UNITED Nationalist Alliance (UNA) candidate for Senator, Jack Enrile, today denounced the black propaganda campaign being conducted against him by blogger Froilan Grate, who accused the Senatorial frontrunner of berating and threatening his father.
“Froilan Grate is a liar,” the son of Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile pronounced. Grate, a self-proclaimed environmentalist who blogs at www.NoBystanders.net, alleged that “about 30 years ago,” his father, a security guard at Greenhills, tried to stop a vehicle being manned by Jack Enrile from entering an exclusive subdivision. Enrile allegedly took issue with this, alighting from the vehicle, swearing and pointing a gun at his father.
“My dad tried to explain that it was the car that he did not recognize since it was new and there was no valid sticker. Jack would have none of it and he continued shouting at my dad and at the same time pointing a gun at my father,” Grate said in his blog entry.
The UNA stalwart, who is campaigning on a platform of food sufficiency, has been the subject of allegations concerning the murders of Alfie Anido, Ernest Lucas, and other individuals. He vehemently denounces these accusations as the “product of fertile imaginations. I have never pointed a gun at another human being my whole life.”
“This Froilan Grate does not even have the professional credentials to be published by a real paper. Blogger lang siya, and yet he expects people to believe him?” Enrile said. He added, “Parang folk tale ang kuwentong ito, passed down through generations without any regard for the truth.”
“If you’re going to spread lies about me, at least be man enough to say it to my face. Don’t hide behind the internet,” challenged the senator, who is now consulting lawyers on whether he should file a libel suit against Grate under the new Cybercrime Prevention Act.