Ellen Tordesillas published it in full first, over at Vera Files, and people have been rolling in the aisles ever since. Just in case you have any doubt that really wrote what he did, here’s the facsimile of it:
The background to the order being, that the Judge formerly dismissed Mike Defensor’s perjury charge against Lozada, was overruled by a superior court, and so has to handle the case.
Blogger Et Cetera Et Cetera was frankly puzzled by the order, while Manila Bay Watch was pleased as punch and Smoke was certainly amused. Every lawyer I’ve talked to says this order is unprecedented in terms of the, shall we say, pungent language used. Some lawyers think that aside from the personal pleasure the Judge undoubtedly derived from penning this order, the legal consequences of it will be to ensure that Defensor’s lawyers have a strong case with which to insist that the Judge recuse himself from the case -or be forced to do so, again by a superior court.
Manuel Buencamino in his Business Mirror column today takes a cue from Mark Anthony’s funeral oration in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and proclaims Mike Defensor an honorable man: see Mike Defensor does not lie (”He just sees things in a different light”).
A word on Ako Mismo, which certainly has gotten tongues wagging (and Martin Perez’s blog, AKOMISMO, getting deluged with stray hits), and not a few people feeling patriotic -or merely lusting after one of the attractive dog tags the website offers as an incentive for signing up.
When the site was heralded by a TV ad and a two-page spread in a major daily, I personally wondered if it wasn’t a trial balloon for the presidential candidacy of Manuel V. Pangilinan. Business circles have been abuzz for some months now, about the tycoon’s possible, even probable, presidential aspirations; and there have been those quietly circulating in order to sound out opinions on whether a Pangilinan bid for the presidency would get public support.
One of the site’s endorsers, Maxene Magalona, has come out with a categorical statement that her participation in the ad campaign for the site has nothing to do with anyone’s presidential aspirations. Smart Communications has categorically denied being the owner of the site. From what I’ve heard from people who claim insider knowledge of PLDT, their boss in not interested in the least in becoming the country’s chief executive.
There will be some disappointed by these disavowals, as there were those whose interest was genuinely piqued by the prospect of an MVP bid for the presidency.
There are two blog entries that help explain why the website caused some misgivings in the days leading up to Magalona’s statement. The first is in Baratillo@Cubao, the other, in Constant Random Change, who approach the site from two different ends (one, shall we say, philosophical, the other, technological) but with similar conclusions: the site was opaque in certain respects and the opacity provoked skepticism. It shouldn’t have required a Whois search, for example, simply to determine who owned the site: an advertising agency that has also categorically stated the campaign is its own, as part of its corporate social responsibility efforts.
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