RESPONSE TO LUY LIST

For the record, I denounce as false, the allegations against me drawn from the Luy list. All the documents are fake. I have no clue about the alleged details, which are all falsified or fictitious. I will confront Luy and Napoles, if they appear at the Senate. Someone has made money by using my name, and I will make that person pay, big time.

Presumably, there are other people who, like me, are innocent, but whose names and identities have been stolen. Therefore, by analogy with criminal proceedings, the Senate blue ribbon committee should grant to the innocent senators all the constitutional rights enjoyed by the accused in criminal proceedings, namely, the right to "meet the witnesses face-to-face, and to have compulsory processes to secure the attendance of witnesses and the production of evidence in his behalf."

If such a confrontation materializes, I would consider it extremely unfortunate that, under the Constitution, I will not be allowed to use violence against those guilty of identity theft. My name has been used in vain by the Napoles Gang of thieves. I thought that if the Luy list included documents, they would first be authenticated, before publication. Silly me.

It turns out that the Luy list has not been authenticated under the Rules of Court. The Napoles Gang merely forged certain public documents and used certain names like mine, to pad their in-house records.

There are two kinds of documents admissible in court. The first, called private document (such as those kept by the Napoles Gang) needs to be proved with respect to "due execution and authenticity." This means that there should be a witness who saw the documents executed or written. Or, there should be evidence of the genuineness of the signature or handwriting of the maker.

The second, called public documents (such as those issued by DBM) must be proved by a certified true copy from the official custodian.

The Luy list has no proof of the attestation of any public document, and no proof of the authenticity of any private document. Thus, the Luy list constitutes no proof at all against me and others like me. The Luy list is nothing but mudslinging. How sad for our country that such villainy can come to pass.

If corruption is this bad, maybe I should run for president, on the same anticorruption platform from which I have fulminated all these years. And maybe I should deliver a privilege speech against you-know-who. I understand that his official boss is vexed, because of the grandiloquent ambitions of this rogue in uniform.