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by Conrado de Quiros
Philippine Daily Inquirer
It’s not just that justice delayed is justice denied. It’s also that justice selectively served is justice screwed.
At that, I don’t even know that justice, selective or not, is being served on Panfilo Lacson for the murders of Bubby Dacer and his driver, Emmanuel Corbito. Of course there’s direct evidence against him in the form of ex-Senior Supt. Cezar Mancao saying he heard him order Michael Ray Aquino to dispose of Dacer. But all that stands on the head of the pin that is Mancao’s credibility. Did Mancao truly suffer remorse during his exile in the US and felt compelled to tell what he knew a decade later, or is he just down on his luck from the same exile in the US and ready to swear that Lacson had Jose Rizal shot?
That is not something we can know under the present regime. I have no problem with Lacson being prosecuted grandly for the murders of Dacer and Corbito, and if found guilty punished grandly as well. But I have every problem with him being tried under this government. Or, since that is really a circuitous way of putting it, by this government. Whatever Lola wants, Lola gets. The justice department today has the distinction of being the one office writ large in Orwellian script, fomenting the opposite of what it says.
by Sen. Panfilo Lacson
2nd privilege speech
I rise again today on a matter of personal and collective privilege.
On several occasions, I took the floor of this august hall on very important issues affecting national interest.
Jose Pidal. Hello Garci. The NBN-ZTE Broadband Deal. The Fertilizer Scam. Jueteng Anomaly. The C5 Extension Road Project Double Appropriation. The Pork Barrel Anomalies. Plus many others, the latest of which talked about Joseph Ejercito- Estrada in “Dalawang Mukha ng Sining.”
I did not have to seek out most of these anomalies. They came to me. The easiest and most convenient thing to do was to ignore them. Wala akong magiging kaaway. Tahimik pa sana ang aking buhay. But that would be betraying my oath to the Filipino people as an elected Senator of the Republic.
Lacson not interested; denies participation
by Norman Bordadora, Michael Lim Ubac
Philippine Daily Inquirer
The daughters of Salvador “Bubby” Dacer will accept Sen. Panfilo Lacson as a state witness if he provides information identifying the mastermind of the abduction and murder of the publicist and his driver in November 2000.
This was disclosed to the Philippine Daily Inquirer by Demetrio Custodio, the lawyer of Dacer’s daughters, who filed a murder complaint against Lacson after former Senior Supt. Cezar Mancao’s earlier testimony that he had heard the then Philippine National Police chief issue the order to kill Dacer.
“We are willing to accept any witness who will lead us to the killer. If it’s [Lacson], it would be okay,” Custodio said. “We are hoping that he can provide us usable information. The last time [he took the Senate floor], it wasn’t quite definite.”
But Lacson is not interested.
Photo by Philip Duquiatan
I rise today before this distinguished assembly with a heavy heart, to respond to the innuendoes and half-truths which our colleague delivered yesterday in this very hall.
I rise today, mr. President, on a matter of personal and collective privilege in defense of the honor of president joseph estrada over this vicious and savage assault made by a person whom President Estrada trusted and supported without reservations.
Mr. Lacson, by his own admission, mr. President, acknowledged that he was plucked from the obscurity of his position as provincial director in Laguna.
Privilege speech by Sen. Panfilo Lacson
In Greek drama, masks were useful devices that allow the actor to play several different characters.
In the Philippine political drama, nothing much differs.
Mr. President, distinguished colleagues. Today, I rise on a matter of
personal and collective privilege.
The great American writer Elbert Green Hubbard once wrote:
If you work for a man, in heaven’s name work for him…. If you must
vilify, condemn, and eternally disparage, resign your position, and
when you are OUTSIDE, DAMN TO YOUR HEART’S CONTENT, but as long as you are part of the institution do not condemn it. If you do that, you are loosening the tendrils that are holding you to that institution, and at the first high wind that comes along, you will be uprooted and blown away, and will probably never know the reason why.
I hope you will understand why it has taken me this long to unburden
myself of the truth I carry.