Jun Lozada was arrested earlier, amidst media surrounding the said event. The many sides that claim him to be their mascot also have contesting opposite sides that are targeting him for not towing the Arroyo Administration line. It was the NBN Deal fiasco that started it all, and in search of a much needed “witness” to this shady deal, there was Jun Lozada ripe for the picking.
I will not doubt what Jun Lozada has in his heart, for any man that can endure what he has had to endure is hard to doubt.. but yet, I still have that skepticism about me when it comes to Jun Lozada.
Whatever Jun Lozada’s motivations are, whether if it was for the nation or for a chance to be known as the man that was the catalyst that overthrew President Arroyo, the result of his involvement in this fiasco is undeniably staring right there in front of us.
He has become a sacrifical lamb to convey the message of those who oppose the Administration, and in a sense, he has also become a sacrifical lamb for groups within the administration to possibly make an example of the man.
Whether we like it or not, the great Senators who used this man to shove a Senate Inquiry in our face, only to bungle it up once again, will still walk free, able to campaign for the next election, all the while keeping their pork, and still able to ride the public sentiments in favor of Jun Lozada, especially now with this recent arrest.
No one will be taken to task for the root cause of this Jun Lozada circus, except for Jun Lozada himself. Sure, there will be groups that will plead for his safety and to fight against the harassment that has been thrust upon Lozada, but at the end of the day, whether we agree with Lozada’s actions or not, he will still be the sacrificial lamb for the varying politicos involved in this fiasco. If only Jun Lozada realized this, he may well have done a Neri. For there are no sacrificial lambs as long as you tow the Arroyo line.
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Who gives a shit about Jun Lozada? It was he himself that turned the whole thing into a circus. Check out this part of a thread in Peyups.com that almost serves as a commentary over most of the period when this circus most captured the public's minds.
I saw it myself on Bandila and posted what I saw in that forum:
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Moron.
Civil Society ought to welcome this case. Because it is a case of Perjury, either Jun Lozada or Mike Defensor will be proved to be LIAR, because it is clearly a "He said, He said" sort of situation and only one of them is lying about the purpose of 50,000 pesos given by one to the other.
But is there not in fact a silver lining in this cloud? In defending himself, remember that Jun Lozada may call any witness or bring up any matter of fact or testimony that would tend to prove why he left for Hong Kong and with some of Mike's Money? Indeed the entire Senate investigation of the ZTE NBN deal could now become a matter of Court Record that will forever be there. For if Lozada was telling the truth, or some of it, that truth can now take on judicial notice and be available for future prosecutions of other individuals. Including Mike Defensor!
the truth of a testimony doesn't become matter of "judicial notice" just because it is part of judicial record. you can pretend to know the law but you may want to try not using legal terms that you are clueless about. ask a real lawyer first what "judicial notice: is all about before you post information here that could mislead the gullible.
Hey Mr. Lawyer Man, in case you didn't notice this is not a Court of Law or the sala of some shyster. This is the Court of Public Opinion. Here there is Freedom of Expression. You cannot impose your authority or identity here and expect others to bow and curtsy to your self-aggrandizing palaver. The Law is English Language and Composition and any citizen is entitled to hold forth on it. Same as you. Which you really don't do very much of that I am aware of. You cannot explain stuff very well at all, Bencard. You need more practice. practice practice!
No one knows the Law who cannot explain it so laymen know it too.
Well, sacrifical lamb as painted by pekeng-peryodistas. We will never know the skinny of the story. What we read and heard are all coming from stupid pekeng-peryodistas and pekeng-peryodiko.
Idiot pekeng-peryodistas claimed that Lozada was paid …. ta …. da …. 500,000 PESOS! to live forever in Hong-Kong to escape the foreign-educated-ivy-school-graduate Senate invistigation.
My ex can barely pay my sons' tuition in La Salle out of her 350k/year in earnings. Can Lozada live on 500k in HK forever? I don't think so. If Lozada was made to escape the moro-moro invistigation, therefore, the following scenarious begs an answer:
1. That the bumbling senators will forget about it;
2. That GMA will mow down all Senators;
3. That people forget about it.
con't. …
Another idiocy inherent in FlipPinos is this CEO idiot Joey de Venenta de-numero-para-sikat if he is really worth a CEO material he should have gone to NBI for them to wire him so there'd be evidence (Read Blagoyevech) instead of going to pekeng-peryodistas. If he didn't trust NBI, he could have wired himself. This NBN-ZTE idiocy would have stopped if there was evidence. There was none. It was all innuendos, gossips, seeing thru walls and envelopes and people talking to people and they conjured it as … ta … da … commission sa deal
con't …
So then, GMA knew what they knew assuming she was guilty and already knew how to defend herself and send out her special ops and spinmeisters and thick legal gobbledegook to protect herself and her family.
By the way, why didn't the gung-gong bumbling idiot Senators subpwena telephone records of Lozada while he was in Hong-Kong? It's beyond me?
Can FlipPinos ever learn?
Why in the friggin world NOT ONE is attacking the Senate bungled invistigation? Are we dense or what? Are we retard? No one is attacking pekeng-peryodistas on their "lapses" to attack the 500k-bribe; overpowering of PSG by La Sallite Ninjas to free Lozada; bungled Senate invistigation; Joey de Venenta's run to peken-gperyodistas instead to NBI and many many many many more ……
FILIINOS ARE DENSE. FILIPINOS ARE IDIOTS.
And you are one of them!
I cannot understand why Flip like you, Kent, consider me one of them if I expose the TRUTH. Manhid na ba ang mga Flips? Or is it because LYING has become the norm and exposing the TRUTH is not normal but IDIOTIC?
You don't sound a highly intelligently designed human being.
This is always the vicious cycle of Philippine politics. Those in power plunder. They do everything to silence
people who will expose their plundering. There will be willing Minions like Defensor who will do the bidding of
their Masters. These people has sold their souls already to the highest bidder.
That is why, Tas, no matter who we elect to Malacanang may he be Harvard Graduate or Jesus Christ if the rest of the 99.99% of Filipinos are corrupt, nothing doing.
you got it all wrong, tasio. defensor is a human being too like you who just happened to be once a part of the gma administration. if perjury was committed against him, he is entitled to his day in court. so, what makes you say that defensor was just "doing the bidding" of a "master"?
Some people who know Jun personally says he is a risk taker. In several business transactions he had concluded as an business executive he openly relished at his triumph, on being the smarter. This one transaction with GMA he has gotten himself into, I hope he can get out of it, and still live to enjoy it.
JL is classic precursor of the mass hypnotic effect of media.
All these will probably melt like chocolate in the heat of court deliberations.
Who knows how easy perjury could be proved against him and all JL can do is – cry wolf?
macapili,
Jun is not a business pro. He could never be but the ombudsman should have investigated this case deeper and further but HOW? when the officers of this office are appointed and under the "INFLUENCED" of some other intervening ( direct or indirect cause) ….. no justice can be presented to the people except next year.- the Philippines can be on the TOP most corrupt .
Business people makes money from profit not from negotiating deals involving public funds or public debt. The risk of losing money from making a fraudulent deal is higher than its benefit. Failure to prevent fraudulent activity will put people closer to economic HELL. So… what was Jun's ORIGINAL INTENT?
How do we define REASONABLE AND customary in Philippine setting?
In business- we have agents or the "in between." . An agent can also be the facilitator or the negotiator . But oftentimes…. an agent can be the shock absorber who can be caught in a crossfire. Jun was an agent . When an agent whistles to the principal, often times the whistle will not work. It's common sense – an agent has limited or probably zero control at higher ground.
Leytenian,
I understand JL spent more time in private sector, with telecom equipment suppliers and a computer networking company before joining the government.
Bencard,
Possibly, your problem is, you cannot keep up with the conversation and want to always channel it down some narrow legalistic eskinita. Worse, you are unable or unwilling to indicate the grandeur of the Law's principles so we see it at work in the simplest of social situations and of course in famous cases like the Subic Rape Case, the impeachment and other SCoRP cases. To you the Law is Auto Mechanics.
You make a living at the Law, like a Waiter serves a Menu. I want to live the Law, to understand the Laws of Man, like Physics or Science, which are about the Laws of Nature.
I am not interested in your exalted place in the Infinite Universe, as the gloomy Lawyer of God.
Be a Good Sport. Not a Snarling Wet Blanket, ok?
as a professional advocate, i "explain" the law to my clients, to adversaries of my clients and their counsels, and to the courts. i don't usually give unsolicited legal opinion or lecture just to display my expertise or lack of it, or to get validation from the likes of you. i am in this blog as any other commenter on matters that interest me, no necessarily on the law, but i try not to pretend to be what i am not.
We should report, excoriate, expose and expel the Dastardly Impostor, Bencard. Whoever is pretending to be what they are not ought to follow your example, and just be themselves. Maybe you can help weed out these False Pretenders who are always hoodwinking the readers with clever disguises and impressing them with false authority. If only these readers weren't so gullible and stupid, maybe they would turn to the Genuine Pretenders!
Hahaha! Buti nga sayo Lozada. Pabading-bading ka kasi.
DJB,
Bencard is somewhat right in this regard, but I won't call your attention about your generalization of "judicial notice" because everyone knows that you are looking at it from a layman's point of view not from a very "iskinita" concept of law. I understand your message and I have perfectly no quarrel with you about it.
Just for the record, the court trying the JL case can take judicial notice of the fact that proceedings of substance at the Senate about the ZTE-fiasco took place because it is easily verifiable by resort to records that cannot be questioned. But as to the "truth" about the contents of this proceedings, the same cannot be taken judicial notice of by the court. The court has to make its own finding of truth independent that of the Senate findings if there is any.
When you said judicial notice of the truth, I interpret it to mean to take notice of the fact that a Senate investigation was made on this case though Bencard saw it as "an attempted bribery at the grand scale" has been committed and the court trying JLO must take this at its face value. (judicial notice).
nick, my apologies, but i think the title of this post should be "lozada, a portrait of a sanctimonious lamb" (or how to hoodwink the la salle sisters).