(Speech before the Negros Press Club delivered April 5, 2008)
The former Japanese ambassador once told me there are three most prominent lies on earth. One, when a delinquent American tenant tells his landlord the check is in the mail. Two, when a Japanese lover tells you he is more romantic than a Frenchman. The biggest lie of them all is when a Filipino politician tells you he is about to deliver a very short speech.
If you want to seriously fight extortion, start in your own backyard.
This was the “unsolicited” advice of Sen. Panfilo M. Lacson Friday to Mrs. Arroyo, a day after she created a task force against “kotong” (extortion) and colorum vehicles upon the request of the transport sector.
“I am tempted to give this piece of unsolicited advice: Start with kotong right inside Malacañang or you will get nowhere in this new effort,” said Lacson, who made stopping extortion a priority when he headed the Philippine National Police from 1999 to 2001.
Read More: Lacson to GMA: Start Fighting Kotong in Your Own Backyard
Part of a frantic cover up.
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Saying it is too late for President Arroyo to placate the opposition, Senator Panfilo Lacson yesterday scoffed at her reported plan to appoint opposition personalities as commissioners of the Commission on Elections
Read more : Ping Scoffs at GMA Plan to Appoint Opposition at Comelec
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