• Perjury consists in wilfully and falsely swearing to a fact material to the point in issue before a court or tribunal having legal authority to inquire into the cause or matter investigated.
  • Another definition is the wilful utterance of false testimony under oath or affirmation before a competent tribunal, upon a point material to a legal inquiry.
  • To commit perjury a person must swear wilfully, corruptly and falsely. The false statement made by the witness under oath must be known to him to be false and intended by him to mislead the court or jury.

Now, I wasn't there when it happened, but I'd take my uncle's word over Mike's any day. Uncle Jun and Mike D worked together for the government. He was one who tried to convince voters in the family to put in Mike's name when he ran for senator, which my cousin and I thought was more favor-driven than service-driven. Working with him made Uncle Jun see Mike as a person, and a good friend, but that didn't change our (meaning, me and some cousins and probably some elders) perception of him as the president's favorite lapdog. He's the best ass-licker there is, with the uncanny ability to look you straight in the eyes while giving a sincere look even though he's throwing bullshit at you. If you're the presidential spokesperson, you have to have that kind of ability with all the crap that's happening within the government. Ed Ermita has it easy, he looks like an asshole, so you can't see him losing composure that much because his face remains the same. Mike D? I don't know what training he had to undergo to keep himself composed with that expressive face of his. But he is the best among the best.

And now, he's using his family and his "honor" and "name" as reasons why he filed the case against my uncle, and it was "not politically driven" but rather to "defend" his name against Uncle Jun's allegations, and it was because of the "inconsistencies" in Uncle Jun's statements. The crappy thing about this legal crap is when you say "I am working in Ortigas", it is totally different from "I work in Ortigas". THAT becomes an inconsistency. And the persecuting lawyers prey on those lapses. I don't know, even the funniest stories can vary sometimes everytime you re-tell them. 50k for "pamalengke" and it's just prepared in the car like it was some loose change? Please. Did Mike D deny that he gave the money? No. In fact, he was proud of it.

I don't hear his wife calling for justice to his husband's "good" name, so I'm guessing she knows even Mike D isn't doing this for the right reasons. Then again, after writing this blog, I wouldn't be surprised to see Mike D doing some puppy dog eyes beside his crying wife who is calling for "fairness" on national TV.

Anyway, what Mike D says is true, that the court is the proper venue for these kinds of stuff. But local courts? I don't know. They're probably one "pamalengke" away from bending the truth. What's crappy about this is that Uncle Jun's going to be sentenced to jail as if he was a common criminal, and that will only probably be because of some "inconsistencies" with his testimony.

To Mike: no, the sisters do not condemn you from Church when they side with Uncle Jun on the perjury case you filed. The whole Catholic Church is not against you just because some leaders side with Uncle Jun. You may not have your "own version of the truth" and is merely pointing out the "inconsistencies" in Uncle Jun's statements, but you know what went down. You were being built up to us by him as a good person. Work on your being Catholic and don't let the man be treated as a common criminal for some "inconsistencies". Come clean. Help the cause for truth. GMA's been there too long, why let the few benefit while all the rest suffer? Ndi dahil ndi alam ng mga tao ang nangyayari sa loob ng gobyerno ay ndi nila mararanasan ang hirap na maidudulot nito pagdating ng panahon. Kung Katoliko ka nga, wag kang maging gahaman, at isipin mo rin ang kinabukasan ng iba, di lang kinabukasan mo at ng pamilya mo.

To all those wondering: No, Uncle Jun won't be part of the Nacionalista slate. Manny V is a good man, but Uncle Jun said being a senator is not one of his priorities, and even the sisters don't like the idea of him joining politics.