Rodolfo “Jun” Lozada accepted elements of the Manila Police District who were serving a warrant of arrest for a perjury case filed against him by Philippine National Railroad Chairman Mike Defensor with open arms at the La Salle Greenhills on April 29, 2009. Aside from publicly preparing for the controversial arrest by wearing a Jose Rizal imprinted t-shirt, the broadband deal whistleblower upon his arrest and subsequent incarceration at the MPD station had also adamantly resisted paying the measly P6,000.00 bail bond which is accorded to any person facing a perjury case.
And why would Jun Lozada do that when he could have easily asked his nun supporters under the Association of Major Religious and Superior of the Philippines or AMRSP to dole out the petty cash collected from the “Piso Para kay Lozada” which the sisters launched specifically to finance Jun’s criminal and any other legal fights? The perjury case is a very valid legal case, that is unless Lozada is merely using his incarceration as a pretense and really has every intention of copying the propaganda and political tactic employed by Antonio Trillanes in 2007 and which had successfully positioned him in the Senate.
Like Senator Antonio Trillanes, Lozada wants to fully maximize his current legal battle – thanks to Mike Defensor who was only trying to clear his name but who unwittingly gave Jun a deadly yet very potent political weapon – so that he would be seen as an underdog. Of course, taking on this role would play best for his future plan to run as a senator particularly when a legitimate political party such as the Nacionalista Party has offered a place under their senatorial slate for 2010.
That being the case, can we now regard Jun Lozada as a true-to-the-bone liar that he is instead of being a beacon of truth like what he has been trying to let us believe? He is after all facing a legal case which questions his credibility because of a lie that was apparently uttered under oath and in front of judges belonging to an age-old legal institution such as the Court of Appeals. If he is really innocent just like what he has been trying to claim all along, then wouldn’t it be better for him to pay the measly P6,000.00 bail bond and present himself during hearings instead of doing his “image cleaning” publicly and inside a well airconditioned room at the MPD station which unfortunately and sadly only consume taxpayers’ money.
Just like Trillanes, Jun Lozada seemed to have learned quite early that several public appearances with a raised clenched fist behind imaginary bars can greatly help a person’s political ambition and maybe even contribute to the subsequent fulfillment of his aborted move to undertake fraudulent projects once he is already a government official of which he was said to have already manifested during his PhilForest day when he apparently obtained a 15 million worth of life insurance for his wife which the institution paid for. Aside from this, PhilForest employees also claimed that Lozada purchased lands and subsequently gave these to his brothers and also padded the purchase cost of 70 goats from Australia which was questionably priced at P100,000.00.
Now, would we want that in our Senate halls?
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