TO ACCUSE THE 12 SENATORS who signed the report on Sen. Manuel Villar?s culpability in the C5 Extension project of political motivation is a sophomoric attempt at avoiding the issue, and is itself politically motivated. The assumption that Filipinos are so stupid as not to see through this ploy is an insult to the people the senators are supposed to represent.

By avoiding to take up this issue on the Senate floor and dismissing it simply as politics, Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano is in effect calling his 12 colleagues of lying and of being irresponsible and unpatriotic.

And if he and the other senators who signed the ?acquittal resolution? on Senator Villar truly believe that Senator Villar has been falsely accused by his irresponsible colleagues, then it is their sworn duty to expose these unworthy senators and prove to the public that they are indeed liars and to accept the latter group?s challenge to convince Senator Villar to present himself before the Senate and show the public who are the liars. Presidential candidate Villar cannot strut around the country pretending this is not happening. This is a great opportunity for him to prove that he is clean and deserves to be our next president.

Senator Cayetano, corruption is the reason why there is so much poverty in our nation, in case you don?t know. You were elected to represent the 90 million Filipinos, not yourself.

As for those two senators who signed both the ?acquittal resolution? and the report, whichever group is proven to be lying, they are doomed to be in the list of liars.

?J. FRANKLIN B. REGIS,

256 Calatagan St.,

Ayala Alabang Village,

Barangay Alabang,

Muntinlupa City