Excerpts from the signed affidavit Filipina rape victim in Qatar. We will hide her identity under the name “Clara”.
Sometime in April 2005, my father suffered a second stroke and was unable to work since then. I wanted to be able to work in Oman in order to care and provide for my parents as I did not want them to return to the Philippines. This prompted me to seek for any job placement for Oman.
Sometime in May 2005, I read Jinhel International Recruitment Agency’s (hereinafter, “Jinhel”) Manila Bulletin advertisement for job placements in countries in the Middle East. I immediately placed a call in the telephone number contained in the ad.
After one week, I went to Jinhel’s office and paid P3,000.00 for my medical exam.
I was assured of a job placement in Qatar so I decided to resign from my work as Guidance Counselor in Systems Plus Computer College in Caloocan City.I went L-R Medical & X-ray Clinic. I paid P2,730.00. Then Jinhel called in March 2006. I was told to prepare as I was sure to be sent for work in Qatar. I paid Jinhel Five Thousand Pesos (P5,000.00) to Haja Fatima as payment, she said, for her services.
Jinhel and I agreed on the following terms of my employment in Qatar: monthly salary of QD700; work is to take care of a five (5)-year old child; the first two (2) months’ salary will go to Jinhel as its commission.
At the airport, iside the immigration, we were asked to pay One Thousand Five Hundred Pesos each (P1,500.00) each, unreceipted. We were previously advised by Nelia to prepare the said amount.
I arrived in Qatar on June 8, 2006. At the airport, I was met by Faruq, a Pakistani National who introduced himself to be from Al Waleed Agency – Jinhel’s Qatari counterpart agency. Faruq asked me to sign a contract with the following terms: monthly salary of QR600; work is all-around with no day-off.
Mr. Faruq brought me to my employer, Dr. Abdul Aziz Al Jumiah (hereinafter, “Dr. Abdul Aziz”). I came to know that Dr. Abdul Aziz is a Saudi National and a surgeon at the AL Ramelah Hamad Hospital. His wife was then pregnant and they had a five (5)-year old son.
My employers’ house is located inside a gated subdivision. It is a two-storey, six-bedroom house with five comfort rooms and a garden. I worked from 5:00 in the morning until about 1:00 or 2:00 the next morning as I was not allowed to sleep while my employers’ child was up. And since the child was asleep most of the time during the day, he usually went to bed past midnight.
Within a week’s time, Mrs. Abdul Aziz (I only know her as Madam Dina) started to maltreat me. Mrs. Abdul Aziz was very strict and very sensitive to dirt. Whenever she was not satisfied with my cleaning, she would pull my hair and would order to do the cleaning all over again. The house had big windows that I had to climb each time.
One time, I unintentionally overcooked the bread I was cooking. For this, she slapped me.
On the second or third week, my ward, Faisal, hit me with the telephone apparatus.One time, they brought me along to a mall. At the mall, a fellow Filipina saw the “bukol” in my head. She gave me telephone numbers at the Philippine Embassy and OWWA’s, should I decide to run away from my employers.
Sometime in June (after about 2 week-stay in Qatar), I called the Philippine Embassy and I was able to talk to one Mr. Jack. I told him about my situation but, in return, he coldly told me: ”Hindi pa naman grabe ang nangyayari sa yo. Tapusin mo na yang 2 years mo.” He also gave me Overseas Workers Welfare Administration’s (OWWA) telephone number.
In the last week of June, I called OWWA and talked to one Mr. Sam to whom I repeated my story. He told me: “Tumakas ka na kung ayaw mo na. Lumabas ka at sumakay sa taxi.”
On 14 September 2006, I was at the kitchen while Madam Dina was upstairs taking a bath, when Dr. Abdul Aziz arrived from the office. He suddenly embraced me and touched my breasts. I pushed him and told him that I would report to his wife. He just gave me a devil’s grin. When Madam Dina came down, I told her about what her husband did to me. But Madam Dina slapped me and blamed me for what had happened.
On the same day of September 14, 2006, Dr. Abdul Aziz asked for the key in my room. He ordered me not to lock my room from then on. I became so scared that I started to use the table in my room to block the door. I also kept a knife in my room.
On the third week of September, I again called OWWA. I told them about the harassment but I was given the same advice – to run away! I again requested that I be fetched or rescued but I was given the same answer – that OWWA does not rescue workers.
At around midnight on 02 November 2006, Madam Dina gave birth. He was brought to the hospital by Dr. Abdul Aziz. At about past 4:00 in the morning of 03 November 2006, I heard Dr. Abdul Aziz’ car arrive. I was then taking a shower. I got out of the bathroom. I just finished putting on my uniform when Dr. Abdul Aziz banged the door in my room. I was so shocked. Then Dr. Abdul Aziz immediately twisted my hands, laid me on the bed and tied my two hands on the bed using some cloth. He forcibly tore my clothes then raped me.
I pleaded and begged him not to do it. It hurt. I felt that his penis was so big and I almost lost consciousness. He did a withdrawal and sprayed his sperms on my chest. After that, he untied me. Then I saw that I was bleeding. I was so weak and almost went blank. I thought of the knife but I could not think or move.
After what he did, I even saw him pray the Muslim prayer. Then I heard his car leave. I checked if he left any door unlocked. All doors/gates were locked. I was still bleeding.
At about 7:00 or 8:00 in the morning, I saw the window in my comfort room. I jumped out of that window. Luckily, Lorna was then working in our neighbor’s garden. She told me to look for chairs I can step on. As I was jumping to our neighbor’s garden, Lorna saw that I was bleeding.
Lorna let me out of her employer’s yard through their gate. But there were guards and so Lorna hid me behind a tree. We had to wait until the next prayer time at 11:00 in the morning. When she saw the guards entered their prayer house, Lorna advised me to run.
I hailed the taxi. I saw that it had passengers but I later learned that the taxi driver, a Filipino, saw me bleeding and so he stopped the taxi. “From the taxi, the driver placed call to the Philippine Embassy.
When we arrived at the embassy, there was a party which I later learned was a party for Connie Sison and TJ Manotoc for their Kwentong Disyerto. There were media people at the embassy. The driver called Mr. Sam to inform him that we were already outside the embassy. Mr. Sam got out and even saw the blood on my body. He did not invite us in. He just told the driver to proceed and take me to OWWA. The driver even repeated that I was bleeding but Mr. Sam insisted that I be taken to OWWA.
When we got to OWWA, there was an ongoing ballroom dancing. We were asked who we were looking for. The taxi driver was making a call to Mr. Sam in order to ask who we would look for but he was not yet responding. We waited for two hours.
After two hours (or about 9:00 at night of November 3, 2006), one Sir Levi arrived at the OWWA from the embassy. He led me to a quarter that they call “shelter” inside the OWWA. I saw many (about 30) Filipino women inside the quarter
On the night of November 3, Connie Sison’s group also proceeded to OWWA from the embassy. Sir Levi told the leader to hide those who needed to be hid including myself because I did not look good and I was hysterical. Out of the 30 plus women, only 15 were presented to Connie Sison’s group. I later learned that they were introduced as Filipinos studying computer inside the OWWA.
I stayed in OWWA the whole day of November 4, 2006. We were fed “lugaw”. No one counseled me. I was not checked up or brought to the hospital.
On the night of November 4, 2006, Ma’am Ferida without first talking to me or asking me, called my employer. At about 8:00 in the morning the following day, my employer came. He was first attended to by Sir Levi. He was asked if I was his employee. They were later joined by Ma’am Ferida. They then invited me to sit down with them inside Ma’am Ferida and Sir Levi’s office. The door of the office was left open.
I was angry at the sight of my employer-rapist. But I could not do anything because Ma’am Ferida and Sir Levi facilitated the negotiation. I was asked not to file charges against my employer. In return, my employer would give me my five (5) months salary, a plane ticket to the Philippines as well as return my personal belongings that I left at their house when I escaped. I was made to write and sign a waiver which I worded as follows: “I will not file charges against my employer, the rape case, although it happened.”
In the morning of November 6, Sir Levi called me and gave me a plane ticket. I asked him about my personal belongings and the agreed 5 months salary that my employer would return. He said my employer only gave the ticket. I insisted, at the very least, on my things, but he said “Mamili ka. Uuwi ka or made-deport ka? Basta’s kailangan ko ng sagot mo hanggang 3:00 dahil alis tayo ng 3:30.” I cried and demanded for my things but he said ”Wala akong magagawa.” I had no choice but to agree.
Sir Levi and I left OWWA for the airport at 3:30 in the afternoon. But before leaving, I got my mobile phone that was earlier confiscated by Ma’am Ferida. I was penniless. I was not even given any money for snacks or any emergency.
At about 6:00 p.m., I boarded the plane for the Philippines. I arrived in the Philippines in November 7, 2006 where I was brought to hospitals by my family.
Not one from OWWA of the Department of Foreign Affairs assisted me in the Philippines.
The above story is not an isolated case. There are thousands and thousands of “Claras” out there being maltreated and dehumanized. And they are helpless because our government cannot protect them.
My heart bleeds for Clara.
I was right in the previous thread, OFWs waiting to be exported by Gloria and her unanos in various human traficking agencies – have to face two harsh realities:
The first harsh reality is the abuse they will have to endure from officials in the government racketeering agency and the second harsh reality is the abuse from other nationals where Gloria unano’s government managed to export them to.
Put!èéàèàè!à§èç! ina nilang lahat!
Ellen,
So far, I have done a lot of saving of this kind of Filipinas in Japan so that they are better protected here now. No embassy, just Japanese authorities providing them better help and assistance. That is why I don’t think Filipinos in Japan need these useles agencies—POEA and OWWA— of the Philippine labor department here. The Assistance to Nationals of the Philippine Embassy is enough, and will be better with a legal adviser there even just to take their statements and notarize them.
The first victim of this kind of abuse I had helped was way back in 1975 or 76 when there was no OWWA in Japan. She was a Filipino maid of an Egyptian diplomat. Bugbog sarado din although there was no rape. That actually started me in joining movements to help these migrant workers. I also got introduced to the police as interpreter doing this good deed.
You may inform Filipinos in distress in Japan to get in touch with our organizations, the Philippine Women’s League of Japan, KAFIN and the Coalition of Filipino Organizations in Japan at 03-3491-2408. I can get immediate police attention for example because of my police connection.
Sino itong Sir Sam, Sir Levi at Ma’am Ferida? Lintik kayo sa OWWA!
Ellen,
I actually do not need to finish the above story because it is nothing new. When I was in the US last Christmas, I saw one Filipina relating how she was raped and sold to her rapist-employer friends. Napa-tangna ako!
And I remembered the interview of the Filipino maid in Lebanon that I translated into Japanese and her story included in a documentary aired in Japan in November on the Filipino caregivers. She was also raped, and since most of the maids like her in Lebanon suffered the same thing, it kind of became just an one of those things!
And the nerve of this creepy government calling them “Supermaids!”
Oops, forgot to mention that the Filipina was on TV Patrol and was telling of her story as a maid in one of those ancient M. E. countries where women are still considered plaything of chauvinistic men!
Yuko,
There was a post in the previous thread intimating that after all, maids are also raped in Pinas – with that for a backdrop, I suppose many Pinoys should feel that these OFW Pinays should thank their lucky stars that they are raped by non Pinoys cause perhaps, in the Pinoy psyche, being raped by a foreigner ought to be a cut above the low standards in Pinas.
Gobsmacking in the extreme!
Am off gals… hubby and I are taking our dog out for a walk to make sure that she doesn’t get raped…
You see, we in Europe seem to have better protection schemes for our dogs than the govenment of this unano and their racketeers have over their own country women…
Extraordinary!
Was there such an insult hurled at the Filipino maids who cannot get laid overseas? Sinabi mo pa, Anna, who says that being raped by foreign employers is better than being raped by Pinoy employers? Suka, suka, suka!
Gotta go back to bed, myself. Still have to readjust to my Japan sleeping time as a matter of fact.
Ystakei, props to you!!! That is such a noble job you’re doing! We need more of your kind.
Can we get the identities of these Philippine Embassy and OWWA personnels?
They should be made accountable too. Shit! Im so mad right now!!!
Qatar
Labor Attache II Felicitas Q. Bay
Philippine Embassy
4040 Al-Wahda St., West Bay, Doha, State of Qatar
tel: (974) 4861-220 (DL)/4870-487 (OWWA)
fax: (974) 4883-858
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as of Dec. 2, 2006 (source: philippine labor attaches, online)
Ellen, I decided to post the names of labor officials and their addresses,etc. for OFWs in the Middle East and their kins in Pinas.
(Source: Online list of philippine labor attaches as of Dec. 02, 2006).
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Riyadh, KSA
Labor Attache II Delmer R. Cruz
Labor Attache II Rustico Dela Fuente
Labor Attache I Angel L. Borja, Jr.
Philippine Embassy
P.O. Box 94017 Riyadh 11693, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
tel: (9661) 483-2201 to 05
fax: (9661) 483-2204/483-2196
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Jeddah, KSA
Labor Attache II Bulyok S. Nilong
Philippine Consulate General
P.O. Box 16254, Jeddah 21464
tel: (9662) 665-8462
fax: (9662) 665-8462(POLO) 667-0934(center)
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Abu Dhabi, UAE
Labor Attache II Nasser Munder
Philippine Embassy
P.O. Box 3215, Abu Dhabi, UAE
tel: (9712) 6332-359(DL)/6315-525
fax: (9712) 6218-266
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Dubai, UAE
Labor Attache II Virginia Calvez
Labor Attache I Florencia P. Ardivilla
Overseas Filipinos Resource Center (FRC)
Villa No. 111, Abu Hail Road, Hamriya Area, Deira
P.O. Box 4960, Dubai, UAE
tel: (9714) 266-7745 (TL)
fax: (9714) 268-8050/268-8665 (OWWA)
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Bahrain
Labor Attache II Alejandro S. Santos
Philippine Embassy
Villa 992A, Road 3119, Area 331 Adliya, Manama
tel: (973) 270-597 (DL) 246-470 (OWWA) 246-300 (TL)
fax: (973) 258-202
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Kuwait
Labor Attache II Leopoldo De Jesus
Labor Attache I Elmira C. Sto. Domingo
Philippine Embassy
P.O. Box 26288, Code 13123, State of Kuwait
tel: (965) 532-5162 (DL) (965) 532-9315 /534-2109/534-6507/534-6508
fax: (965) 5345469(POLO)/ 532-9319(Embassy)
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Lebanon
Labor Attache II Ma. Glenda A. Manalo
Philippine Embassy
1/F and 2/F Design Building
Abdullah Machnouk St. corner Rafic Raslan St.
P.O. Box 136631, Beirut, Lebanon
tel: (9611) 803-024
fax: (9611) 803-025
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Libya
Labor Attache II Nasser Mustafa
Philippine Embassy
Km. 7 Gargaresh Rd., PO Box 12508 Tripoli, Libya
tel: (21821) 483-6158/ 483-3966 (Embassy)
fax: (21821)4836172/4894327
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Oman
Labor Attache II Romeo A. Young
Philippine Embassy
P.O. Box 50420 Postal Code 115, Madeinath Qaboos
Muscat, Sultanate of Oman
tel: (968) 605-143 ss
fax: (968) 605-177(POLO)/605-171(OWWA)/605-176(Embassy)
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Qatar
Labor Attache II Felicitas Q. Bay
Philippine Embassy
4040 Al-Wahda St., West Bay, Doha, State of Qatar
tel: (974) 4861-220 (DL)/4870-487 (OWWA)
fax: (974) 4883-858
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Israel
Labor Attache II Teresita R. Manzala
Philippine Embassy
18 Bnei Dan St., 66260
Tel-Aviv, Israel, 68012
tel: (9723) 544-4531; 602-2496 (OWWA)
fax: (9723) 544-4580; 5444584
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Amman, Jordan
Labor Attache II Nur Al-Din A. Tamano
Philippine Embassy No. 86 Uqbah Bin Nafe St. Jabal Amman (between 4th and 5th Circles) Amman, Jordan P.O. Box 92507, 11190 Amman, Jordan
Tel No. (9626) 5924238 Fax No. (9626) 592-3744
Attache! We should chop these people up, put them in attche cases and dump in the sea. The price our Pinays have to pay for a little ray of hope in life. What are these bozos doing? They should be helping our people, not negotiate for their evil employers.
schumey,
That’s precisely the reason why I searched their names and addresses. Alam natin ngayon kung sinu-sino ang uupakan!
Chi:
Useless to be talking to these attaches. Protocol states that they cannot negotiate, and reason why they cannot protect the workers from abusive employers who know they actually have no clout on civilians the embassy cannot actually sue and vice-versa. The best options of these workers in fact is to approach civilian organizations/agencies who are providing help and assistance to these migrant workers in distress. I am just not sure if there are such organization in such ancient societies as those in the Middle East.
At least, where I come from, I know that the police can now provide help and assistance for crimes committed on them regardless of whether or not their employers are civilians or members of the foreign diplomatic corps, in which case the Philippine Embassy (DFA) and not the Labor Department should get involved to protect the right of Filipino nationals. It is actually as simple as that, but then, the incompetent Philippine government is only concerned about fleecing these workers, not help them in the true sense of the word.
Over in Japan, with the insistence of this bogus government to deploy caregivers here despite the numerous barriers, we expect much worse problems that those we have encountered with the Japayuki, and reason why we ask the ministries involved to take the greatest precautions and measures to curtail this kind of deployment. Mas dadami ang makukulong na pilipino because they cannot make an excuse of the language barrier for example for mistakes they commit that can endanger the lives of the people put in their care. Lalong mapupuno ang mga kulungan dito ng mga pilipino kapag nagkataon.
Enough is enough. They should start orienting Filipinos to think country. No more overseas jobs, but create jobs at home. Stupid talaga itong si Pandak sa totoo lang!
I am presently working on a labor case of a Filipino national swindled of salaries, etc. by his Filipino employer, who boasts of having friends at the Philippine Embassy, especially at the labor department there. His case is now being reviewed for possible litigation by a labor union in Tokyo and some volunteer lawyer who is going to handle his case.
He first went to the labor department of the Philippine Embassy for help, but he was not assisted properly with her employer having friends there. It was why he decided to ask for outside help, and why he was introduced to me. At least, over here, we know where to refer them when they need help and assistance.
I am also helping him and his wife file a case against his employer for violating the Immigration Law to the Japanese police that can have jurisdiction on the case because violation of any provision of the Immigration Law of Japan is a crime. I just don’t know if it is the same in the Middle East.
Umiyak ako sa awa sa Pinay na ito at sa galit sa mga taga-Embassy at OWWA! Kakarmahin sana kayo, mga…….kayo!
I’ve heard a similar story from our director who was assigned for 6 months in Saudi 2 years ago. He said, “There are too many Filipinas working in Saudi but most of them are in pitiful situations. I heard too, that your government just ignore these atrocities!” AMEN…
“Protocol states that they cannot negotiate, and reason why they cannot protect the workers from abusive employers who know they actually have no clout on civilians the embassy cannot actually sue and vice-versa.”
So, what the heck do they exist? Ano ang kanilang ginagawa!? Unbelievable SOBs, walang pakinabang ang mga OFWs!
If they can’t even hide OFW victims from their abusive employers, the Pinas government should abolish their overseas positions and let the DFA handle all the problems.
Anyway, ngayong naka-lista ang pangalan nila dito sa blog ni Ellen, siguro ay mahihiya naman sila ng konti at magta-trabaho. I just hope some concerned people will call their attention na naka-blog ang names nila.
Kahabag habag naman ang nangyari kay Clara. Nagtataka ako, hindi kaya namagic ng taga OWWA iyung 5 months salary ni Clara? Sa ganyan sila siguro kumikita, kasi clt (cheat, liar and thief) kasi sa itaas, e di ganuon din sa lahat ng level ng gobyerno pababa. Kung ginhaman nila ang para kay Clara, ano ba sila walang kaluluwa?
I certainly agree with you there Anna, kahit dito where i am, mas protected pa ang mga hayop dito keysa sa mga tao sa pinas. Just recently, a teenager was caught in a video hitting a kitten and he was able to be identified by the police and received punishment for it. May puppy dog na na-agos at tinangay sa loob ng imburnal, a rescue team was sent to retrieved it, and was rescued at whatever cost.
Sa Jordan din madami din mga pinay sa OWWA, mga more than a hundred na, my cousin who is a teacher by profession but works there as a DH is one of them. Same din ang sagot ng OWWA dun-“tapusin ang kontrata- hindi pwedeng kalabanin ang agency dun kc powerful na tao”.My relatives have been working for almost a month now to have her returned to the country so far walang nangyayari pa din.
God have mercy!!! I feel the pains of this Filipina overseas worker. And yet gloria, the bogus president of the Philippines is so yabang to have her project “super maids”. With these kind of maltreatments and the “kagaguhan ng ating mga embassy and OWWA officials what more can i say? Gloria should be held responsible for the crimes. To hell with the bansot woman illegally occupying the malacanang palace. Wish ko lang magkaroon sana ng bad karma ang mga Arroyos and allies!!! Mga kampon ng kadiliman!!….Tamaan sana kayo ng kidlat!!
Bagwis,
Hindi ako mapakali sa mga kwentong ito.
“hindi pwedeng kalabanin ang agency dun (jordan) kc powerful na tao”.
Bakit pa nadun ang mga lintik na OWWA, wala naman palang magagawa?!
Hoy, Dirty Mama Glueria, magtrabaho ka naman sa kapakanan ng mga OFW victims ng abusive employers! Puro ka na lang pa-cute sa harap ng kamera!
Whatever happened to the question about OWWA funds? Buried deep, or nagkaayusan na?
Shocking!
Once again shows embassy officials taking their unprofessional 3rd world thinking with them to the Embassy abroad. Until officials such as these in all our government institutions who need retraining and most of all professional supervision at all times.
Otherwise be prepared to stay as a 3rd world country for ever. This evil superwoman and all her institution leaders should be made to work in the barrio’s one day every month where they can toil the land, eat rice and grass (if they’re lucky) no St. Luke’s Hospital when they get diarrhoea, because by golly they will get it, see the children being sent to school with no breakfast because there’s no food on the table, see it first hand.
Then and only then will these pompous leaders of these institutions of ours, by their weekly visits will they begin to really understand the hardship being suffered by these people they look down on in the barrio’s.
According to Senators Ramon Magsaysay Jr., Juan Flavier, Pia Cayetano and Luisa “Loi” Estrada, the healthcare system in the country is about to collapse because more than one half of the country’s health practitioners are now working abroad.
The senators filed a resolution asking for an inquiry. They said that, there is now one doctor for every 28, 493 citizens in the country.
Most of the doctors and nurses now abroad were from the rural areas. This sad situation plus the high cost of medicines are causing untold difficulties among rural residents and poverty stricken communities. Many of them die without medical treatment and medication.
If this government fails to come up with a viable plan to give the people the right to work in this their own country, then things will only become worse. We are in need of a young team of uncorruptable administration leaders to regulate and supervise such a positive change in thinking, then this country can grow.
Under the present administration, well we know that our future is, its very dim with their pathetic efforts.
Glo, on your bike vis St.Luke’s Enough is Enough.
Ito ba ang kapalit ng pagmamayabang ni Gloria na lumalakas ang economy dahil sa mga remittance ng mga OFW.Itong kawawang si Clara,una pa lang ay pinagkakitan na ng mga sugapang recruiter,Pag-alis sa airport kinarakutan na naman.Pagdating sa Quatar bumaba na naman ng 100Qd sa pinirmahan niyang kontrata.Tapos another 2 months salary for the commision ng mga pesteng recruiter na iyan.
Clara di ko alam kong ako ba ay magalit o malungkot sa naging lapalaran mo.Kadugo pa natin sa OWWa ay ipinagkaluno ka,nag-makaawa ka pero wala silang ginawa.Nasaan ang 6 months pay na ipinangako sa iyo.Nawala.Bakit do mo tinanong kay Sir Levi na hinayupak na iyan kung nasaan ang pera mo.May palagay ako na ipinambili niya ng bagong Levi’s.
Bakit pa ba nandiyan pa ang mga bugaw na iyan sa OWWA sa Quatar.Pa-party party lamang ang alam nilang gawin.Mga bobo,tamad,tanga,gahaman.Pauwiin na ang mga iyan wala naman pala silang silbi.Pasarap lang ang alam nila na nangaling sa pawis at dugo ninyo ang perang ginagastos nila.
Ellen concludes the article with:
“The above story is not an isolated case. There are thousands and thousands of “Claras” out there being maltreated and dehumanized. And they are helpless because our government cannot protect them. ”
I believe it’s not because this government of scalawags and unano CANNOT help them but because THEY DON’T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT THEM AND DON’T want to move their fat asses to help them at all.
Their greed satiated by the income from the approval stamp they put on each Pinay OFW, they reckon, they don’t have to lift any of their fat fingers to help and fight for our abused and soiled OFWs.
Mga duwag na inutil!
Unano and her racketeering cohorts in those OFW export business ought to be fed to the ants and then hanged from the highest lamppost.
Sampalin, sabunutan at batuhin si Gloria unano!
anna, I know of the very lamppost, lets do it!
A mother could not be proud if her children if they treated like slave. Unless, of course she’s posses by greed. The mother is——–Gloria——- but, what we got from her, misfortune ,despair, agony and misery.It’s time to divorce her.
Are we going to let this happen?–My brothers and sisters ,it is about time we need to open our eyes in reality. We are being govern by immoral fortitude ,how long can we shallow these bitter poison injected to us?
How many more Clara will suffer from the inhuman treatment of these sexual predator? Are we going to send more for there pry?
Tuldukan na natin itong hinagpis ng mga kababayan nating OFW na mas nanaisin pang maging alipin ng mga gahaman, may maidudulog lang ng makain sa hapag kainan ng kanilang mga mahal sa buhay.
If we could not budge this midget by force ,we need to end her greed by vote.
Anna & WWNL:
Re: Hang from the highest lampost.
Wait a minute!!!I need to buy film for my camera.For soveiner,next to Sadam Hussien.
Elvie:
When I was translating that interview with a maid in Lebanon, I was shocked to hear her say she would like to go back to Lebanon. Then, I realized that she was relating her story of how she was raped not just by her employer but even by the eldest son of her employer, and she was telling it like one of those things. Apparently, it had become common among the helpless Filipino maids there not being properly assisted by their embassy, and rather than seek redress and justice for what they did, just tiis na lang sila!
‘Kakaiyak talaga!
Chi: So, what the heck do they exist? Ano ang kanilang ginagawa!? Unbelievable SOBs, walang pakinabang ang mga OFWs!
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This is one reason, Chi, why most progressive countries do not encourage this kind of recruitment overseas, and caution their nationals if they do, and why they have a legal section to take care of such matters if they do occur.
The Philippine Embassy in Tokyo for instance used to have one, but no more after they have added these attaches (labor, tourism, etc.) in the hope of increasing Philippine revenues and foreign reserves sometime in the early 80’s when the Philippine government created these useless agencies of POEA and OWWA.
This is one reason why I thought this selling of cheap Filipino labor overseas should be stopped regardless of whether or not this is the only way Filipinos can have a life of bliss.
Chi: Anyway, ngayong naka-lista ang pangalan nila dito sa blog ni Ellen, siguro ay mahihiya naman sila ng konti at magta-trabaho. I just hope some concerned people will call their attention na naka-blog ang names nila.
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No way, Chi, kasi makapal na ang mga mukha ng mga iyan. At saka sino ba ang malakas ang loob sa mga iyan na lumaban doon sa mga naglalagay sa kanila sa upuan nila. Cut-throat competition pa ang mga iyan sa totoo. Pasipsipan kung sino ang matibay.
Dito nga nakakabili ng mga Mercendes Benze ang mga ungas kahit alam naming maliit ang sueldo nila!
Years ago, I helped expose a labor attache who was making big money here. A member of the media here approached me for some collaboration after receiving tips from some disgruntled Japanese promoters, and we did a lot of diggings. Then, when we had enough evidences, we publish a series of articles in the newspapers, fed info to the morning and afternoon talk shows, and then provided the Ministry of Foreign Affair, Justice and even Information with the evidences we got. The labor attache was recalled after that. Panahon ni FVR as a matter of fact.
I was approached by the Japanese media when they found out that I did a similar expose in the Manila Bulletin on another labor attache during the time of Cory Aquino. Napatalsik rin from Japan awa ng Poon Maykapal.
Sayang nga hindi ko territory ang Middle East. Hindi ko alam ang mga raket nila doon although I’m pretty sure pare-pareho lang. Kundi sibak ang mga iyan! Walang yabang! Totoo lang kasi dito, basta marunong ka lang sumunod sa batas at patakaran, lahat magagawa mo!
The tiyanak enjoying the blood, sweat and tears money of the OFWs, make me sicker that hearing the devastating story of Clara and all our exploited kababayans overseas. When there was war going on in Lebanon, didn’t we hear the ambassador say that there was no money given by tiyanak to evacuate the OFWs. Thank God to the concerted efforts of some humanitarian groups, we got a lot of them from the war zone. Instead of advertizing “SUPERMAIDS”, why does she not invest in industries and businesses in our country, put children in schools and stop the outflow of our citizens. There will always be citizens wanting to look for greener pastures in other lands but it will have to be for better opportunities, not what the “Claras” have to go through. Instead of spending the money on the building of a new Pavilion for the one time Asean summit in Cebu, the numerous travels she has( with an entourage of hundreds of her minions spending millions of dollars) to all countries soliciting to place in more OFWs, feeding all her chefs in her dirty kitchen and allowing her fat assed hog of husband to loot the money of the Filipinos, she should instead invest in her country. This feeling “president” has failed all of us in all aspects of governance! She has corrupted all our institutions! She has killed our aspirations! Siya ang SALOT ng bansa. If she can not protect all of us, she is a doomed failure!
Yuko,
The more this bansot should be kicked out ASAP! If she stays in office longer, more OFWs lives will be sacrificed just to prop up her economy.
The only solution to lessen this problem is create jobs in Pinas, but the bansot is not inclined to even think about it because she doesn’t have the ability to think right! Mas madali nga naman na merong nagtutustos sa kanya. All for her political survival, damn!
PSB: This feeling “president” has failed all of us in all aspects of governance! She has corrupted all our institutions! She has killed our aspirations! Siya ang SALOT ng bansa. If she can not protect all of us, she is a doomed failure!
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Amen. Parang dasal, pero sinabi mo pa! PATALSIKIN NA, NOW NA!
Most often than not,the Philippines Foreign Service people will act only, if such incident get into the front Page of an International Media and even that Show Off in Malacanang will jump in her nightie to “promise the world” that she will do everything in her power to personally look into the matter. She now keep promising that she will let no stones unturn solving the Extra Judicial Killings, while the killers have a merry time going around unabated. She has promised to bring all alleged criminals to justice, while at the same time appoint the same to prime postions and sorround herself with those suspected criminals. We have a word for such: Hypocrite.
Sinabi mo pa, Chi. PATALSIKIN NA, NOW NA! At least, hindi nasayang ang pagod namin ng mga kaibigan ko who lobbied for the banning of the Japayukis to Japan.
Iyong kasama nga namin na abogado noon, ngayon nasa Diet na siya kaya mas lalong malakas ang lobby namin para hindi makaloko ang mga ungas sa Japan kahit na buwan-buwan may pinapapunta dito si Pandak para magmakaawa sa mga hapon na payagang makabalik ang mga Japayuki dito. No way! Manigas si bugaw na asta prostituta pa!
Gosh, ang kapal ng mukha! Someone should carry a placard at Davos and call this burot a GREAT PIMP!
Yes, one way is to feed the media, where the abuses exist, the needed information for the people there to follow the trail of these graft and corruption and abuses regardless of whether or not the recruiters have powerful connections, even connections with criminal organizations as the connection with the Yakuza of the Japanese promoters for example approved by DoLE, POEA and OWWA.
The Great Pimp should be exposed by all means. She should not be allowed to always play the innocent, sinless madame!
Sorry, Ellen, but can’t help saying this. Tangna mo, Gloria!
Grabe, mas importante pa ang party at ballroom dancing!
Siguro ay nagsawa na rin ang mga embassy at OWWA officials na ito sa dami ng mga pare-parehong kaso (parang si yuko na sanay na sa mga ganitong kaso). Kumbaga na desensitise na! It’s no excuse though, they need to show sensitivity to the needs of their fellow Filipinos!
Maids are now considered by this evil government as commercial commodities, repackaged and relabeled as Super hard worker. This attachment to their “title” doesn’t in any way upgrade their lowly status. It doesn’t protect them from maltreatment and abuses by their employers. Ang mga super-idiots sa gobyerno coined-up this thing “super” as promo para mabenta sila. Ang kunyari na hindi alam ng mga super-idiots naito, talagang mabenta ang mga Filipino maids, kahit na hindi sila super, sa dahilang hindi lang sila masipag at maaasahan sa trabahong bahay, kundi puro “yes maam at yes sir” sila. Lahat ay ginagawa at tinatanggap lahat ng iutos, lahat ng pagmaltrato, pagmumura, pang-iinsulto, pangaabuso at pananakit sa kanila. Ibig sabihin nagagawa lahat ng employers ang gustong gawin sa kanila dahil alam ng mga ito na wala silang choice at walang tutulong sa kanila, kahit na ang sariling gobyerno nila. Ang ating mga Pilipino maids ay hindi katulad ng mga katulong na taga ibang bansa na alam nila ang kanilang karapatan, at kung nagkakaroon sila ng problema, laging nakaalalay ang gobyerno para tulungan sila.
Ang demonyong gobyernong ito ni Mrs. Pidal, walang inuuna at iniisip kundi yong mga remittance kung paano madagdagan at lumaki pa kasi ito ang inaasahan niyang back-bone ng kaniyang economy. Katulad na lang itong nangyari kay “Clara”, hindi lang nakakasuka, nakakalungkot kundi nakakaiyak na maari naman sanang maiwasan kung pinakinggan at tinulungan siya ng mga nasa Embassy. Nakailang tawag siya, kaya lang tulad din ng mga amo nila diyan sa Pilipinas, inuuna pa nila yong pagpasarap at saka wala kasing mga bayag. Kung may kaunti man lang sanang katinuan pagmamalasakit at pagmamahal ang gobyerno sa nagbibigay buhay sa kanila ang dapat i-priority nila ay yong kapakanan, kung papaano maprotektahan ang ating mga nannies/caregivers sa mga pangaabuso ng mga demonyong employers nila. Sila pa naman ang tinatawag na modern day heroes dahil sa laki ng mga remittances nila na siyang bumubuhay sa economy ng gobyernong ito. Para bang sinasabi pa nilang “bahala kayo sa buhay ninyo, basta regular ang pagremit ninyo at ang pagbayad ninyo sa OWWA”. Ang inaasikaso kasi ay ang pagpapalaki sa German account at yong investment sa Morgan Stanley
ystakei,
Its sad to hear the Phil. embassy cannot do anything for such victims. I say F%$K protocol – they are suppose to be a safe haven for our distressed kababayans.
Dito sa lugar namin ay maraming TNT.Di ko rin sila masisisi kung mas nanaisin nilang makipagsapalaran at mamasukan bilang caregiver under the table.Pinagtityigaan nila ang kakarampot na suweldo,kasi nga pag ipadala nila sa Pilipinas masagana ang pamumuhay ng mga pamilya nila.
Pero dito ay may labor law na di mo sila maaring maltratuhin,
Ms. Ellen,
I copy-pasted this entry and sent emails to the following: Executive Director of OWWA, Repatriation and Assistance Office, and Qatar office. Am I expecting too much?
This is revolting.
I would be interested to know what these officers can do at their host country against these abusive employers. Pero ang pagbalewala sa isang duguang Pilipino ay hindi acceptable! Grabe talaga.
Golly, kahit marami ang kasong ganyan dapat pinapupulis iyong mga amo!
Years ago, I interpreted for a Filipino Japayuki, who was battered by her employer, a “chimpira” (two-bit gangster), and in the course of the investigation, I found out that she was also raped by the guy on her first day at the guy’s bar were she was dumped by the promoter credited by the DoLE, Tokyo. When I asked her why she did not report that to the Philippine Embassy, she said, “Ma’m, wala naman pong gagawin. At saka hindi ko alam kung sinong lalapitan doon.”
And to think that these women were being deployed overseas with credentials coming from that useless agency called “POEA” and she paid her dues to the OWWA fund that the Bansot stole to buy votes in the last election.
The Japanese chimpira was arrested and duly punished for the assault and battery resulting in injury, but never tried for rape because the Filipina did not want it pursued. She was sent back to the Philippines, and with the help of the police, she was paid her dues. No thanks to DoLE Philippines (not the pineapple company but the Department of Labor and Employment), which is more like a bugaw agency to me!!! Napapakamot na lang ang mga pulis na hapon!
Frankly, the Philippine Embassy can ask for police assistance if this kind of case has happened in Japan, for there is always what we call “case by case.” Ayaw lang talagang kumilos ng mga tamad at kung may “lagay” involved especially when dealing with recruiters who have established connections with the kurakots in the Philippines.
In fact, I wondered why dignitaries sent by the Great Pimp to Japan would even bother talk to the promoters with Yakuza connections and accept invitations to be wined and dined. Mga Japanese officials will never do that, for if they do, putol ang ulo nila!!! Dito nga papagalitan ka pa kung magreregalo ka sa mga politiko at bureaucrats in service. Sa Pilipinas, wala kang lagay, nakasimangot pa!
Golly, tagal nang kurakot, hindi pa rin nagbabago, mas lalong lumala pa nang umupo iyong bobang Great Switik na Great Pimp pa!
It is neart breaking indeed to read this story of “Clara.” What comes to mind is why the f*ck can’t Gloria, once & for all-tutal ginagamit ren nya ang mga OFWs-protect the welfare & well-being of its citizens ? Putting up their salary to $400 is NOT protecting their rights. It’s not always money !
As I commented in another thread, maybe I will get Gloria for my Supermaid for a buck, BUT I will slap her & make her life miserable because I know if she phones the OWWA, they will not rescue her.
buti pa ang mga amerikano, hindi nila pinapabayaan ang mga citizens nila when they get into trouble in other countries, like the rapist daniel smith.
ang mahirap pa ay kahit na alam mo na na walang pakinabang yang OWWA na yan … at hindi na maexplika kung saan na napunta ang pondo na para sana sa mga OFW , mapipilitan ka pa rin sumali dyan at magbayad ng membership fee ( 1275 pesos for two years ) otherwise hindi ka makakaalis ng Pilipinas.
minsan nga tinanong ko mga tagaw OWWA kung alam nila ang ibig sabihin ng salitang “Welfare” at kung pwede bang tanggalin na lang yang Welfare sa pangalan ng ahensiya nila.
dapat siguro sungin na lamang ang DOLE, POEA at OWWA habang nasa loob lahat ang mga inutil na opisyales at empleyado nila at ang malakanyang at DFA ay hulugan ng bomba.
Iyong sinabi ni ystakei na pwedeng lumapit sa pulis ang mga taga-embassy ay totoo di ba? So sa kaso ni Clara, bakit di nila ginawa? There must be other reasons aside from being tamad or walang pakialam or pagiging walang silbi ng embassy officials.
The least this Tiyanak can do for the OFWs is to make sure that they are cared for at all cost! They are her golden geese who lay the golden eggs fueling her super duper economic success. Shame on her to not do anything about the abuses inflicted on our OFWS in other countries. Instead of training supermaids, she has to have embassy employees trained to be quick in responding to any OFWs’ needs! It is extremely irresponsible to field in insensitive employees in embassies and offices expected to be the only support for our poor workers. Where else will our kababayans run to for assistance? These agencies should be available 24/7 to any OFW. No excuses!
Off topic..2 Glorialettes have been placed in key positions: Nachura as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court & Ebdane as DND Chief.
Palubog na yata ang Pilipinas.
i have read clara’s story before and i agree with ellen that there must be thousands who have been misused in one way or another. i have practically suggested before in this blog that only men be sent to the middle east. women are a downgraded specie in that part of the world. women who are adulterous are stoned to death while men are sent to lectures.we cannot change things outside the pinas but inside at least we have the chance. the least we can do is to kick this administration out by hook or by crook.
Jon M Says:
January 31st, 2007 at 12:20 pm
I would be interested to know what these officers can do at their host country against these abusive employers.
Jon M, kung dyan nga sa sarili nating bansa, iyong ni-rape na pinay naargabyado pa duon sa Kanong nanggahasa sa kaniya, duon pa kaya sa Oman, me gagawing pabor ang mga inutil na taong gobyerno na iyan. PWE!!!!
There must be a reason why Europeans settled in North America during the Great Migration of the 17th century.
Isa si Clara na nagbabakasakali na tuklasin ang bagong daigdig ng mga Pinoy at Pinay sa Middle East.
Mula sa paragraph 21 ng kwento sa itaas:
“After what he did, I even saw him pray the Muslim prayer. Then I heard his car leave. I checked if he left any door unlocked. All doors/gates were locked. I was still bleeding.”
If Muslim are flooding Europe, Pinoy diaspora are willing to go to Europe to build Churches and willing to help and defend the royal houses for the perpetuation of elitism in the western world.
To the FIL-AM or Filipino-Americans, are you listening?
John,
Re: American govt protecting its own
It is actually not surprising – most civilized nations, even third world countries do help their own people in distress outside their country.
Their citizens don’t have to be several generation citizens – any ordinary citizen of a nation has recourse to the protection of its govt. This is part of the Social Contract which it signs with the citizenry.
Take the case of a British citizen of Indian origin who was sentenced to death in India for murder. No less than Prince Charles appealed to the govt of India for clemency. British govt resources were put in place to re-examine the case. The accused was going to be put to death but the British govt did not give up. In the end, thanks to British perseverance, it was found that the accused was innocent of murder charges. He’s been released and deported back to Britain.
There is no way other nations would protect, respect or consider the rights of our own citizens unless our own government shows respect for the rights of and dignity of their own.
It would do OFWs a lot more to depend on foreign governments for their protection invoking the fundamental bill of human rights embodied in the United Nations rather than look up to or expect protection from this government of bastos and baboy.
Sinabi mo pa, Spartan. Kung gusto nilang gawan ng paraan, magagawa nila kaya lang itong mga inutil na opisyal ng Pilipinas, imbes na iyong kababayan nila ang tutulungan, ang iniisip nila ay baka wala nang kumuha sa mga pilipina kaya sinasabihan silang tumahimik na lang sila! Inutil talaga!
Dito kasi, the citizen is always right basta sumusunod sa batas. Iyan ang tunay na democracy, ang taumbayan ang nasusunod! Tangna, na-rape na ang kababayan nila, hindi pa tinulungang kunin ang mga gamit niya.
Ako nga dito, nakikipag-away. Years ago, I helped a Filipina who ran from her abusive employer, a Greek diplomat. Tumawag sa akin ang isang madreng nilapitan niya. Tamang-tama naman na tumawag sa akin ang pulis at sinumbong daw ng amo na may ginawang hindi mabuti. Dinala ko ang pilipina sa pulis, at gumawa ng statement ng pangmamaltrato. Alam ng mga pulis ang ugali ko at linis ng record ko, kaya sino sa palagay ninyo ang paniniwalaan? Di ako, dahil isa pa kababayan nila ako! Pinatawag ang diplomat. Hindi nakahirit! Umamin na sila ang mali. Binayaran ang pilipina at hinatid ang mga gamit niya sa pulisya. Inasikaso ko ang visa dahil nga sa during mission ang visang ibinigay. Hinanapan ng madre ng bagong sponsor. Na-extend ang visa.
Nandito pa ang pinay. Nakalimutan ko na siya nang minsan, nilapitan ako at inakap. Nagulat ako at tinanong ko kung sino siya. Sabi sa akin, “Ma’m ako po iyong tinulungan ninyong makuha ang sueldo at gamit sa diplomat na ginawan ng mga pulis ng report, at napauwi ng wala sa oras! Kaya sinong may sabing walang magagawa kung gugustuhin! Tangnang mga tamad iyan. Ang daming katwiran! Pero sa kurakutan, mabilis pa sa alas-kuwatro.
Please tigilan na ang human trafficking ni Madame Bugaw Pidal! Tamaan sana siya ng kidlat! Matapilok sana sa Davos!
Kaya nating mag-invade ng mga bansa at handa tayo magpababoy o magpa-alipusta alang alang sa salitang Bagong Bayani at dollar earner.
Dollar earners are the lifeblood of the Philippine economy.
Marami ang nagsasabi na walang oportunidad sa Pilipinas kaya nag-aalisan ang mga tao dito at naghahanap ng mapagkakakitaan para sa ikabubuhay nito.
Yuko,
The unano is NOT going to limit the export of maids – it’s her favorite cash cow. Not even the relentless publication of other Clara experience will deter her from making a mountain of mint (to prop up her bogus govt) in the human export-modern day slavery trade.
As early as 2005, she’s been heralding that this is the most profitable business RP has been engaged in, so what’s a few thousand rape cases?
From: http://www.tribune.net.ph/
Thursday, 11 17, 2005
Distorting facts
Dear Editor:
Perhaps I am being naive but I was surprised to read of Gloria Arroyo’s boast before a business forum in Makati City recently that Philippine airports were “jumping” with people (presumably meaning airports were busy or jampacked with passengers) and was shocked when I read in the news, Department of Labor and Employment’s report of deploying 800,000 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) during the first 10 months this year or an average of 80,000 Pinoy/Pinay laborers monthly.
She was willfully distorting the basis of her announcement. Of course, with 80,000 — and undoubtedly more — Filipinos leaving for would-be foreign labor markets monthly, it’s not surprising that airports in the Philippines are jampacked.
I felt a bit of sadness after reading the news on RP government’s boast that OFW remittances will top US$10 billion by end of 2005. It would be alright if Pinoys and Pinays who are “forced” to leave the country in search of “green pastures” aren’t doing it because they are caught between the devil and the deep blue sea. Alas, for these folks there is just no choice! They aren’t leaving just to travel “freely;” millions of Pinoys undoubtedly are forced to work in virtually unchartered territories and many end up in virtual sexual labor camps.
Heralding institutionalized human trafficking of Filipinos is unbelievable but compounding it with a boast of a successful financial turnover for the same racket is dishonorable.
It seems this institutional human trafficking of Filipinos is the country’s bona-fide major export industry.
Is there any other current Gloria Arroyo government-organized business and commercial initiative which can boast of a US$10 billion financial turnover forecast for 2005?
So far, the Arroyo administration’s human trafficking business seems to be the only one that’s making money. Everything else is a huge flop!
There is no honor, no pride in that sort of economic scheme boast. On the contrary, Gloria and her government should be sincerely sad that she has to trade Filipino citizens in what is tantamount to international “forced” labor market for the country to survive.
Why doesn’t the Senate tackle human traficking seriously and take Gloria Arroyo to task? Doesn’t the Senate know that massive deployment of Filipinos for overseas labor may be equated with human traficking and is considered an international crime particularly at the time when foreign countries are closing in on illegal immigration or overstaying aliens? Is the country waiting for foreign governments to pin down Gloria and her government for this institutionalized human trading racket?
I am appalled…
Anna de Brux
Hinding hindi magweep si bansot para kay Clara. May schooling pa nga para sa super maid, di ba? Sabi ni bansot “I improved your status” … bahala ka na! So the pinay OFW is maid by day and comfort woman by night.
It is not enough to be outraged by reading and weeping. Let us get mamasang gloria and drag her to the gallows.
In a blog by Ellen, http://www.ellentordesillas.com/?p=76#comments, a similar rape case was already tackled: “Sinamantalang OFW”
Given that the government of unano is not about to close down the human export business, I reckon, the best thing to do is to finetune their business plan so that the victims of the trade (OFWs working as maids in Middle Eastern and other North African Nations) could have a minimum of protection.
Here are some suggestions you guys can dissect and finetune yourselves; I came up with these suggestions right off the bat or when I read that “Sinamantalang OFW”:
The letter writer, an OFW who presumably was indiscriminately shipped by RP authorities to where she now is a virtual slave, sounds utterly in distress.
Something has got to be done about this indiscriminate slave-trading or glorified human trafficking by our government.
Re: The Philippine government’s organized and legalized human export business a.k.a. OFWs
After reading news items involving the plight of OFWs and the inability of some of our officials (who presumably are not up to the task) to respond to the distress calls by some physically abused women OFWs, I thought, since we can’t lick the system, why not try to organize the whole trade better?
Here’s how to make the Philippines’ modern day slave trade work “well”!:
Instead of indiscriminately shipping our people to ‘unknown’ territories with ‘undiscovered’ cultures, this government of glorified, modern day slave traders should do three things right away – short of stopping this government’s legalizing and institutionalizing Pinoy human traficking for the international labor market:
1) DoLE should hold series of SERIOUS educational, cultural, language, health and legal seminars (on the OFWs’ destination/country) to rigourously educate the unsuspecting would be OFW prior to his/her shipment. Do outsourcing or hire outside experts for the purpose and not to depend on the DoLe or parallel govt agencies! The DoLE people are the least qualified to lecture on those subjects. This is where the approval stamp tax money levied on the would-be-human export should go to…
2) OFW remittances, I’ve read, topped government forecast of US$12 billion this year. The interest from those foreign currency remittances that our banking institutions earn should be taxed separately and religiously. These remittances, after all can be identified through rigourously regulated procedures (Ugh! Why don’t I believe this can be done in RP?). The tax on the foreign currency interest earned by the receiving Philippine banks should be used only for one purpose: to support or fund the needs of OFWs who have found themselves in physical, mental and legal danger, wherever they may be.
3) The DoLE personnel tasked to follow up procedures for tackling the exporting of their contrymen should also be made, forced, obliged to take courses in human resources formally; meanwhile, before DoLE labor attachés are posted abroad, they too should be required to take up courses in foreign culture/s, languages, human resources, etc. and must be required to take and pass some kind of state board exams dealing with the handling of OFWs before they are allowed for foreign postings.
The so-called or existing Philippine OFW Authority has so far been used as a milking cow for Gloria appointees to that position, and to think that each OFW is taxed heavily (all those fees, duties, etc.) prior to getting the government’s approval stamp for labor exportation! How despicable!
This government has not only engaged in human trafficking by indiscriminate shipment of Filipino human chattel but has also squandered all the benefits that our Filipino sacrificial lambs have endevoured to produce for themselves and their families, and by extension for their country.
There is no other term for Gloria Macapagal and her government: they are a simply a group of abominable modern day ’slave traders’.
My heart and lungs are choking in anger after reading Clara’s story. I can’t cry. I want to bring the most abominable curse to these Filipinos.
Rizal’s Maria Clara is alive in this modern times. But the rapists are no longer alien Priests but their own countrymen. We have now a multitude of Maria Claras. The women are heroes not because of the money swindled out of them but because they are victims of rape. Urduja and Gabriela were never rape. GABRIELA should now take particular attention of claras in the Middle East.
I thought it’s only our Congressmen, Senators, Justices, Generals, etc who are proven rapists in their country. Now led by the fake president and her Secretary of Foreign Affairs. these animals are laughing inducers and spectators while recruiters robbed poor Filipinas of their money, as our consuls and DFA personnel and OWWA parasites, hold the hands of their kababayans as they are raped mercilesslly by foreigners.
These people are without conscience. Their relatives should be ashamed of the DFA and OWWA Staff. What they feed their children come from the blood and sorrows of their raped country.
They are loyal members of Gloria’s Hell Kitchen.
We didn’t know there is new group called gang rapists in Gloria’s Hell Kitchen
Alitaptap,
“It is not enough to be outraged by reading and weeping. Let us get mamasang gloria and drag her to the gallows.”
I’m prepared to help raise an army if you guys are too…
It would do OFWs a lot more TO DEPEND ON foreign governments, their embassy officials or expats/nationals for their protection invoking the FUNDAMENTAL BILL OF HUMAN RIGHTS embodied in the United Nations rather than look up to or expect protection from this government of bastos and baboy.
Perhaps, they’ll get somewhere…
Re: “for their protection invoking the FUNDAMENTAL BILL OF HUMAN RIGHTS embodied in the United Nations rather than look up to or expect protection from this government ”
I am saying this because there is an existing case in France being tried right now.
The case concerns the deportation of a Pinay for illegal entry in France. She and her French fiancé have applied for a marriage license but instead of being allowed to marry, she, the Pinay, was put in the docks for deporation, she has no legal papers, has no visa, etc. The French fiancé is fighting the deportation invoking the UN Fundamental Bill of Human Rights. (I know the couple and lending them a hand.)
My journalist friend and Philstar correspondent is writing a story about it.
Should they win the case, it will make for French jurisprudence… And I’m confident they will win and be able to marry.
Ellen,
Clara should go to the Human Rights Court in Luxembourg!
Gloria’s Hell Kitchen? Here’s What I said
in a previous thread:
It was Gloria who shamelessly, even criminally abolished the legal kitchen. What operates now in the Philippine bureaucracy is a dirty, stinking kitchen that whosoever is called to work in that kitchen cannot escape being soiled by blatant corruption.
Gloria being the cheat chef, is blindly aided by handsomely paid cabinet cooks, kitchen security officers, procurement officers, food handlers, janitors, etc. The dirty kitchen (buong gobierno po yan) is devoted to cooking stuff design to enrich the officers and workers in the kitchen and to slowly and eventually poison the people who eat the cooked food (smuggled spoiled chickenpo yan, etc) from the kitchen.
Now there’s a new group of god damn cook led by the Sec of Foreaign Affairs in the kitchen. They are called ambassadors, consuls, and foreign staff of DFA and OWWA.
May their souls burn in Hell.
Jay,
“May their souls burn in Hell. ”
And let satan have the satisfaction of roasting them?
Heck, Pinoys should burn, roast them alive and have the ultimate satisfaction of having done it…
# ricelander Says:
January 31st, 2007 at 11:22 am
Ms. Ellen,
I copy-pasted this entry and sent emails to the following: Executive Director of OWWA, Repatriation and Assistance Office, and Qatar office. Am I expecting too much?
This is revolting.
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I like what you did. Mabuhay ka!
from “si gloria ang tunay na isyu”:
Mrivera Says:
January 6th, 2007 at 1:28 pm
kung saan saan na napunta ang usapan kaya nakikiusap akong bigyang pansin n’yo ito, plis lang. kung babasahin n’yo salamat, kung hindi naman, kayo rin. hindi ko naman kayo pinipilit. basta sa ayaw n’yo’t sa gusto, basahin n’yo. hindi ko kayo tinatakot, nakikiusap ako. (he he he heh)
2007. panibagong taon, panibagong pag-asam ng tunay na pagbabago. pero, meron ba tayong aasahang magandang pagbabago sa kasalukuyang administrasyon? alin ba sa mga ipinangako ni gloria ang natupad? ano ba ang ginawa niya bilang tugon sa karaingan ng mga maralita? alin ba sa mga programa niyang ipinangako ang tunay na nagpabago sa pamumuhay ng karaniwang mamamayan? pagbabago bang maituturing ‘yung ipinagmamalaking pagpapadala ng mga alila sa ibayong dagat na minamaltrato ng banyagang amo? hindi pinasasahod ng tama at sa takdang petsa? pinagtatrabaho ng halos walang pahinga? hindi pinapakain nang maayos? sinasaktan? ginagahasa? (sa kasalukuyan, 100 pinay runaways ang nasa UAE, marami din ang sa oman, napakarami dito sa saudi arabia, meron din sa lebanon, at sa ibang panig ng mundo. meron bang ginagawa si gloria manggogoyo?)
sasabihin at itatanong naman ng mga bayarang tsuwawa, bakit iaasa ang lahat sa pamahalaan? bakit hindi kumilos upang makamit ang pansariling hinahangad ng bawat isang mamamayan? hindi ba’t ang pagbabago ng pamumuhay ay dapat magmula sa may katawan at hindi sa pamahalaan? tama rin. subalit kailangan din ang ayuda ng pamahalaan upang huwag maging pangarap na lamang ang hinahangad na pag-asenso ng bawat isa. para ano pa at naglalaan ang gobyerno ng pondo sa ganoon at ganitong programa kung hindi rin naman makakaabot sa mga tao? para ano pa at nagbabayad ng buwis ang mamamayan kung wala namang kapalit na paglilingkod na maisusukli ang pamahalaan? ibig bang sabihin na ang lahat ng bayarin sa mga inutang ng pamahalaan ay ipapapasan sa taong bayang walang aasahan sa mga namumunong ang inuuna ay pagpapayaman? katulad ba ito ng isang pasahero na nagbabayad ng tamang pamasahe subalit hindi maihatid ng nagmamaneho ng sasakyan sa tamang patutunguhan?
# alitaptap Says:
January 31st, 2007 at 8:29 pm
Hinding hindi magweep si bansot para kay Clara. May schooling pa nga para sa super maid, di ba? Sabi ni bansot “I improved your status” … bahala ka na! So the pinay OFW is maid by day and comfort woman by night.
It is not enough to be outraged by reading and weeping. Let us get mamasang gloria and drag her to the gallows.
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I’ll ‘improve’ the rope to tie around the bansot’s neck, and volunteer to raise her to the gallows. Kayang-kaya ko ‘yan, bansot naman e!
Mrivera.
Ang babaeng mukhang daga na nagmamaneho kuno ng sasakyan ay walang nais patunguhan at marating kundi habambuhay na manatiling nasa poder.
Ang mga katulad ni Clara ay zero ayuda dahil kahit mga babaeng opisyal, buhat kay Dirty Mama G, ay katulad rin ng mga lalaki, lahat sila ay duwag, madarambong, corrupt, puro pansariling interes lang ang inaatupag. In short, lahat sila ay supot!
Kung kayo ay napaluha sa estorya ni Clara
baka mapasuntok kayo sa dingding pag napatunayan ninyo ito:
nasa isang isla ako sa South Pacific, na meet
naging kaibigan ko itong OCW nanggaling sa Saudi. Sabi ko pare, bakit naka bigote ka.
Nadala’ daw siya, kasi mga Pinoy sa Saudi
maraming nare-rape. Hindi daw makapag reklamo
macho kasi ang Pinoy. Ewan ko kung may Misis na sinabihan ni Mr. na siya ay naging biktima ng rape.
Noong kasergabohan ng Saudi dumami din ang ating
gay “sisters” nagtrabaho sa Saudi. Okay daw doon
kahit delikado – pero puwit at tarugo, sensitive topic yan.
Payo lang ng kaibigan ko BIGOTE magaling pang discourage na rape sa saudi. Awa ng Diyos kahit sa Airport lang di ako nakarating ng saudi.
In conjunction with what Magno said, “sasabihin at itatanong naman ng mga bayarang tsuwawa, bakit iaasa ang lahat sa pamahalaan? bakit hindi kumilos upang makamit ang pansariling hinahangad ng bawat isang mamamayan? hindi ba’t ang pagbabago ng pamumuhay ay dapat magmula sa may katawan at hindi sa pamahalaan?”, I sent the following thoughts via friends-of-nenepimentel@yahoogroups.com
Know what?
I’ve deided that I will junk anything and everything that comes out of Gloria’s mouth, or the contents of her brain, the efforts she makes and everything remotely related to her and her pathetic, dastardly minions…
I believe that the playing field must be levelled first – kick out the hooligans squatting in Malacanang first and foremost, then we can seriously talk with whoever will replace those ganids and move on …
This government under Gloria has been thoroughly foul, they have not been good to the citizens of the republic nor fair to anyone, so why should people abroad owe this government anything? Why should we do anything at all in the guise of helping motherland? Bullocks!
Much as it pains me to say it, anything we do today will directly or indirectly support these hoodlums, hence I prefer not to contribute in any manner that will help prop up Gloria Bastos because – I refuse to be part of a bastusan republic. Instead, I promise to do everything to thwart Gloria, to discredit her and her foul government and will refuse to acknowledge her as president of the republic in any and all international fora …
I’ve told the same thing to my own brother who’s asked me for my advice on whether he should stand up in the elections. I reminded him that his duty now is to his own family and that if he wishes to serve his country, he can
do so by making good citizens out of them, concentrating on their education and having them complete that education abroad. It is the generation of our children that can do something about the Philippines. That he doesn¹t owe
anyone nor anybody in the Philippines anything for as long as Gloria is at the helm.
Anyway, from where I sit, Pinas is starting to resemble the society and government of Haiti.
Filipinos must help themselves before God helps them – they must kick out these hoodlums, their minions, their scalawags before change can happen.
Short of toppling Gloria today, it is fair to say that Filipinos deserve the people and the politicians they get.
Chi
Mabuhay ka, for your brain and effort
to search for the list and addresses
of the souless cooks in Gloria’s kitchen.
Folks,
Manuel Buencamino, a columnist for the Business Mirror, wrote a magnificent letter to Taunting Bunye (nickname courtesy of Tongue) and published in http://www.uniffors.com/?p=518 .
In his closing, Manuel reminds Bunye of the following:
“it’s a reality check courtesy of a sign in a bar in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
It says:
“No matter how good she looks,
Some other guy is sick and tired,
Of putting up with her sh*t.”
Looks aren’t everything, Toting.”
JayC,
Thanks, that search was only a dust compared to the sufferings our OFWs are subjected to by the fake pangulo.
Filipino Overseas Workers have been employed here in Canada as Early as 70s, mostly as live in Nannies in Winnipeg, Manitoba, when the City and the Province was the centre of Clothing manufacturers of north America. And it’s still going all across the country.
So far, the treatment of OFWs are not any different than those of any labor force. The Contract should be in compliance with the Provinces labour codes and the only services extended by the consular services are the Paperwork, like passport renewal, until the OFWs become citizens and all matters criminal Like what happened to Clara should be the responsibilities of the Police Authorities and if the matter should ever be reported to the victim’s country embassy officials, they are obligated to assist the victim by providing all necessary councils and financial support.
So far that is not the case here, because the Community, and the Civic government here can do better than the Consular services and most OFWs know about it. They usually get their own lawyers instead of even bothering the Embassy or Consular officials, who as a matter of fact, very few Filipinos know who they are. Ask me, I don’t know a single one of them and so hundreds of my friends, old and new..
Anna,
That sign is all over bars in NC. I saw it also in a rear of an SUV while driving along the hwy. Sabi ko sa iyo, kapag nadalaw si bansot sa NC ay kikitlan siya ng buhay naming mga rednecks! Wala kaming patawad sa mga babaeng tulad ni Dirty Mama G.
At saka ang pangit naman ng babaeng bansot so “no matter how good she looks” doesn’t apply to her. heheh!
Chi, let’s pray for a miracle for Gloria to visit your side of the woods, heheheh!
Vic,
My Tibetan friends who went to Canada as refugees have nothing but high praises for your country. They underwent the immigration process you’ve been telling us here, and had no complaints. You also confirmed what they’ve been telling me that workers are protected by laws, and working conditions are one of the best in the world. But again, Canada is a first world country where politicians are mature.
Talagang sa middle east ang problema. I noticed that there’s no assigned labor attache in Canada. The latest I got was Romeo Young who’s now in Oman. In short, walang problema at walang pagkakaperahan sa Canada, kaya lahat sila ay naka assign sa Middle East!
Nothing nice in that midget. That unano is really a nasty piece of work.
Pero hindi alam ni bansot na may NC, Anna. She knows only SF, HW and DC. Tanga kasi!
Agree with Chi and Vic on Canada.
I’ve always admired Canada, a successful mix of the Old World and the New World. My sister who’s American citizen has opted to live and work in Alberta because she says besides the great work ethics, the environment is simply first class.
Got cousins, uncles, aunts there too who used to live in the US but have found a haven in Canada. One of them recognizes that she left a senior, high paying job in the US but doesn’t regret migrating to Canada because of the better quality of life, i.e., cleaner environment, less stress among others.
Only my Mom (from her family) wants to live in Europe (heheh, coz am here!)
Oopps, I forgot to mention that if ever the bansot make a visit here, OWWA can not rescue her. Kasi pati mga OWWAs ay puputulan namin ng leeg. heh!
Many pinoys drive from the US, via the ‘Peace Bridge’, to Canada never to return again!
“Kasi pati mga OWWAs ay puputulan namin ng leeg. heh! ”
Sige Chi, from us OFWs here in Europe, Approve! hehehe!
Had a co-worker who bragged of being an “NPA”, got a U.S.
tourist visa, visit Canada, applied for refugee status and now a manager of one of in our stores. Lucky guy. And I believe him being an NPA, because for the very first year, he went hunting with a bow and arrow (no firearm license yet) and can dress a deer expertly. That the same guy who almost had a serious fight with an ex-marine but they both decided they were no longer in Pinas and decided to become good friends. Knew both of them. Whatever they were, they are now both good and upstanding citizens.
Vic,
I do believe that any person has the ability to forget his poor past or whatever provided he’s given the opportunity to do it – in countries where they recognize the right of a human being to pursue his/her path to happiness either by means of hard work or education, Filipinos, like anybody else, can do it, proof: your story.
I too have met Pinoys here who have come here who once used to have mangled legal records in Pinas (an understatement) but are now outstanding immigrants. One of the Filipinos I had helped some 20 years ago had a warrant of arrest for attempted homicide in Pinas (he got into a fight with an abusive son of a Senator who tried to burn his vehicle with his child in it over a stupid, idiotic parking incident);he jumped bail, arrived in France, set up business, has raised his children here and is one of the pillars of the filipino community.
Sa awa ko kay Clara ay napunta ako sa site ng DOLE Polo (Philippine Overseas Labor Offices) site. Aba, wala naman palang pakinabang sa site na ‘yon ay nakalagay pa sa online.
Hahahah! Ako lang yata ang unang nag-click ng site tapos ay hindi pa gumagana. Since June 2003 pa naka-online! May discussion pa raw! Ipapadala ko sana ang copy nitong Clara thread, hindi naman tinatanggap!
Walang gumagana sa very dirty kitchen ni Dirty Mama G! Sibakin ang mga SOBs!
Such callousness from Embassy and OWWA people. Partying and ballroom dancing eh? It’s a first priority. Caring for a raped Filipina is a secondary? Lugaw as food. Hiding her from a news crew? Why? Gads!
These unfeeling pigs should be skewered over a long slow fire.
Madame Temporary Acting Super Maid President, what say you now regarding this incident? Speak up, Woman!
Hi Guys!
Been out a week to farflung barrios in a survey-campaign foray in support of my reelectionist candidate for mayor in our town. There are electricity in some barrios but in the remotest part, none yet. It’s only on transistorized radios I can get some news plus text messages being feed on my celphone. When I hit town first time in few days naglalakad sa kaparangan at kabundukan, I grabbed a Malaya and read part 1 of Ate Ellen’s column regarding Clara. Parang binabayo ang aking dibdib sa kanyang kalbaryong dinanas, chapter 1 pa lang ng report. The youthful Mayor after reading the column himself and knowing that I am deeply troubled asked me, being his consultant, if there’s something we can do on things like this. I momentarily shaked my head pondering on the fate of similarly situated kababayans going abroad to help their families back home. I told the Mayor we should do something, in our own way even how small way it is. There must be a first step to take.
What I did was to composed a directive for the Mayor to sign ordering the Personnel Employment Service Office, a component in every municipality, to update its data base on our townmates who are employed abroad focusing first in the Middle East where sexual harrassment and abuse is rampant. We will write letters to them thru their family and ask for the details of their present employment, etc. Eventually, it will cover all overseas Filipino workers coming from our community. Those who are seeking first time employment for abroad (they are required to get Barangay and Municipal Clearances) to be lectured on the do’s and don’ts and as much as possible, provide themselves with a celphone for constant communications. It’s only a small step but at least, the parents and the local government can easily trace their whereabouts in case of emergency. I have also written three (3) organizations composed of our townmates in the North America with our proposal to form a Local Overseas Workers Council and establish a Foundation where we can raise private funds as standby funds for those who will be needing financial aid. To look up at the inutil national government at this point in time will be an exercise towards inutility. Pardon the wrong mistake.
Usually, a small town’s budget does not carry appropriations for extraordinary expenditures to attend to a case like Clara. Well meaning citizens should be tapped to help out and it will take a concerted effort to be able to concretize the action plan but I am glad we have started it and I am glad I have a hand on it.
Now, I’m home in Quezon City and read the whole entry of Ate Ellen. I expected all along how it will end up in the second part yet published in Malaya. Ano pa nga ba? Pagwawalang bahaha on the part of the government officials who should be concerned on the flight not only of Clara but a hordes of similarly situated cases. They’re so engrossed dancing the chacha, that’s why.
Been reading all your entries since I arrived home but this thread is heart rending at maraming salamat, we are one in tackling the issue. The writers are driving it hard to crucify the unglorious na nincompoops pa. Much as I would like to add more, nandoon na lahat. And much as I would like to write something on the political situation obtaining in the rural areas, first hand information being in the front line, nakatungtong sa lupa, sa kaparangan at kabundukan, I’ll reserved it on the future date.
I missed you guys and your postings but I have to be back to the province by tomorrow. Sisikat din ang araw para sa ating lahat. We love this country!
Phil, at best, the reply would be “I…am…shorry”.
Joeseg,
Keep it up, pal. You’re one clever dude and what you just advised your mayor is one great image booster, he will need it if he’s running against the Super Maid’s party. I hope he seriously considers doing that way after he’s elected.
My mayor on the other hand, is still in limbo as we are preparing for Peewee’s “homecoming” to city hall (by law, all suspension orders expire at the start of election period) we got word that he will again be blocked (the third time) by DILG unless he gets a TRO! WTF? TRO for what? To restrain the operation of the law allowing his return to office? Boy, that’s just stupid.
Welcome back Joeseg! We missed your good natured humour!
Very sad story, when the representative of the Philippine government can’t even protect and defend their own citizen, where else can he/she take refuge?
In the previous articles of Ms. Ellen regarding the plight of female OFWs, I have commented and suggested that they can choose to be employed in any other country/place except the Middle East. Since the government of bansot can not provide local employment except the exportation of OFWs, the DOLE and the OWWA should screened the processing of the female OFWs. Hayaan na lamang nila na kaming mga kalalakihan ang pumunta dito sa Middle East.
I commend Joeseg for his recommendation to his local town mayor regarding the compilation of the database record on all the family members in his hometown who are working abroad. A small step indeed and when implemented, other towns will follow. Eh, ang OWWA na nag-issue pa ng OWWA card pero hindi naman online ang kanilang computer system kaya ano kaya ang gamit nitong OWWA card na hawak-hawak namin?
I seond the motion, Emilio re Joeseg’s effort! Commendable indeed!
“Hayaan na lamang nila na kaming mga kalalakihan ang pumunta dito sa Middle East.”
I remember this post, Emilio. In fact, my distant uncle who works in SA since forever has discouraged all his women kins to work in the Middle East. Marami nga raw ganitong rapes at tortures ang dinaranas ng maraming pinay doon.
Under this dark regime of the bansot, I guess our women seek employment anywhere outside of Pinas, basta merong trabaho. It just so happened that middle east is the easiest place to go dahil nagkalat ang recruiters para sa lugar na ‘yan!
This bansot is purposely throwing our women to vultures just so she can stay in power till she dies. Sayang ang remittances!
Ang saklap ng dinaranas ng ating mga kababaihan sa Middle East habang nagpa-party lang ang mga embassy, labor and OWWA people!
I agree with you, Chi, kapit sa patalim ang nangyayari sa mga kababaihang OFWs na napupunta dito sa Middle East. Dahil sa kagustuhan nilang guminhawa ang kalagayan ng kanilang pamilya ay sumusuong sila sa lugar na hindi maka-tao ang trato sa mga domestic helpers. Lalo na sa buwan ng Ramadan na baligtad ang nangyayari dahil sa gabi ay gising ang kanilang mga among Muslims at sa araw natutulog. Ang mga domestic helpers na ito ay napakaagang gumising at madaling-araw na kung makapag-pahinga. Ang isa nga sa mga katulong sa bahay na hindi nakapasa sa medical examinations ay panay ang tanong sa akin kung ano ang ugali ng Arabo. Sinabi ko sa kanya na ang mentalidad ng mga Arabo ay iba dahil ang katulong ay itinuturing nilang alipin.
Nakakaawa ang mga kababaihang OFWs na dumaranas ng ganitong pagmamalabis at karahasan ng mga amo nguni’t napakabagal umaksiyon ng gobyerno upang sila ay matulungan.
Wala man lamang bang therapists ang OWWA para sa mga ganitong biktima kagaya ni Clara. It was for sure a very traumatizing experience for her and there should be a therapist who should help her. Her life would not be the same again.
ito ang isang uri ng walang pangalawang mukha ng kawalanghiyaan dahil maliwanag na ipinagkanulo ng asal hayup na kung sino man itong levi na ito ang kawawang clara. gahaman sa salaping hindi kanya ang walanghiya. sino’ng maniniwala na hindi nakuha ng gagong OWWA official na ito ang perang dapat tanggapin ng pobreng pinay? pati mga personal na gamit ay pinag-interesan din. tsk. tsk. tsk. walanghiya talaga! ito siguro ang natutunan sa unibersidad na kanyang pinagtapusan na pinalala pa ng pagiging manhid sa kapakanan ng taong bayan ng isang presidenteng gahaman, sinungaling, mandaraya at magnanakaw!
kunsabagay, hindi nagkakaiba ang karanasan ng sinumang manggagawa dito sa gitnang silangan na dumanas ng pang-aabuso buhat sa kanikanilang employer/sponsor, ma-babae man o lalaki. kapag humihingi ng tulong sa mga opisyal ng alinman sa embassy, consulate o POLO-OWWA officials, hindi nila magawang ipaglaban ang kapakanan ng kababayang nangangailangan ng tulong, bagkus ay kumikiling pa sa mga asal hayup na abusado sapagkat “nagkakaayusan” at nawawala o gumagagaan ang pananagutang dapat sagutin ng employer dahilan upang lalong malagay sa mas kaawa awang sitwasyon ng mga pobreng inabuso.
ang administrasyong ito na hindi makapagbigay ng disenteng hanapbuhay sa mga mamamayan at umiimbento pa ng kung ano anong makatawag pansing walang kuwentang programa upang “ibenta” lamang ang mga manggagawa sa labas ng bansa ay nananatiling bulag, pipi at bingi sa karaingan ng mga pinagsasamantalahan subalit siyang pangunahing inaasahan upang manatiling umuusad ang huwad na pamahalaan dahil sa remittances naming mga OFW”s. ito ang naging bunga ng pagpapagamit ng mga maralita sa mapanlinlang na mga elitistang gutom sa kapangyarihan at walang iniisip kundi ang pangalagaan ang pansarili nilang interest. ito rin ang mapait na naging bunga ng paniniwala ng mga nagtaguyod upang maluklok sa kapangyarihan ang hayup na babaeng baliw na mukhang daga sa malakanyang na ayaw nang umalis sa kanyang lungga!
hanggang kailan ipipikit ang mga mata ng sambayanan? hanggang kailan natin lulunukin ang nagdudumilat na katiwaliang namamayani sa bulok na pamahalaan? hahayaan pa ba nating danasin ng magiging supling ng ating mga anak ang kaapihang ating dinaranas?
nakikiusap ako sa sino mang mas nakaaangat ang kalagayan kaysa sa amin, kayo sana ang aming maging lakas upang maipagpatuloy ang pakikibakang ito.
ms. ellen, maraming salamat sa pagbubukas at pagsisimula mo ng buklurang ito! mabuhay ka!
Sa Pilipinas, no connection ka, wala kang pag-asa, and this is what pushes a lot many Filipinos to try their luck abroad. Mabubulok ka nga naman sa Pilipinas kung wala kang padrino!!!
Ang problema, pagdating sa ibang bansa, gusto nila magkaroon din sila ng mga connection, and reason for everybody wanting to be president of this and that organization that actually sprout out after they hold their elections for new officers. Iyong matatalo ayaw padaig, at gagawa ng sarili niyang grupo kaya watak-watak sila. That’s why I have thought of creating an organization of Filipinos in Japan where the officers are not elected but volunteer to do all the heavy-duty jobs. I was going to use dirty jobs, but I would not like to cheapen the great jobs they are doing for their fellow Filipinos sans any publicity, good or bad!
I hate those organizations with staff of the Philippine Embassy/Consulate being asked to grace them as advisers, supervisors, etc. for the “yabang”!!! Pwe, pwe, pwe!
Nakakaiyak naman ang istorya.Gusto ko na tuloy tirisin si Gloria Arroyo.Wala siyang ginawang mabuti para sa bansa natin.Nakakapanlumo isipin ang kanyang isinusulong na na bagong programang Supermaid.Para bang ipinagmamalaki pa niya na “Magaling na katulong ang Filipina”….nakakahiya,wala yatang utak itong Unano na Gloria sa malakanyang.Puede ba,Gloria,mag-isip ka naman,bawat filipino na lalabas at makikipagsapalaran sa ibang bansa,dala nila yung pagiging filipino….at sa pag-iisip pa lang na bilang katulong ang kanilang trabaho…wow…use your IQ Gloria,parang ang baba ng pagkatao…hindi lang yung mismo na katulong,kundi tayong lahat na filipino.Kaya para sa akin,ikinahihiya ko si gloria,at galit ako para sa lahat na Government officials and politicians.Nakakahiya kayong lahat.Puro kayo kurakot.Wala kayong ibang ginawa kundi magnakaw,magpayaman!!! hinalay nyo lahat ng filipino. Pero sana naman, mga kababayan,kilos na,habang hindi pa huli ang lahat. Dapat bitayin si gloria at ang kanyang ganid na galamay. PInoy wake up……….
Phil Cruz Says:
February 1st, 2007 at 1:11 am
Such callousness from Embassy and OWWA people. Partying and ballroom dancing eh? It’s a first priority. Caring for a raped Filipina is a secondary? Lugaw as food. Hiding her from a news crew? Why? Gads!
These unfeeling pigs should be skewered over a long slow fire.
Madame Temporary Acting Super Maid President, what say you now regarding this incident? Speak up, Woman!
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Madame Temporary Acting Super Maid President: Mhister Fil Chruzh, (hik) whahht ish your probhlhem? (hik) My hambasshadog, este hambassador took good care off that woman (hik)!!
Phil, pasensiya ka na, lasing pa si madam. he he heh.
Madame Temporary Acting Super Maid President: hoy, mhimhi! (hik) hano ba phroblema nyho? (hik) mamaya na lhang tahyo mhag-ushap phagkathapos nhang bholrum dhancing nhamen, okhey? (hik) shige phaaaaaa! shayaw! chacha! hik!
i also commend joeseg for his commendable effort in recommending to their town mayor a commendable program to be recommended to the higher provincial officials who will in turn recommend same to the national leadership for recommendation for funding if there need be. he he heh!
chi..the only site that is working here is the gov.ph na almost na-update kung may mga phot-ops and pogi points si buck-tooth!..the rest. dont think about it. althought the site of makati.gov is sometimes updated naman kahit paano. but jst the same, puro sugar coated and praises to themselves lang ang laman. for those who are here in pinas, take the case of tv patrol. they have this so-called citizen patrol or other concerns that they encourage the masa to put in public. is this really the proper thing? ok it may be an eye opener. But for public services to be overlooked?!?! goodness, there was a time that a meralco wire is dangling along the pathway of a footbridge..kailangan pang i-citizen patrol ito?!?!?!..anong ginagawa ng barangay,ng LGU,ng meralco,PWE!!!..pinalabas pa na “agad naman inaksyunan” ek-ek….they should be ashame of themselves. the list goes on. FOr the likes of other Clara’s, ano pa ang maaasahan ng mga kababayan natin na wala namang ibang hinangad kundi ang makatikim ng kaunting ginhawa dahil as Yuko mentioned, kung walakang kilala dito, echapwera ka talaga. kahit boba ka or u have aface that only a mother can love – when u have the connections, you can be easily a candidate for the top ranks!..PWEEEEE!!!!! and all these and more dahil kay buck-tooth!!!!
my former boss was in KSA for almost 20 years and they really see that Filipinas – whether professionals like dentist or DH – are literally prisoners. they have dentist friends who are locked up on the weekends. my former staff-who are guys – were once stopped and detained for no reason. the reason? Emilio will surely know…YUKKK…masama ang balak sa kanila, kasi maputi at bagito pa sila. they still havent grown enough beard during that time kaya ayun, nakursunadahan. Luckily the other engr.was courageous and had presence of mind that he showed their ID’s where it was indicated that they were working inside the palace of the King…sa takot ng mga gagong police,they apologized to no end, hinatid pa pauwi…
kung hindi dahil kay pandak-pokpok, hindi magkakaganito ang mga kababayan natin maging matapang na mangibang bayan at mawalay sa mga mahal sa buhay…hindi natin sila masisisi.
Soleil,
Iyong updated site ay para lang kay Donya Burot, operated no doubt by the Internet Brigade operating in Cebu!
hehehe for sure…kc puro sugar coated..may retoke pa!!!
Ellen,
One thing I can try to do is get signatures in a petition for legal action agains the employers of Clara through the embassy of Qatar in Tokyo.
In other words, I am offering my assistance for justice to be done by soliciting the help of the Qatar Embassy here if the Philippine government will not do something about it.
She should also try to go and seek help from Senator Pimentel or even Senator Drilon, who was a Secretary of Justice before. I’m posting the above article likewise in a forum for OFWs, and see what the moderators there would try to do to help her.
Yuko, thank God for people like you!
De nada, Anna. Just doing what I can do with what God has blessed me with! Lalo na dito sa Japan! We can do anything we can possibly within the bounds of the law. For that I am grateful to God, and for friends like you who give me the pep to do what I think is right!
Soleil,
Sa tagal kong wala sa Pinas, I didn’t expect that all government offices under this very Dirty Mama Glueria, are not functioning well. Naku, mahambalos ko talaga ang pagmumukha ng yellow buck- tooth na ito.
Palagi nga ang direct sa fingers ko sa gov.ph while doing the search, but never did I click it, baga maging legitimate pa ang bruha dahil sa isang click ko sa site niya!
Sa search kung ginawa sa mga pangalan ng labor attache(case)s, merong pangalan na very familiar sa akin, ang labor attache sa Kuwait. I’ll give a call to confirm if he’s the person I knew (mas matandang di hamak sa beauty natin!).
Atta spirit, Chi!
Hope if he’s the person you knew, he could be of help.
Sige Yuko, gawin mo na lahat ang magagawa mo for our poor women. Ikaw naman ay blessed diyan sa Japan!
Anna,
If he’s the person at pumalag s’ya, mura ang aabutin niya sa akin!
Hahahahah! Chi, as if I’m hearing myself – “mura ang aabutin niya sa akin!” Heh!
Just sharing:
Dear Mr Paredes,
Re: “Clearly, the politics practiced in this country has dropped to a new low.”
Mr Paredes, Gloria Arroyo has brought politics to an all time record low – to the pits that a “new low” is almost an improvement to this God-forsaken country’s politics.
Tongue and MRivera,
Pag nag sho-shorry pa one more time tong Lilluputian, shiya na ang dapat i-shkewer over the fire. She’s a woman. I expect her to defend Filipino womanhood. But she prefers to spend her time defending the likes of so-called machos Palparan, Assperon and Ebdane.
My stomach turns every time I see this woman’s face on Tv or even as much as hear her mooing voice. Nakakashuka talaga.
Just re-read the story above. Nakakasuka talaga! This is no different in fact with the story of Nicole. Kawawa naman talaga! Nakakakulo ng dugo! Walang reaction from Madame Burot! Talaga naman, oo! Nasaan na ang mga papuri ng mga iyan sa mga OFWs as being heroes and heroines?
Put!èéàèàè!à§èç! ina nilang lahat!
The elections in May could be the turning point.
This could be Gloria’s last battlefield in her political survival. Mike & Gloria know it. That’s why they are beefing up their “close-ins”, or her last line of defense, with those who are blindly loyal to them. Surrounding themselves w/ the likes of Assperon, Ebdane, etc. are indications..
Many years ago, I got involved in fact in pursuing the case against some Lebanese who caused the death of not just one but a number of Filipino women being raped and even murdered by pushing them from the windows of tall buildings there after being sexually abused and battered. The guy I was coordinating with in KSA died before we could even start some litigation. Walang nangyari.
Frankly, I have heard of a lot many sad stories about OFWs not being able to get anything in return for paying the Philippine government a lot of money on OWWA fund, etc. being collected from them. A mother of my employee who worked in KSA in fact got kidney problems from the water she must have drunk in contaminated Middle Eastern soil and water, and died because she could not pay the expensive dialysis. I am told that the family tried to get help from the DoLE but was turned down kasi daw hindi na-meet ang mga requirements! Put!èéàèàè!à§èç! ina nila!
I bet you, Clara was told the same thing! She did not meet some requirements especially when she worked only for less than half a year!!! Put!èéàèàè!à§èç! ina nila talaga!
Magno:
Ingat! Hindi ba bawal ang alak sa KSA?
Magno: umiinom ka rin ba ng isang drum na puno ng Yes Cola at squeezed grape juice na may halong paint thinner na pinagtunawan ng plastic balloon pagkatapos ay pini-ferment sa wheat ng ilang linggo saka palulutangan ng buko ng palotsina? Totoo ba yang concoction na iyan?
Totoo bang sa Jeddah, may mga stewardess daw na $5000 ang isang gabi? Siguro naman hindi yan mga biktima gaya ni Clara. Pag ikaw ang gumamit, wallet mo ang biktima!
Phil Cruz says:
“Pag nag sho-shorry pa one more time tong Lilluputian, shiya na ang dapat i-shkewer over the fire. She’s a woman. I expect her to defend Filipino womanhood.”
Definitely not a woman. Not even human! All she defends are herself and family, the rest are collaterals.
Years ago, when the word self-defense is mentioned, you think Bruce Lee. Today, its Hermogenes Ebdane!
Ellen:
Here’s a note from Senator Pimentel for Clara (if she is reading this blog). Pakipasa! URGENT!
FROM: nenepimentel@pldtdsl.net
DATE: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 07:47:49 +0800
SUBJECT: RE: [friends-of-nenepimentel] FW: Sad Story of an OFW in Qatar
Yuko:
If there’s a way you could get the victim to see me at the
senate next week: Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday at 3pm (not
mornings), it would give me a chance to talk with her, get
some details, and demand that she gets justice.
After Wednesday, most likely she can’t see me anymore as I
will have other schedules to attend to out of Manila.
Over and out. Gotta attend to my other activities for the day!
This came from reliable informants: Gloria will not face any impeachment court.
Even if the Lower house is sure to make over 80 impeachment signatories in the elections, these guys tell me Gloria won’t even be seen within a mile from the senate as in “Ignore” in all caps.
She had just reinforced her gang of bandits with appointees to places where it mattered most. Her in-law at the top of the PNP, her mujeres, er, Hermogeneses at DND and AFP, practically all of the Supreme Court, it’s only the Senate that’s preventing total wipeout.
How do you solve a problem like this D..uhmm..onya?
We can’t just keep reading and weeping, no?
Speaking of this impeachment against the bogus president, I was appalled to hear Imelda harping on not supporting it for obvious reason. The switik must have been promising to protect her jewelries through her son-in-law, the cousin of the Fatso!
Over in the Ilocos, everybody knows that Imelda was the main reason for the downfall of the Apo. I used to defend her against Ninoy as a matter of fact. Now, I know I shouldn’t have. Kasi nga kamag-anak ng Mother ko si Marcos on his father’s side, the Rubios!
I was going to say, “tarantada pala talaga si Imelda.” Nakakasuka ang interview niya with Raj of CNN. May illusion pa rin na mayaman ang Pilipinas!
Yuko, I always thought that if Marcos was not ill and Imelda with her corrupt generals( how similar it is no what is going on now)did not take over in running the government, we would have had a real transformation to a better country. Too bad, he got sick and this Imelda took over. I used to travel to all the barrios in Region 2 and all roads were paved and all barrios had rural health centers manned by doctors, decent schools too. Let us not forget that it was during the Marcos time that we had the best Folk Arts Theater in Asia, the Heart Center and other firsts. But because of command responsibility, the old man had to suffer for all the things Imelda had done. I was not pro-Marcos. As a matter of fact, I was at the Plaza Miranda burning his effigy. But as I look at the country then during Marcos time and look at our country now, I just cry and it looks like I can not see the light at the end of the tunnel. Look at all the leaders in our government. They are all cheats! The Tiyanak on top, Fatso, Puno and now Nachura( putting the Supreme Court in tiyanak’s pocket), Ebdame(the Tiyanak is so afraid of him, he must know a lot about her election cheating-very intimidating but another low life cheat), Esperon(Cheat of Staff), Aballos(the bigger cheat), Davide(I wonder how much more he got from swearing the tiyanak to the presidency other than his acting permanent ambassadorship), Garci(the thick faced cheating operator), JDV (tengang daga who is lurking in the dark waiting for the cheese to be served-wont be long daga will push through with his Charter Change again particularly now that the Tiyanak had appointed two more pro-cha-cha justices in the supreme court), DILDG Puno who is the hatchet man for the local government, Chavit Singson (the known jueteng lord who is incorrigibly and demonstratively corrupt) and the list is very loooong for more of the same rotten people. Sadder than sad, these cheats are even corrupting more like Pacman! They have to annoint more local and national politicians of their same kind to perpetuate their grand plan of money laundering throughout the country into the Fatso’s German accounts. Haven’t these people learned yet that the tide turns all the time and they will all be engulfed at the next turn?
yuko, matagal na akong tumigil sa pag-inom ng alak (dahil walang pambile, he he he). honestly, nanghihinayang na ako ngayon kung sa pansariling bisyo ko gagastusin ang pera. lahat ng bisyo, itinigil ko na para maipandagdag sa pagpapaaral sa anak ko.
tongue, hindi ko pa nasubukan ang concoction na ‘yun. effective daw ba?
speaking of stewardess na ganun ang halaga, parang meron nga akong nahihigingan kaya lang hindi ko naman pinag-iinteresang alamin. $500? susmarya! kulang pa isang buwang suweldo ko!
PSB:
I was pro-Marcos because he was a relative, but not when it came to the graft and corruption that he apparently could no longer control when he got very sick. I actually used the family connection in reporting for example the attempt to fleece Filipino wives of Japanese of their baons when they went for a homecoming to the Philippines in the form of some stupid travel tax that was supposed to be imposed only on the local residents. The Filipino wives of Japanese nationals residing in Japan with their families naturally did not fall in that category. Thus, they were exempted, but to procure such exemption was another money-making racket as a matter of fact. You bet, I saw results but what happened was there would be another way thought of by the crooks on how to really get money from Filipinos overseas until everyone would get fed up and give up their Philippine citizenship.
When we visited Marcos in Hawaii, he was a pathetic sight. My mother cried when she saw him, because he was practically blind. A few months after that, he died. My sister attended his funeral. I did not.
You bet, Marcos did not swindle the Filipinos. He was elected twice by the people before he made the mistake of declaring Martial Law. He should have quit after his second term. Baka naging bayani pa siya! But what was done was done. Dapat natoto na ang mga pilipino!
PATALSIKIN NA, NOW NA!
Tunay na nakakapanlumo ang kalagayan ng ating mga kababayan lalo at higit ang mga kababaihan na sa paghahangad na makaahon sa kahirapan ay napipilitang mangibang bansa at pumasok na katulong sa bahay ng mga lahi na alam na alam natin natin na isinumpa ng Maykapal. Nakasulat yan sa bibliya na dinala sa atin ng simbahang katoliko. Alam natin ang panganib, subalit nandoon ang pagbabakasakali na baka hindi naman sila lahat ganoon, na may matuwid din sa lahi nila.. Sa karanasan ko ay wala… Lahat ng mga lahing ito sa gitnang silangan ay huli ang takbo ng mga pag-iisip sapagkat sila ay nabubuhay sa panahong 1427 at ano ang dapat nating asahan sa panahong ito. Ito ay panahon ng mga barbarian, ng mga gladiator, ng mga mandirigmang mananakop, ng inquisition ng mga romano… At tayo ay pupunta sa kanilang bayan para manilbihan, para maging alipin at nandito ang panganib… Mapalad ka kung hindi ka mapahamak, mapalad ka kung hindi ka magahasa ng amo mo, kung hindi ka makulong at malatigo … At pagkatapos ay wala kang matakbuhan, kahit pa ang ating embassy na sinasabi nating tutulong sa mga kababayan natin ay walang magawa, bakit… sapagkat sila po ay nakagapos din ang mga kamay, nasa numero ang kanilang kilos, kwentada ang kanilang pagsasalita at higit sa lahat ang mga kawani na nagtatrabaho dito ay hindi puwedeng magsalita as individual, pag nagsalita sila, natural yung lamang iniutos sa kanila na gagawin nila buhat sa itaas… Pag lumapit ka sa isang kawani ng embassy, ano ang unang sasabihin niya sa atin, sandali lamang po…. Ano ang gagawin niya, natural tatawag sa nakatataas sa kaniya.. sir may problema dito.. sagot sa kabilang linya.. sabihin mo ganito…blah..blah..blah.. tapos ka na bata magpahinog ka na nga bukol…. Yun namang pinakamataas ng embasssy,,, tawag naman siya sa amo niya sa pinas… Boss, may problema dito,,, blah, blah ,…blah… sagot sa kabilang linya…. ayusin mo.. kaya ka nandiyan para ayusin ang problema… ayokong makalabas ang issue na yan.. patahimikin mo.. baka naman nagsasawa ka na sa puwesto mo .. pwede kitang palitan..kahit anong oras.. pagandahin mo ang image natin, make-apan mo, lagyan mo ng kolorete… yung ginahasa pauwiin mo ng pinas bilisan mo baka abutan pa yan ng international media …nakakahiya tayo… sige na at may meeting pa kami ni tainga….mag-eeleksiyon na..kailangang kumita panggastos…..Ano ang dapat nating asahan wala kundi wala… Pag nangibang bansa tayo lalo na at sa gitnang silangan,,, tandaan po natin nasa hukay na ang isang paa natin, kaya hanggat maaari po… mga kabayan kong pinay, huwag po sa bahay bilang katulong hanggat maaari… Wala akong maari pang sabihin kundi ang sana, sana…. hindi ganito kalupit ang buhay para sa atin na nangibang bayan para makaahon sa kahirapan.. Sana may bukas pang darating sa atin.. sa sariling bayan na pinaghaharian ng kapayapaan at ng pagmamahalan.
Wow ha, $500 ang mga stewardess na pinay/pinoy sa KSA? Mas mahal pa kesa sa asking rate nila sa Japan? I have actually heard of these pinays plying their wares at some posh hotels at the Akasaka area in Tokyo. 30,000 yen ang going rate according to my Japanese friends. So far, wala pa akong narinig na nahuli. Mas marami ang nahuhuli for smuggling guns and drugs na mga PAL crew! Sila ang kasabwat noong mga hoodlums sa Philippine Customs!
I should add, PSB, that when I met Satur Ocampo, and I asked him outright about Ninoy Aquino’s accusation of Marcos being responsible for the extrajudicial killings (kuno) during Martial Law, he told me that there were practically none compared to the number of extrajudicial killings under the rule of this bogus president. I believe Satur because one of the victims’ execution by the military was in fact witnessed by a Japanese friend of mine, and I mean the killing of that leader in Pangasinan opposing the construction of a dam there with Japanese ODA.
Sayang talaga na inuubos ang mga talagang mga lider at magagaling na pilipinong may malasakit sa kanilang bansa kumpara naman kay Donya Burot at doon sa mga sundalong kanin na inira-rangko niya. Halimbawa, sa totoo lang maraming inis kay Ebdane dahil mismong mga pulis alam na kurakot ang ungas na iyan.
Sinabi mo pa, Magno, gaya ng sinabi ng nanay ko, “Ang pumatol sa mga loko-loko ay mas mas lalong loko-loko! Pero gaya na nga ng nahahalata na ng lahat, kung hindi si Anna ang ginagamit na panggulo ay ako ang pinupuntirya ng mga loko. Kaya sabi ko tigilan na ang paglalagay dito ng mga topics na wala namang kinalaman sa Pilipinas. Iyong tungkol sa mga kano ay baka pa kasi nga dahil sa ang damdam naman ng maraming mga pilipinong hinuhubog na huwag mahalin ang bansa nila at kung puede lang ay huwag na silang bumalik kung makakaalis sila ay Amerikano silang hilaw!
Iyong problema ng Hapon ay kayang lutasin ng mga hapon di tulad sa Pilipinas na lahat ng utot ay pinaaalam pa sa Amerika. Tignan mo na lang ang kagagahan noon squatter sa Malacanang na ina-announce pa na tumawag sa Malacanang para batiin siya ng isa pang sira doon na ngayon ay binabatikos na ng mga kapwa niya mga Amerikano.
Ginagawa pa kaming mga inutil ng mga Internet Brigade na ito ni Bansot. Kaya nga sabi ko sa barkada ko, madaling hulihin ang mga ungas. Huling-huli sa totoo lang.
Kundi panggugulo ang ginagawa e bakit parang mga bakla ang mga ito na nakikipag-away sa mga babae! Ay badiday!
PATALSIKIN NA, NOW NA! BUGAW NA ASTA PROSTITUTA PA, SIPAIN NA!
Maraming mga prostitute sa Pilipinas ang naging biktima ng rape sa totoo lang. Kaya siguro doon sa Dubai, dumami ang prostitute na pilipina gaya ng sabi ng isang Iraqi sa akin. Siguro sabi nila, kesa umuwi silang wala nang pera, nabutas pa, magpayaman na lamang sa pamamagitan ng pagbebenta ng kanilang mga katawan even at a risk. Kawawang mga kabaro!
Dito nga sa Japan, ang sama ng reputation ng mga pilipina dahil sa mga Japayuki na majority ay nako-corrupt sa totoo lang. Ang masagwa ay mga dalaginding ang ipinapadala dito. Kaya nga hihigpitan ng husto ang pagpapadala ng mga caregiver kuno dito. Hindi sila puedeng magpractice kung hindi sila papasa sa national exam. Nakikinita na namin ang mas grabe pang mga kasong mai-involve sila.
Dapat mabago ang image ng mga pilipina na naging mga patapon at pang-kama lamang. Inilagay ko nga sa blog ko ang report tungkol sa mga pilipinang ibinubugaw sa Korea. Hindi ko na nga nadagdagan ang inilagay ko doon na mino-moderate ng isang kasama ko sa advocacy namin sa Japan para sa katinuan ng mga pilipino dito.
Bakit hindi naririmarim ang mga pilipino na ginagawang export commodity ng bogus government nila? Unbelievable talaga!
Leonard,
OK ang poste mo. Iyan ang tunay na kalagyan ng mga ordinaryong Pinoy, buhat sa ibaba hanggang sa itaas ng pekeng pamahalaan.
Thank you for pointing that out.
“Dapat mabago ang image ng mga pilipina na naging mga patapon at pang-kama lamang.”
Yuko,
Sa tingin ko ay malayong mangyari ‘yan habang si Dirty Mama G ang nasa bulok na upuan. Wala siyang pakialam sa mga kababaihan. She is the worst enemy of women!
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“Bakit hindi naririmarim ang mga pilipino na ginagawang export commodity ng bogus government nila?”
Simple lang ang sagot ko. Para sa mga trabahador, walang laman ang sikmura. Kailangang mangibang-bansa para panustos sa buhay. Para sa pekeng pangulo at authroities, malaking negosyo at pakinabang. Di bale nang mawarak ang puri at katawan ng mga pinay, basta matustusan ang gobyerno ng walanghiyang liar, cheat and thief!
Ikaw na rin ang nagsabi na sina Lagman ay kumikita ng malaki sa negosyong ito.
Samantalang ang mga ordinaryong pinoy ay puro “sana”, ayon nga kay Leonard, ang mga hinayupak na lider kuno ng bansa naman ay nagpapasarap sa kanilang kinikita, at the expense of pinays.
Chi:
It’s a matter of faith. Kulang sa pananampalataya kasi ito namang mga pari namumulitika na rin. But Christ said, “Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?” (Luke 12: 24)
This is actually one of my favorite verses in the Holy Scriptures, especially when I feel despondent although by faith, I have never found myself wanting.
I cannot understand why these people who profess to be Christians would not even heed such sound counsel especially when indeed God provides with the condition “If we are worthy!”
Sikmura lang ang iniintindi? How about purity, honor and dignity? Nakakahiya na ang mga kababaihang pilipino sa totoo lang. Kilalang-kilala na sila sa pagkababa ng kanilang moralidad. Pati sa mga pelikulang kano, featured ang mga pilipina na mababa ang lipad.
Napanood mo ba iyong “8mm” na si Nicolas Cage ang bida. Golly, featured ang pilipina doon na isang sex slave! Memory of Subic baga.
Many years ago, I met some ex-bar girls in Subic who were being scouted to work as stripteasers in bars and clubs around the US bases. Nakakadiri! I interviewed them for a special on the Japayuki as a matter of fact as I was then a special correspondent for a news agency in Manila. Golly, labas ang mga ngala-ngala, and all for the love of money!!!
Believe you me, the youngest I interviewed was only 12 years old, bumabanat na! Corruption of minors ang labas sa totoo lang! Tuwang-tuwa ang kanilang mga magulang sa mga perang ipinapadala nila!
I hated calling them heroes and heroines kasi mataas ang standard ko ng mga tinatawag na mga bayani! Di bale kung talagang biktima lang, pero sa kabataan at orientation na mali, nawalan na ng mga moralidad. Kakaiyak!
Ano na ang nangyari sa turo ng mga magulang natin na “Mabuti pang magdildil ng asin”? Kawawang bansa!
“Sikmura lang ang iniintindi? How about purity, honor and dignity? Nakakahiya na ang mga kababaihang pilipino sa totoo lang. Kilalang-kilala na sila sa pagkababa ng kanilang moralidad. Pati sa mga pelikulang kano, featured ang mga pilipina na mababa ang lipad.”
Yuko,
Even comedy films of Rob Shcnieder(?)na pinoy daw, with Adam Sandler, make fun of pinay prostis. We don’t go see them in the big screen, dito lang sa On-Demand channels.
Oo, napanood ko ang 8mm. Kahit na ang human trafficking short films sa US television feature pinays as prostis. Sabi ko nga, bakit dumating sa ganitong kabababang pagkakakilala ang mga pinay.
Sa Singapore din ay walang dignidad ang turing nila sa mga pinay. After 5pm ang tawag nila. Kwento sa akin ng manager ng Peninsula Hotel noon.
I still believe that majority of pinays go overseas to work with only one thing in mind, to earn a decent living gaya ni Clara. But for as long as the fake president lords it over Pinas, no way these pinays will realize their dreams of a better life.
Baka wala na rin silang madildil na asin!
Chi,
This topic is actually near to my heart, because I started joining movements in Japan helping these women in distress. the first case I handled was the domestic helper who got battered by her Egyptian employer way, way back in the 70’s when this kind of deployment was not yet a big government industry.
Then, the Japayuki started coming in, and I was asked by a Filipino nun to shelter a number of them. I then started collaborating with Japanese press people and they started writing about them to get government attention because it was more a one-sided affair, meaning the Japanese government was not even aware that they were being hoarded in brothels and prostitution dens by members of criminal gangs getting connections in the Philippines—even police protection there—posing as recruiters!
Inis na inis sa akin ang isang taga-embassy who probably was getting some renumeration from these illegal recruiters dahil ang dami kong reklamo. Marcos for a fact was not part of this recruitment because he was more interested in promoting the Filipinos being deployed to the Middle East as professional workers, not domestic helpers!
Then, he was toppled down and Cory became president. Everybody expected that as a woman, she would make sure these Filipino women would no longer be deployed to work in bars, clubs and prostitution dens in Japan. To our dismay, she even agreed to sign an agreement to call these women entertainers because the Japanese government was willing to grant the Philippines 40,000 guota a year for entertainers as its contribution to so-called “Philippine economic recovery.” Walang nangyari, in short, lalong nababoy ang mga pilipina, and worst, lalong bumata ang mga Japayuki disguised as adult and equipped with false passports and identitites. And no matter how much we protested, padala pa rin until Erap decided to respond to Japanese request to phase it out. In 2000, the number was decreased to 20,000. Aba nagreklamo ang mga prostituta. Sumama kay Bansot when she led the protest against Erap and demanded for his removal. Natanggal, and lo and behold, biglang nag-announce si Sto. Tomas that there were 40,000 jobs waiting for Filipinos in Japan even when Japan told the Philippine government, “No way!” Matigas ang ulo! In 2002, the Japanese government announced that Japan would no longer allow these pseudo-entertainers to Japan with the passage of Japan’s new Immigration Law. Aba, nanakot pa si Lagman that he would propose a law to bar Japanese investors to the Philippines if Japan would not grant these girls and boys (mga biniboys) a waiver!
Then, in 2003, the Bansot was invited to come on a state visit to Japan, and delivered a speech at the Diet to the tune of “Japan is aging. It has to be rejuvenated with young Filipino blood!” If that is not pimping, what is?
Tapos, wala namam mga protection iyan kundi ko pa ilalapit sa mga pulis. The truth is up to 2005, I had been receiving midnight calls from these young boys and girls, who would not even know where they are kaya hirap na hirap akong hanapin sila to save them. Buti na lang alam ng mga pulis ang mga bars and clubs sa mga lugar na nandoon sila so that when I ask for police help, nakukuha sila. Madalas ang sumbong ay pinaghuhubad sila against their will and contract! Kaya tuloy nasanay ako sa puyatan. At least, ngayon wala. Puro tawag na lang ngayon from battered Filipino wives, who are mostly former Japayukis who cannot get adjusted to Japanese life, and who still work in bars and clubs against their husbands’ wishes. Kaya nabubugbog kadalasan!
Ganyan, Chi, ang common istorya ng mga pilipinang nawalan ng dangal dito sa Japan.
agree with you chi,i.e., majority of pinays overseas are decent. there may be some without honor and dignity but we cannot blame them because you cannot eat asin without rice, nor is it possible to eat honor and dignity.
Yuko,
Ewan ko kung ano ang ipinakain ni bansot kay Pat Sto. Tomas at nakalog din ang utak! Ito ang isang matalinong babae na sumabog ang prinsipyo dahil sa kadidikit kay Dirty Mama G.! Sayang itong si Pat. When she was made DOLE Sec, I thought she’d be different and protect the OFWs to death, dahil aral iyan kay Ka Blas. Ang asawa ay malapit na kaibigan ng uncle ko, kaya kilala ko sila. Sayang na sayang itong si patty at naging potty-chair ng bansot!
Roger to that Norpil. My sister was just telling me that her neighbors often come to her to ask “isang salop na bigas or asin”. My ever compassionate sis would asked them to run errands for her, o paglilinisin sa bahay, para hindi naman magmukhang “limos” ang kanyang ibibigay. Often, may kasama pang ulam or pera.
She told me that last Christmas was sooo bad for these people that she opened her house for them 24 hours.
If this kind of situation goes on and on, and nothing is done concretely to kick out Glueria, one morning we’ll just wake up from the stench of dead pinoys na naka bukas ang mga mata sa gutom! As my father said ” this is a war of poverty”.
from what i gathered..even these saudi ladies have their share of escapades..as they are in “abayas”…they would often go to a mall – entering a diff door and exiting a diff one – going for a hideaway mostly with pinoy or expat men..kasi nga baboy ang mismo nilang asawa sa kanila (the arabs i mean). they really treat women as mere objects. no emotions whatso ever..eh ang mga pinoy naman, mga romantic (daw) and mababait..kaya nalululong ang ibang saudi girls to have extra-marital affairs. to the point they have a group composed of 3 or 4 girl barkada para nga naman hindi halata..patay talaga kasi pagka nahuli sila. speaking of alak Yuko…the diff embassies are in connivance with high-ranking military officers sa pagpuslit ng mga alcohol. they would have their weekend gimmicks in an attache’s place but very quiet ika nga..selected people ang invited lang..so u see my frends..if ur not well connected, ur just an ordinary joe kahit saang sulok ng mundo.
soleil,
Lahat ng sinabi mo ay may katotohanan. Ang daming kwento sa mga pinay na “natuto” tumagal lang ng konti sa Middle East. Some do it for “business and pleasure”, others to protect themselves and for reason of “kapit sa patalim”.
Ang mga personnel ng embassies, from DFA, DOLE, OWWA, POEA, are sure to connive with the multiple personality employers para hindi mawalan ng delehensya. Iyang overseas offices ng pekeng gobyerno ni Dirty Mama G ang impierno ng mga overseas workers.
Wala silang magagawa sa mga pinay na gustong mag-putatsing pero meron silang magagawa sa mga pinay na nais desenteng mamasukan at iyong mga inaapi ng mga gagong employers, but these SOB officials chose to remain silent and just party. Apart from self-interests, baka sila isumbong ng mga employers sa kanilang among Supermaid Glueria. And her achilles heel is warning overseas, so baka sila ay ma-recall sa pinas. Patay delehensya!
Kung hindi mawawala ang Glueria sa mukha ng Pinas, patuloy na dadami ang mga kawawang Clara!
Decent Filipino women still in the majority? I doubt! With the phase this pimping of Filipino women is going, mahihirapan nang makakuha ng birhen! Kaya siguro marami na rin ang nagbabakla na lang!
I was telling Anna about a judge I knew who was having an affair with a lot of beauty queens. I was actually shocked to know about an exclusive club in the Philippines for lawyers, judges, and other men of the law with bunnies culled from the Miss Philippine Beauty Pageant. And that was some 30 or more years ago!
Kaya tanong, Chi, how decent is decent to these people who say that majority of Filipino women are still decent, honorable and dignified? Sorry, Chi, but I don’t go for such shallow reasoning that it is OK to rip the panties for the sake of filling up the tummy!
Call it faith, I do have plenty of it! Yup, I have faith that God provides! I actually have not found myself wanting, not that I have been lucky to have parents who could provide for our needs, or a husband now who takes his responsibility as a provider very seriously, or that I have been fortunate to have enough brains and will to survive according to the tenets of my religion.
It’s called being self-reliant and self-sufficient without sacrificing one’s family or one’s self as what happens to a lot many Filipinos who have gone overseas and end up with nothing, not even their families, especially among those who overstay and work illegally abroad. Ang daming sira ang mga pamilya sa totoo lang!
Nakakaiyak? You bet, kaya nga kumukulo ang dugo ko kay Bansot na bugaw na asta prostituta pa!
Chi,
I’ve heard also of the many Filipino women who run for help to the Philippine Embassy in KSA pero imbes na tulungan, ibinubugaw pa. Maraming kaso ng sexual and physical abuses in fact sa mga nakulong sa KSA according to a friend of mine, who ended up in jail himself ironically for helping fellow Filipinos there. Hindi ko nga alam kung ano na ang nangyari sa kaniya.
Pero minsan kasi matigas din ang ulo ng mga pilipino. Just the other day, a Filipina was sent to jail for 3 years for violating Japan’s Immigration Law 3 times. Pabalik-balik with fake passports until she was caught, and the police found out her previous offenses. Pakabit-kabit pa sa mga hapon at kung sino-sino. Tatlong anak iba-iba ang ama! Meron din ganyan sa Tate, hindi nga lang bulgar!
Doon naman ang mga biktima ay iyong mga pilipinang nakukuha sa mga web sites for the lonely hearts. May magiging fiance kuno, pero pagdating doon, pinagpuputa. Nagkaroon ng expose in fact sa Fox TV tungkol diyan. Ewan ko lang kung nakita mo.
In other words, dapat nang putulin ang pagbubugaw ng mga pilipino/pilipina sa ibang bansa. Dito nga noon, pati lalaki (teen-agers from 12 Up) ibinubugaw ni Bansot at ni
Sto. Tomas. May ginawang documentary sa GMA 7 tungkol diyan sa totoo lang noong 2004. May kopya ako kasi ako ang nagsama-sama sa kanila sa mga bars and clubs na may mga dalaginding at binatilyo!!! Nakakarimarim!
Yuko,
I know of overseas workers in the Middle East na tumino naman ang buhay after about 10 years of serving foreign employers. Kaya lang, karamihan sa kanila ay mga lalaki. Most of them ay naka-pundar ng hanapbuhay balik sa Pinas, at ang mga anak ay napondohan ang pag-aaral. Ang iba naman na mahihina ang karakter ay nanatiling bokya dahil sa bisyo, etc.
Kaya tama ang sinasabi ni Emilio sa kanyang post na “bayaan na lang silang mga lalaki ang mag-trabaho sa Middle East, ang mga babae ay humanap na lang ng ibang lugar”. Ang dali nga namang maging rotten kung ang mga kasama ay mga rotten na dati.
Ang nakikita ko lang, ang mga lalaking Pinoy ay hindi lahat katulad ni Emilio at Mrivera, na talagang magigiting ang karakter. Ang karamihan sa mga pinoy ay pinababayaan ang kanilang mga asawa na mamasukan sa overseas samantalang sila ay pakamut-kamot ng tiyan sa Pinas! Iyan ang dapat baguhin ng maraming kalalakihan! Ang dami kung kilala na ganyan. Kung sila ba naman ay gaya ng sabi mo ay tumulong sa mga asawang pinay na magsimulang maging self-reliant, pagyamanin ang salary ng asawa. O e di pagbalik ng babae sa Pinas ay meron na silang nakapundar kahit katiting na simula.
Perhaps, I’m so out of touch, but I hope that we have more overseas workers in the likes of Mrivera and Emilio. Superb hubby, superb Tatay, superb mamamayan! Mabuhay kayong dalawa at iyong iba pa sa blog na ito na hindi ko bistado pa! Hurray to you guys! Cheers!
Pinakamabuti talaga, Chi, ay kasama nila ang kanilang mga pamilya. Otherwise, sira ang pamilya. Isang kaibigan ko nga nakunsumi sa anak na akala niya matino pero sumama sa isang lalaki dahil hindi ma-control ng misis niya. Ngayon ayaw na niyang umuwi sa Pilipinas sa dismaya niya maliban pa sa nasanay na siya sa ibang bansa.
Malungkot ang nangyayari sa karamihan sa kanila sa totoo lang. Maraming wasak ang pamilya. Kunti lang ang katulad ni Emilio at Mrivera.
Kaya ako, iyong staff kong pilipino, mag-asawa. Awa naman ng Dios nakakuha ng visa. Walang palakasan. I just tried to go by the rules. OK naman ang opisina ko kaya na-approve.
You bet, Chi, mas marami ang gutom ngayon kesa noong araw kahit na sa totoo lang mas maraming mahirap noong lumalaki ako sa Pilipinas dahil maraming nasalanta ng digmaan pero mas marami pilipino noong ang marunong magtiis. Ngayon garapalan na.
Maraming sulat ang tina-translate ko sa kulungan dito sa totoo lang na nakakadugo ng puso. Ang hindi maintindihan ay kung bakit iyong pang makakulong ang inaasahan ng mga pamilya nila na tumustos sa pamumuhay nila. Kayod kalabaw pa rin kahit na sa loob ng kulungan ang nangyayari sa mga pilipino. Ang masaklap ay ang nangyari sa isang seaman na nakapatay ng kaniyang kapitan. Iyong asawa nagpunta ngayon sa KSA para may pangtustos sa mga anak nila. Ang nangyari nanlalaki pa ang asawa pagdating doon at hindi makapagpadala ng sapat para sa pamilya nila kaya ang pobre humiling kung puedeng dagdagan ang trabaho niya para kumita siya. Every 3 months ang pagpapadala ng pera kaya nakakaipon siya. Ang mga anak niya ay inaalagaan ng hipag niya. Ang daming ganyan istorya sa totoo lang, Chi.
Iba na rin kasi ang takbo ng mga utak nila. Oops, 2:30 a.m. na kaya matutulog na ako.
may isang ofw na babae nun sa oman who came from a political family in bacolod. na feature ito sa news early last year. she was working for a shang ri la hotel there. she just missed her shuttle in the am, presumably took a taxi, went missing for a couple of days and was next found dead at the bottom of a cliff. embassy couldnt do anything. even the family could not be helped by our dfa to get an omani visa to go there in time to press for an investigation. 2 weeks daw waiting. sabi ng omani govt, crime-free daw ang bansa nila. the girl came back embalmed already.
ganun na lang? pinalaki mo at inalagaan mo, pinag-aral mo, dinala mo sa dentista, sa pedia, binantayan mo grades, screened suitors etc ng 20+ or 30 years tapos babalik na lang sa yo na-embalsamo na na walang paliwanag?
bayani sila para kenino? para sa mga tulad ni gma? ni raul gonzales? hayop talaga.
minsan ang mahirap sa mga opisyales natin sa middle east ay mga muslim sila and they identify more with their hosts than with their countrymen.
i would agree. dont send our women to the middle east. the dollars is not worth it.
Masha,
I’m speechless sa balita mo na ‘yan. Wala na akong masabi kundi ayon ako sa sinabi “mo dont send our women to the middle east. the dollars is not worth it.”
Huwag ipagpalit ang buhay sa dolyar, matuto tayong magtanim ng kamote at mamaluktot muna sa maikling kumot habang nasa proseso tayo ng pagpapatalsik kay Dirty Mama Glueria. Sana ay gising na ang mga pinoy upang madali natin itong maisakatuparan.
Sa dinarami ng mga kasong naha-handle namin sa advocacy namin sa OFW, Chi, Masha, this kind of story is actually no longer shocking, but revolting.
You bet, alam naman ng mga kumag sa gobyerno ng Pilipinas ang risk ng mga pilipinong pinapupunta sa Middle East kung bakit hindi tigilan ang pagpapadala ng mga workers doon kahit na sabihin pa nating matitigas ang mga ulo rin ng mga OFWs na ito na na-brainwash in fact na mamamatay silang dilat ang mga mata sa bansa nila. Malaking kuwarta kasi ito doon sa mga nakaupong mga recruiter din like the former Congressman na kababayan ni Apoy I know had control of the recruitment to Taiwan!!!
Kaniya-kaniya silang teritoryo as a matter of fact kaya suspetsa ng mga NGOs dito na itong si Lagman ang may control ng recruitment to Japan kasi siya ang pinapupunta dito at madalas na kausapin ang mga promoter at recruiter dito para sila ang mag-lobby sa gobyerno ng Japan.
Mabuti naman at hindi uubra ang lakas noong isang Dietman na kaibigan daw ng mga baboy who is now under surveillance na baka may ginagawang kalokohan! Salamat sa mga NGOs na nakatuong ang mga mata sa mga promoters at recruiters na contact ni Lagman, et al. Iyan ang sinasabing democracy—lakas ng mamamayan ang umiiral!!!
Problema kasi ay bakit itong mga pamilya ng violence sa Middle East ay hindi magbuklod para sila makahingi ng hustisya sa sinasapit ng mga asawa, anak at kamag-anak nila doon? Dito iyan may mga abogado nang nagboboluntaryong abogado nila para isulong ang mga kaso nila. Walang mangyayari talaga kung puro takot na lang at surrender na hindi pa man ang mga pilipino!
Time to demand justice, not just tiis!
Yuko,
Don’t you ever stop thinking? Never run out of ideas? You are so active and full of energy. I imagine maybe we are just as young as each other, but I can not do what you are doing. I wish I can. You never ceased to amaze me. What’s your secret?
Florry,
Secret? No secret! Just being me, the way God has wanted me to be, what to be and where to be! You bet, I don’t let others get to me. If I don’t reply to a post here, it is because I have missed it, or skipped it because I don’t want to waste my precious time. Mahirap pumatol sa ulol sabi nga!
Cheers!
chi, yuko,
hindi ako santo. na-realize ko lang na hindi panghabang panahon ang pagtatrabaho ko dito sa saudi arabia. natuto lang din ako sa aking mga naunang pagkakamali. kung inalagaan ko ang aking kalusugan noong kabataan ko, hindi sana ako daranas ng kung ano anong sakit ngayon at hidni maaapektuhan ang pag-aaral ng mga anak ko.
ystakei Says:
February 2nd, 2007 at 9:37 pm
Ano na ang nangyari sa turo ng mga magulang natin na “Mabuti pang magdildil ng asin”? Kawawang bansa!
yuko, mabuti pa noon, kahit asin lang ay pwede nang gawing ulam kung talagang wala. eh, ngayon, bigas na isasaing, gagamitin sa pagluluto at asin man ay wala, paano na nga naman? mamamatay na lang ng dilat sa paghihintay ng awa ng babaeng baliw sa malakanyang na mukhang dagang ayaw nang umalis sa kanyang lungga?
kawawa nga talaga!
Papaano, Magno, ang tingin ko hino-hoard ng Malacanang para kunyari ipapamigay sa mga mahirap pero doble-doble ang singil sa gobyerno at may commission iyong dummy na ginamit nila para ilagay sa bank accounts ng mga Pidals. Bakit hindi iyan rikisahin para malaman ang mga anomalyang nangyayari sa kunyaring distribution ng mga bigas at ramen daw na ginagawa pang mukhang lahat ng pilipino ay pataygutom, at tuturuan pa ng blackmarket dahil iyong daw bigas ay puedeng i-recyle para pagkakuwartahan ng nabigyan ng bigas at ramen.
Ang alam ko sinasadya pang huwag tulungan ang mga magsasakang pinoy para hindi sila makapag-produce ng maraming bigas, at bibili ng bigas sa Tsina na utang pero may nangungumisyon sa utangang ito. Lubog ang Pilipinas ngayon sa utang!
Alam mo, Magno, dito sa Japan, nababagyo din, at kung taglamig ay hindi makapagtanim at makaani ng bigas pero bilib ka, wala kaming rice crisis! Kung meron man, hindi halata! Ayaw naman namin ang bigas na galing sa Thailand, etc. dahil talaga naman masarap ang bigas namin dito. Mananaginip ka kung hindi ka makakain.
Kalokohan talaga ang ginagawa ni Pandak. Kawawang mga pilipino nagpapagago naman.
Naniniwala pa rin ako sa turo ng mga magulang ko na magdildil ng asin kasi kung marunong talaga ang mga pilipino, e kumuha lang sila ng tubig sa dagat at may kaunting kaalaman sa paggawa ng asin ay madali naman silang makagawa sa totoo lang! Kung walang bigas, e di kamote! Sumisibol lang ang bunga niyan sa totoo lang.
Sinong may sabi na tamad lang ang karamihan at nagsisiksikan sa Maynila na ang puedeng mapulot ng libre ay mga basura lamang! Tapos doon naman sa mayaman ang lupa, itong si Bansot, ipinapagamit pa sa mga ungas na kano para sa kanilang mga military exercises ang mga lupa doon na hindi na tuloy mataniman. Iyan nga ang dahilan din kung bakit ang mga moro ay naglipana ngayon sa Luzon. Gutom ang inaabot ng mga moro ngayon doon dahil sa guerra-guerra nila at terrorist scare na ginaya doon sa isang loko-loko sa Amerika.
Lalong lumaki ang problema ng Pilipinas sa pag-upo ni boba!
masha..this just shows how lame our country’s leadership is and how incompetent are the people bieng dispatched to the different foreign posts. hindi ko nilalahat of course. kawawa nga ang mga may utak, may abilidad at mga magigiting na naka posts sa ibang bansa dahil nasasapawan sila ng mga trapo sa kanilang upisina. when there are great things happening or things were resolved, super kapal silang umaangkin na akala mo ay sila ang nagsalba at naghirap samantalang paupo-upo lang sa likod ng lamesa sa kwarto nilang naka lock. pagka naman may palpak, wow naman..super tanggi na kunwa hindi alam, kunwa hindi nila saklaw, hindi sila ang dapat kausapin..PWEEEEE!!!! PWEEE KAYONG MGA INUTIL DYAN SA FOREIGN POSTINGS NA MGA INUTIL!!!!!…diplomatic kuno pa ang passports nyo samantalang hindi kayo marunong ng diplomasya…
kayong mga mr sam, mr jack and sir levi ang dapat ni-re-rape ng paulit ulit para magising kayo!..sa susunod na buhay ninyo ay magdasal na kayo, dahil sa kawalang puso ninyo. you dont even deserve to give an excuse nor be heard of any excuse. the human rights commission should read this and am sure pandak will be peeing in her bloomers!
Wow, galit na si Sol! Iyan ang gusto kong panglaban sa boba na nagdunung-dunungan! Arya, tira, baka may matauhan doon sa mga gunggong na pinaupo. Mga sundalo pero kurakot!
Sol, nakita mo na ba ang pelikula ni Erap, To Live for the Masses? Ang landi (excuse the word but this is the most appropriate one I can use ingles man o tagalog) na pakirat-kirat pa ng mata habang pinupugayan iyong mga ulol na tumulong sa kaniya kasama na iyong ibinulgar ng America na nag-i-smuggle ng foreign currency from the Philippines to the USA. Duda ko para sa mga magnanakaw na squatter ng Malacanang iyon kaya iyong ungas hindi makulong!!! Protektado ng amo niyang mandurugas!
Common sense lang naman especially for one like me who has been trained in police investigation at Japan’s Scotland Yard, Keishicho. Walang binatbat ang mga bobo sa pulisya ng Pilipinas sa sipag, honesty and efficiency ng mga pulis namin dito sa totoo lang!
PATALSIKIN NA, NOW NA! Kahit pa automated election, kung mandaraya, makakadaya kaya nga appointed na naman sa makakadaya position si Ebdane!
Por dies, por singko, walang konsiyensya ang taong iyan sabi ng mga matitinong pulis ng Manila’s Finest. Bakit nakaupo na naman ang mamang iyan? Diyos mahabagin, please iligtas ninyo na po ang Pilipinas sa mga salbahe at walanghiyang ito na running the Philippines like hell!!!!
Soleil, she wears bloomers? Naah…never seen a viper wear bloomers. And do vipers pee?
naku Yuko…sarap talagang tirisin! and for those who are saying na puro paninira daw sa kapwa ang alam natin…MAGPAKATOTOO KAYOOOOO!!!!…only when we know the good, the bad and the ugly that there will be progress…kunwa ay para sa pinoy, panggugulo lang ang alam. makapasok lang sa blog at mapansin.yes Yuko, i saw that Erap biopic…distributed it in the province para alam nila kung ano. i have to get hold of of chavit d’sabits version for his own biopic. ang kapal talaga..super bakya na mahilig makisawsaw. yun nga ang kinaiinis ko. napaka engot ng mga nautusan para iligpit sya. dapat kbb or NPA ang kinontak, atlst kumita pa ng kaunti ang kababayan kesa magbayad pa ng foreign consultant kuno yun pala foreign mercenary lang! PWEEEE!!!!!
Egdame should be always be given an ambush interview para lumabas ang natural nya. he wont have time to settle his hypocritical face na kunwa ay magaling.
Phil…it was jst something that came up as i was writing. i dont give a damn whether she is butt-naked or someone who pees from her mouth. magpapasukan na naman after election. Nasaan na ang mga hinayupak na sinabing tutulong sa pagresolba ng mga nabiktimang educational plan holders
?!?!?!?!…puro lang talaga palapad panga habang nahulog ang mga utak sa imburnal at inanod papuntang EK!!!!!!!
Sol,
Wala na bang nangyari sa raket ng education plan. So, walang nakuha kahit kusing ang mga holders?! Ang mga hinayupak na ‘yan. Aba, bago nila pag-isipan ang english bilang medium of instructions sa schools ay ayusin muna nila ang educational plan ng mga bata. Ang daming nabiktima diyan ah, kasama na ang pamangkin ko.
At iyang si Ebdane na pikon at saksakan ng yabang, sana hindi ambush interview ang nangyari. Na-ambush na sana ng tuluyan at iniligpit!
From Tony Seva:
This is very unchristian but I hope those OWWA guys hang!
Chi..this guy mark jimenez – the once who was extradited frm the usa back to pinas – he “donated” some millions, there were screenings, batch of kids given tuition support..but after all the hooplah, i really have no idea what is going on right now.
their website is close right now. i receive update messages from the schoolgroup that was formed to follow the trail of the legal proceedings against the sobrepenas or yuchengcos. but as expected, these lowlife scions will be pouring out their millions to the campaign trail to secure their personal interestsssss. saan na naman pupulutin ang mga wala ng mapiga? i also ventured to be a volulnteer to the anther group, but this group too is like an invisible man so to speak.
Ay naku Sol, ang MJ ay may topak ang tuktok. Ang mga Sobrepenas at Yuchengco naman, as usual, ay may konek sa babaeng punggok na may usli at sungal na yellow teeth.
Look at what they’re doing to Lucio Tan again. Kapag kailangan nila ang perang pang-election ay ginigipit nila si Lucio! Kapag nag-commit ng milyong $$$, titigilan muna. Garapal talaga ang gobyernong ito!
Ellen:
Senator Pimentel wants to meet with Clara. Puede bang papuntahin siya sa office niya between now and Wednesday daw in the afternoon? Pakisabi na lang ang post ni Sir na nasa itaas.
Spartan: I would be interested to know what these officers can do at their host country against these abusive employers.
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Wala silang magagawa Spartan especially in countries like Japan that follow strict protocol. Kaya nga sa mga NGOs ipinapasa ang mga ganoon kaso because as civilians they can do something.
It was in fact the reason why the first case I handled was passed on to me especially when the embassy then did not have a labor department to supposedly handle such cases that later they found out the labor department could not take over the function of the Assistance to Nationals of the Philippine DFA because of the international protocol as prescribed by some international convention putting foreign embassies and consulates under the jurisdiction of the host countries’ ministries of foreign affairs.
Ganyan din ang nangyayari in fact to the wives of Japanese nationals. Their cases are passed on to some shelter for battered wives for instance and there they are referred to lawyers or to the police defending on which action they would like to take. Over here, most likely when you report the case to the authorities, the alternative is a divorce. This is in fact the reason why they have “nakodo” (go-between) when people here marry. They are the ones supposed to take care of the marriage and the couple staying together.
Unfortunately, a lot many of the Japayukis would not even know such things nor care. Ganyan din ang mga domestic helpers sent overseas. Hindi nila alam ang mga rights and privileges nila kaya sila pinagsasamantalahan. Buti na nga lang sa Hong Kong as medyo malakas ang Migrante diyan na nagtatanggol sa kanila.
Kaya OK ang blog ni Ellen to have all these things out para mabisto at mabato ang mga kurakot involved in this scam of selling Filipinos overseas and becoming the Philippines’ No. 1 Export commodity!!!
Wais talaga si Yuchengco! I just don’t know kung siya pa rin ang nagpapalakad ng mga negosyo at hindi iyong mga anak. On the other hand, hindi pa ba nadala ang matandang iyan na gamitin ang pera niya sa kabutihan? Ang daming trahedya na nangyari sa mama na iyan sa pagkabit-kabit niya sa mga ulupong! Akala ko tunay ang luha niya para sa yumao niyang asawa at anak na nasayang ang mga buhay sa mundong ibabaw!
Maraming naging kaibigan iyong anak niyang si Lenny dito sa Japan. Isa na ako. Sabi suicide daw, but we don’t believe it. We still think there was foul play there, but siguro mabuti na ring huwag nang makalkal ang pagkamatay niya. Bahala na lang Diyos ang magparusa sa kung sinumang gumawa ng kasamaan sa kaniya.
Iyan ang sinasabing, “Only the good die young!” Mabait na maganda pa sa totoo lang, at matalino din. Gosh, ito ang buwan na namatay siya a decade ago! May she rest in peace!
Chi: Wala na bang nangyari sa raket ng education plan. So, walang nakuha kahit kusing ang mga holders?! Ang mga hinayupak na ‘yan. Aba, bago nila pag-isipan ang english bilang medium of instructions sa schools ay ayusin muna nila ang educational plan ng mga bata. Ang daming nabiktima diyan ah, kasama na ang pamangkin ko.
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Oo nga, ano na ang nangyari doon sa CAP scandal? Maraming mga pilipino ang nabiktima dito sa totoo lang. Pero, bilib din ako sa ikli ng memory nila. Bilib pa rin sila sa mga agents ng CAP na ang alam ko iba na naman ang ino-offer sa kanila. Wala talagang kadala-dala!
Yuko,
Masyadong madaling makalimot ang maraming pinoy. Parang ang bansot na may yellow buck-teeth, palaging merong memory lapse :).
one of tribune’s headline kahapon:
Gordon wants Abalos impeached for P2.8-B waste
02/04/2007
Sen. Richard Gordon yesterday called for the impeachment of Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman Benjamin Abalos Sr. for allegedly wasting P2.8 billion in taxpayers’ money.
Gordon, a panelist at the weekly Kapihan sa Sulo media forum at the Sulo Hotel in Quezon City, said Abalos should be blamed for the loss by allowing automated counting machines (ACMs) that had been purchased for that price to rot in the Comelec.
“Don’t you think so?” he answered when asked whether Abalos should be impeached due to the wastage.
“He should be held responsible,” Gordon said.
The ACMs were bought by the government from Mega Pacific Consortium but have remained unused amid allegations that the purchase was highly disadvantageous to the government.
Comelec Commissioner Resureccion Borra later faced investigation for graft by the Office of the Ombudsman for his role in the procurement of the ACMs and was indicted by the Ombudsman but was later cleared, along with Abalos and the other commissioners by Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez, who said “not an iota” of evidence exists to pin down Borra, Abalos and the commissioners.
Gordon, chairman of the Senate committee on constitutional amendments, revision of codes and laws, also scored the Comelec for failure to implement the poll automation law that was enacted in 1997 yet.
“We are not asking them to perform a difficult task, but we have heard them say, ‘It can’t be done,’ countless times. But did they even try?’ the senator asked.
The Comelec not trying, Gordon said, speaks of “lack of foresight and action on (its) part” and “belies its mandate to implement election laws for free, orderly, honest, peaceful and credible elections.”
In contrast, he pointed out, the poll body “insists on Internet voting when there is no law” that allows electronic voting.
The former mayor of Olongapo City, Zambales, said Abalos is also inefficient in stopping apparent political advertisements disguised as product endorsements on television by administration and opposition “senator-iables.”
Other politicians, Gordon noted, are silent on the apparent electioneering for
for fear that they would earn the wrath of the Comelec chairman especially in the May 14 mid-term elections this year.
At the same time, Gordon reiterated that the mid-term polls should be automated in order, he said, to curb, if not stop, cheating.
He wondered why the Comelec under Abalos cannot automate elections, when vote-counting machines and other election equipment could be leased or rented from computer companies if the machines stored by the Comelec are already rotten.
Gordon said the poll agency spends P329,355.26 a month in storage fees for the ACMs.
On another controversial electoral issue, Abalos has a ready explanation.
Military elements, he confirmed also yesterday, would be doing security duties during the May polls but only in exceptional cases.
His stand, the government-run Philippine News Agency (PNA) also yesterday said in a report, affirms the statement of new Defense Secretary Hermogenes Ebdane at the latter’s first press conference midweek that the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) will be on poll duty if their assistance is solicited by the Comelec.
The Comelec upheld that such assistance may be sought particularly “in far-flung places, such as those in the embattled Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) and so-called areas of utmost concern where politicians, PNA said, destroy each other.
“In such places, it would be most likely that military vehicles and aircraft would be requested to fly out election paraphernalia,” Abalos told PNA.
“Where there is an armed threat in a locality, the AFP assists,” he said.
According to him, the Comelec can deputize military personnel for that purpose, noting that this is already provided for in the Omnibus Election Code and reiterated by putting it in a memorandum of agreement (MoA).
Last year, Ebdane’s predecessor, Avelino Cruz Jr., inked the MoA with the Comelec on ground rules to observe before, during and after the elections on May 14.
In theory, Ebdane could disregard the 2006 Cruz-Abalos MoA but the new DND chief said he has chosen to be “flexible” about it.
The agreement was general in nature but within the terms of the Omnibus Election Code, which requires respect for the sanctity of the electoral process that would include securing the ballots themselves until they are accounted for in the canvassing stage.
Senators, party-list repre-sentatives and local government officials such as district legislators, governors, mayors and councilors will be voted for in the May 14 elections.
Barangay-level candidacies are excluded since they will be voted upon in a separate exercise scheduled in October also this year.
A key point in the MoA was that military facilities will no longer be allowed as voting or counting centers, as they had been in the past.
Also, the military cannot carry ballot boxes by themselves but will merely be escorting teachers and other civilian personnel deputized by the Comelec.
Under the MoA, military personnel will no longer be allowed as personal security escorts of candidates as they move about in their elections sorties.
In the past, hundred of reports of ballot boxes being snatched from unescorted poll workers in far-flung areas were confirmed. These led to violence and an ever-ending chain of electoral protests and counter-protests.
It was observed, PNA said, that there was a deterrence of snatching of election para-phernalia and boxes carried by poll workers who were escorted by AFP personnel.
Militants and administration critics have made issue of the appointment of Ebdane, a retired police general, a graduate of the Philippine Military Academy.
The critics said President Arroyo had disregarded calls for a civilian to replace Cruz but, PNA noted, it is clear that Ebdane never joined the military services and was a career policeman, a civilian position.
Adding to the intrigues thrown at Ebdane is that as Defense chief, he will be working with AFP Chief of Staff Gen. Hermogenes Esperon Jr.
Both men were implicated in the so-called “Hello Garci” tape scandal that was the basis of failed impeachment proceedings against Mrs. Arroyo last year.
The government critics, particularly the President’s rival politicians, have said “clean, peaceful and honest elections” cannot be expected with Ebdane and Esperon in powerful positions vis-a-vis the May 14 polls.
Both Ebdane and Esperon have refused to comment on the intrigues, calling them “recycled, baseless issues.”
“Both Ebdane and Esperon have refused to comment on the intrigues, calling them “recycled, baseless issues.””
oo nga naman. katulad nilang dalawang magkatukayo. parehong recycled cheats and supot!
Mrivera,
But saying ““recycled, baseless issues.”” is commenting. They should just shut up if they can’t piece their brains together to come up with something relevant.
soleil, sinabi mo pa. inutil talaga ang dfa. inutil inutil inutil. lalo na yung head nila. walang prinsipyo yang alberto romulo na yan. what a big wimp!
wala talaga tayong matinong pinuno. akalain mo bang si davide na icon of the impeachment hearings ay tatamaan ng takam sa pera at isa walang tabi ang prinsipyo at ang batas na kanyang ipinapatupad nung siya ay chief justice?