Sen. Manuel Villar’s culpability in the C5 Extension project of political motivation is a sophomoric attempt at avoiding the issue, and is itself politically motivated. The assumption that Filipinos are so stupid as not to see through this ploy is an insult to the people the senators are supposed to represent.

By avoiding to take up this issue on the Senate floor and dismissing it simply as politics, Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano is in effect calling his 12 colleagues of lying and of being irresponsible and unpatriotic.

And if he and the other senators who signed the “acquittal resolution” on Senator Villar truly believe that Senator Villar has been falsely accused by his irresponsible colleagues, then it is their sworn duty to expose these unworthy senators and prove to the public that they are indeed liars and to accept the latter group’s challenge to convince Senator Villar to present himself before the Senate and show the public who are the liars. Presidential candidate Villar cannot strut around the country pretending this is not happening. This is a great opportunity for him to prove that he is clean and deserves to be our next president.

Senator Cayetano, corruption is the reason why there is so much poverty in our nation, in case you don’t know. You were elected to represent the 90 million Filipinos, not yourself.

As for those two senators who signed both the “acquittal resolution” and the report, whichever group is proven to be lying, they are doomed to be in the list of liars.

—J. FRANKLIN B. REGIS,
256 Calatagan St.,
Ayala Alabang Village,
Barangay Alabang,
Muntinlupa City

(Comment: As I said before, the country needs a total overhaul of leaders (politicians, religious, etc) to start moving again. These people in the senate are just using their time fighting, insulting, backbiting, back-stabbing each other while millions of Filipinos are hungry and suffering. Total overhaul means from the president, senators, congressmen, governors, mayors, barangay captains and tanods. This includes policemen, and leaders from the armed forces who are mostly corrupt. The list goes on to leaders from the public works, education, COMELEC, justice department, religious leaders who are trying to be politicians themselves, NGOs, etc). The country needs a total change on mentality, culture, or beliefs. The Philippines has and still is "the" laughing stock of the world (better yet, a country subjected to general ridicule), the economic sluggard, and cheap supplier labor because its leaders are corrupt, dishonest, incompetent, and no connections to the outside world. The country and its people (including leaders) are like fishes swimming in a small bowl where there is no longer room for improvement, development, and progress. So what happens when the country and its people are "dammed" like those fishes in that small bowl? They start killing and eating each other until the only strongest among them survive. This is the once-proud, once-2nd-only-to-Japan country in Asia). It is only by putting many of its corrupt leaders (and their cohorts) in jail and changing the Filipino mentality of insensitivity and stupidity that the country will grow and become a strong nation. Oh, by the way, Filipinos should stop worshipping America and eating its trash. Filipinos should learn how to manage themselves and take of themselves during calamities and natural disasters. Hora-horada na lang pag me kabuwisitan, tawag sa kano! Ano ba? Pag me bagyo, tawag sa knao! Pag me baha, tawag sa kano! Pag me lindol at landslide, tawag sa kano! Hindi na tayo nahiya! Well, ganun naman talaga kasi. Pag puro walanghiya at corrupt and maraming leaders, talagang hindi sila mahihiyang magmakaawa na naman sa kano para tulungan. 'Yan ang quality ng maraming leaders sa Pilipinas, napakarami ang mga walanghiya! Magsariling sikap naman tayo. Gamitin ang pera sa baha, huwag ilagay sa bulsa!

Other countries in Asia had accomplished that 20-30 years ago. This is why they are more developed now and have overtaken the Philippines in many aspects of their development). Wake up na, Pinoys!