Mike Arroyo

Wednesday, March 21, 2007 | 8:52 PM

Don’t you just hate Mike Arroyo (Jose Miguel Arroyo, husband of Philippine Pres. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo) for suing for libel more than 50 journalists now?

For there to be libel, the accused must be proved in court to have made a false statement about another, with the purpose of defaming him.

Let me tell you. You may claim in court that one journalist is lying. There are quite a few journalists out there who deserve it. You can do the same thing to the second one. Calling the third journalist a liar, yes, it’s possible. Filing the same law suit against the fourth one may still prove feasible for you, although doing so can make you go down several notches on the reputation scale.

However, pushing your luck and reaching the number 50 on your number of journalists to sue for libel? Now there’s definitely something amiss here

Where there’s smoke, my dear... where there’s smoke.

Unfortunately, though, smoke doesn't count in the process of the law. And for our courts, that fire, wherever it is, is yet to be found. So, since we can't do anything about it yet, and while good people like Alan Peter Cayetano are looking for more fire, in the meantime, I'll just build an altar for and kneel in front of the beautiful mind that did this:

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