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<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">http://www.scribd.com/doc/26367775/Matrix-of-Alan-Lies
<br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";" lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p> <table class="MsoNormalTable" style="border: medium none ; border-collapse: collapse;" border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr style=""> <td style="border: 1pt solid black; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.05in;" valign="top" width="293"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";" lang="EN-US">LIES<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p> </td> <td style="border-style: solid solid solid none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.05in;" valign="top" width="293"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";" lang="EN-US">TRUTH<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p> </td> <td style="border-style: solid solid solid none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.05in;" valign="top" width="293"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";" lang="EN-US">BASIS OF THE TRUTH`<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border-style: none solid solid; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.05in;" valign="top" width="293"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US">SENATOR CAN’T ACCUSE A FELLOW SENATOR =<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US">“hindi hinuhusgahan at hindi hini-hearing o hindi inaakusahan ang kapwa senador o kapwa congressman sa Senado o sa Kongreso……mayroon tayong korte, may Ombudsman, may civil courts at may ibang bodies na sinasabi ng Konstitusyon at ng batas na dapat humarap”<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US">SENATE NOT THE PROPER BODY TO ACCUSE AND PENALIZE SENATOR VILLAR =<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US">SENATOR CAYETANO SAID THAT VILLAR SHOULD HAVE BEEN CHARGED BEFORE THE OMBUDSMAN OR COURTS AND BUT HE SAID THAT “….kapag disorderly behavior ay puwedeng ang Committee on Ethics o iyong mismong Senado or House of Representatives ang siyang huhusga sa atin.”<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.05in;" valign="top" width="293"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US">The Constitution expressly provides that the Senate with a 2/3 votes may suspend or expel its member. Hence, a senator can file a complaint against a fellow senator; and the respondent senator may be punished by the Senators acting as one body.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US">Why is Sen. Alan C. complaining? This is exactly what happened in this complaint. The Senate as a Committee of the Whole was the one who heard, received evidence, and resolved the case against Villar for his disorderly behavior of committing unconstitutional act and unethical conduct<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.05in;" valign="top" width="293"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US">Art. VI. Sec 14(3): “Each House may determine the rules of its proceedings, punish its Members for disorderly behavior, and, with the concurrence of two-thirds of all its Members, suspend or expel a Member. A penalty of suspension, when imposed, shall not exceed sixty days.”<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US">The good senator from Taguig-Pateros should know this because his father, the late Sen. Ranato Cayetano, subjected himself to the jurisdiction of the ethics committee and was cleared by the Senate Committee on Ethics.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border-style: none solid solid; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.05in;" valign="top" width="293"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US">VILLAR SHOULD NOT BE CHARGED WITH ACTS COMMITTED WHEN HE WAS NOT YET A SENATOR =<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US">“…napakahirap na akusahan natin si Senator Villar ng mga bagay na nagawa o nanyari noong hindi pa siya senador”
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text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US">ACCUSERS ARE ALSO JUDGES =<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US">“..na si Senador Madrigal at Senador Lacson, na siyang nag-a-accuse na sila rin po ang maghihiring nito”<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.05in;" valign="top" width="293"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US">PDAF, SARO, and other documents submitted by Atty. Doblon and Engr. Tayaho clearly show that Villar had been appropriating funds for the construction of the <st1:street st="on"><st1:address st="on">Las Pinas-Paranaque Link Road</st1:address></st1:street> and C5 Road Extension Project since 2002. It must be recalled that Villar became Senator in 2001;<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US">Also, in violation of the Constitution and RA6713, Villar never divested himself or notified the Senate of his business interests in the C5 Road Extension Project and <st1:street st="on"><st1:address st="on">Las Pinas-Paranaque Link Road</st1:address></st1:street>. Surely, Villar was already a Senator when he committed this unconstitutional and unethical act.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US">Moreover, the unethical conduct may have had started when Villar was still a congressman and continued when he became a Senator;<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US">Sens. Madrigal and Lacson were not the only ones who heard and evaluated the case. It was all the Senators constituting the Senate Committee of the Whole<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.05in;" valign="top" width="293"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US">Exhs. KKKKKK-4, 16, 28, 73, 77 and 122, 125 and 134 submitted by Doblon showing that Villar used his PDAF to fund the <st1:street st="on"><st1:address st="on">Las Pinas-Paranaque Link Road</st1:address></st1:street>. (pp.69-70 CR)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US">Director Doblon provided a summary as well as requests for the funding of this project in the letterhead of Sen. Villar. See Exh. KKKKKK 146 (p.70 CR)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US">Exhs. ZZZZZZ 7,12, 14, 17, and 20 submitted by Engr. Tayao<span style=""> </span>showing the SARO and SAA as proof that Villar had been funding the <st1:street st="on"><st1:address st="on">Las Pinas-Paranaque Link Road</st1:address></st1:street>. (pp. 70-71 CR)<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US">As to C5 Road Extension Project: The 200M Villar insertion for the 2008 National Budget was admitted by Engr. Adriano and even shown by the GAA2008 to be for the construction of the C5 Road Extension. This was in the year 2007 when Villar was already a Senator. See TSN<span style=""> </span><st1:date year="2009" day="25" month="8" st="on">25 Aug. 2009</st1:date>, <st1:time minute="48" hour="10" st="on">10:48 a.m.</st1:time>. (p. 71 CR)<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border-style: none solid solid; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.05in;" valign="top" width="293"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US">ALL POLITICS =<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US">“huwag gamitin ang Senado sa Pulitika”<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.05in;" valign="top" width="293"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US">Sens. Alan C. and Nene P. were the ones who are making this issue more political because they would always relate the case to the presidential surveys. They are trying to muddle the issue. This is not about politics. This is about corruption and the use of power by Sen. Villar in order to steal money from government coffers and the Filipino people.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US">What do they want? To investigate Villar when he is not anymore a Senator and at the time he knows that he has the number to acquit him?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.05in;" valign="top" width="293"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><st1:date month="9" day="8" year="2009" st="on"><span style=";font-family:";" lang="EN-US">September 08, 2009</span></st1:date></span><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"> TSN pages 1 to 8 (NG Dizon)<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border-style: none solid solid; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.05in;" valign="top" width="293"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US">WHY VILLAR SHOULD PAY P1.8B WHEN MCTEP HAS YET TO BE TERMINATED? =<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US">“… baket natin sasabihin na dapat bayaran ni Senator Villar iyong alignment ng MCTEP kung hanggang ngayon ay puwede naming ituloy iyon at hindi naman nabalewala”<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US">“Iyong P1.8 bilyon na pinababayad kay Senator Villar ay iyong binayad ng MCTEP para sa kanilang alignment….Pang media. <st1:place st="on">Para</st1:place> masabi na talagang corrupt, nilagyan ng amount….someone pays for a project na hindi natuloy because may bagong project when iyong bagong project wala naming kinalaman sa lumang project”<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.05in;" valign="top" width="293"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US">The proponents of the old alignment have not been foolhardy enough to push through with the construction of the old alignment. This is due to the infeasibility of constructing a toll road to compete with a toll free road. It is unlikely that people will use a toll road with a fee when there is another road free of charge. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US">Former DPWH Sec. Ebdane testified during the Senate Committee on Finance hearing that the P1.8B paid for the RROW for the old alignment was wasted because the land became redundant and useless.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US">Sec. Ebdane further testified that the paid RROW is trying to be sold or swapped but that there are no interested parties. This is mainly due to the size and configuration of the property being only suitable the creation of a road. If the project is still ongoing, why is it that the TRB already selling or trying to swap these properties?<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.05in;" valign="top" width="293"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US">See p.12 of CR. {Engr. Tayao confirmed that the alignment of the C5 Link of the TRB from SLEX to Sucat Road (portion of MCTEP) lies parallel to the alignment of the DPWH C5 Road Extension Project which covers the same route; and that said DPWH project overlap with the alignment of the TRB project} WILL CHECK THE TSN<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US">(will look for the TSN)<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border-style: none solid solid; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.05in;" valign="top" width="293"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US">NO EVIDENCE =<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US">“there is no evidence. And then, sasabihin natin, guilty, isoli niya ang pera.” <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.05in;" valign="top" width="293"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US">No evidence? What do you call 900+ pieces of evidence which are certified true or official copies.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US">His companies directly benefitted from this scam and his failure to disclose or divest his financial interest in companies which have dealings or contracts with the government makes him guilty of conflict of interest.<b style=""><o:p></o:p></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US">On <st1:date month="8" day="25" year="2009" st="on">25 August 2009</st1:date>, Dir. Doblon admitted that the proponent of the P200M double insertion was Sen. Villar. Dir. Doblon likewise testified that it was Engr. Adriano, ADELFA PROPERTIES’ official, was the one who instructed in the presence of Sen. Villar.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US">Although not all the acts in connection with the C5 Road Extension Project Scam can be directly attributed to Sen. Villar, the fact remains that he had knowledge thereof and consented to the acts of his subordinates or business partners.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.05in;" valign="top" width="293"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US">See TSN, <st1:date year="2009" day="25" month="8" st="on">25 August 2009</st1:date> at <st1:time minute="48" hour="10" st="on">10:48 a.m.</st1:time> and TSN <st1:date year="2009" day="3" month="9" st="on">3 September 2009</st1:date> at <st1:time minute="9" hour="10" st="on">10:09 a.m.</st1:time><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border-style: none solid solid; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.05in;" valign="top" width="293"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US">THE COMMITTEE PUT WORDS INTO THE WITNESSES’ MOUTH =<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US">“Nilalagyan ng Committee of the Whole ng salita ang bibig ng mga witnesses. Hindi totoong nagbago ang mag taga-BIR at sinabing <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">mali</st1:place></st1:country-region> ang kanilang findings.” <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.05in;" valign="top" width="293"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US">There are no records wherein the officials of the BIR and DPWH directly stated that Sen. Villar is free of guilt in connection with the C5 Road Extension Project Scam. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US">On the contrary, authentic and official documents show that Sen. Villar’s properties were overpriced because they were sold at an incorrect and arbitrary zonal valuation. The facts remain that his companies profited <span style=""> </span>from the overpricing of his properties; <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US">BIR Dir. Carmelita Bacod even denied clearing Villar when she categorically said that she disowns the statements she supposedly made in the Inquirer. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.05in;" valign="top" width="293"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US">See TSN 29 September 2009 at <st1:time minute="31" hour="12" st="on">12:31 p.m.</st1:time> (p.3) Bacod said “I really cannot remember on what basis I issued this certification, your honor.”<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US">See TSN <st1:date year="2009" day="29" month="9" st="on">29 September 2009</st1:date> at <st1:time minute="51" hour="11" st="on">11:51 a.m.</st1:time> (pp. 5-6)<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border-style: none solid solid; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.05in;" valign="top" width="293"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US">VILLAR’S INTEREST WAS ONLY MINOR =<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US">…napaka-minority o napakaliit ng lupa ni Senator Villar dyan compared sa lahat ng mga developers…<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.05in;" valign="top" width="293"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US">Out of the 39 lots affected and paid for RROW of the Las Pinas-Paranaque Link road, 16 lots are owned by Villar companies. 16 out 39 is not minor.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US">Besides, for the sake of argument, granting that other developers own bigger parcels of land in the area, they are not senators of the republic and they did not use influence and power to re-align the road in order to pass their properties.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.05in;" valign="top" width="293"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US">List of affected properties submitted by the DPWH<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border-style: none solid solid; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.05in;" valign="top" width="293"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US">DOJ Opinion issued by then Justice Serafin Cuevas in 1999<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.05in;" valign="top" width="293"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US">The DOJ Opinion refers to the old alignment as Sen. Cayetano mentioned “<st1:street st="on"><st1:address st="on">Manila-Cavite Road</st1:address></st1:street>.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US">Surely, there was no full disclosure of facts. Did, then Cong. Villar, disclosed to DOJ that he was funding the road project to pay his properties for RROW? that Villar realigned the original C5 to traverse and benefit his properties? <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.05in;" valign="top" width="293"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <span style="font-size:85%;">
<br /></span></td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border-style: none solid solid; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.05in;" valign="top" width="293"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US">IT WAS A VALID EXPROPRIATION BY THE GOVERNMENT AND THERE WAS NO CONFLICT OF INTEREST <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US">“ag kayo kinukuha ang lupa ninyo, hindi conflict of interest iyan.”<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.05in;" valign="top" width="293"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US">The government did not voluntary expropriate the affected properties of Villar. <span style=""> </span>It must be recalled that Villar used his position as Senator to cause the realignment of the road to traverse his properties. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US">With the realignment, the government actually had no choice but to pay Villar properties as RROW.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US">There is conflict of interest because Villar is not an ordinary land owner. He is a Senator who is mandated by the Constitution to divest his business interests in any government transaction in which he is involved. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.05in;" valign="top" width="293"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <span style="font-size:85%;">
<br /></span></td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border-style: none solid solid; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.05in;" valign="top" width="293"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US">NO DOUBLE INSERTION =<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US">“May double insertion ba? Wala”<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.05in;" valign="top" width="293"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US">There was no double insertion but there was an insertion by Villar to fund again a project already funded. Worse, the said project was proposed by him because it will benefit his properties and he had receivables for said project.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US">Villar inserted the P200M amendment to the 2008 National Budget knowing that it will fund the construction of a project that will benefit his properties and in which he still has receivables. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.05in;" valign="top" width="293"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US">See TSN 25 August 2009 at <st1:time minute="48" hour="10" st="on">10:48 a.m.</st1:time> [Doblon admitted that it was Villar who inserted the P200m funding for the C5 Road Extension Project]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US">See Exh. GGGGGG 6 [Feasibility Study of CX-5 Project showing that Villars were the proponents who conceptualized the project; and that the completion of the project will make the are boom with investment like the Fort]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US">See TSN <st1:date year="2009" day="9" month="9" st="on">9 September 2009</st1:date> at <st1:time minute="51" hour="10" st="on">10:51 a.m.</st1:time> and TSN <st1:date year="2009" day="8" month="9" st="on">8 September 2009</st1:date> at <st1:time minute="46" hour="12" st="on">12:46 p.m.</st1:time> [Adriano admitted that Villar companies have receivables when he enumerated Villar’s insertions to the budget]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="border-style: none solid solid; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.05in;" valign="top" width="293"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US">OVERPRICED LOTS AND NON-VILLAR LOTS NOT OVERPRICED ARE NOT ADJACENT =<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US">“Pero noong tinignan naming sa mapa, hindi magkatabi.”<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.05in;" valign="top" width="293"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" lang="EN-US">They are adjacent. 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Let me share it with our people. Samuel Johnson once wrote, “Slander is a coward’s revenge and dissimulation his defense.” </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Nothing could be truer and more appropriate in light of recent events.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">I would like to enter into the record this brief manifestation concerning the statements of our colleague Senator Allan Peter Cayetano. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">He has raised thirteen arguments to uphold his party president’s refusal to submit himself to the kind of scrutiny and accountability that he and his party president once insisted upon in the case of Mrs. Arroyo and her husband. This got Senator Cayetano and his party president both elected as oppositionists. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">But now that Senator Villar wants to replace Mrs. Arroyo, he has shown every sign of doing to the country what she has been so far doing to the country: hiding from accountability.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Mr. President, let me therefore manifest the following.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Allan Peter Cayetano boldly claims this chamber does not, and cannot, investigate one of its own, or hold hearings concerning its members, because the courts are the proper venue for this. His assertion is a willful –wilfull, I say, because as a lawyer and a legislator he certainly knows otherwise- setting aside of history, precedent, and Constitutional precepts. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">What the Constitution and the laws, our heritage of centuries of constitutional evolution in the Western world, decrees is that there are certain acts and behavior by our members, of which only the fellow members can be the proper judge. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">The Constitution and our laws permit very few instances when other institutions may pass judgment or take action concerning the conduct of our members. This is in Article VI, Section 14, subparagraph 3 of the Constitution; and it is in the rules of this chamber. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Even Senator Arroyo pointed out that from the time the Senate was established in 1916, senators have faced, what is, essentially a jury of their peers: I would add to this that this was done even in times that the Nacionalista Party to which Messrs. Cayetano and Villar now belong, dominated the Senate. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">The principle is simple: we are shielded from the tyranny of the chief executive, and undue interference by the courts; but we must first foremost be accountable if not to each other than to the institution, the Senate, to which we all belong.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">So the duty of upholding ethical behavior necessarily is our own: we must, in a sense, police ourselves because we all belong in turn to an institution with standards, rules, and the duty and obligation to put public service ahead of private gain. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">We have privileges –such the right to speak freely- but we have obligations –such as the duty not to abuse our ability to make privilege speeches. Which is why we can and do, take each other to task for unparliamentary language, why we can move to strike things off the record, and sit in judgment over our peers, as equals.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">The good senator from Taguig-Pateros should know this because his father, the late Sen. Ranato Cayetano, subjected himself to the jurisdiction of the ethics committee and was cleared by the Senate Committee on Ethics. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style=""><span lang="EN-US">The innocent man has nothing to fear; the tyranny of numbers is precisely only exercised by tyrants uninterested in the truth or who have given up on the possibility of vindication. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">The Senate has a long history of members who have been attacked, by fellow senators and the public, and who stood firm and who vindicated themselves and by so doing, earned the respect of our people. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">That is the tradition of this chamber and that is the tradition today’s Nacionalistas refuses to live up to.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">The distinguished gentleman from Taguig-Pateros also argues that his party president, Senator Villar, shouldn’t be charged with acts allegedly committed prior to his entering the Senate. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Did we investigate the collapse and government bailout of Capitol Bank? </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Did we inquire into the many disturbing allegations made by then Rep. Joker Arroyo against then Speaker Manuel Villar? We did not. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">The Senate has looked into specific projects. There have been appropriations for the Las Pinas-Paranaque Link Road and C5 Road Extension Project since 2002. It must be recalled that Mr. Villar became Senator in 2001; therefore the whole thing from start to finish took place during the Senate career of the Nacionalista Party president. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">By necessity, Mr. President, it was logical and reasonable to ask whether the Nacionalista Party President suddenly developed an interest in fostering government projects aligned with his personal financial interests, or whether they are part of a pattern of merging personal gain with political office. This is where his acts as a congressman onwards are of interest and are of relevance.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">And let me manifest, at this point, Mr. President, a very simple point.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">The former Senate President and current Nacionalista Party president could easily have avoided all of this, if he had followed simple rules that govern all elected officials.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">The rules are meant to deliver us from evil, to avoid our being led or leading ourselves into temptation. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Instead, in violation of the Constitution and RA6713, Mr. Villar never divested himself of his interests in his corporations, or notified the Senate of his business interests in the C5 Road Extension Project and Las Pinas-Paranaque Link Road. Surely, Villar was already a Senator when he committed the acts alleged as unconstitutional and unethical and proven as such by the report of the Committee of the Whole.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">And because the Nacionalista Party president would not moderate his greed, his adopts the strategy of Mrs. Arroyo and refuses to face the music, insisting it’s political persecution. He denies this is the proper venue, insisting on the very same venues Mrs. Arroyo controls and no other. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style=""><span lang="EN-US">I have read somewhere that some hold the opinion that the only difference between Mrs. Arroyo and Mr. Villar is the mole on on her face and I am beginning to believe it. Their approach to evading accountability have become so identical I wouldn’t be surprised if he is, indeed, Mrs. Arroyo’s secret candidate</span></b><span lang="EN-US">.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Mr. President, consider the insidious argument that we cannot, all of us, sit in judgment on one of our own, because of us have dared to level accusations against each other. As Claro M. Recto famously observed, what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">The same argument was used to oppose the impeachments of Presidents Estrada and Arroyo and both dismissed because of the simple truth that each of us can think for ourselves and our actions are subject to the scrutiny of the electorate.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">How can the Nacionalista Party president or his partymates say it’s wrong for me to accuse and judge, when he himself absolved himself? </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Did he not sign the so-called manifestation of his bloc, which he tried to maneuver through in contemptuous disregard of the operations and traditions of this chamber? </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">If he says we stooped low to sign what he considers a political death warrant, did he not stoop even lower to sign, in effect, his own pardon?</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Mr. President, what we conducted in this chamber –what we are working mightily to conclude in this chamber- was no less than the impeachment of one of our own, because no other body can determine if a senator is still fit to sit in the Senate. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">There are very few checks and balances on our behavior as senators except the ultimate check and balance which is ourselves. Our countrymen trust us to make exposes on the floor, knowing that if one of us goes too far, the rest will hold our own to account. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">History teaches us chief executives cannot be given the opportunity to be tyrants by being allowed to evict one or all of us from this chamber; the courts, by tradition and practice very rarely intervene in our internal affairs because their interest is only in the constitutionality of the laws we pass. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">The Ombudsman can investigate us and charge us but no one can evict us except in electoral cases where we, too, sit in judgment on our peers. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">That is how it should be: but then all the more should be it be that we have a zero tolerance policy for unethical conduct by our fellow members.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">That is why it is proper and necessary to insist at all times that this is the proper forum to resolve the specific kinds of charges that have been made.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Mr. President, the remaining assertions of the distinguished Nacionalista senator from Taguig-Pateros all revolve around what seems to be the most painful finding of all of the Committee of the Whole: that the Nacionalista Party president, Mr. Villar, is morally bound to return six billion plus pesos to the national treasury.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">The Nacionalistas and their friends and allies claim, for example, this is wrong because the old C-5 alignment can still be built; therefore, he owes nothing for something that doesn’t exist. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">But that ignores two things: first, of course the old alignment won’t be built, because there’s a new alignment; and second, 1.5 billion has already been spent to purchase the right of way for the old alignment, and for what? </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Nothing. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">The government has useless lands, which it can’t return; and since the Nacionalista Party president maneuvered the new alignment, he is answerable for the government’s losses in abandoning the old alignment.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">The Nacionalistas claim there is no evidence: selective blindness in the face of 900 pieces of documentary evidence, selective deafness in the face of damning testimony; all matching the selective muteness of the Nacionalista Party president himself in refusing to speak up in his own defense.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">On<span style=""> </span>August 25, 2009, Director Doblon admitted that the proponent of the 200 Million double insertion was Sen. Villar. Director Doblon likewise testified that it was Engr. Adriano, ADELFA PROPERTIES’ official, who instructed the DPWH on what to do - n the presence of Senator Villar.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Although not all the acts in connection with the C5 Road Extension Project Scam can be directly attributed to Senator Villar, the fact remains that he had knowledge thereof and consented to the acts of his subordinates or business partners.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">The distinguished Nacionalista senator from Taguig-Pateros insists his party president had the least exposure in terms of properties affected by the C-5 scheme. Out of the 39 lots affected and paid for RROW of the Las Pinas-Paranaque Link road, 16 lots are owned by Villar companies. 16 out 39 is not minor. And I am not even going to dwell on Mr. Ted Failon’s findings where he pinpointed over twenty Villar real estate developments in the vicinity of the C-5 scheme.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Mr. President, this investigation proved a conspiracy to use public office for personal gain, to the detriment of the public and the public coffers.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">The government did not voluntary expropriate the affected properties of Senator Villar.<span style=""> </span>It must be recalled that the Nacionaista Party president used his position as Senator to cause the realignment of the road to traverse his properties. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">With the realignment, the government actually had no choice but to pay Senator Villar properties as RROW. The overpriced Villar lots sold at 13,000 Pesos a sq.m. were adjacent to non-Villar lots paid for<span style=""> </span>at 1,500 to 4,000/ Pesos a sq.m. only.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Mr. President, the spectacularly higher payments point to the ethical problem here: Senator Villar is not an ordinary land owner. He is a Senator who is mandated by the Constitution to divest his business interests in any government transaction in which he is involved. He was a landowner who got a magnificent price while ordinary owners got compensated at rock-bottom prices.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Let me emphasize that authentic and official documents show that Senator Villar’s properties were overpriced because they were sold at an incorrect and arbitrary zonal valuation. The facts remain that his companies profited<span style=""> </span>from the overpricing of his properties;<span style=""> </span>BIR Director Carmelita Bacod even denied clearing Senator Villar when she categorically said that she disowns the statements she supposedly made in the Inquirer.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">And then they insist that no double insertion was proven, which incidentally points to the validity of this whole exercise in accountability. What the Committee on the Whole did was to examine the accusations to determine what really happened.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">What happened was worse than a mere double insertion. There was no double insertion, yes;<span style=""> </span>but there was an insertion by Senator Villar to fund again –not once, but twice!- a project already funded. Worse, the said project was proposed by him because it would benefit his properties and he had receivables for<span style=""> </span>the said project.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Just because you pretend to see no evil, hear no evil, or that you said anything evil, doesn’t mean you can make a monkey out of the Senate.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">May I enter into the record a matrix of the assertions of the distinguished Nacionalista senator from Taguig-Pateros, and the factual answers to those assertions, which I have caused to be reproduced and distributed to our visitors and friends in the media, too. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style=""><span lang="EN-US">This is about accountability. A senator who will not even condescend to defend himself before his equals, if elected to the presidency, will be a chief executive who will follow the same dark, twisted path Mrs. Arroyo has already carved out to her everlasting shame. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style=""><span lang="EN-US">Let me say it gain: this is about corruption, corruption, corruption! <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Thank you.</span></p>
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pro-environment by the genuine industrialization and sovereignty of the Filipino nation and people, and by the equitable empowerment and socially just liberation from poverty of the Filipino especially of the poor and disempowered.<span style=""> </span>We commit ourselves to a genuine people’s nationalism:<span style=""> </span>a <st1:country-region st="on">Philippines</st1:country-region> principally for Filipinos and a <st1:place st="on"><st1:country-region st="on">Philippines</st1:country-region></st1:place> controlled by Filipinos, a pro-Filipino society enjoyed by the majority, not just a few local partners of foreign big business.<span style=""> </span>In short, a <st1:place st="on"><st1:country-region st="on">Philippines</st1:country-region></st1:place> for the Filipinos.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">We are not mere reformers, or agents of reforms that merely perpetuate the “free trade” system led by foreign capitalists only to favor a new set of Filipino cronies..<span style=""> </span>We are innovators for social justice and advocates of economic policies that benefit the majority instead of a economic and political oligarchy. We pledge to fight to realize the goals of the following New Vision for the Filipino Nation:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">1. <b style=""><span style=""> </span>Genuine, pro-Filipino industrialization and nationalist economy</b>:<span style=""> </span>to attain genuine, pro-Filipino industrialization by developing core Filipino-controlled industries from machinery and R $ D to herbal medicine, principally for Filipino consumers, full and deep processing of local raw materials, including coconut, abaca and gold,<span style=""> </span>protection of Filipino production against importation and smuggling, and prioritization of government budget for genuine industrialization.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">2.<span style=""> </span><b style="">Fair and equitable trade and debt:<span style=""> </span></b>to ensure fair and just prices for Philippine exports, including coconut, banana, abaca and labor exports, now undervalued by foreign business cartels, regain national income lost from unfair trade, develop fair trade ties with countries and people’s organizations, capping debt payments, repudiating onerous debt, and demanding and exacting reparations and restitutions for previous unfair trade and onerous debt.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">3.<span style=""> </span><b style="">Local people’s control and anti-monopoly-cartel policy:<span style=""> </span></b>to dismantle various foreign and local business monopolies and cartels, including petroleum, power, drugs and rice, promote and protect people’s cooperatives and alliances to replace exploitative cartels, reverse “free market” policies imposed by the IMF, WB, WTO and ADB and replace them with the pro-Filipino policies of people’s price and economic control, pro-Filipino government leadership and Filipinization of the economy.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">4.<span style=""> </span><b style="">Genuine agrarian reform:<span style=""> </span></b>to work with progressive people’s organizations for a genuine agrarian reform program that truly liberates the peasants from poverty and feudalism, to stop landgrabbing and conversion to non-food uses of peasant lands, to ensure adequate farmgate prices and farm pay, and to freely distribute to peasant-tiller cooperatives and associations haciendas previously diverted from land reform.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">5.<span style=""> </span><b style="">Genuine, adequate pro-Filipino protection and rehabilitation of the environment:<span style=""> </span>t</b>o bring about the genuine, adequate pro-Filipino protection and rehabilitation of the environment by:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">a)<span style=""> </span>stopping destructive logging and large-scale mining, factory, trawl, blast and cyanide fishing, conversion of mangrove forests, industrial pollution of rivers and water bodies, maintenance of landfills and waste dumpsites, the importation of toxic wastes, acidification and poisoning of the soil with synthetic agrichemicals, the spread of GMO farming, further global warming through coal-and-oil-fired power plants, and continued promotion of non-biodegradable materials and fossil fuels;</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">b)<span style=""> </span>prosecuting and imprisoning especially the major deforesters, polluters and their political-military collaborators and protectors;</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">c)<span style=""> </span>demanding and exacting reparations from foreign countries and businesses for the massive and wanton deforestation and environmental plunder of the country and toxic despoliation of the former <st1:place st="on"><st1:country-region st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region></st1:place> bases; and by;</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">d)<span style=""> </span>promoting organic farming, zero-waste management, R & D and public, pro-Filipino funding of wind, solar and other renewable energy, and people’s environmental awareness and activism.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">6.<span style=""> </span><b style="">Fair, equitable and nationalist treatment and empowerment of overseas Filipino workers and migrants, and adequate living standards for all Filipinos</b>:<span style=""> </span>To seek and achieve the fair, equitable and nationalist equitable and nationalist treatment of overseas Filipino workers and migrants by:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">a)<span style=""> </span>Fighting inadequate pay, discriminatory employment requirements,<span style=""> </span>inhumane and abusive work conditions, and racist culture and anti-immigrant scapegoating; </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">b)<span style=""> </span>Working with progressive migrant organizations for agreements, contracts and regulation that ensure adequate non-discriminatory pay, humane working conditions, adequate job security and organizing rights, for protecting undocumented migrants and political refugees against restrictions and persecution, and for ensuring adequate Philippine-based jobs through genuine, pro-Filipino industrialization, and;</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">c)<span style=""> </span>Helping migrants return to their Filipino roots and national identity, and regain their national dignity.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">And,<span style=""> </span>to seek and achieve adequate living standards for all Filipinos through adequate minimum wages and wage hikes, farmgate price support, regularization of work contracts and other social justice measures.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">7.<span style=""> </span><b style="">Truly nationalist, pro-Filipino, and pro-people government:<span style=""> </span></b><span style=""> </span>to uphold a pro-Filipino leadership and civil service dedicated to the goals of genuine people’s nationalism, to the championing of the Filipino’s genuine sovereignty and freedom foreign control and local repression, to ending the dictation of government policy by the I IMF, WB, WTO and ADB, to the repeal of the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA), the Mining Act, the Oil Deregulation Law, the EVAT Law,</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">Electric Power Industry Reform Act (EPIRA) and other anti-Filipino laws, to prioritizing public funding for nationalist education, preventive, nutrition-based health care and R & D, and to opposing the removal of nationalist and<span style=""> </span>protectionist provisions in the Philippine Constitution.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">8.<span style=""> </span><b style="">Truly nationalist, independent and pro-human-rights Philippine security and peace:<span style=""> </span></b>To foster a truly nationalist, independent and pro-human-rights security and peace by:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">a)<span style=""> </span>fighting for an Armed Forces of the <st1:place st="on"><st1:country-region st="on">Philippines</st1:country-region></st1:place> free from the dictation of foreign military agencies, including JUSMAG;</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><span lang="EN-US" 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</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">d)<span style=""> </span>supporting sincere negotiations with the National Democratic Front (NDF) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MNLF) based on social justice, national sovereignty and genuine reforms.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">9.<span style=""> </span><b style="">Selfless government service free from corruption, patronage, conflict of interest and profiteering from government office</b>:<span style=""> </span>To achieve selfless public service free of corruption, patronage, conflict of interest and profiteering from government office, by relentlessly exposing, prosecuting and punishing big-time “big fish” grafters, bribe-takers and influence-peddlers and adequately protecting whistle-blowers and anti-corruption “watchdogs”. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><span style=""> </span>.<span style=""> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">10. <b style="">Genuine equality, empowerment and dignity of women</b>:<span style=""> </span>Strive to attain genuine equality, participation and protection of women in all areas of life in the tradition of Gabriela Silang through nationalism-enlightened and informed involvement in government and people’s organizations, and ending patriarchal practices and beliefs including work and pay discrimination, abuse of spouses, sexual harassment and rape.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">We commit ourselves to the monumental but necessary tasks that lie before us and to the sectors of Philippine society who most need and want genuine change.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">To the <i style="">workers</i>, we pledge to: </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">1..<span style=""> </span>Promote a decent and humane standard of living among workers by supporting adequate increases in wages, including a nationwide PHP` 125 daily hike in wages across-the-board.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><span style="">2.<span style=";font-family:";" > </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">Protect workers’ job security by upholding regularization of work tenure,<span style=""> </span>banning the IMF-dictated practice of “job flexibility”, contractualization and agency hiring, and heavily punishing its perpetrators!</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><span style="">3.<span style=";font-family:";" > </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">Support adequate safety nets to workers against the scourge of globalization by fighting for policies providing adequate unemployment insurance and higher severance pay to employees retrenched.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><span style="">4.<span style=";font-family:";" > </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">Safeguard national sovereignty and job security by scrapping the IMF-WB policy of privatization of government corporations, services and assets such as Napocor and reversing this process through buying back and re-nationalizing Petron and other privatized institutions.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><span style="">5.<span style=";font-family:";" > </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">Defend civil rights and civilian supremacy, including the workers’ right to free expression and assembly and organizing unions in the face of<span style=""> </span>union-busting by imposing heavy penalties on companies, directors and top officials, government and military personnel engaged in dismissal and harassing unionists, quelling protest actions, and intimidating worker communities through military outposts and troop presence in factories.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">To the <i style="">farmers, farm workers and rural women</i>:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><span style="">1.<span style=";font-family:";" > </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">Support the enactment and implementation of a genuine agrarian reform law and program that frees farmers and farm workers from the burden of land amortization payments in the interest of just income redistribution and their liberation from feudal poverty, and that works to dismantle agricultural trading-lending monopolies, cartels and oligarchies through adequate government price support and control, and cooperatives truly empowering the grassroot rural producers.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><span style="">2.<span style=";font-family:";" > </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">Work with progressive rural organizations in seeking a pro-Filipino fair and just trade policy free from IMF, WB and WTO dictation that includes fair and just farmgate and export agricultural prices, fair compensation for farm workers, affordable prices of farm inputs, such as fertilizers and irrigation and a stop to the WTO policy of rice and vegetable importation, together with smuggling, to protect Filipino rice and vegetable farmers.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><span style="">3.<span style=";font-family:";" > </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">Pursue the fight for a genuine, pro-Filipino industrialization program that will fully process Philippine agricultural raw materials, such as coconut, principally for Filipino consumers, and supply the affordable, high-productivity goods and services, including organic fertilizers, renewable energy, irrigation and other infrastructure, in support of farm production.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><span style="">4.<span style=";font-family:";" > </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">Defend and restore the productivity, health, safety and well-being of farmers and farm workers by fighting deforestation, large-scale mining and air pollution from fossil fuels and its resulting siltation, extreme weather and destruction of<span style=""> </span>lives and crops through massive flooding, by punishing and exacting reparations from its major foreign and local<span style=""> </span>beneficiaries and perpetrators.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><span style="">5.<span style=";font-family:";" > </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">Defend against foreign investors and their local collaborators<span style=""> </span>the protectionist and nationalist provisions in the Philippine Constitution reserving to Filipino citizens the right to own land, including agricultural land. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">To the <i style="">fisherfolk</i>, we pledge to:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><span style="">1.<span style=";font-family:";" > </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">Protect the livelihood and income of small fisherfolk from displacement by foreign and local oligarchic business projects, including the demolition by the Philippine Reclamation Authority (PRA) of fishing communities in <st1:city st="on">Cavite</st1:city> along <st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Manila</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">Bay</st1:placetype></st1:place> in support of a Sangley International Port.<span style=""> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><span style="">2.<span style=";font-family:";" > </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">Safeguard the productivity and income of fisherfolk and their fishing grounds against the pollution and siltation by industrial, mining and logging companies.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><span style="">3.<span style=";font-family:";" > </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">Uphold the sovereignty, and exclusive fishing rights for their economic benefit of Filipino fisherfolk and the rest of the Filipino people over Philippine fisheries and territorial waters against the encroachment and poaching of Japanese, Chinese and other foreign factory, trawl and other fishers, and work towards the abrogation of anti-fisherfolk and anti-Filipino agreements such as JPEPA.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><span style="">4.<span style=";font-family:";" > </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">Promote fair trade in tuna and other Philippine fishery products through higher, fair export prices, local price support for the catch and produce of Filipino fisherfolk and just, affordable and Filipino-controlled prices of fishery inputs such as gasoline.<span style=""> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><span style="">5.<span style=";font-family:";" > </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">Support the pro-Filipino claim on territorial waters on the basis of the archipelagic doctrine against moves by <st1:place st="on"><st1:country-region st="on">China</st1:country-region></st1:place> and other foreign powers to usurp Philippine resources..</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">To the <i style="">teachers</i>, we pledge to:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><span style="">1.<span style=";font-family:";" > </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">Uphold an adequate public education budget by canceling and rechanneling government foreign debt service and unfair trade payments of at least PHP 160 billion per year for the construction of classrooms and other facilities.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><span style=""> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><span style="">2.<span style=";font-family:";" > </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">Raise the monthly salaries of public school teachers by PHP 9,000 to Salary Grade 13, to be implemented in 3 years, or by<span style=""> </span>PHP 3,000 immeidately.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><span style="">3.<span style=";font-family:";" > </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">Establish a bank or zero-interest lending fund specially for teachers.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><span style="">4.<span style=";font-family:";" > </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">Enhance the occupational health and well-being of teachers by reducing the student-teacher ratio, enacting and regulations work standards that disallow work overload. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><span style="">5.<span style=";font-family:";" > </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">To push for the enactment of the Magna Carta for Public School Teachers.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><span style="">6.<span style=";font-family:";" > </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">To promote deeper and more thorough nationalist education and attitudes, especially on nationalist economics, and also through the primary use of the Filipino language as medium of instruction. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 81pt; text-indent: -45pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">To the <i style="">government employees</i>, we pledge to fight to: </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><span style="">1.<span style=";font-family:";" > </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">Raise monthly salaries of government employees<span style=""> </span>immediately by PHP 3,000.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><span style="">2.<span style=";font-family:";" > </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">Implement immediately and retroactively the salary increase provisions of R.A. 7305 or Magna Carta for Public Health Workers.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><span style="">3.<span style=";font-family:";" > </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">Do away with salary discrimination against LGU employees by repealing provisions of EO 811, giving local legislative assemblies the power to set salary rate for LGU personnel </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><span style="">4.<span style=";font-family:";" > </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">Extend adequate GSIS grants rather than loans to victims of natural and man-made disasters.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><span style="">5.<span style=";font-family:";" > </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">Revoke all IMF-dictated government policies to lay-off government employees, including E.O. 366, abolishing 30% of government positions and destroying 420,000 government jobs.!<span style=""> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">To the <i style="">youth and students</i>, we pledge to<i style="">:<o:p></o:p></i></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><span style="">1.<span style=";font-family:";" > </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">Support their struggle for education and an educational system that is not only accessible and affordable to the great majority of the Filipino people, but that also serves to enlighten them in nationalism and a spirit of selfless service to the people and country.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><span style="">2.<span style=";font-family:";" > </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">To promote educational democracy and end the school profit-orientation dictated by the IMF and WB by doubling the public education budget, removing the rationale for tuition fees in state colleges and universities and enabling the poor to enroll..</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><span style="">3.<span style=";font-family:";" > </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">Push for the production of textbooks on nationalist topics and their distribution to students at subsidized rates.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><span style="">4.<span style=";font-family:";" > </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">To work for the raising of the DOST budget to over PHP 75 billion, or at least one per cent of the country’s GDP as recommended by UNESCO to boost country’s productivity and promote high-productivity instead of low-productivity call center jobs for college graduates,</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">To the <i style="">transport </i>sector, we pledge to:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><span style="">1.<span style=";font-family:";" > </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">Fight for affordable fuel prices by cracking down on overpricing by the petroleum cartel, instituting price control and anti-trust regulation, and re-nationalizing Petron.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;"><span style="">2.<span style=";font-family:";" > </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:100%;">To support transport worker health and safety and fight global warming by pushing for a major shift to environmentally-friendly fuels or energy in transport.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span 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goals.<span style=""> </span>Join the fight to reclaim and regain the wealth, sovereignty and dignity of the Filipino people and nation!<span style=""> </span>Join the fight for the genuine change the Filipino people and nation need and deserve!<span style=""> </span>Ibalik ang yaman, paghahari at dangal ng sambayanang Pilipino!<span style=""> </span></span></p> Jamby Madrigalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11513643220730125259noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6936472571900297845.post-72374687746209871522010-01-21T03:58:00.001-08:002010-02-04T04:54:13.685-08:00Senator Madrigal expose on Senator Villar C-5 Scam Part 2<meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5CAnsfav%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><link rel="themeData" 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font-weight: bold;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">SENATOR M.A. MADRIGAL<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-weight: bold;">24 September 2008</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">Mr. President:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">The founding generation of this chamber, the first senators of our country, took their integrity seriously. So seriously that in the year 1933, two of the founding fathers of the party to which our distinguished<span style=""> </span>colleague from Taguig, and indeed, the president of the this chamber, both belong, clashed in this chamber. They were party-mates, and admittedly rivals, but both operated on the principle that party was secondary to loyalty to country. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">And so it was that when his devotion to independence was questioned, Senate President pro tempore Sergio Osmena delivered a privilege speech that lasted three days, detailing every political decision he’d made since he was Speaker in 1907. And when his personal integrity was questioned, Senate President Quezon descended from the rostrum to deliver a privilege speech that lasted two days in which he detailed his professional life, and made a full disclosure of every single property and asset he’d ever owned and earned. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">Times, indeed, have changed, not only because today’s nationwide coverage through radio and ANC would make 3 and 2 day speeches impossible; but also because the leaders of today would rather run than fight, would prefer to hide, instead of fully disclosing the truth.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">I must bring up the past because for a chamber like this one, we have the benefit of the example and precedents established by the past presidents and members of this Senate. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">These things didn’t happen so long ago, as to be beyond living memory.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">In 1933, when Osmena spent three days to explain to the people his public career, and when Quezon took two days to detail the story of his life and the particulars of his personal finances, our venerable colleague from Cagayan was nine years old. Our equally venerable colleague from Camarines Sur was six years old. Back then, in 1933, Quezon could proclaim before the senate and the public, that “</span><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">Real estate business can have no possible incompatibility with my duties as president of the senate or senator,” and he was right –at the time.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">But the times have changed. If 1933</span><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US"> was also a time so long ago that it was five months before our distinguished colleague from Cagayan de Oro City was even born, a full year before our distinguished colleague from Aurora was born, too, thirteen years before our current Senate President was born, and a quarter century before I saw the light of day, it was also a time before the rules changed. They are much stricter now, in reaction to our people’s disappointment with their martial law leaders.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">For those of us born long after 1933, let the words of our venerable colleague from Camarines Sur enlighten us. I’ve noted he was a strapping lad of six in 1933, but he has placed before us the proper perspective to consider the time that has elapsed between the Manuel who was Senate President in 1933 and the Manuel who is unfortunately Senate President in 2008, both Nacionalistas.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">Last week, fortunately rescued from possible oblivion in the House archives, you and I Mr. President, together with our colleagues and the Filipino people, had our memory refreshed concerning a speech delivered by then-representative Joker Arroyo, concerning the business practices and ethics of then Speaker Manuel Villar Jr.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">On August 17, 1988, then-representative Arroyo pointed out two sections of Article VI of our present Constitution, and explained that they were innovations in our charter, based on our tragic martial law experience as a nation. They were not in the Jones Law, in the 1935 or 1973 Constitutions, but they are in the 1987 Constitution.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">I am submitting these as part of these remarks, Mr. President, but let me point out they are being flashed on the screen, now, for your reference:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">(Slide 1)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US"><span style=""> </span>Art. VI, Section 12. <i style="">All Members of the Senate and the House of Representatives shall, upon assumption of office, make a full disclosure of their financial and business interests. They shall notify the House concerned of a potential conflict of interest that may arise from the filing of a proposed legislation of which they are authors.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">Concerning Section 12, then Congressman Arroyo pointed out that then Speaker Villar never made such a disclosure, and never made any such notifications. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">As for this:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">(Slide 2)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">Art. VI, Section 14. <i style="">No Senator or Member of the House of Representatives may personally appear as counsel before any court of justice or before the Electoral Tribunals, or quasi-judicial and other administrative bodies. Neither shall he, directly or indirectly, be interested financially in any contract with, or in any franchise or special privilege granted by the Government, or any subdivision, agency, or instrumentality thereof, including any government-owned or controlled corporation, or its subsidiary, during his term of office. He shall not intervene in any matter before any office of the Government for his pecuniary benefit or where he may be called upon to act on account of his office.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">Concerning Section 14, then Congressman Arroyo said of then Speaker Villar, that he had violated this provision, repeatedly, and indubitably.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">Everyone in this chamber and the country knows that our venerable colleagues from Camarines Sur and Cagayan clashed repeatedly during martial law, and the lesson of that era was never to make an allegation not borne out by the facts. Then-congressman Arroyo bristled with facts, and one will suffice to illustrate how powerful his arguments were.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">Speaker Villar, said Congressman Arroyo, controlled the Capitol Bank, of which Mrs. Villar was the Chief Executive Officer. The Capitol Bank received loans, financial accommodations and guarantees from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas from 1992 to 1998 while he was a Representative. That was constitutionally forbidden.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">Despite repeated interpollations, his congressional colleagues could not dispute this and other facts. Such as, then Speaker Villar’s companies were developing or have developed 5,950 hectares or almost 60,000,000 square meters of CARP Lands into residential<span style=""> </span>subdivisions without the appropriate DAR issuances that would authorize such lands to be used for residential purposes. A traducement, according to then Congressman Arroyo, of the constitutionally directed CARP Law. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">The members of the House<span style=""> </span>should also have been made aware of how the National Home Mortgage Finance Corp.’s (NHMFC) Unified Home Lending Program (UHLP) “fast-tracked” payments for houses built by companies owned by our presiding officer during the Ramos years, and how the 12 billion pesos earned from these “fast-tracked” housing payments facilitated, in turn, the purchase of properties along Carlos P. Garcia Avenue, more commonly known as C-5.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">To be sure, our venerable colleague from Camarines Sur has made the remarkable transformation from the congressman who thundered we cannot have a nation run by a thief, to being the paladin in this chamber of a president who stole the presidency. If he could make that transformation it shouldn’t surprise anyone that he could attack Speaker Villar and then become a champion of Senate President Villar.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">But the point made by then congressman Arroyo, though lost in the mists of time and the haze brought on by the cozy political relationship he has since established with former Speaker Villar, remain the same. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">That point is, that during our term of office, it is unlawful for any of us to author any law or resolution that would benefit or favor us financially. This prohibition applies to every legislator, even to the extent of prohibiting merely recommending, and not even authoring, the enactment of any such financially-beneficial law.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">Could it be that since the People’s Dragon breathed fire on then Speaker Villar, by the time he became Senate President Villar, some sort of change had taken place?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">No, Mr. President. Ang maling klaseng sipag at tiyaga na tinira ni kongresista Arroyo ay nakikita pa rin natin kahit ayaw na itong bigyan pansin ni senador Arroyo.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">Capitol Bank is gone, Mr. President, and the names of the real estate ventures that earned the presiding officer of this chamber a fortune, have changed too. But let us look at just one corporation, to see how certain names have not changed, and how the behavior of those who bear those names hasn’t changed, either.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">Mr. President, before you on the screen you will see a chart, which the outlines the corporate structure of Britanny Corporation: a company surely familiar to our presiding officer.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 0.75in; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">As per the GENERAL INFORMATION SHEET (GIS) submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for the year 2008 (filed on April 17 2008), Brittany Corporation is 99.96% owned by <b style="">VISTA LAND & LANDSCAPES, INC</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0.75in; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0.75in; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">As per the 2007 GIS submitted to the SEC on 9 July 2007, VISTA LAND’s stockholders included the following:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0.75in; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.25in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US"><span style="">i.<span style=";font-family:";" > </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">FINE PROPERTIES, INC. (67.2% ownership)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0.75in; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.25in; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">As per the 2007 GIS submitted to the SEC on 4 June 2007, Fine Properties’ stockholders included the following:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0.75in; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0.75in; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US"><span style=""> </span>MANUEL B. VILLAR, JR. (51.02% ownership)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0.75in; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0.75in; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US"><span style=""> </span>CYNTHIA A. VILLAR (48.86% ownership)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0.75in; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0.75in; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US"><span style=""> </span>MANUEL PAOLO A. VILLAR (0.02% ownership)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0.75in; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0.75in; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.25in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US"><span style="">ii.<span style=";font-family:";" > </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">ADELFA PROPERTIES, INC. (12.2% ownership)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0.75in; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.25in; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">As per the 2007 GIS submitted to the SEC on 20 February 2007, Adelfa Properties’ stockholders included the following:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0.75in; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0.75in; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US"><span style=""> </span>MANUEL B. VILLAR, JR. (52% ownership)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0.75in; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 0.75in; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US"><span style=""> </span>CYNTHIA A. VILLAR (48% ownership)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">Now you may be curious, Mr. President, though not as curious as the rest of the country surely is, as to what, exactly, Brittany Corporation has to do with anything. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">Britanny Corporation has two on-going development projects by the name of Portofino South and La Marea. These projects are located in proximity to infrastructure developments that bear discussing in detail, Mr. President.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">Let us review a cardinal principle of real estate development: it’s all about location, location, location. What makes for a good location? Among other things, proximity to major thoroughfares. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">Mr. President, let me show you an official map, showing the plans of the national government, for the improvement of connections between the major arteries of Metro Manila.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">Let me call your attention to the portion of the map on the lower left. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">And let us focus on this area, to give you, Mr. President, and our people, a closer look at the infrastructure being built in this area.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">Mr. President, it is in this area, and it these projects, that have caused our presiding officer such embarrassment, because of this project, which I am showing you now:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">Having been enumerated, not once, but twice, in the General Appropriations Act or National Budget for 2008. Our venerable colleague from Cagayan says one of these enumerations was inserted upon your initiative, Mr. President. And so far, the public focus has been on the same project being mentioned twice in the budget.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">But it seems to me, Mr. President, that at the heart of any possibility of wrongdoing lies the question of motive.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">Why would the Senate President be so interested in this project? <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">Location, location, location.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">Consider this, Mr. President, which I submit for the record: a press release, dated December 1, 2007, taking credit for the C-5 Merville Access Road.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">Entitled <i style="">“Villar leads inauguration of major highway,”</i> in the press release, the Senate President took credit for the P68 Million newly constructed C5- Merville Access Road. The press release stated:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.75in;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">“The 6.10 km road is designed to decongest the main service road networks such as the South Luzon Expressway (SLEX), EDSA, Pres.Quirino, MIAA Road networks and Roxas Blvd. It starts from SLEX west service road passes through MIAA Property, RSG Subdivision and Kaingin Road towards Multi-National Avenue and ultimately traverses SM, AMVEL towards Sucat Road in Paranaque City.”<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.75in;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">“Villar is also responsible for the Las Pinas-Muntinlupa-Laguna-Cavite (LPMLC) link road, more popularly known as Daang Hari, and the Zapote-Molino Link Road which greatly eased traffic in Cavite.”<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">On September 9 of this year, the Senate President met members of the press and all of us, Mr. President, can see for ourselves what he said:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">[play video]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">Ibang ang bira ng ng bira sa bumubulong, sabay ngiti, ng “Hala Bira!” habang kinakalikot niya ang badjet. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">Ginoong Presidente, ang pagaabala ng isang kinatawan sa isa, dalawa, tatlo o kahit ilang proyekto na makakabigay ng ginhawa sa kaniyang pangpinansyal na interes, ay kontra sa saligang batas ilanpamang mamayan sa labas ng kaniyang kompaniya ang makikinabang dito.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">Malinaw na ang mga tinutukoy na imprastraktura sa lugar na ito, ay magdadala ng ginhawa sa mga nakitira sa lugar na iyan. Ngunit, maambonan din ang mga proyektong personal ng mga korporasyon na pag-aari ng magasawang Villar, na sila’y parehong mga kinatawan ng lehislatura.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">Sa salitang ginawang pamoso ni Pipol’s Dragon, Ginoong Presidente, bad ‘yan. Hala, lagot ka.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">You see, Mr. President, the Senate President has never been coy, never shy, certainly never a joker, about taking credit for public works in what he considers his political turf. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">He has taken credit, repeatedly, publicly, for personally making possible infrastructure projects located in proximity to his existing and planned real estate developments, developments that contribute to his colossal wealth. This was prohibited in 1998 and remains prohibited in 2008, it was prohibited when he was Speaker and it remains prohibited when he is now Senate President. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">Now I can imagine my distinguished colleague from Taguig leaping to his feat, quoting the Bible chapter and verse, then insisting well, it is only for politics and it’s for the public good, but certainly not for financial gain.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">He would be doing so as a loyal party man but with as much disregard for the truth as his party chief. In separate interviews before media, the head of the Nacionalistas, our presiding officer, always said that, in cases involving government right of way, the companies which he owns do not get paid. They just donate the property. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">This is not true, Mr. President.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">In the Masterlist of Road Right of Way claims dated April 30, 2008 submitted by the DPWH to the Senate Legislative Budget Research Management Office (LBRMO) signed by one Carmelita Aranda (Engineer II) and Florendo Flores, Jr (Engineer IV). Vista Verde South has an outstanding claim for right of way compensation with the DPWH-Region IV A in the amount of P1,064,800.00 for the Molino Blvd., Nog Maambog Sector Phase II. Even if this were the exception it certainly invalidates what the Senate President claims is the rule when it comes to his companies.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">All of us, including the two past and the incumbent senate presidents in our chamber, know full well that the Senate looks to the past because it ensures we do not stumble, but maintain our bearings, in the present as we navigate the difficult path of public service.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">Public Office is a public trust. We the representatives of the people pay a real price for getting elected to public office. The Constitution imposes on us certain constraints that we must follow to the letter.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">The founding generation of the senate jealously, and zealously, defended their honor on the sound principle that public office is a public trust. They did so because they took pride not just in being elected leaders, but because they took pride in being self-made men.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">The self-made man, Mr. President, is a man worthy of our admiration, emulation, and respect. This chamber has counted many self-made made among its ranks, including my own grandfather Vicente Madrigal, the personification of industry and dedication.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">Ihinalal siya dahil nakita ng taong bayan na siya ay masipag, na siya ay matiyaga; at dahil doon, ihinalal siya dalawang beses sa senado. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">Tutoo naman na noon hanggang ngayon, ang sipag at tiyaga ay ginagalang ng ating mga kababayan dahil sa ating kultura, ang tao na may sipag at tiyaga ay dapat ring may dangal at isang salita. Kung inahon niya ang kaniyang sarili mula sa kahirapan, hindi dapat nitong sabihin na tinalikuran niya ang katapatan sa kaniyang pinanggalingan, o nalimot na niya ang kahalagaan ng integridad sa lahat ng kaniyang gawain. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">Tutoo naman na dapat natin kilalanin ang may abilidad. Tutoo naman na dapat natin paghangaan ang nagkapakita ng kapangahasan. Heto ang tinatawag ng mga kababayan nating Cebuano na isang taong “adelantado.” Ngunit dapat din nating alamin na iba po ang umasenso dahil sa sarili niyang kapasidad, sa yumaman dahil sa pagiging wa-is at abusado. Ang ganitong klaseng tao ay walang dangal, at walang ituturo sa kanino man dahil wala siyang prinsipyo; higit sa lahat, ang taong ganito ay hindi dapat iluklok sa mataas na puwesto kundi dapat isuka ng sambayanan.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">Mr. President, possessing a great fortune is not a crime; indeed, it is a praiseworthy achievement. But it is condemnable if one’s enrichment has come because of holding public office and in defiance of the Constitutionally-ordained limitations on the commercial activities of public servants. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">We have here, a situation where a public official maintained commercial interests that profit every which way –directly and indirectly- from public infrastructure built from public funds, upon the admitted intervention of that official. That intervention, that mixing of private gain with public business, is so obviously chronic as to be pathological. Speaker Villar is no different from Senate President Villar except for being several billion pesos the richer from the manipulation of public laws for private gain.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">Mr. President, the traditions of this chamber shows the way forward. The way forward requires an investigation, and for that purpose I have the honor of doing for you, what you would not do for yourself. That is, for this chamber to investigate these projects and all the other projects you have been involved with, so that you may have a chance to vindicate yourself, if that is at all possible.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">For in 1998 as in 2008, you had the chance to give a full accounting to your peers and our our people, but you would not do it then, and you seem disinclined to do it now. But X marks the spot, Mr. President. Location, location, location has enriched you but it has damned you, before our Constitution, before your colleagues, and before our people.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">We cannot have a nation run by a thief? 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text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";" lang="EN-US">MANIFESTATION ON ETHICS COMMITTEE <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";" lang="EN-US">COMPLAINT AND RESOLUTION<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";" lang="EN-US">SENATOR M. A. MADRIGAL<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b style=""><span style=";font-family:";" lang="EN-US">8 October 2008<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><i style=""><span style=";font-family:";" lang="EN-US">Mr. President</span></i></span><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">: <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">Permit me to make a manifestation before this chamber, referring my complaint against the Senate President, and asking the Committee on Ethics to investigate the complaint I hereby submit for their consideration and urgent action.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">We have long been criticized by the public for making charges, while failing to substantiate those charges. The complaint I am referring to the Ethics Committee is not in the nature of wide-sweeping yet essentially unproveable set of allegations.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">These are findings based on fact, based on actual documents, and on real and binding provisions of our Constitution and our laws. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">They are, furthermore, first and foremost the obligation, morally, legally, and politically, of this chamber to receive, study, deliberate and act upon. For they involve the behavior of our chamber’s presiding officer. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">This is the proper forum, the deserving forum, for the cataloging and consideration, of the wrongdoings of one of our peers. It is incumbent on us, collectively, that is, institutionally, to confront what my complaint contains.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">In the broadest strokes, this complaint submits that the Senate President has made a career of perverting the public good and public funds, for private pecuniary gain, with utter contempt for the laws and ethical conduct required of public officials, in particular, elected officials.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">The determination of the Senate President’s obvious and damning conflict of interest, in proposing and benefitting from, public programs and public works to his own personal financial gain, will be easy. The relevant Constitutional provisions and laws have been enumerated in my complaint. The specific instances and circumstances by which the Senate President violated the laws are listed down.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">The opportunities the Senate President took, directly, that is, personally, by his own intervention in the bureaucracy and his participation in the bending of relevant laws and regulations, are amply listed in my complaint. They are supported by documentation, and they serve to underscore that the Senate President cannot, by any sober measure, plead extenuating or mitigating circumstances to reduce either his culpability or his guilt.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">His companies profited; he profited; he intervened in the bureaucracy and helped pass laws to ensure his private gain when we have a great number of laws meant to prevent exactly what has transpired.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">As legislators we are tasked with oversight over the executive and deliberating on legislation. We are not here to be fixers, pimping out legislation in order to line our own or anyone else’s pockets.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">We are here to be public servants; to work for the public good even if it comes at our own personal expense. We are certainly not here to craft laws while trying to find crafty ways to ignore the very same laws we are sworn not only to uphold, but improve if need be.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">Mr. President, let me repeat, for the record and for the consideration of my colleagues, that what I am submitting to the Ethics Committee is not an unsubstantiated collection of allegations, but fully-documented and thoroughly-researched charges.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">Charges that, if soberly scrutinized, will certainly compel action on the part of this chamber’s Ethics Committee. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">I hope that the Senate President, who has, so far, met this whole issue with the most obstinate silence, will finally take this opportunity to conscientiously and thoroughly dispute the charges. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">It is for the Ethics Committee to approach my complaint with an open mind, for indeed, all must be assumed innocent until proven guilty. I know that the evidence is overwhelming so that guilt will be the ultimate finding of any Ethics Committee that takes its obligations seriously. Nonetheless, the Senate President should be accorded every opportunity to vindicate himself. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">Continued silence will do neither himself nor the Senate any good. A thorough threshing of the facts may ultimately prove politically costly to him but institutionally, legally, and dare I say, morally valuable to this Senate and the country.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b style=""><i style=""><span style=";font-family:";" lang="EN-US">Ilea iacta est</span></i></b></span><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US">. <b style="">The die is cast</b>; the ethical Rubicon has been crossed; presented with a legal, financial, and ethical Gordian Knot of his own creation, the Senate Presdent’s vindication or ultimate condemnation requires that knot being sliced through, with the razor-sharp sword of impartial justice and the intellectual rigor and objectivity that are the finest traditions of this chamber.<o:p></o:p></span></p> Jamby Madrigalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11513643220730125259noreply@blogger.com0