Senators Cry Foul Over Anti-Duterte Blog Posts Branding Them As ‘Palace Dogs’
Emotions ran high during the Senate session on Wednesday, September
27, as some senators, who were criticized for allegedly not signing the
resolution calling for an end to the killings, decried demolition job by
certain individuals.
Voices were raised when Senate Majority Leader Vicente Sotto
III, Senators Richard Gordon, Manny Pacquiao, and Miguel Zubiri took the floor
to condemn the attacks they, and three other majority senators, received for
supposedly not joining their 16 colleagues in urging President Rodrigo Duterte
to stop the senseless killings.
Aside from the four senators, Senate President Aquilino
Pimentel, Senators Cynthia Villar, and Gregorio Honasan also failed to sign the
Senate Resolution no. 516 released last Monday.
The senators explained that the resolution did not reach
their office.
Senator Sotto will file cybercrime libel charges against the
persons behind a “fake news” blog SilentNoMore.ph for publishing “stupid and
silly” article entitled “Malacañang Dogs in the Senate: Pimentel, Sotto,
Gordon, Villar, Zubiri, Honasan, Pacquiao.”
“Ang katangahan nila, hindi nakarating sa amin ‘yan. Walang
nagpapirma sa akin niyan kaya hindi pwedeng sabihin na I did not sign. Now the
offensive part is this, pagsunod niyan iniisa isa kaming pito at ang sasama ng
sinabi,” Senator Sotto said.
Senator Sotto said he was only being kind because he will
only file a cyberlibel case against them, “otherwise masalubong ko ‘to sa daan,
I will not be able to help myself. I will scatter their brains.”
Senator Pacquiao also made a manifestation that no one asked
him to sign the resolution as it did not pass through his office.
The boxer-turned-politician warned the “cowards” behind the
alleged demolition job that he will not be afraid to face them.
“Sana hindi mangyari na mapatawag siya sa Senado kundi... If
I’m not spiritually renewed, ayaw ko na bumalik sa dati kong buhay. Pinipilit
ko magpakabait at gawin ang tama pero kapag ganyang mga klaseng tao, hindi ako
magdadalawang isip para…,” Senator Pacquiao said.
Senator Zubiri was also fuming mad when he delivered his
manifestation.
“I would have signed the resolution. I don’t know if this is
a deliberate attempt to destroy us. Let’s call spade a spade… If you want to
pick a fight with your colleagues, ‘wag duwag. Harap-harapan na lang,” the
senator said.
After being bypassed, Senator Zubiri said they filed another
resolution urging the Duterte administration to end the killings, not only of
children and minors, but all extrajudicial and unresolved killings.
Other senators in the majority bloc also signed, including
Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph Recto, Senators Sonny Angara, Nancy Binay,
Sherwin Gatchalian, Grace Poe, Joel Villanueva, and JV Ejercito.
Watch the video below:
Senators Cry Foul Over Anti-Duterte Blog Posts Branding Them As ‘Palace Dogs’
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