Jun Lozada: “Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing”?

[Monseratto]

Dear Ms. Mayuga,

Just read through your column and realized that you do take the time and effort to sieve through e-mails.

First off, thank you - we are small, insignificant people compared to titans of industry, mega-celebrities and the vociferous throng (both the well-heeled and unshod) that trooped to Makati the other day for that (obviously anti-GMA) "Inter-Faith Rally." But we trust that even our small and distant voice will still be heard and, hopefully, considered for whatever it's worth.


As many as 100,000 people have chosen to believe Jun Lozada's "truths." We vehemently choose not to. We believe that he is a wolf in sheep's clothing, exuding an aura of divine protection given no doubt by a phalanx of nuns and a gaggle of Bishops. We believe that he’s lying through his teeth and his eyes simply could not fake it well enough. His dramatic performance was made for the Oscars. Quite ironic, too, that one your e-mail writers complained about seeing the Oscars instead of the Senate hearings on free TV, when they are all made out of the same cloth – That's Entertainment!

And the script stinks so much of the same formulaic offerings that made Sharon Cuneta a household name in the Philippines. There's the evil, bitchy, matapobre contravida (in the very familiar mold of Cherie Gil, Jean Garcia, Princess Punzalan, Pilar Pilapil, Bella Flores) whose only purpose in life, it seems, is to make hambalos the next hampaslupa or patay-gutom that crawls her way. Then there's the lowly bida - Sharon Cuneta, Julie Vega, Janice de Belen, Judy Ann Santos – and, true to form, Erap and FPJ whose on-screen lives have been known to make gapang in the lusak before the inevitable showdown (a la Bituing Walang Ningning a.k.a. "HARAPAN"). Then the gulong ng palad starts working its wonders - to a happily-ever-after final episode where the evil bitch is finally taught the true meaning of "Bukas Luluhod ang mga Tala!"

Sound eerily familiar? It’s all the same vaudeville/telenovela repeated over and over and over again, and everybody's gripped by a powerful tragicomic melodrama horror-sci fi musical (admittedly an almost exclusively Filipino movie genre) unfolding before our very eyes on Primetime News, forced down our throats by a most willing (read: biased) TV network. The stupendous ensemble cast is primped and readied; the dialogues (and monologues) rehearsed to death, the lights on, the cameras rolling - and action!

After all the dust has settled and the smoke cleared, if the television "heroes" are finally victorious, who benefits most from all this? The Filipino people? Philippine Democracy? Our Constitution?

Come to think of it, the only one laughing all the way to the bank would be this gigantic media-utilities empire whose proxy will finally be proclaimed President of the Republic of the Philippines! Talk about baking your cake and eating all of it, too.

If the opposition politicians, the coup plotters, the communists, the students, the clergy, the media and the members of civil society think they're going to inherit the Kingdom of Heaven after shouting their throats hoarse in every street corner and flogging themselves for some divine intervention to rain fire and brimstone over Malacañang, think again. You are all ripe for a rude awakening.

Oh, don't you just love liars? They're sooo...sneaky.

Jaime J. A. Rivera

Jaime J.A. Rivera, a fourth generation member of the Alano Clan of Basilan, is the Secretary General/Executive Director of the Juan S. Alano Corporation in Isabela City. He also belongs to the Basilan Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Inc., with Micro, Small and Medium Entrepreneurs of Basilan “constituting 95% of our membership.” The BCCI is affiliated with the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry Inc. (PCCI) led by the Presidential Adviser Donald Dee.

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[uls]

woah! after reading that, ABSCBN's anti-GMA campaign finally makes freakin sense!

ABSCBN is betting on Noli big time!

Why?

To protect the Lopez interests! Ano pa ba?!

Meralco was fined for overcharging a few years ago diba? Meralco lost a lot of money when it was forced to make refunds to customers.

Babawi ang Meralco pag naupo si Noli. Sigurado yan.

And madami utang ang ABSCBN, Maynilad, and other Lopez companies diba?

Pag naupo si Noli, political maneuverings can solve the debt problems of the Lopezes... like magic!

hahahahaha! That's it! That's it! it finally makes sense! Tanga ko di ko naisip ito... i'm so freakin slow!

HAHAHAHA! those nuns and priests and bishops and rallyists and those naive, idealistic students actually think change is in the horizon?

A new dawn for the Philippines?!

BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!

You want the truth?!

You cant handle the truth!

[safeorigin]

don't trust anybody these days. period.

'nuff said!

[jonski]

Galit kasi ABS-CBN kasi ayaw sila pagbigyan ng administration sa kaso nila sa wowowee stampede

[uls]

Ya isa pa yan... that wowowee case...

[shadow]

just to play the devil's advocate..

Basilan and Donald Dee are significally connected to the administration...

basilan/maguindanao...areas where supposedly cheating took place in the past elections...

donald dee, he was implicated by Lozada in influencing Neri to accept the bribe on the last ch 2 "tapatan" show....

hhmmmm,make sense.....

but not to take away anything sa "wolf in sheep's clothing thing", marami nagsasabi ang tawag kay Lozada ng mga people in gov't is "commissioner" dahil mahilig daw humingi ng commission sa mga projects and always dropping the name of Neri....

Jaime J.A. Rivera, a fourth generation member of the Alano Clan of Basilan, is the Secretary General/Executive Director of the Juan S. Alano Corporation in Isabela City. He also belongs to the Basilan Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Inc., with Micro, Small and Medium Entrepreneurs of Basilan “constituting 95% of our membership.” The BCCI is affiliated with the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry Inc. (PCCI) led by the Presidential Adviser Donald Dee.

[uls]

It all comes down to self interest.

There are people who benefit greatly from the GMA admin. They naturally want GMA to stay in power.

Then there are those who are not benefitting from the GMA admin. So they want GMA removed.

It's all about benefits.

[ringostarr]

actually galit ang people behind the utility firm kasi the admin wants also the Chinese to take over power distribution here

now is this a question of patriotism na ba?. i really dont know. but here's one thing for sure, with the lopezes gone, sigurado yun tiga HK na power tycoon tayo magbabayad ng bill in the coming future

[kinyo]

Maybe Mr. Rivera got it all wrong. If and when GMA is removed from power before 2010, off goes Noli too!

[uls]

actually galit ang people behind the utility firm kasi the admin wants also the Chinese to take over power distribution here

now is this a question of patriotism na ba?. i really dont know. but here's one thing for sure, with the lopezes gone, sigurado yun tiga HK na power tycoon tayo magbabayad ng bill in the coming future

You got a point there.

The foreigners have way more money to buy govt people than the local oligarchs.

Local rich guy offer: 10 million pesos

Foreign rich guy offer: 10 million US dollars

Saan ka pa?

Kaya nagwawala ang mga Lopezes