Archbishop to Palace: ‘Poor script, bad actor’
DAGUPAN CITY – Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Oscar Cruz said he has one advice to Malacañang in connection with the attempt to implicate him and five other bishops in the alleged coup plot last February 24.
“Pay for a good story-writer and a credible character to star in it,” he said.
Then he added “When someone uses somebody to tell lies, who is more accountable, the user or the one used? When someone exploits the needs of somebody and make him a liar, who is more culpable, the exploiter or the exploited?”
Two former jueteng witnesses, Richard Garcia and Abe Riva, accused the bishops of conspiring with the opposition and disgruntled military officers to overthrow Mrs. Arroyo. Their basis? They overheard the bishops wanting to support moves to install Sen. Panfilo Lacson as an alternative to the President.
Cruz described the scenario as “the case of a dejected jueteng collector being used and abused by Malacañang to say what he does not know, to remember what did not take place.”
He said “this is manipulation at its worst which no less than gangsters and goons use for criminal intents and purposes”.
“If Malacañang wants to stage even but a silly drama, it should first of all pay a good story writer plus a credible character to star in it. A badly written drama will not sell. A discredited character will make an already ridiculous drama even more laughable,” Cruz advised.
He asked, “Is Malacañang that insecure and desperate that it is willing to go to the gutters and swim in garbage simply to threaten and instill fear in people who do not bow much less kneel before its bogus majesty?”
The senior prelate said it is not enough that Malacañang has a big illegitimacy problem, neither enough that it is engulfed in one too many accusations of graft and corruption, numerous extrajudicial killings, gross capitalization in the exportation of human beings in exchange for some dollars. – EVA
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