Sworn Statement of Suzette S. Nicolas media hid under the name “Nicole”
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES
Annex A
CITY OF MAKATI
I, SUZETTE S. NICOLAS, of legal age. Filipino, a resident of Zamboanga City, after being duly sworn in accordance with law, hereby depose and state:
1. I am a Bachelor of Science graduate, major in Management Accounting, of the Ateneo de Davao University. Soon after my graduation, I took up nursing in 2004 at the Ateneo de Zamboanga City and at the same time assisted in managing our family owned canteen located inside the military base of the Southern Command. My mother was a civilian supervisor of the Philippine Navy for 25 years while my deceased father was a Philippine Navy Officer.
2. Since our canteen also catered to American servicemen who stayed at the military base every time their vessels docked in Zamboanga City, my family came to know many American servicemen who would go to our canteen to eat and buy souvenir items. We treated them as family and we would go out of our way to talk to them, play cards and on many occasions, my mother would even cook special meals for them. They would even entrust their ATM cards to us to withdraw money for them from the bank. My former boyfriend, Brian Goodrich, is also an American serviceman.
3. After working in Swift Foods Inc. since January 22, 2007, I decided to quit my job as a Credit Accountant to pursue my studies in the United States through the help of my family, relatives and close friends. I know that they supported me so that I could finally move on after my tragic experience in 2005 in Subic, Zambales which led to the trial and conviction for rape of Daniel J. Smith.
4. Deep inside, however, I know that I may never be able to move on for as long as I continue to search for answer to so many questions that have lingered in my mind regarding the incident in Subic more than three years ago. Daniel Smith was convicted of rape because the court accepted my version that he took advantage of my intoxication in raping me inside a van that took us to the seawall located at the SBMA Alaba Pier at around 11:30 in the evening of November 1, 2005.
5. Daniel Smith’s witnesses said that while we were at the Neptune Club, I sat on Daniel Smith’s lap and that we kissed each other passionately. I remember that before I met Daniel Smith at the Neptune Club, all I ate was a slice of pizza at the Grand Leisure Hotel. After the pizza, everything else was alcoholic drinks from vodka sprite, B52, Singaporean sling, B53, long island ice tea to bullfrog all of which I drank bottoms up. I do not recall Daniel Smith having ordered any alcoholic drink for me. My drinks were all paid for by Chris Mills who invited me to go to the Neptune Club.
6. I had no opportunity to deny in court that I kissed Daniel Smith but with the amount of alcoholic mixed drinks I took, my low tolerance level of alcohol and with only a slice of pizza all night, it dawned upon me that I may have possibly lost my inhibitions, became so intimate with Daniel Smith and did more than just dancing and talking with him like everyone else on the dance floor. Looking back, I would not have agreed to talk with Daniel Smith and dance with him no less than three times if I did not enjoy his company or was at least attracted to him since I met him for the very first time on the dance floor of Neptune Club.
7. When I danced with Daniel Smith for the third time, my companion, Chris Mills has already left Neptune Club since he had to catch their curfew time at the military base. The lighting was sufficient for people to recognize each other and other marines were with their Filipino partners drinking, dancing and enjoying each other’s company and kissing and hugging among partners was a common scene.
8. With the events at the Neptune Club in mind, I keep on asking myself, if Daniel Smith wanted to rape me, why would he carry me out of the Neptune Club using the main entrance in full view of the security guard and the other sources? Why would the van park right in front of Neptune Club? Why would Daniel Smith and his companions bring me to the seawall of Alaba Pier and casually leave this area that was well lighted and with many people roaming around? If they believed that I was raped, would they have not dumped me instead in a dimly lit area along the highway going to Alaba Pier to avoid detection?
9. I told the court that Daniel Smith kissed my lips and neck and held my breast inside the van. Recalling my testimony, I ask myself now how could I have remembered this if witnesses told the court that I passed out and looked unconscious when I was brought to the van by Daniel Smith. How could I have resisted his advances given this condition? Daniel Smith and I were alone on the third row of the van which had limited space and I do not recall anyone inside the van who held my hand or any part of my body. What I can recall is that there was very loud music and shouting inside the van.
10. If the travel from Neptune Club took only several minutes and with the driver of the van trying to beat the curfew time of his passengers, how could I have instantly regained my consciousness and talked to the people upon reaching the seawall of Alaba Pier? When people gathered around me at the seawall, everyone seemed to have drawn the conclusion that I was raped except for one who called me a bitch.
11. Based on the account of SBMA police, I was very hesitant to board the mobile police car that brought me to the headquarters for investigation. I was so confused and the first thing that entered my mind was how would my mother and boyfriend react if they learn that I was last seen with Daniel Smith and that a condom was seen on my pants after Daniel Smith left the van? I was scared of losing not only my American boyfriend but the chance of living in the United States. In fact, I did not immediately tell my boyfriend that I was raped by Daniel Smith. All I said was that something bad happened to me.
12. I expect many sectors to question my motives in executing this statement more than three years after the incident. However, as I practically grew up interacting with American servicemen in Zamboanga City who treated me and my family very well, and thinking over and over again how I may have conducted myself at the Neptune Club, I can’t help but entertain doubts on whether the sequence of events in Subic last November of 2005 really occurred the way the court found them to have happened.
13. My conscience continues to bother me realizing that I may have in fact been so friendly and intimate with Daniel Smith at the Neptune Club that he was led to believe that I was amenable to having sex or that we simply just got carried away. I would rather risk public outrage than do nothing to help the court in ensuring that justice is served.
AFFIANT SAYETH NAUGHT.
SUZETTE S. NICOLAS
Affiant
SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN TO BEFORE ME this 12 day of March 2009, affiant exhibiting to me her Philippine Passport No. PPO845449 bearing her photograph and signature, issued on 18 Feb 2005 at Zamboanga City and valid until 18 Feb. 2010.
Doc. No. 37
Page No. 9
Book No. 1
Series of 2009
ABRAHAM REY M. ACOSTA
Notary Public for Makati City
Nicole was paid P100,000 as part of the settlement and an immigrant visa to the US. How could she say no? After two years of agonizing litigation, it took President Obama just one phone call to the Evil Bitch to close this rape case. Yet, Malacanang bragged about Obama’s call as if it was a big deal. The call was to order the Bitch to end the Smith case once and for all as well as stop the review of the VFA.
At luka-luka rin pala itong si Nicole, senglot lang pala!
Hindi lang masarap batukan masarap ding tadyakan!
Kapalit yan ng VFA ni Barack!
Oh well…
In a country where affidavits are submitted, faked, altered, or whatever, it’s easy to believe that witnesses recant without the slightest hesitation.
Word of honour? My word is my bond? Many Filipinos don’t know the meaning of these words. That’s why the Philippines remain in a mess.
That said, good luck to her.
Wonder if this “recantation” doesn’t open her to being sued for damages by the accused.
I think you’re referring to perjury charges. But then, I’m sure they have already made an arrangement and signed a contract that no further claims, civil or criminal, shall be initiated by any party. It’s up to the RP government to pursue this perjury charge but I seriously doubt it.
chi, wag mo na sya batukan at tadyakan. Ganyan talaga at db sabi ko parang game lang yan ” if the price is right” yon nga lang mali ang price pero immigrant naman sya agad.
Ako nga nag TNT sa US ng 8years. Marami din akong nakitang tao na gumamit sa kalagayan ko. Ilang libong$ ang naubos ko maayos lang ako. Pero niloko din nila ako. Ang masama pa doon. Pinoy pa ang lumoko sa akin. Dapat pala nag pa rape na rin lang ako:)
Anyway, in this story (recanted and was awarded an immigrant’s visa), America is clearly “complicit” in the act.
DOJ’s Raul Goonzalez he regrets Nicole left for the US. That’s BS. Is he saying he did not know about the arrangement?
There are reports that if you want to legalize your stay in the US, you could work as a CIA informer. That explains why there were some Filipino fugitives now comfortably residing in the US and free to travel to RP to gather information for Uncle Sam.
deanr, are you now legal in the US? If you need help and are willing to do what you said above, I think Cocoy could help you.
Now, the judge can overturned the conviction of Daniel Smith because Nicole recanted her fabricated stories.
Stupid Nicole,Now that she’s in the US Smith,his family or the government can sue her in a civil case for the damages incurred by the accused.
BE, thank, pero wala na ako sa US. lumipat na ako noong 2000. nag sawa na ako sa mga panloloko ng mga kababayan natin na nag ttake advantage sa mga tulad ko.
Cocoy, marami dyan na may kailangan ng tulog. Para akong taga india na si binder dandhat:)
thanks
The end justifies the means even if it takes to be a bitch.
And how many took the same route?
Nicole may have entered a sweet deal from Uncle Sam and an offer she can’t refuse. Maybe she got an immigrant visa as a professional with advanced degree and persons with exceptional ability. Uncle Sam takes care of his boys.
Maganda ang kapalit kaya nagbabago ang istorya ni Nicole. Di mo rin masisisi dahil pahirap na rin ng pahirap dito sa atin. Kaya kahit anong kapalit na maganda ay gagawin na lang ng ibang kababayan natin basta lang makaraos kahit na itoy ay ikakasama nila. Marami na talagang nahahawahan ang mga PIDAL.
sangayon ako sa iyo vonjovi2. sa sobrang hirap ng buhay kaya ganyan ang mga nangyayari. noong natapos ko HS. Ang nilagay ko sa yr book ko ” an honest mans word is as good as his bond” hangang ngayon yan pa rin ako. Kaya hayaan na natin sya at pagdasal na lang natin sya at ang pamilya nya.
Imbestigahan yong bank account ni Nicole at pamilya nya para malaman kung magkano ang binayad sa kanila na galing na naman sa kaban ng bayan courtesy of evil con artist arroyo.
Nicole just showed us the _____ (fill in the blank)that she is. However, having said that, she used her situation to her and her family’s advantage. Nabasa na rin siya, e di naligo na nang tuluyan.
Can you blame her? Let’s not kid ourselves. A lot of our kababayans will gladly be in her situation, sad to say, maiahon lang ang kanilang mahal sa buhay sa kahirapan. It’s a jungle out there, it’s true, but in the end she made a bad situation into something that, perhaps, may better her loved ones lives.
Cocoy, you are absolutely right! Smith can get back at Nicole in the US. Mas mabigat na laban yun unless of course, nangako si Smith na hindi na niya gagambalain si Nicole after his freedom!
Coming to the US is everyone’s dream. Kahit na sabihin pa na palubog na ang US, there is still that concept na it is still the country of milk and honey and an economic freedom for everyone not found anywhere else.
I just do not know who the man is who would take Nicole seriously knowing what she has done to herself, Smith and the legal system. Her lawyer was duped, to say the least. I just hope that whoever this guy is who is her “hero” and who is willing to forget her past and settle down with her is for real!
Ang pinairal na ni Nicole at ng pamilya nya at halos lahat ng mga pilipino kung kayat nagiging corrupt ay ang katwiran na:
Makakain mo ba yan? Makakain mo ba ang dangal mo? Makakain mo ang VFA? Makakain mo ba pagkapanalo mo sa korte?
MAKAKAIN MO BA YAN? MAKAKAIN MO BA YAN?…..
Kaya nga ang sabi sa banal na kasulatan na hindi lamang sa tinapay nabubuhay ang tao kundi sa mga salita ng Diyos.
Mateo 4:4
Sumagot si Jesus sa kaniya, na sinasabi: Nasusulat
Hindi lamang sa tinapay nabubuhay ang tao kundi sa bawat salitang namumutawi sa bibig ng Diyos.
Sino kaya ang gumawa ng kanyang affidavit at paano yung mga testigo na nakakita na hinagis siya mula sa van na halos walang suot. Lahat may presyo pati kaluluha. Dahil dito sang ayon na akong tanggalin itong VFA. Walang idudulot sa atin na mabuti ito. Pati Korte Suprema ng atin bansa ini walang hiya. Kaya para maiwasan itong kahihiyan, pauwiin na ang mga sundalong kano at wag nang papayagan na pumarada ang mga barko nila dito. Ganoon ba kagaling ang ensayo na idnudulot ng VFA sa atin mga sundalo? Sa tagal ng pakikisama ng atin militar sa mga kano hanggang ngayon may guerra pa rin sa atin. Baka naman sila talaga ang puno at dulo ng gulo dito sa Pinas?
Now they have a licence to rape. They know they wont go to jail! To the senators – I hope it wont be the women in your family next time.
There was no rape in the first place.
I have always been doubtful of her. Now it’s confirmed. Justice for Smith finally.
We may disagree, but Nicole’s life is hers to live.
A case is not just about crossing blades and besting the other lawyer. Nor is it only about “high principles” – sovereignty, Constitutionality of treaties, etc. It is about people, their lives, and the damage that one says the other caused. Can we undo the damage? If not, can we at least mitigate it, and help the aggrieved pick up the pieces of a shattered life?
And which of them do we make whole? Some people here believe that Smith destroyed Nicole’s life; others believe that it is Nicole who has wronged Smith with the accusation.
The cause-oriented champions see these people as footstools to step on, to hold higher the banners of their causes; Ursua, her feminism, and maybe the need to exact retribution from the arrogant foreign chauvinist; the nationalists, the need to prove that the administration has betrayed the people in the continued observance of the VFA. Lost in the passion of causes championed is the true empathy for the suffering parties. For whomever you believe as being aggrieved, they are, in fact, suffering – they have lost their privacy, their anonymity, and are being gawked upon like fish in a fish bowl.
So Nicole has chosen to accept the offer of a settlement – emigration to the US, perhaps even a green card on some assumed name. That will certainly better her life, and that of her family. If she fought to the end, what would she achieve? Smith may be convicted for life. But would that undo the damage to her? A new identity may not, but it would certainly prevent further pain.
Can we blame her for her choice? Must we insist on our “ideals”? Or can we muster the charity to allow her a shot at a new life, and some peace of mind? Perhaps, from the bitter fruit of this experience, and the flesh of a new beginning, both Nicole and Smith, separately, can make ampalaya con carne with their lives. I pray neither will squander this opportunity.
But we must now confront the devil who forever lurks in the details. The case is on appeal. Can you introduce evidence on appeal? Mukhang hindi.
Kailangang planchahin Raul. Looks like you have another pressing engagement.
By the way, have you tossed the coin to determine if there is probable cause against the Alabang Boys?
Jake Las Pinas,
Be Cool! stop blaming the VFA.You need to be more reasonable.Daniel Smith is wrongly accused. I think Nicole just want to get all the publicity from the media.She just wants to get her own share of fame. She’s another hypocrite who wants to get an American husband so that she can come here in the US. When things did not work out she just accused the poor fellow of raping her. Nicole is wicked.There are many gaps between the testimonies,first, why are the filipinos complaining about the verdict’s decision when the philippines always seems like a dog’s tail to america. we rely on them, in fact some think that they too want to have sex with an american,they say they hate americans but they want to go to america.
Nicole first denied that she was raped but took her word back after that,it really means that nicole is lying and Daniel Smith is innocent.The 40 year sentence is wrongly done.
I Believe that Daniel Smith is just another victim of the Dirty Politics of the Philippines. Although most ordinary Filipinos are hospitable and good hearted, almost all the public officials in the different Philippines government agencies are crooked and corrupted. From the top officials to the low rank civil servants, a large majority of them are dishonest, corrupt and irresponsible. Daniel Smith just happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. He’s caught in between the extreme femninist and right wing groups and the government who only know how to play politics. The woman “nicole” has made many inconsistent statements. She is not to be trusted. I pray that there is still some good people who will give Daniel Smith freedom as he should be allowed to come home here in the US. He does not belong to the Philippines. The US Government should do its best to get him back home here.
Comments on Nicole from previous thread:
chi Says:
March 17th, 2009 at 8:17 pm (Edit this comment)
Nicole is in the US? It’s probably the “deal” Lorelie Fajardo was talking about right after Barack called Gloria, who that is “on the other side of history”.
Haha! A victim of rape by an American chose to go/stay in America because “there is no justice” in Pinas. Nakakaloko talaga e!
chi Says:
March 17th, 2009 at 8:19 pm (Edit this comment)
Val, excellent point, “it’s rape when not paid”.
I believe that Nicole’s rape case has been settled in all angles. Trust Gloria, she already covered all the bases right after Barack gave her the ‘urgent’ call.
From Nicole’s affidavit, it seems that she has cleared Smith of rape, pinalabas niya that the sex was consensual due to both of them being intoxicated…nalalabuan daw siya, etc.
As to the legal consequence because the Supreme Court had already spoken, trust Gloria again. Pinas courts, including the SC, are hers.
Daniel Smith will come home soon. Uncle Sam, no matter who the president is, takes care of his people.
Nicole’s case is winner takes all! Them all are winners except those who truly supported and believed in Nicole and her fight. Naiwan sila sa pansitan!
Who knows, baka pakasalan ni Smith si Nicole sa Amerika, and they will live happily everafter, hehehe!!!
More comments from preceeding thread:
bitchevil Says:
March 17th, 2009 at 11:10 pm (Edit this comment)
I’m more surprised and upset with the Smith rape case than this Dacer murder case. The rape victim is now already in the US and terminated the services of her lawyer who took care of her for two years. Why the US of all the countries? Because it was the arrangement between the Evil Bitch and Washington perhaps in exchange for the return of Mancao and Dumlao. This Nicole is now saying she was not raped and that she was so drunk at that time to remember. She also said she liked Smith and had good sex with him. To those guys in the US, I want you to hunt down this Nicole and rape her again. Just buy her a few drinks and you get it.
chi Says:
March 17th, 2009 at 11:13 pm (Edit this comment)
Kung talagang gusto sana nilang lutasin ang krimeng iyan ay dapat noon pa nila ginawa. May extradition Treaty naman tayo sa Amerika bakit ngayon lang. – Tedanz
Oo nga! Ngayon lang ginawa after the WB report na kababuyan ni Pidal. Wag the dog!
Ellen Says:
March 17th, 2009 at 11:14 pm (Edit this comment)
BE, ang tindi mo!
More comments from preceeding thread:
bitchevil Says:
March 17th, 2009 at 11:47 pm (Edit this comment)
Speaking of Nicole, she’s probably now in California where most Filipinos live. So, our friend Cocoy should start hunting her down.
cocoy Says:
March 17th, 2009 at 11:52 pm (Edit this comment)
affidavit is a written declaration which is accompanied by an oath or affirmation indicating that the contents of the affidavit are true.the person has completed the form to the best of his or her knowledge, and that deliberately erroneous information can result in a perjury charge.
The contents of an affidavit reflect the personal knowledge of the declarant, affidavit is witnessed by a notary public or another qualified official, such as a court clerk. Notaries public specialize in witnessing legal documents for people,the signature of the witness indicates that the affiant has pledged that the information is true, and that he or she understands that importance of the oath. Such an affidavit may be used as evidence in court.
cocoy Says:
March 17th, 2009 at 11:55 pm (Edit this comment)
Bitchecvil,
I’m not interested with a loser like Nicole and most of all I don’t want to deal with any person who’s not trustworthy and flip-flopper.
bitchevil Says:
March 17th, 2009 at 11:56 pm (Edit this comment)
Cocoy, just this time…do us a favor. Go and find Nicole.
bitchevil Says:
March 17th, 2009 at 11:58 pm (Edit this comment)
True, affidavit was made and signed under oath. But, the court would still require the the person to confirm it. Good if it was prepared by a legitimate notary public. What if it was a naughty or notorious public?
cocoy Says:
March 18th, 2009 at 12:00 am (Edit this comment)
bitchevil,
I don’t want to be charge in court with rape.I don’t want my home address to be included in the red zone of child molesters and rapist.Let alone Romeo Jaloslos be awarded with that dishonor.
bitchevil Says:
March 18th, 2009 at 12:13 am (Edit this comment)
I understand. But, can you do it just for the Filipinos and the members of this blog? I’m not telling you to rape her. I’m just asking you to find her and then the blacks in Oakland would take care of him. Cool?
If the Nicole case is settled, then the Salonga case before the Supreme Court becomes moot and academic. There is nothing to decide (whether or not the provisions are skewed against the Philippines, re custody of prisoners), because there is no prisoner.
The Supreme Court will not decide a hypothetical question. Walang Smith na dapat ikulong, walang kaso ukol sa custody provisions.
Is that so, Atty? Nakakainis.
More comments from preceeding thread:
deanr Says:
March 18th, 2009 at 12:35 am (Edit this comment)
let go of nicole pls. Hindi sya salot sa lipunan na tulad ng alabang boys, or yung pag nanakaw ng presidente at ng pamilya nya.
Tulad ko din, 80’s ng gusto ko umalis sa pinas. maka Pumunta sa america. at ggawin ko lhat ng paraan makaalis lang. Dumating sa point na naging biktima ako ng baklas. Nahuli, nakulong at na deport. Hindi ko kinahihiya ang ginawa ko at naging learning experience na lang sa akin ang lahat. Ang point ko lang d2 ay mga kanya kanya tayong way para marating ang maliit na pangarap. It just so na katawan nya ang naging paraan.
Wag natin sya bitayin.
deanr Says:
March 18th, 2009 at 12:39 am (Edit this comment)
Tama ka Chi, pero maraming tao ang gagamit o gumagamit ng iba para marating ang lahat ng pangarap. Sana na lang maging maayos ang maging buhay nya. Pag dasal na lang natin sya at lahat ng mga naging biktima.
Kaya doon sa unang blog regarding nicole. sinabi ko na kasalanan din nya ang nangyari sa kanya. Pero may mas malalim pa palang dahilan. Yon ay ang makarating sa US.
Hirap din ng pinag daanan nya. Katawan ang naging puhunan.
chi Says:
March 18th, 2009 at 12:52 am (Edit this comment)
Agree ako sa iyo, Dean tungkol sa “goal” ni Nicole. In fact, I was one of those pinays who did not fully support her claims of rape by Smith. Meron kasi ako na hunch na ginamit lang niya ang insidente to pursue her long term goal. Nagulangan niya ang mga Gabriellas.
deanr Says:
March 18th, 2009 at 1:07 am (Edit this comment)
may nanggamit at may nag pagamit. part na ng buhay natin yan. thanks.:)
bitchevil Says:
March 18th, 2009 at 1:19 am (Edit this comment)
When the Nicole rape case started, I wondered why a decent woman like her with be in a bar drinking and dancing with GIs.
So, I think she was another prosti.
cocoy Says:
March 18th, 2009 at 1:57 am (Edit this comment)
bitchevil,
Never spend a nickel and dime for the likes of Nicole.She’s a trouble maker with attitude.Hehehe!
bitchevil Says:
March 18th, 2009 at 2:02 am (Edit this comment)
She may be a trouble maker as long as she doesn’t cause you trouble in bed.
Agree ako sa iyo, Jake. Hindi lang si Nicole ang nabiktima tatlong beses dito, pati Korte Suprema, at tayong mamamayan ang nawalanghiya dito.
Ibinenta ng gobyerno ang sariling interes at proteksiyong legal ng batas sa kanyang mamamayan.
Dapat talagang pasadahan na iyang Visiting Fornicators Assurance.
Tongue is right!
Another sell out: the Philippines sold the last shred of self respect the country possessed.
I believe that Nicole was used and abused. I believe she was really raped. America and the Philippines paid her to recant with an offer she couldn’t refuse. The deal saved the VFA and Gloria gained a bit of political mileage vis-a-vis the US.
What a sellout!
Susmaryosep! Nadenggoy na naman kami! Magkano kaya ang binayad kay Nicole? I hope GABRIELA will not be the next to recant. Talagang di lang makakabatok. I guess, stick na lang kami ng grupo ko sa protection ng mga patrimonies ng Pilipinas sa Japan. Kaya nga minsan pag may isinusulong sa aming causes na originated sa Pilipinas, medyo alanganin ako kasi baka mapasubo lang, worthless naman pala.
On the other hand, sabi nga, Hope keeps us ‘anxiously engaged’ in good causes even when these appear to be losing causes (see D&C 58:27).”
Endowed with the perfect science of hindsight, I can correctly say “I told you so”.
Due to widespread cynicism of our justice system, the most glaring being the skepticism about the fundamental principle that a person accused of a crime is innocent unless proved guilty, Media is wrong in labeling Smith as a convicted rapist. The SC exercises due care in referring to Smith as Respondent or the Accused, recognizing the legality of guilt as final and executory only after the say-so of the SC. Nicoles recantation that “She also questioned her decorum when she met Smith at the Neptune Club at the Subic Freeport, saying she was so drunk she may have lost her inhibitions and did more than just dance with the Marine. Nicole also raised doubts that Smith raped her inside a van at the Subic Bay Freeport Zone and suggested that she may have welcomed the Marine’s sexual advances.” My understanding of past media reports, the pas de duo was licentious, lustful, Lambada-like dance.
My beef is not with Nicole’s lapses, not even with rabble-rousing Gabriela and grandstanding Ursua, but the dismaying lack of ethics by Media in awarding the tag of convicted rapist to the hapless Smith, thus inflaming a naïve and ignorant sector of Filipinos that sours our relations with a friendly nation and smearing a fifty-year-old Treaty (Mutual Defense Treaty).
For this, she should be charged with perjury and jailed!
Matagal nang usapan iyan that Nicole would be offered a visa to the US for her to recant. Akala ko tunay naman siya, patakbuhin rin pala. Pwe!
Kultura ng lagay, pwe! I prefer the culture of suicides!
Nicole is the shining model of the girl who made good her dream of tomorrow. Would our young girls now expect the same chances from our own boys?
Sabi daw ni Nicole sa affidavit niya, “I told the court that Daniel Smith kissed my lips and neck and held my breast inside the van. Recalling my testimony, I ask myself how I could have remembered this if witnesses told the court that I passed out and looked unconscious.”
Sinabi ba niya iyan sa korte? Kung ako ang abogada niya, right then and there, bibitiwan ko na ang kaso. To think na may iba pang lalaki when she did that sa totoo lang. Ang gulo pala kahit noon pa ng statement ni Nicole.
Next time talaga, ingat na kami sa mga causes na isusulong sa amin. Mahirap nang mapasubo ulit!
I will make this appeal to all the presidentiables for 2010. Anyone who can promise to extradite Nicole for large scale fraud, which is punishable in both US and the Philippines by imprisonment of more than one year, therefore making it an extraditable case, will get the vote of the thousands of Ellenville residents and millions of her readers wholesale. Plan B, a class-action suit against Nicole for destroying whatever is left of the country’s reputation. Even a mere prostitution case will suffice.
And since Smith is now an innocent victim in this case, let’s build him a monument inside Subic to restore his good name and raise funds for his restitution. Maybe congress can approve a special fund release for Smith.
May God punish those who have wronged him.
Go, Smith, go!
I wonder what is the role of Nicole’s lawyer in this negotiation?
I agree to the above, but personally, I’m out! Ayoko nang madenggoy ulit! As for the monument for Smith, di naman siguro kailangan. Mabuti na iyong madala siya.
This case just proved something. Tama iyong taga Bay Area na kakilala kong pilipino who described his countrymen as “mga katulong at puta ng mundo!”
I second Tongue’s motion:
And since Smith is now an innocent victim in this case, let’s build him a monument inside Subic to restore his good name and raise funds for his restitution. Maybe congress can approve a special fund release for Smith.
And amen to: “May God punish those who have wronged him.” AMENNNNN!
Yes!!! Let’s petition Malacanang to award Smith a pension for life!
Long live Smith! May his tribe increase and may his children’s children never become rapists!
I think Nicole lawyer now will think twice.If Daniel Smith will be set free because of Nicole recanted testimonies,Smith may be able to file suit against the person who brought the charges.He may be able to sue the accuser for malicious prosecution. If a law enforcement officer was involved in bringing the false accusations, the accused may also have a claim for false imprisonment or for a civil rights violation.
In a malicious prosecution case, the wrongfully accused plaintiff can recover his or her actual injuries, which include attorneys’ fees to defend the underlying case in criminal court, the cost of any bail bond, lost wages, damages for embarrassment and humiliation, and damages for harm to his or her reputation. In some cases, punitive damages may also be awarded, above and beyond the actual damages suffered, in order to punish the person who raised the wrongful accusations and to discourage others from engaging in similar conduct.
Ellen,
You should hold a drawing/illustration competition here for the best illustration demonising Nicole while glorifying Smith… Really, it’s the right thing to do, don’t you think, at least to convince Uncle Sam and the US Ambassador that we the Filipino people NEVER, EVER CONDONE evil act… that the Filipino people will always honour an American who has been grievously wronged like Smith for his honour, his valour and his fortitude.
Kitayo, bayad na kaya di na rape.
Si Smith daw nag-interview kay Nicole sa visa window.
Now, someone is telling me na na-pressure daw si Nicole to recant. Oh yeah! Kaya na nga ba noon ba medyo apprehensive ako na i-take up ang kasong ito, especially when the people handing the case would not even share with us the real name of this girl. Pero nakumbinsi kaming isulong ang kaso niya dahil lumalaban daw siya and she needed moral and financial support, etc. So, we took up her case. Martsa pa sa harap ng US Embassy.
“Nakakadala” is the word. In fact, medyo kabado na nga ako sa kasong ito kaya iyong isa pang kaso ng rape daw sa Okinawa, hindi ko pinakialaman. “Gamitan” is another word. Kaya iyong mga kasama kong mga hapon, hindi rin interesado lalo na iyong pilipino mukhang ginagamit lang ang kaso niya to prolong his/her stay in Japan.
Buti na lang hindi nga kami sumama kasi iyong pala iyong rape victim daw hindi naman pala babae! In other words, he/she pala!!! 🙁
ADB,
Put me on Smith cheerleader’s corner.Since,the beginning I was the only blogger here that defended him and my position was a consensual sex.Pinagtulungan ninyo ako,Lahat kayo galit sa akin.Now the truth set me free.Hehehehe!
Those who have always said that Nicole was lying: You are all right!
America has always and will always behave honourably, without the least bit of dishonesty towards the Filipino people. Whoever said that Uncle Sam was a mean bastard was wrong… Uncle Sam will never make an offer to the Filipinos that they cannot refuse… I agree that it’s absolutely gobsmacking, unthinkable and moronic to think that Americans will behave that way towards Filipinos.
It is absolutely wrong to believe that Americans will ever use Pinoys or Pinas as pawns…
Americans will always have the most honourable intentions and the kindest of regard for each and every Filipino man, woman and child.
Tongue, Anna:
You’re right. This is nothing but a sellout. Sarap barilin ang mga unggoy!
Cocoy,
I know! You’ve been proven right… that’s why I agree with Tongue to build a monument in honour of Smith…with the epitaph:
“May his children and his children’s children never become rapists and may God strike the entire Filipino nation for the sins they committed against the good name of Smith!”
Si Smith daw nag-interview kay Nicole sa visa window.–Valdemar
Or maybe,it was Smith who filed for Nicole’s fiance visa.That’s funny,hehehehe!
JLP: Sino kaya ang gumawa ng kanyang affidavit at paano yung mga testigo na nakakita na hinagis siya mula sa van na halos walang suot?
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Good question! Tanong noong kasama kong taga-GABRIELA kung si Nicole ba daw talaga ang gumawa ng affidavit niya! Sinong napahiya sa kasong ito? Mga pilipino, sino pa!!!
Yuko!
Sellout? I retract my accusation Yuko!!! You must join me… Nobody will believe it was a sellout because as everyone knows Filipinos are liars, cheats, pompous little asses who should never ever be believed….
As a matter of fact, you should also second the motion of Tongue: build a monument in honour of Smith, petition Malacanang to award him the Legion of Honour and to pray Congress to award him a pension for life.
Only fitting and honourable thing to do by a nation that has been proven to be a nation of cheats, thieves and liars, don’t you think.
And from now on Yuko, we should resolve to say to counter all the nasty things being said about America’s treatment of the Philippines!!!
America fair and square to the Philippines? But of course…
“Go, Smith, Go”, chanted the Americans as Daniel Smith abused Nicole at the back of the van before she was dumped in a dark area of the parking lot.
“We only want justice for Nicole,” cried Nicole’s mom.
Visa plus green card is the new form of justice!
Long live the most honourable race in the world: Americans!
Akala ko pa naman itinatayo na namin ang bandila ng Pilipinas, di pala! Nakngpating, nagpa-rape para lang sa US visa? Yuck!
Long live the most fair and most just nation in the world: America!
Yuko, forget Nicole! The best saying in politics is: “Truth be damned (either way!)”
We should instead laud the Americans for their acts of honour, their sense of justice, and their no mean valourous treatment of the Filipino nation!
Long live the most just of nations: America!
Anna: Sellout? I retract my accusation Yuko!!! You must join me… Nobody will believe it was a sellout because as everyone knows Filipinos are liars, cheats, pompous little asses who should never ever be believed….
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OK, Filipinos are “liars, cheats, pompous little asses who should never ever be believed…” but it is still a sellout!
I won’t join the crowd cheering Smith and America, Anna. I stick to my guns. Iyong mga kriminal, innocent and otherwise, kailangang maparusahan!!! 😉
Tangnang kultura ng lagay, oo! Can’t stand it as a matter of fact.
Aw c’mon Yuko!
You can do better than that…
Americans never lie, they never cheat, they never commit the unthinkable, they have always, always, always been fair and just in their treatment of every nation on earth, particularly the Filipino nation!!!
Yuko,
Matter of fact, this story should encourage every single family with a new born baby boy to name their child Daniel Smith in honour of the non-rapist American soldier, Daniel Smith!
Over here, our chant is “Go home, Yankees, go home! And they are now going home to Mindanao, I understand.
That was one reason why Hilary Clinton was here recently. Before you know it, the troops in Okinawa will be having a good time in Mindanao at Nicole’s Mom’s canteen!!! Tangnang buhay iyan, oo!!!
Yuko!
But so what if the troops in Okinawa rape, I mean have a good time in Mindanao?
They are the kindest, the most honourable, the most just troops in the world.
They NEVER EVER COMMIT ATROCIOUS acts… We all know that!
I suggest that Ellen write her next Malaya article along those lines… in honour of the beautiful American and their wonderful treatment of the Philippines!
eto lang ang masasabi ko…
A N G H I T A D ! ! ! ! ! !
Anna: Americans never lie, they never cheat, they never commit the unthinkable, they have always, always, always been fair and just in their treatment of every nation on earth, particularly the Filipino nation!!!
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I don’t believe this lie, Anna, even if you have! 😛
Aw c’mon Yuko… lie? Americans lie? But of course not, NEVER!
Anna: They are the kindest, the most honourable, the most just troops in the world.
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Anna, are you drunk? Sorry, girl, can’t join you for a drink. I don’t drink that’s what, especially not for “the most honourable, the most just troops in the world.” My friends on Basrah think otherwise, though.
I’m sure that the US Ambassador will not stoop to the level of Filipinos who she belives in her heart of hearts to be liars…so, if you ask her if they gave a visa to Nicole in exchange for a visa, she will say,
“OF COURSE NOT! America doesn’t enter into deals of that kind!”
And we must believe her! She will never lie to the Filipino nation, why should she? She wouldn’t want to stoop to the level of Pinoys!
Yuko, my dear girl, I’ve never been more sober in my whole life…! Ask Tongue!
Ooops, “so, if you ask her if they gave a visa to Nicole in exchange for her recanting her story, she will say,…”
Meanwhile, I’m waiting an update from GABRIELA, which according to my source did not have direct dealing with Nicole, but kind of just indirectly helped her as a woman in distress. Tangnang denggoyan ito, oo!
Yuko,
You don’t believe “They (Americans) are the kindest, the most honourable, the most just troops in the world.”
But I thought Bush said so… shouldn’t we believe Bush? He’s American after all and Americans don’t lie, they behave honourably, and have been always just towards the Filipino nation…
Cool down, Yuko! In this story, EVERY SINGLE PERSON who had the misfortune of having worked with Nicole will be branded a liar by the Americans and we should believe Americans for they never ever will lie to the Filipino people!
Again, I suggest that Ellen write her next Malaya article lauding American spirit towards Rule of Law vis a vis the Filipino nation…
She should admonish the Filipino nation in her article! That they should bow their heads in shame for even remotely believing that just and honourable America could have entered into a deal with Nicole whereby she would be granted an immigrant visa (Wow! Immigrant Visa! Yeehaw!) in exchange for recanting and declaring non-rapist Daniel Smith innocent of all the charges she laid at his doorstep.
She should recommend that Daniel Smith be received at Malacanang, awarded the Legion of Honour and promised a pension for life, after all, he is a member of the US Marines troops who never ever commit atrocious acts!
She should recommend that Daniel Smith be received at Malacanang, awarded the Legion of Honour and promised a pension for life, after all, he is a member of the US Marines troops who never ever commit atrocious acts! And with gusto add, and Certainly not against Filipinos!
Let us just let this one go. The fact of the matter is every interest group took advantage of this crappy issue. Now S.N. decides that since the cat is out of the bag already, might as well get something for her troubles.
Marami diyan na mas mabigat pa kasalanan di lang sa kapwa tao nila, sa sarili nila o sa Diyos. For me, I thought all along that SN has credibility issues, pero sino naman ang mapaniniwalaan sa Pinas?
So, Nicole, sana you find a better life wherever you are.
after two years of fighting from an appeal, one can easily get burned out. with offers maybe from left and right, who could refuse a student visa to see america?
the issue is no longer about Nicole but the same old issue that this country cannot correct.
Who wouldn’t be tired of this country when Justice is so dependent.
Asiandelight says, “the issue is no longer about Nicole but the same old issue that this country cannot correct.
Who wouldn’t be tired of this country when Justice is so dependent.”
Spot on!
Ang pangarap ng mga ilan ay ang makarating sa America..kaya gawin ang lahat para makarating sa America,,now it is get rape by a US soldier..malungkot. Ang kawawa ay si Smith..If I remember right Fr.Reuter believed his story but because Kano siya guilty na kaagad..mapagsamantala!
If indeed she is here in America..madali siyang makakuha ng trabaho at may local experience na siya…kasi kung bago ka dito kahit ano ang talino at experience mo mahihirapan kang makakita ng trabaho kaagad…ang tanong lagi ay “Do you have any local experience?”
Anyway, Ellen, pardon my saying this but this Nicole-Daniel Smith is a thoroughly boring story… Yawn!
Good night people. Have fun.
AdB: her story maybe boring but I will not be surprised if kakawin na pelikula..at marami ang manunuod.
..maiba ako..kung binayaran siya would it not make her a prostitute?..and if so, isn’t prostitution illegal?
..maganda ba siya? titibak siya sa dollars kung maging prosti siya..
corr: but I will not be surprised if gagawin na pelikula…
You are right, Anna.Really boring.
I just wrote one column for tomorrow’s issue of Abante on this, recalling Fjardo’s statement last Modnay about “we are not abandoning Nicole.. and a compromise agreement has been reached between the US and phil governments on this…”.
That ‘s all.
Back to the real issue of the arroyo couple making prostitutes out of the Philippines. WB scandal, Alabang boys, NBN ZTE, Legacy, Fertilizer scam,hello Garci.
but wait.. how did Nicole get a student VISA? was it constitutional, expedited or gift to reverse the conviction?
No wonder Nicole is a liar…she graduated from Ateneo like Mike Pidal, Nani Perez and the rest of the Ateneo crooks run by Jesuit crooks.
Should we be surprised with the development of the Smith Rape of Nicole? Should we be surprised with her concern more of money and herself and less of her dignity and other Filipinas among us who would be raped by Americans? As I have been monotonously repeating, our situation today is a symptom of the infection transmitted to us in the 1900s. Many of us have been refusing to look into the underlying cause. Many of us have been enjoying victims. Many of us have a very injured dignity that we have begun to concern ourselves only with being relieved momentarily of hunger or of the short term pain. We have abandoned the future of our children and our brother Filipinos to the creek.
We were a newly born nation in 1898. Thru overbearing might and slyness, Americans took advantage of our being weak as a newborn nation to force their will on us by invading us, as we resisted fiercely in 1899. Is this not an act of rape? Our resistance weakened when 200,000 to 900,000 of us Filipinos died as a consequence. With a weak resistance, Americans continued raping our institutions one of the earliest of which was our military. Then they proceeded with the governance, economy, the education and our communication. We were infected by a Heritage Injuring Virus. The identity we inherited from our fathers and which defined our relationship among us Filipinos was injured. This corrupted every system of the life of our nation. This corruption replicated from the defense system, spread to the other systems until it spread to our culture and finally into our national psyche. This replicated from one generation to the next.
The symptoms are: a whole new generation of dependent people drawing life from and willing to give all of their most treasured assets to the trespasser; and an autoimmune defense system which now recognize as the enemy, the self (us, Filipinos) trying to resist the foreign invaders and their collaborators who is now recognize as the superior or super ego. We are now in the stage of Alienated Identity and Defense Syndrome. Our defense system has been corrupted.
Nicole is just a cell of our body as Filipinos which was corrupted by that Heritage injuring Virus transmitted by the Americans thru the continued rape of our institutions. With the corruption of our national system by this virus, the identity of each one of us with our nation has been as a consequence, corrupted. How then, could we have love for one another. Could we then, expect Nicole to, think of the Filipinas among us who would also be raped by an American?
We have brother Filipinos who sacrificed themselves, their families and their future like Artemio Ricarte, Antonio Luna, Alejandrino, Torres Bugallon, Lukban, Malvar, Leon Sakay and our other elder brothers. We now also have Former Vice President Teofisto Guingona Jr, Bishop Labayen, Nemenzo, Jonas Burgos, Trillanes 1V, Miranda, Danilo Lim, de Leon, Segumalian, Jason Aquino, Faeldon, Alejano, Layug and many other nationalistic Filipinos who have been continuing this resistance. So long as we have people like them, our resistance to this social disease will continue.
Let us Filipinos, continue to fight this virus transmitted by the Americans in the 1900s until we can fully recover.
Then we can finally come home!
Sleep tight, Anna. Gotta go back to my translations, too. This time I thought I’d be more careful in espousing Philippine causes. Tangnanay nila, talagang maraming pahamak sa kanila. I thought it was an ugly Philippine character that I never actually noticed when we were in the Philippines until I got my police job in Japan. I translate also for other nationals as a matter of fact because of my ability to speak English, Spanish and French aside from my native Japanese and Tagalog. Pansin ko talaga sa maraming pilipino pahamak! Pag nahuli ng pulis, kung sino-sino ang tinuturo tapos magsisinungaling.
Good thing that over here, no one gets away with perjury or they go to prison. Dapat ganyan ang gawin kay Nicole. I should have checked where she went to school. Ateneo pala!!! Yuck!!!
Before, it was “Hello Garci” by the Evil Bitch. Recently, it was “Hello Obama”. Next time it would be “Hello Nicole” (are you okay in the US?) by the Bitch.
Kaya how can one be proud to say he’s a Filipino? Dito nga sa Japan, tingin sa mga pilipina, puta (japayuki)!
Nope, I’m no Japayuki. Mestisang hapon, yes!
I don’t think all Japanese look at all Pinays as prosti. That’s quite offensive. If my sister goes to Japan for a visit, would Japanese look at her as prosti?
grizzy,
sobra na ‘yang paglait at paghamak sa mga pinay. kung meron mang nagpuputa diyan sa japan, hindi naman lahat ng pinay, ganyan.
ngayon lang ako mag-re-react, PERO NAPAKASAKIT NANG BASAHIN ANG MGA POSTE MONG ANG LABAS NG MGA PILIPINANG PUMUPUNTA DIYAN SA JAPAN AY PATAY GUTOM NA PUTA.
paano kung ang mga kamag-anak mo ang pumunta diyan, ikatutuwa mo bang sila ay sabihan din ng PUTA?
ikaw ba mismo ang magsasabing kaya sila nandiyan ay para MAGPUTA?
si gloria at ang kanyang administrasyong bulok and isyu dito na gusto nating masawata at maalis nang sa gayon ay makaahon ang pilipinas sa ilang taon nang pagkakalugmok mulang ang sinungaling, mandaraya at magnanakaw ay maluklok, kaya siya ang dapat mong patungkulan ng pagiging puta at hindi ang mga pinay na naging biktima lamang ng kahirapan at napipilitang kumapit sa patalim upang mabuhay.
kung hangad mong makatulong, HUWAG mo ng IINSULTUHIN ang gusto mong tulungan.
alalahanin mong meron ka ring dugong PINAY.
maaaninag ang kamay ng taga malakanyang sa likod ng sulat na ito ni “nicole” sapagkat kung hindi naging mahusay ang pagkumbinsi sa kanya, kasama na ang pangakong (may kasamang “gigil”) bibigyan siya ng magandang pagkakataon upang maiayos kuno ang kanyang buhay.
napakaraming lugar, napakaraming bansa, bakit sa amerika pa? nagpapatunay lamang na “NILILIGAWANG MAIGE” ng talipandas na babaeng huwad na presidente ang administrasyon ni obama.
at isa pa, teka nga pala! ‘di ba’t katatawag lamang ni obama kay gloria?
tapos, biglang lumabas ang recantation ni “nicole”?
hindi kaya matagal na ring nakahanda ito at inilabas lamang upang maging isang patunay na pikit matang pagtanggap sa mga kundisyones ng VFA na mas pabor sa mga sundalong kano?
hindi rin natin maaaring sisihin si “nicole”, kung ito man ang kanyang desisyon sapagkat ano man ang kahinatnan ng kanyang buhay bunga ng hakbang niyang ito ay siya lamang ang magtatamasa at/o maaapektuhan.
If there is a reason for Nicole’s behaviour, I understand her frustrations but I can not understand her trip to the US. Something is not right at all here. Something is very fishy.
Magno: ngayon lang ako mag-re-react, PERO NAPAKASAKIT NANG BASAHIN ANG MGA POSTE MONG ANG LABAS NG MGA PILIPINANG PUMUPUNTA DIYAN SA JAPAN AY PATAY GUTOM NA PUTA.
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Bakit ka magagalit, Magno, e, iyan naman ang totoo? Ginagawa pa ngang bayani ang mga putang yumuyurak sa puri ng inang bayan nila. Never akong naawa sa kanila o tawagin silang bayani kahit na ilan pang bunganga ang pakainin nila.
Kung nasasaktan ka, lalo na kaming hindi na maipagmalaki ang bansang sinilangan dahil sa mga putang ipinagbibili ng gobyerno nila sa ibang bansa sa totoo lang. Masakit aminin ang katotohanan, bakit pa kailangang magmaang-maangan.
Gusto ko na sanang maniwalang may natitira pang matitinong pilipino sa bansang iniwanan, pero with this story of Nicole, nasira na ang pag-asa ko.
I won’t apologize for what I said. Iyong baho ni Gloria, mukhang nabahuan na ang marami.
Yup, may dugo akong pilipino. Hindi mo naman maipagmalaki!
Ayoko ko nang maghinta ng pagputi ng uwak sa totoo lang! 🙁
At saka, Magno, bakit ka magagalit e totoo naman parang mga pataygutom na itong mga babaing pinagpuputa ng gobyerno nila dito. Tangnanay nila, nagpapabuntis sa mga hapon o kung sinu-sino diyan pangtawid gutom daw! Masakit ang sinabi ko, pero iyan ang katotohanan na dapat ipamukha sa mga ginawang pataygutom na mga pilipino ng mismong gobyerno nila. Iyan ang katotohanan na hindi ako mag-a-apologize!
BE: If my sister goes to Japan for a visit, would Japanese look at her as prosti?
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Hindi naman bastos ang mga hapon na sabihan ang isang pinay ng diretso ng “Puta ka!” Pero kung bata pa ang kapatid mo baka tanungin ng, “Saan club ka nagtatrabaho?” Puta na rin ang ibig sabihin niyon.
Kung matanda naman, baka pagkamalang mama-san!
PSB: I understand her frustrations but I can not understand her trip to the US. Something is not right at all here. Something is very fishy.
*****
Para sa akin, flimsy ang excuse. In fact, my first reaction to this case was baka lang gustong makakuha ng visa sa Tate, but when Ellen published an article supporting this girl’s fight for her honor and dignity, naisip ko nang suportahan ang laban para sa kaniya para na rin sa iba pang mga biktima ng mga malilibog na sundalong kano. I should have followed my intuition. Nasayang ang pagod namin ng mga kasama ko.
Something fishy, sabi mo. Yup, fishy! Pera na naman ang umiral!
And why accept any money from Smith to go to the US? Naguguluhan talaga ako.
I do not like to be judgemental but something is very wrong here!
Iyong tungkol sa kahirapan na sinasabi mo, Magno, di ako naniniwala diyan. Sabi nga ng nanay ko, “Magdildil ng asin!”
At sabi din ng Diyos, “kung iyong mga ibon, hindi kailangang magbanat ng buto, nabubuhay, iyong mga tao pa kaya!”
Tangnanay nila, nang hindi pa nagre-recant si Nicole kuno, ayaw pa raw ipaalam ang tunay na pangalan niya to protect her privacy kuno. Pero ngayong pinalabas pa niyang patakbuhin pala siya talaga e, niladlad na lahat, pati tunay niyang pangalan. OK naman daw kasi biglang yaman sila!!! May visa pa sa Tate na akala mo iyon talaga ang pinakamahalaga!!! Yuck!!! 🙁
grizzy,
kung patay gutom man sila, isipin mong sila biktima ng pinakaabusadong administrasyon at hindi nila ginusto ang maging ganyan.
wala kang karapatan na laitin ang mga pinay dahil hindi sila namamalimos ng iyong tulong.
kung tutulong ka, tumulong ka na lang. kung ayaw mo, walang pumipilit sa iyo.
Yuko, in the late 70s and mid 80s when I used to travel to Japan, I was a size 4 and very young. Whenever I checked into a hotel, the staff would look at me from head to foot and I felt so belittled but I was lucky that somehow, I found half Filipinos amongst the hotel personnel. Some of them spoke very good English so I had clear communications with them. After a few minutes of scrutiny, I was treated very well. Actually, the front desk personnel even helped me with mapping my itinerary everyday. They would write the addresses in Japanese and I just gave the directions to the taxi driver. It helped a lot!
Magno: paano kung ang mga kamag-anak mo ang pumunta diyan, ikatutuwa mo bang sila ay sabihan din ng PUTA?
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Kaya nga ako galit, e, at nakikibaka para maiba ang image pero papaano mong maiiba ang image e ipinagpipilitan pa nga ni Gloria Tapalani na isaksak ang mga putang pinay dito? Lola na lang siguro ang hindi napapagkamalang putang pinay dito!
Truth is I had a distant relative who came to Japan to study. Pinay na pinay ang mukha dahil wala namang lahing hapon. Umuwi isang araw na umiiyak. May nagtanong daw sa kaniyang hapon kung saang bansa siya galing. Nang sabihin daw niyang “Pilipinas,” tinanong siya kung saan bar siya nagtatrabaho at pupuntahan daw siya doon. Natakot ang pinsan ko at nabastos ang pakiramdam.
Kaya sabi ko sa kaniya, “since we live near the Indonesian Embassy, magpanggap na lang siyang Indonesian.” Ganoon nga ang ginawa niya at mula noon, kahit kelan ay wala nang nambastos sa kaniya! Get it!!!
PSB:
Sabi mo you came here in the 70’s and 80’s? 70’s OK pa ang image ng mga pilipina dito. Mid-80’s kilala na silang mga puta, pero at least, parang mga biktima pa ng mga white slavers. After that naging garapalan na. Ang masama naging government enterprise pa pagkatapos na pirmahan ni Cory iyong kontrata with Japan re the 40,000 annual quota for so-called “Filipino entertainers.”
Magno: wala kang karapatan na laitin ang mga pinay dahil hindi sila namamalimos ng iyong tulong.
*****
Sinong may sabi sa iyong di sila humihingi ng tulong? Kaya nga kami nagkaroon ng movement dito dahil akala nga namin tunay silang biktima, pero iyong pala sila ang nambibiktima!
Sabi nga, Magno, walang maaalipin kung walang nagpapaalipin! Inabuso sila ng gobyerno nila, dapat lang silang lumaban, hindi iyong handa nilang ibenta ang kanila para lang ipangtawid gutom nila. Lalaitin ko sila, Magno, dahil masama ang trabaho nila!
You bet, Magno, truth is nakakadala kaya maingat na ako sa pagtulong sa mga pilipino. Most of the time, namamahamak pa. Gratitude is something you cannot expect from them sa totoo lang!!!
PSB – don’t be confused why Nicole is now in the US. She unknowingly got to America via the “Rendition Program”. Pareng Cocks and the other grunts co-accused with Smith are now secretly applying the “waterboarding” on Nicole, since Bush and Cheney insisted it’s not torture.
PSB: I do not like to be judgemental but something is very wrong here!
*****
Nope, you aren’t being judgmental. Something is really very wrong—doon na rin sa naging kultura ng mga pilipino no doubt!
When we left the Philippines, walang pilipinang aaminin halimbawa ng gaya ng pag-amin ni Nicole. Ngayon, garapalan na. Akala niya siguro iyong tatanggapin niyang 100,000 pesos ba at visa sa Tate tama nang panghugas ng putik sa mukha at p…niya! Yuck!!!
Falsely claiming you are of other nationality to be accepted in one’s country is the suckiest crap I’ve ever heard of in terms of race relations. It defies logic and so freaking offensive to common sense.
So what does an African-American tell the Japanese if they look down on blacks in Japan? Susuki-San, me no black, I’m Arabian, a desert nigger!! No pun intended!
Fuck Nicole! Fuck morality! Fuck nationalism! Girls, the next time you bump into a US sailor in the Philippines, get down on on your knees and give him a mind-wrecking blowjob. No one gets raped in the country. We are all prostitutes. But this time they’re paying us with US Visas, wow. The ultimate currency! Ask those Pinoy immigrants.
That will be your salvation. Goodbye poverty, hello Ben Franklin!
Ka Magno, Aling Yuko,
May kahabaan din ang panahong nanahimik ako. Sumapat na sa akin ang madalas na pagbasa ng inyong mga kurukuro sa pagkakaunawang iisa ang takbo ng ating paniniwala. Sa pangkalahatang tinutungo ng inyong mga ambag, halos puro pagsang-ayon lang ang maidaragdag ko kaya minabuti kong tunghayan na lamang ang inyong mga lathala.
Sa pagkakataong ito, lantaran ang pagsasalungat ng inyong mga kurukuro kaya ipinasya kong muling makilahok at maglahad ng sarili kong saloobin. Pahintulutan sana ninyo akong makisabat.
Nauunawaan ko ang sakit na nararamdaman ni Ka Magno sa tuwing may paglalahat na ang mga Pinay sa Hapon, o kung saan mang sulok ng mundo, ay mga puta. Una, dahil kalahi ko sila, ikalawa, dahil malayo ito sa katotohanan.
There are no tyrants where there are no slaves. True. But the question is, must we place the blame squarely on the shoulders of those who agree to play the slaves’ role? In most cases, slaves have very limited options, if at all, to be anything else. Tyrants have all the options not to enslave anybody.
Aling Yuko, maaari po akong sumang-ayon na mali ang magputa makatawid lang sa gutom. But then, I simply cannot stand in judgement, neither can I claim to be more honorable. Hindi ko dinanas ang gutom nila, hindi ko pinagdaanan ang hirap nila. Kung naging babae ako at dinanas ko lahat ng dinanas nila, baka sakaling nagputa rin ako. Who knows?
Sisihin natin ang karamihan ng Pinay na napadpad sa Japan dahil nagputa ang karamihan sa kanila. Let us also blame the Japanese for their rather stereotypical view of Pinays.
Tongue/ Anna:
Sabay sabay tayo:
Mabuhay ang Dakilang Lahi! Mabuhay ang mga Kano! Katarungan para kay Smith!…………
Arrrraaaaaaayyyyy!
“No wonder Nicole is a liar…she graduated from Ateneo like Mike Pidal, Nani Perez and the rest of the Ateneo crooks run by Jesuit crooks.”
BE:
Nakakasagasa ka na! Crooks aren’t only coming from Ateneo! Ang MAIN crook graduated from Assumption!
BTW, on Nicole:
My sympathy is with her! We don’t know exactly what this woman had to go through to make such a decision! Whether money, juicy benefits or even threats were the issues involved, she has her conscience to remind her.
Don’t worry about our Reputation: Gloria has long “demolished” it since she started ruling the country courtesy of Erap and Garci!!!
Americans will always have the most honourable intentions and the kindest of regard for each and every Filipino man, woman and child. – AdeBrux
Yeah, most especially the children. In America they can always leave their children in daycare centers and feel safe. Can you say the same for Pinoys? I found this.
Ang trabaho ni grizzy sa Japan ay translator sa korte. Ang nakakaharap niyang mga Pinay sa korte ay yung may mga kaso. Hindi ko siya masisisi kung ang tingin niya sa mga Pinoy ay ganoon na lang. Malamang, ang mga kabarkada niyang mga Pinay ay hindi Japayuki kanya di niya kabisado ang trabaho ng mga ito. Aamnin ko, hindi maiiwasan magkaroon ng prosti pero ang tawag sa kanila ay joufu o keikoku o kurouto at hindi Japayuki. Palagi nga niyang sinasabi ay kawawang Pinas eh.
Ang sabi naman ng aking kaibigan na nagtrabaho sa Japan ng 15 taon ay mali ang pagiisip na masama ang Japayuki. Hindi sila prosti at katunayan daw ay bawal maski na hawakan mo sila sa kamay pa lang. Sabi niya, yung crab mentality daw ng maraming Pinoy ang sumisira sa mga Pinoy. Medyo mahilig sa chicks itong kaibigan kong ito pero sabi niya mas ma-L daw ang haponesa. Dugtong pa niya ay maraming kaliweteng haponesa. Tungkol namn daw sa prosti, kakaunti daw ito sa Japan because most Japs cannot afford it. Yun ngang basic commodities ay mahal na, yun pa kayang fresh flesh.
Mukhang totoo yung sinabi ng kaibigan ko kasi noong nasa KSA ako, mayroong akong kaopisina na haponesa itinaas niya ang kanyang palda sa harap ko nung nagbibiruan kaming dalawa. Ayun, sa takot ko, tinapos namin sa flexi-van.
Sa totoo lang, sa mga porn, mas marami akong napanood na professionally made japanese porns whose actors and actresses are in their teens. From 13 and up ang edad nila.
Balik tayo kay Nicole. Sa totoo lang, mas masahol pa ang pinagdaanan ng maraming Pinay para lang makapagabroad. Ang pinakamasahol ay yung human trafficking na kung saan maraming batang bata ay sa pilitang pinagpuputa. Yung mga iba naman na nasa US, Japan, UK, EU, ME at atbp., ay napipilitang magpakasal sa di naman nila mahal at sa totoo lang, di nila tipong ka-sex. Di ba nakakadiri kung an babae ay 25 at yung lalaki ay 60 or vise versa, yuck!
TT – and that’s not the end either. Some caregivers and daycare center sargents will soon be caught. Summer is fast approaching and toddlers will drown in hundreds of swimming pools around the world, if not thousands. Some people are just PLAIN STUPID. Or leave their kids inside a vehicle where it’s 120 degrees F, while they gamble or screwing or what-have-you.
syria, yan nga ang nakakapikon e. Visa lang pala ang katapat ang dami pang idinamay. Kung nagpaareglo na sana siya nung una pa, e di hindi tayo inilaglag diba?
Matagal na ang offer sa kanya, ayaw niyang pa-areglo. Kesyo kahit ang kapalit daw e iwan siya ng boyfriend niyang Kano. Ngayon ang lumalabas, inaamin na niyang:
-ginago niya yung BF niyang Kano
-ginago niya yung nanay niyang iyak ng iyak dahil nawawalan na sila ngtiwala sa hustisya sa Pilipinas
-ginago niya yung mga kamag-anak, kaibigan, katrabaho, kaeskwela, pati yung mga kapareho niyang biktima ng karahasan
-ginago niya yung abugado, witnesses, judge, korte, Supreme Court, yung batas, at tayong naniwala sa laban niya
PATUNG INA MO, NICOLE. HUYAP KA, KUNG NANAHIMIK KA NA LANG SANANG LESTE KA, HINDI MO NA SANA KAMI IDINAMAY. INAKSAYA MO LANG ANG ORAS NAMIN, BWANA KANG INAKA! KUNG KAGAYA KA LANG PALA NG MG IBA DIYANG NAGTUPA MAKAPUNTA LANG SA AMERIKA, HINDI KA NA SANA NANGGAMIT NG MATITINONG TAO, HIDNOT KA!
“I was scared of losing not only my American boyfriend but the chance of living in the United States.” – nicole, THE WHORE.
So now you’re now in paradise, huh! Know what, Nicole, my Kuwaiti friends who are all billionaires are looking for a date with bitches you. You won’t believe how much they pay. Private jets, private islands, hundreds of servants, sprawling villas. But you don’t qualify as a girlfriend, much more, as a wife.
Just a one-night gangbang in the van in some dim parking lot with these smelly maniacs. Those without previous experience need not apply.
ang pagtulong sa kapwa ay hindi naghihintay ng kapalit o kabayaran. mas lalo na ‘yung sa pagtalikod ng tao ay duduraan at ipaglaladlaran kung ano’ng uri merong hanapbuhay. kung ganu’n din lang, HUWAG NANG TULUNGAN.
saan ka ba nakabasa sa bibliya o sa koran, o saan mang banal na kasulatang ginagamit ng ibang relihiyon na tulungan mo ang iyong kapwa sa pamamagitan ng pag-aabot ng tinapay sa iyong kanang kamay at hagupitin mo ng latigo tangan ng kaliwa?
gayundin, tukuyin, pangalanan kung sino ang pinatutungkulan ng pagiging bobo at boba, ng pagiging tanga, huwag lalahatin at magdadamay ng iba!
I heard that she said “there is no justice in the Phil”, which is exactly true. Read between the lines because that says it all. Sa buhay , practical na lang.
i can understand that some felt let down by nicole specially those who really helped her. bystanders like me did not did not give more than moral support. now that she just wanted to move on instead, i think there is nothing more to discuss. i can even wish her good luck.
Hirap kasi sa ibang Pinoy maigsi pa ang memory kesa sa goldfish. Nakalimutan na yatang nagwawala si Nicole, yung nanay niya, yung mga taga-Gabriela, pati na yung abogada niya nung na-acquit yung ibang co-conspirators at si Smith lang ang guilty.
Mabuti pa sinabi na niya lang na tinanggap ko na ang alok ang embassy ng visa kapalit ng areglo.
Tangina lolokohin pa tayo. Kung sanay na ang ibang nagpapaloko, hindi ko pa rin tanggap.
Mahirap ang situation ng mga Kano, dahil ang gamit ng Supreme Court ng PI ay yung jurisprudence mismo ng Kano. So they cannot claim that the Treaty is executory, nor can they claim the correctness of their interpretation. So the Salonga case has to be rendered moot and academic, by there being no prisoner whose custody is in dispute. That is why Nicole was “persuaded” to make the exculpatory recantation. A settlement may not affect the appeal, but reasonable doubt will.
The US needs this, to avoid having to concur with the Phil. Supreme Court which cited US jurisprudence, and Gloria needs the US.
As for those who rail against the US for “bullying” the PI to a lopsided “treaty”, I say, that is misplaced. You bargain for the most benefit for your side; Pacquiao wanting a bigger percentage, Pacquiao wanting to fight in Vegas not the UK.
Similarly, the US negotiators did their job; that was their duty. It is the PI side that took a dive.
I agree, the US just did their duty.
They just did it too when we were just a newly born nation in 1898 and they invaded us in 1899. We resisted. As a consequence, they tortured us. As a consequence, 200,000 to 900,000 of us Filipinos died. Our resistance weakened. Our side took a dive. The Americans developed indigenous counterforce against our resistance thru the development of local paramilitary units, a military academy, picked potential collaborator politicians and legislatures, supported them, cultivated them, and provided them with legal existence against those resisting invasion whom they banned.
The Americans just did their duty when behind their military might, they provided legal protection to the Chinese whom we Filipinos resisted because of their having dislocated us original Filipinos from our economic bases. They just did their duty to make us Filipinos unable to develop our economy into industrialization and thus have our raw materials remain readily available to them.
They just did their duty when they imposed their language, history, literature and all the topics in our education which transformed a whole generation of Filipinos from fiercely resisting victims to worshiping and dependent victims of the American invasion. This newly corrupted identity replicated for generations. The present system of our national life is a product of this development and replication. The U.S. needs this to perpetuate our readiness to give them what they want from our rich natural resources and strategic location.
The U.S. is just doing their duty. It is our fault for having taken a dive.
“America has always and will always behave honourably, without the least bit of dishonesty towards the Filipino people.”….AdeB
I hope you can say the same thing about Bush, representing America, and his Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD).
I hope America behaved honorably and honestly towards our WWII veterans.
I hope America behaved honorably and honestly when they murdered men, women and children in Balangiga.
I hope America behaved honorably and honestly when they massacred hapless women and children at Bud Daho.
I hope America behaved honorably and honestly by giving priority of rehabilitating enemy Japan than friend Philippines.
And so on and so forth……
# tru blue Says:
March 18th, 2009 at 2:59 pm
PSB – don’t be confused why Nicole is now in the US. She unknowingly got to America via the “Rendition Program”. Pareng Cocks and the other grunts co-accused with Smith are now secretly applying the “waterboarding” on Nicole, since Bush and Cheney insisted it’s not torture.
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Tru, naunahan mo ako. Hahaha!
Yeah, there was too much pressure applied on Nicole dictated by Uncle Sam and “rendered” by Gloria, then she was awarded a carrot that her mother could not refuse!
Subaltz:
“Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)”? WMDs? Good heavens… America possessing WMDs? Never heard!
US WMDs? What on earth for? America would never ever bomb and awe another nation knowingly or unknowingly, punish a people or hurt a fly.
Think of it this way, America, the all merciful, America, the just, America the honourable!
Just look at how they treated Nicole — they gave her the best gift of her life, she agreed to be raped, er, I mean she agreed to have a good time with one of their soldiers and for that she was awarded an immigrant visa!
So admirably honourable and just of Uncle Same, wouldn’t you agree?
Re: “I hope America behaved honorably and honestly towards our WWII veterans.”
But of course they did! They recruited no do gooder Filipinos to fight alongside them, promised to compensate/pay them for services rendered as bona fide members of the USAFFE, but broke that promise…
C’mon, so what? What’s a broken promise between masters and subjects?
Think of the great and wonderful opportunity our less valorous fighting WWII soldiers had fighting alongside the most honourable troops the world ever witnessed, Americans! Think of the pride everyone felt when our veterans even if they were shortchanged after the war.
Bah! Ungrateful Filipinos, the lot of them…
Re: “I hope America behaved honorably and honestly when they murdered men, women and children in Balangiga.”
But Americans don’t do things like that… And so what if it were true? What’s a few thousand meaningless Filipino lives?
Re: “I hope America behaved honorably and honestly when they massacred hapless women and children at Bud Daho.”
Such minor incident should not detract from the fact that Americans are still the most loveable of all invaders! I kid thee not!
Re: “I hope America behaved honorably and honestly by giving priority of rehabilitating enemy Japan than friend Philippines.”
See? I told you America the magnanimous! By rehabilitating Japan to the detriment of the Philippines simply proves how magnanimous they can be!!!
How can you even begin to contradict me?
AdeB,
I’m sorry that you didn’t get what I meant by WMD. I’m referring to the lies peddled by America about Iraq possessing WMD which up to now seems all that….lies. I don’t believe you don’t know that.
“America would never ever bomb and awe another nation knowingly or unknowingly, punish a people or hurt a fly.” AdeB
Ohhh…Hiroshima and Nagasaki never happened. Sorry, I guess I am in a different world. And I thought America, was the one and only country in history that ever used weapons of mass destruction.
But I would like to laugh out loud when somebody praises American virtues at the expense of other peoples’. Now, that’s really funny.
Mabuti pa sinabi na niya lang na tinanggap ko na ang alok ang embassy ng visa kapalit ng areglo. -Tongue
Paniwala ako na ni-rape si Nicole. Pero ang nakakainis ay ang pinirmahan niyang affidavit na LASING lang pala sya at NALALABUAN sa mga pangyayari. Ang lumabas tuloy ay binalak/nagpagamit/ginamit niya ang sitwasyon para makarating sa Amerika.
Kung sinabi niya ang totoo gaya ng binanggit mo ay baka nandun pa ang aking paghanga dahil talaga namang wala siyang magagawa. Sabi ko nga sa aking previous post ay hindi siya si David na makakaiskor sa mga Goliaths.
Sa mga ordinaryong pinoy na katulad ni Nicole na dobleng nabiktima personal at sistema, good luck! At least ay meron syang GIFT from Uncle Sam and Gloria, samantalang napakarami ang biktima ng murder/killing at forced disappearances na hindi na lilitaw pa.
“But Americans don’t do things like that… And so what if it were true? What’s a few thousand meaningless Filipino lives?”…AdeB
True to form, that’s America for you. Honorable??? Hahahaha
“See? I told you America the magnanimous! By rehabilitating Japan to the detriment of the Philippines simply proves how magnanimous they can be!!!”…AdeB
The slip is showing. That’s because America sees only the color of money in Japan and equate friendship with $$$.
Re: “The U.S. is just doing their duty. It is our fault for having taken a dive.”
Yesssss! America the dutiful!
Yesss! It’s all our fault! It will always be our fault, our most serious and grievous faults!
From now, young Filipina women should resolve to satisfy the needs, whims and caprices of all US troops in Mindanao… and take a dive (or as Tongue gently put it, give them a blowjob) and I’m certain America, ever the dutiful will award them with an immigrant visa + cash!
“But Americans don’t do things like that… And so what if it were true? What’s a few thousand meaningless Filipino lives?”…AdeB
Oh and what’s the fuss about one meaningless piece of shit like Smith?
Filipinas wanting to get visas? What a laugh!!!
How about Americans wanting to be in the Philippines for free and without visas and raping our women? What can you say about that. Why do they insist on being here? Do they love us? No way!!! They only love themselves.
Reason for being here…help us Filipinos fight terrorism?
Bullshit!!! That’s the biggest lie and the loudest bull.
Cmon, be honest. Be honorable.
Subaltz,
“Oh and what’s the fuss about one meaningless piece of shit like Smith?”
Absolutely! So what if an American trooper rapes a Filipina? After all, America, ever the dutiful has proven that she is just and merciful — look at the reward Nicole got for recanting.
How can Filipinos be so mean and petty to their most honourable benefactors, the Americans!
Mukhang nagkakalabuan na naman sa gamit ng IRONY, as the case of Skip’s post prior. 🙂
AdeBrux, let it go na. Not like you to lose cool over this thing. Watch your BP.
Chi – o ng sarcasm! Hahahahahahahahah! Spot on ka! Heheheheheh!
Isagani — thanks for your wonderful concern but please, not to worry about me… I’m having fun!!! Ask Chi!
I wouldn’t mind seeing an honorable American rapist rot in a Philippine jail. In fact, the honorable residents of Muntinlupa are anxious to give him a taste of an honorable hospitality befitting an honorable American.
Anna and Tongue,
Tuwang-tuwa ako sa inyong “sarcastic” posts kagabi pa kaya I zipped my mouth na lang. hehehe!
Subaltz,
I’m glad you’ve admitted that Smith is an honourable American rapist… Truly I do.
I say (and I second Tongue’s motion), build a monument in honour of Smith, the honourable American rapist!
He personifies the best that honourable America represents!
Chi, eh ako naman naghihintay ng comments mo dahil alam kong, always spot on ka! Hihihihih!
AdeBrux, Karma ni S.N. ang nangyari. What she got is probably what is laid out for her. She might vindicate whatever needs to be so. Who knows, diba?
Isagani — perhaps!
Who knows, in the US she might just vent her consesual sex principle with gusto and rape Americans herself! (Then she can apply for rendition — destination Philippines.)
Sometimes it boils down to a question of what is the lesser evil… a prostituted body or a prostituted mind?
Nicole may have been branded as just another prostituted body. But a prostituted mind is a case of thinking anything American is superior and honorable. It is in fact a case of mind rape with the victim enjoying it tremendously.
Hahaha! Sumakit ng panga dun a! Balik Pinas si Nicole pag nagkataon.
Hala, nagkawala sa katatawa, …Sumakit ang panga ko dun a!
grizzy Says:
“Kaya how can one be proud to say he’s a Filipino?”
Yuko, I do. I am; for I share the blood and heritage of Malvar, Sakay, Bonifacio, Hermanos Belen of San Pablo, Laguna (my maternal great grandfather and great granduncles) running through my veins. I share in the brotherhood and the vision of a genuine sovereign country, with nationalism as the unshakable foundation that men like BGen. Danny Lim stands for, and who has given so much for what they believe is the right thing to do.
With Jose Pidal, Garci-made bogus president GMA, the mafia of Martinez-Angeles tandem, and the endless growing list of thieves of the grandest scale never having to face the consequences of their thievery, I seen nothing to motivate Nicole and people like her to pursue the case and carry on her shoulder the yoke of upholding the dignity of Filipino women, knowing very well that Obama will never allow an American citizen, more so a serviceman, regardless that he is a rapist, to rot in Philippine jail. The worst part is, we never had the leaders who had the balls to stand up to Uncle Sam in protecting the interest of our countrymen.
We cannot expect Obama as president of his country, who is sworn to protect the welfare of his fellow Americans, to surrender Daniel J. Smith to GMA for the sake of upholding the law, when the world knows very well,as a fake-never-elected by Filipinos, GMA has no moral and political thread to hold on to to invoke the law that Nicole is entitled to.
Obama of course could have assured GMA that he is supporting without question, what our laws demand as consequences for what Daniel Smith did. That Obama disregarded our laws and in effect, our sovereignty, to protect a man like Smith, shows the ever-growing cracks on his political promise of doing the right thing.
Kung kinaya ngang ibenta ni GMA ang Iniibig Kong Pilipinas sa China, at panatilihin ang foreign [U.S.] troops encroachment sa ating bansa via VFA, kahit ito ay lantarang taliwas sa Saligang Batas para lamang makuha ang kahit anong suporta mula kay Obama – papaano natin aasahan ang ating mga kapuwa Pilipino na manindidan kung ano ang nararapat na gawin ayon sa ating mga umiiral na batas?
We can dare say, we are ashamed at the brazenness of GMA and her minions prostitutes the country and robbing it dry.
Marami talagang mga Filipino na kahiya-hiya ang pag-aasal.
Ngunit ng dahil sa mga kagaya nina BGen. Danny Lim, labis na labis pa na sabihin natin na, I am proud to be a Filipino.
AdeBrux, yeah, who knows? She may also find a better world there. You know some Kanos are suckers for women like SN, yung mga api ba. Then also someone may champion her cause genuinely, unlike some self serving militant opportunist groups in Pinas.
So, this may not be the end. She may yet vindicate the puri of the aping pinays, who btw, are treated no differently by their own macho men.
So, for me, as strongly as I feel for her. As strong as my nationalistic sentements may be, I will let this go and see it for what it is. This, after all, is not something to have fun with.
Subaltz,
“Sometimes it boils down to a question of what is the lesser evil… a prostituted body or a prostituted mind?”
“Sometimes” only?
“what is the lesser evil… a prostituted body or a prostituted mind?”
The question begs to be asked indeed! I am pretty sure not one of us, particularly those who swear by the superiority of the American race, culture and principles, that not one of them/us possesses a “prostituted mind.”
I can almost picture their answer:
“Of course not! America’s superiority is unquestionable, hence, nurtured and educated by such superior masters, the question of possessing a “prostituted mind” doesn’t come into the equation!”
Isagani!
Amen!
I was among the first ones to wish her luck in one of the posts above…
Isagani,
Just so it’s clear — I’m way past Nicole now…
My having fun concerns America and her wonderful treatment of members of her favourite fiefdom.
Palagay ko lang yung nunal na nakatira sa may Pasig ay meron ng Prosti mind.
Re:
“I share the blood and heritage of Malvar, Sakay, Bonifacio, Hermanos Belen of San Pablo, Laguna (my maternal great grandfather and great granduncles) running through my veins. I share in the brotherhood and the vision of a genuine sovereign country, with nationalism as the unshakable foundation that men like BGen. Danny Lim stands for, and who has given so much for what they believe is the right thing to do.”
Beautifully said!
I’m not sure that the blood of those magnificent heroes run in my veins but I never, ever, not even rempotely will deny that I am a Filipino and as one, wishes the best for the Philippines and admires the likes of those Filipinos who have taken upon their persons to give “so much for what they believe is the right thing to do.”.
To Yuko, my dearest, kindest, wonderful friend…
Much as I greatly admire your honesty, your steadfastness, your virtues and your general traits, please be so kind as to refrain from branding Filipinas “putas”.
Such general branding should be reserved for the putas in Malacanang. I agree with Magno and many more here that it is the most unfair judgement call one can profess against Filipinas. I am absolutely certain, the half of you which is Filipina, will feel revolted — it (that Filipino half of you) is being stymied by the other half (the Japanese half of you) but I’m pretty certain that if it (the Filipino half of you) can speak, it will make “batok” to the other half for calling it “puta”.
# grizzy Says:
March 18th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
BE: If my sister goes to Japan for a visit, would Japanese look at her as prosti?
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Hindi naman bastos ang mga hapon na sabihan ang isang pinay ng diretso ng “Puta ka!” Pero kung bata pa ang kapatid mo baka tanungin ng, “Saan club ka nagtatrabaho?” Puta na rin ang ibig sabihin niyon.
Kung matanda naman, baka pagkamalang mama-san!
….When you first arrived in Japan, what did the Japanese think and say about you?
Ana, jose miguel:
My comment about doing their duty was about the US negotiators’ job when they negotiated the VFA. Bakit hindi nagmatigas ang PI? Bakit hindi kinilatis ng Senate? Why did Erap, who was staunchly anti-bases in the Cory Senate sign it?
Ihiwalay niyo naman ang mga issues. Yung rape, ibang kaso yon. Yung pagpaslang sa maraming kawal ng Pinoy, ibang kaso yon. I did not say that is part of lawful duty.
With regard to this “arrangement” fiasco, who owed us the duty to protect Philippine interests? Gloria, or Barack? Kung natorotot ang lalake, sino ang mas may atraso kay husband? Yung other guy, or husband’s wife? Who owes husband the duty of faithfulness? The wife? Or the third party?
“I’m not sure that the blood of those magnificent heroes run in my veins ” – AdeBrux
The blood that runs in my veins is metaphorical 🙂 Except for my great grandfathers whom I mentioned. That you never felt shame in declaring your nationality, and your postings do reflect your desire for genuine nationhood – then you do have the blood of our genuine heroes.
And I agree with your note for Yuko. Yes, madaming Filipina ang “nagpuputa.” Ganun din sa higit na maraming bansa. Ngunit ang husgahan ang kabuuan nang dahil sa hindi wastong asal ng iilan ay hindi nating maituturing patas.
Si Nicole ang paksa sa posting ni Ma’am Ellen. So, we may second-guess why Nicole did what she just did – recant her testimony. But Nicole does not represent the Filipinas. Kung sa pananaw natin na “nag puta” si Nicole, kahit salat tayo sa kaalaman kung ano ang kabuuang pangyayari kung bakit naiba ang pagiisip niya then so be it. But the judgment we hand down lies on Nicole only.
Cheers. 🙂
Elvira Says:
March 18th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
“No wonder Nicole is a liar…she graduated from Ateneo like Mike Pidal, Nani Perez and the rest of the Ateneo crooks run by Jesuit crooks.”
BE:
Nakakasagasa ka na! Crooks aren’t only coming from Ateneo! Ang MAIN crook graduated from Assumption!
….But the two schools start with letter “A”. Just the same, Elvira…he, he. And Arroyo also starts with letter “A”>
Atty!
Of course, hiwalay-hiwalay ang mga kaso. I probably am the most daft of readers and commenters here but I think I got the gist of what you were saying the very first time around.
(To be perfectly honest, it so happpened that “dutiful” sounded so very a propos in what I felt like saying so, I picked it up and launched my “tirades” using it with gusto to hone in my point that America is wonderful, merciful, dutiful and all the other “fuls”.)
Yung rape, wala na yon dahil wala naman daw na rape so walang problema diyan.
And I wholeheartedly agree with you — our entire political apparatus is for sale, and I am convinced that its members sold out to our most beloved allies. Our allies then grabbed what was given to them so lovingly, and who can blame them for accepting, pushing, pressuring?
I agree without any reservation that our own tuso-aparatchiks didn’t lift a finger nor bat an eyelash while an attempt to rape our political principles was being committed. In that regard, the Americans, ever the dutiful (pardon my repeating this wonderful word), did not hesitate to perform an act that would serve the interest of their own nation. They must be admired, and rightly so.
Syria, grizzy’s work in Japan is translator. She could be translating the negotiation between Pinay who she calls as prosti and the Japanese customer…he, he. Cheer!
On the other hand, because of government’s neglect and this evil administration’s encouragement of OFWs to work abroad, when foreigners see a Pinay, they think she’s working as domestic helper, caregiver or nanny. That’s sad….
Everyone is lambasting and even ridiculing Nicole for what she did. From blogs, radio phone-in calls, text jokes, etc… No one has nice words to say about her after she recanted. But you know what? There’s something that we have to thank her for. And that is the issue of the VFA. It brought to the open the issues that we have to tackle with regards to VFA; What’s beneficial to us being the host country? What happens to US soldiers who commits a crime or violated our laws, etc.. Should we renegotiate or just scrap the whole thing altogether? For me, it’s a wake up call. Who will know that one day a “real” rape will or will not happen? And if it does (God forbid). How will we face again the situation? How will our gov’t as well as the media and ordinary folks like us protect the victim? Is our gov’t with it’s vast resources under it’s helm protect it’s victimized citizen just like what the American gov’t did to their citizen/ soldier named Daniel J. Smith?
Should be: Can our gov’t with it’s….
i bet everything i have..!! if there would be an election, and the topic is.. for those filipinos who want`s this country the philippines be part or be one of the state of the united state please vote yes.. and those who don`t agree.. please vote no.. the yes will surely win by landslide…!!! let us not be hypocryte.. yan po ang totoo..!!
“And if it does (God forbid). How will we face again the situation?”
American troops don’t rape.
Just ask our fellow Filipinos who swear by the excellent virtues of Americans and they will tell you that if that happens, that Filipina deserves it.
“the yes will surely win by landslide…!!! let us not be hypocryte.. yan po ang totoo..!!”
Tama ka! Don’t count on me to bet against you Ocayvalle.
Hmmm…I myself have been thinking that RP could have been better off today had it been part and another state of the US.
RP debts would be wiped out. No need to have visa to enter the US. Filipinos would receive all benefits entitled to citizens. However, many politicians pretend to be nationalistic and patriotic…they are the first ones to say they’re against such idea.
You’re probably right ocayvalle. Everyone or majority would want to be US citizens. But America won’t make it happen. Why? Kung si Obama na isang minority eh nakalusot at naging panguolo ng kanilang bansa, di malayong may makalusot na isang Pinoy. What would worry them more eh kung ang makalusot sa pagiging pangulo ay si pandakekok. Alm niyo naman, ang mga maliliit madaling makalusot sa mga masisikip na daanan. Hehehe 😀
With RP’s 90 million population, it’s easy for a Filipino to get elected to US Congress, Senate and even White House. But yes, America would not make it happen.
Yes, let us not be hypocrites. Let us not adapt the hypocritical view that one’s adoptive land is incapable of having it’s own hypocrisies.
Re: “Yes, let us not be hypocrites. Let us not adapt the hypocritical view that one’s adoptive land is incapable of having it’s own hypocrisies.”
Ahhhh! Spoken like
Green Jacket
Ooops… Spoken like a
Green Jacket
Now on a more serious (really serious note, allow me dear friends, countrymen and lovers, to end my “tirades” here with this:
The Filipino people like any people in the world have the good and the bad in them.
Like everyone else in this planet, we have a fair share of the wonderful, the beautiful and the virtueful (or virtuous) of men and women, all amidst the cacophoneous sea of humanity.
Sadly, we the Filipino people (ok, yung ayaw makasama sa pagiging Filipino, ok lang…) are also probably getting a far worse or larger share of the world’s bad luck than we deserve: whorish leaders, kleptomaniac politicians, unreliable civil servants, lying bureaucrats, cowardly military officers, ball-less supreme court jesters, superstitious clerics, holier than thou farts, etc., etc.
But again, it’s up to the Filipino people, to us all, to turn this tide of misfortune.
“The Filipino people like any people in the world have the good and the bad in them.” AdeB
Now, that’s a better statement and I would absolutely agree to that. It is a great departure from the more patronizing view of one color being better than the other, or of the fallacious argument that one has the monopoly of virtues.
“…whorish leaders, kleptomaniac politicians, unreliable civil servants, lying bureaucrats, cowardly military officers, ball-less supreme court jesters, superstitious clerics, holier than thou farts, etc., etc.” AdeB
Hmmm..now, we’re getting focused here. I will share my guns and ammunitions towards this deliberate objective. Likewise, I will train all my guns and ammunitions on whoever makes a sweeping judgement on Filipinos as a whole.
Tuloy ang ligaya!!! Paulanan ng bala si Gloria!!!
Ah, the Philippine Statehood Movement! It was founded by Nueva Ecija Congressman Rufino Antonio in the early seventies who claimed that at its peak they had six million members. He donated a huge sum to the movement’s fund and got the support of another congressman, Bartolome Cabangbang who happens to live in our street, about seven houses away.
They started the movement because the $2Billion America has earmarked for the country’s rebuilding after WWII just made it into the politicians’ pockets, their cronies and their relatives. At one point, even US visas were bidded out to the Chinese by Congress the group figured Statehood was the only answer, the cure-all elixir for all our ills.
They claimed we could use American administrators to instill discipline and order among the ruling class and their interests, demonstrate to us the workings of a true democracy, defeat a growing Maoist underground movement, and setup Manila as the American HQ for trade and commerce in the region, to compete with Japan who had rebuilt their war-demolished economy into the most robust one in the Pacific.
Nationalists lambasted the movement, journalists like Chino Roces, Teodoro Valencia, Isagani Yambot (of today’s PDI) Teodoro Locsin and it looked like Pinoys were, for once, united against what they considered the treasonous surrender of independence.
Despite the huge initial following, the movement didn’t fly as it was at this time that Marcos was convening the Con-con to pave way for his perpetual rule and the events were eclipsed by Martial Law which promoted fierce nationalism.
I never saw what Cong. Antonio looked like, he faded into the sunset but I can never forget our old neighbor Cong. Cabangbang who flew the American Flag in front of his apartment and took the cudgels for the movement after Antonio gave up.
He was quite confident Filipinos would certainly choose to be American citizens that in the elections which the opposition boycotted, Cabangbang was Don Quixote de la Mancha who contested the presidency versus Macoy, it was a boring, lopsided slaughter, of course.
That marked the end of the Movement. Cabangbang later died in the 90s poor and alone, very few people attended his wake in the dilapidated apartment. All the middle and upper class-dominated statehood sympathizers never cared about their leaders. Movements, like this statehood one, were doomed to fail because it never had a genuine soul. It was all about American dollars and US visas.
That was in the 70s. I’m awed many people still have not changed at all. Tsk tsk tsk.
Compare the situation then and now – a despot in Malacañang who wants to rule ad infinitum, crony capitalism, widespread corruption, an unresponsive bureaucracy, the dominance of the oligarchs, rebellions in the countryside, high prices, joblessness, and extreme poverty.
Has it ever occurred to anybody that we haven’t progressed at all after more than 3 decades? We’re still in the same deep shithole trying to get out by stepping over the head of the next person who is himself busy trying to pull us down!
And all these times, the middle class’ only solution is the mighty dollar and the US Visa. Have we been programmed to stay this way?
My Alternative Blog Title For This Thread:
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ubaltz,
I’m greatly flattered, nay, you’ve just bloated my already oversized ego by accepting all the following comments of mine in earnest to such a point that even I — believe it or not — almost want to believe that what I posted there are not meant to convey the slightist hint of sarcasm.
Why, even Yuko accepted them as something coming from my heart of hearts!!!. hihihihiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii (fortunately Chi is around to spot things) tee-hee…
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(Darn! Darn, Darn!) Forgive the typo! It’s Subaltz
Nope, Anna, I got your point. I was just teasing you!!! Kaya nga sabi ko sa iyo, “Sleep tight!”
Hi Yuko! Ah ganoon ba? Ok, and thanks, I slept so tightly I didn’t I couldn’t wake up. Hehe!
KE: Sisihin natin ang karamihan ng Pinay na napadpad sa Japan dahil nagputa ang karamihan sa kanila. Let us also blame the Japanese for their rather stereotypical view of Pinays.
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Kasalanan ng mga hapon pa ba ang naging image ng mga pilipina dito? Bakit iyong mga Indonesian hindi baboy ang image maski na nga iyong mga taga-Thailand na nagpuputa din sa Japan? Kasi iyong gobyerno nila hindi pa nagmamalaking hero ang mga napapapunta sa Japan na mga kababayan nila di gaya ng Pilipinas na ipinagsisiksikan pa ang mga putang pinay sa Japan.
Nang magreklamo ang Japan sa mga nagdadagsaan overstaying Thais dito, pumunta ang isang delegation ng mga opisyal nila dito. Nakipag-usap ng masinsinan sa mga opisyal na hapon. Nangako silang babayaran ang mga pamasahe ng mga Thailander na nahuli ng pulis for overstaying and prostituting in Japan at sa bansa nila paparusahan. Iyong mga opisyal na pilipino gaya ni Lagman, pumunta dito para pa ipaglandakang kailangan ng mga malilibog na hapones ang mga pilipina! Kaya anong maipagmamalaki mo sa kanila?
Tama ka doon sa sinabi mo, na “walang maaalipin kung walang nagpapaalipin.”
SULBATZ Says:
March 18th, 2009 at 11:29 pm
Yes, let us not be hypocrites. Let us not adapt the hypocritical view that one’s adoptive land is incapable of having it’s own hypocrisies.
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The word is not hypocrisy, Sulbatz. It’s idiocyncracy as in the case of many Japanese who will die for honor and dignity.
There is no hypocrisy in my statements above. It is stating facts! I consider those saying they are proud of the Philippines no matter what it has been turned into by the bugaw to be more hypocrites as a matter of fact. Pero pag tinawag mong makipaglaban para sa bayan nila, nagtatago na—papakainin muna nila ang mga pamilya daw nila!!! Iyan ang hypocrite!!!
Yuko,
O sige tama ka na nga. Lahat ng Pinay na nagpupunta sa Japan ay puta… Puwede ba ilayo na sa Japan — dalhin na sa America?
BE: ….When you first arrived in Japan, what did the Japanese think and say about you?
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Those were bygone days, BE. Wala pang napadpad na mga Japayuki sa Japan noon. Besides, mukha kasi akong haponesa—singkit, yellow-skinned and all kaya never been asked kung saan akong bansa nanggaling.
Ako na mismo ang nagpapakilala ng sarili kong ipinanganak ako sa Pilipinas, etc. lalo na nagpunta naman ako dito as a scholar kaya puedeng magmalaki!
10 years after pa nagdagsaan ang mga putang pinay sa Japan as a matter of fact. Ngayon nga nagpapabuntis pa sa mga hapon para magka-visa at makahingi ng welfare! Puedeng duraan sa mukha ang dating!!!
Anna: Puwede ba ilayo na sa Japan — dalhin na sa America?
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Nag-umpisa na, with Nicole! Salamat kay Bugaw! 😛
I’m greatly flattered, nay, you’ve just bloated my already oversized ego by accepting all the following comments of mine in earnest to such a point that even I — believe it or not — almost want to believe that what I posted there are not meant to convey the slightist hint of sarcasm.
AdeB,
Sometimes, the subconscious mind works wonders to a point that what one says to mean otherwise is what actually what one means.
Subaltz,
“Sometimes, the subconscious mind works wonders to a point that what one says to mean otherwise is what actually what one means.”
How could I disagree? An example of the product of an extraordinarily subtle mind, indeed!
Reminds me of what Edd Santos once said about N-2 production… In essence, it goes like this:
To discredit a person and make it work, one of the best way is to circulate a lie about that person; do it several times, make it go round and round, at the end of the day of the merry go round, when it comes back to you, even you who circulated it the first time around will believe that the lie is no longer the lie.
Grizzy,
Read again what I said about hypocrisy. Maybe you are lost in the translation.
Kakatawa naman ang description mo, Anna, “honourable rapist.” Or was it “fighting fist”?
I used to hear this word in fact when I was tourist guide from the drivers of the tourist buses in Manila who told me so many tales about those night tours they offered to tourists.
I remember there were three other soldiers watching Smith “fighting fisted” Nicole! Di ba muntik din siyang yariin ng mga iyon? So, what is the mea culpa now?
Puede ba kung gagawa sila ng script, iyong kapanipaniwala naman. Parang Philippine movies na minais ang labas tuloy ang affidavit ni Nicole. Pwe!
# TonGuE-tWisTeD Says:
March 19th, 2009 at 12:53 am
My Alternative Blog Title For This Thread:
“Nicole, the cunt”
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Nawala lang ako ng sandali ay kung anu-ano na ang blog title mo sa topic na ito. Hahahaha!!!
Nope, Sulbatz, there is nothing being lost in the translation. Just that I think differently, I guess.
Bata pa kasi ako when we left the Philippines at saka mas marami pa noon ang ayaw magputa!!! Magdildil ng asin was the motto then! Kaya di ako bilib na heroine ang mga Japayuki!
Mon,
Sure marami rin puta sa Tate, etc. pero gaya sa Japan, criminal offense ang prostitution, and anyone violating it, nakukulong. Hindi lang nga makulong ang karamihan sa mga pilipina kasi may legitimate permit galing sa gobyerno nila as entertainers kuno. In short, niloko pati Immigration dito. Ang masama ang bugaw mismong gobyerno nila! Bakit di ko iyan babatikosin? At least, iyong ibang bansa, for example Thailand, di kasabwat sa paggawa ng krimen.
There’s more joy in reading your comments, folks, than writing one itself!
To “Nicole, the cunt”
May you be at peace…in the US of America…the land of Psssst?
Palusot pa rin itong Nicole na ito. Inisip ng mga gumawa ng affidavit niya na baka kasuhan siya ngayon ni Judge Pozon ng perjury kaya playing safe ang dating ng statement niyang ito: “In fact, I did not immediately tell my boyfriend that I was raped by Daniel Smith. All I said was that something bad happened to me.”
In short, di pa rin ni-recant ang statement niyang na-rape siya. Ginulo lang ng kaunti!!! Tawag diyan, talipandas!
The ATENEOS have indeed great wonderful products. Had a share from that one in Zamboanga, too.
Ang tanda kong description kay Nicole when she was found by the patrol was half-naked siya. Wala siyang salawal! Nakasabit pa iyong condom sa p—niya. Lasing na lasing siya.
Problema iyong condom na ebidensiya, winalang sadya ng mga nag-iimbestiga na dapat kinasuhan din ng gross negligence. Sabi nga, “Que clase de justicia?”
“Ang masama ang bugaw mismong gobyerno nila! Bakit di ko iyan babatikosin? At least, iyong ibang bansa, for example Thailand, di kasabwat sa paggawa ng krimen.” – Yuko
Yuko, 1,000,000,000 times akong uma-agree sa statement na ito. Batikusin, bigtihin at sinugin ang mga kagaya ni GMA at nang kaniyang mga alipores. And when applicable, let us laser-point the names of those people [Ellen may even have a page in this blog with pictures of those hoodlums] who deserve to be skewered.
Daniel Smith may be a rapist, George W. Bush may be an ass hole, but what these men did do not merit branding Americans as such. For the same token that Osama Bin ladn is a curse on Muslims, we do know that not all Muslims are red-eyed murderers. BGen. Danny Lim, et al are living proof that the AFP has not YET deteriorated to being irredeemable.
Sabihin na nating may 2,000 mga Filipinas na nag “pu-puta” sa Japan. Ergo, yung mga dalawang libong iyon lang ang masasabi nating nag “pu-puta.” Ergo, hindi lahat ng Hapones ay Yakuza.
In short, to be just and kind to the innocent, it is perhaps better to condemn the person/s who deserve it, and just leave the nationality aside in respect for the rest of the people who deserve nothing less.
SEC sucks because of Martinez and Fe Barin
GMA and Pidal suck-sakan ng takaw sa pera
Romy Neri “sucks” 🙂
Nagkataon lang na naturing na mga “Filipino” din ang mga ito. Pero hindi lahat ng mga Filipino ay kagaya nila.
Stay well and be well in God’s embrace.
I love the Philippines, it is the land of my birth, it is the home of my people” and being from Antique..”fair lands of Antique province…there shall my home ever be” However, being a US citizen..”I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USA”..
Mon: hindi lang skewed..but tadtadrin at isugba not only well done..but cremated…
AdeBrux says:”…it’s up to the Filipino people, to us all, to turn this tide of misfortune.”
TonGuE-tWisTeD says: “Have we been programmed to stay this way?”
SULBATZ says: “…the subconscious mind works wonders…”
With just a leader with strong, morally upright and a nationalistic political, economic, mass communication, educational and military base, we can turn this tide of misfortune. At the start of development of their present nationhood, France, Finland, Japan, Israel and Vietnam had a leadership group with a strong base who engaged their nation in a DELIBERATE program based on nationalistic development concepts. It is still natural since the program was organic to them, not foreign as in our case.
Which brings home the point that “we have been programmed to stay this way” by the Americans to achieve their vision of an America secured in its economic base and physical existence. To achieve this, America programmed us Filipinos to think subconsciously that a security for a benevolent master is security for it’s slaves, which by nature, benevolent master is the definition of America, and slave is the definition of Filipinos.
Proofs that subconscious mind works wonders are: the way people with access to political power including GMA have been prostituting our resources at the service of Americans and the Chinese and many of us Filipinos accept it as for the good of our national security which more importantly means individual security.
But the mere fact that many of us Filipinos are becoming aware of this will turn our subconscious mind to act as a team to resist this continous corruption of our national character.
Then we, will be able to turn the tide!
from the beginning, cuidao ako diyan kay nicole. may kilala ako from a cause-oriented group na ininterview sya para maki-ride sa isyu pero di pumatol kasi di consistent ang storya.
hula ko diyan nakipaglandian tapos na-baboy siya kaya umalma. hula ko lang naman.
ano ba tong sarcastic exchange about the u.s. what do you guys expect? the u.s. will do what is good for itself and its interests. period.
i-enjoy niyo na kang ang decline niya ngayon if you’re into schadenfreude. it’s in deep shit right now. diminishing middle class, increasing number considered to be poor, poorly educated citizenry, corruption and security issues in drug war esp in border w/ mexico, identity crisis on what to do with economy, cultural wars bubbling in surface NOT TO MENTION hawak sa balls ng china dahil sa laki ng utang and that doesnt include wars it’s in and healthcare.
ni hindi nga nila ma-define ang socialism and that’s so wrong in many levels.
ano ba tong sarcastic exchange about the u.s. what do you guys expect? the u.s. will do what is good for itself and its interests. period.
i-enjoy niyo na kang ang decline niya ngayon if you’re into schadenfreude. it’s in deep shit right now. diminishing middle class, increasing number considered to be poor, poorly educated citizenry, corruption and security issues in drug war esp in border w/ mexico, identity crisis on what to do with economy, cultural wars bubbling in surface NOT TO MENTION hawak sa balls ng china dahil sa laki ng utang and that doesnt include wars it’s in and healthcare.
ni hindi nga nila ma-define ang socialism and that’s so wrong on many levels.
here’s my version with this brouhaha. We all know that the Justice System of this country is the most corrupt. 2 years of waiting for Justice? who can be a reasonable woman to wait for things to happen. This case is a drag. I will not blame Nicole for moving on. The Justice system in this country cannot represent the people. It will instead free guilty foreigner from jail and send the rest of the people in hell.
people must understand that this RAPE case is an offense AGAINST the PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY, not against Nicole.
The case is “People of the Philippines versus Smith. ” Nicole is the victim and the witness. eh sino bang maghintay sa kakawitness kung wala naman palang magawa ang korte kundi appeal daw. si nicole pa ang na rape , siya pa ang mali.
People of the Philippines versus Smith? sinong ikulong niyo, si smith or tayong mga pilipino?
where are the women’s advocate for this country?
it’s not about Nicole, leave her alone. Let her move on and deal with her own issue. Its’ about us NOW people who are raped and Justice will never be served. Everything is cooked behind the kitchen.
basta mga case na long time ago, pan-os na kung bisaya.
this country has no concept of time. Smith was already convicted of RAPE at the lower makati court. Smith appealed to the higher court to review the decision of the lower makati lower court. Please people remember, if Smith will be acquitted and his conviction is reversed to not guilty in the higher court, then we as the people of this country lose the battle. ” The people of the Philippines versus Smith. ” remember that.
so why would you folks pay taxes to this country if it cannot return the service. mag boycott kayo diyan. 🙂
The US would do all she can to help a citizen abroad even if he’s guilty. The US would even go to war to protect one citizen. The Philippines? RP is willing to sacrifice many lives to protect the interest of the crooks in Malacanang.
# rose Says:
Mon: hindi lang skewed..but tadtadrin at isugba not only well done..but cremated…
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Cremate? Kawawa naman ang kalikasan. 🙂
Just the same – GMA’s operators did a splendid job with the Nicole-Smith-smokescreen. “Lumabo” pangsumandali ang imbestigasyon kay Angeles at Martinez, na kung hindi tatantanan, hindi kataka-takang ang kababagsakan eh kasali na naman dito si Pidal 🙂
May intermission pa nga yung Nicole-Smith version; Jalosjos naman. Plus yung anticipated concert ni Mancao.
The main event of course that happens behind all these smokescreens is the ongoing China-US dancing a violent tango with Malacanang in the middle.
The prize catch? Who gets to really control the very strategic tollgate in the pacific with vast natural resources – that’s our country 🙂
Personality-centric politics, personality-centric attack on “opposition” have greatly “helped” so many to lose track of the deeper and systemic issues needing to be addressed.
Ika nga ni Proximo kay Maximus – “we are[but] shadows and dust…” Bit players, entertainers if you will, na pinapayagang magnga-ngak-ngak at nang hindi na nga matutukan ang mga ugat kung bakit nagkakaganito ang Pilipinas.
One of the biggest problems I believe the likes of BGen. Danny Lim must tackle is – how do we promote the interest of the people, our people, viz a viz the dynamics of global politics whose major players are the US and China, both countries too eager and very willing to corrupt the so-called generals and politicians.
Kaya, ang napakatagal ko nang pinaniniwalaan, at sumasangayon ito sa nilalaman ng huling liham sa akin ni BGen. Danny Lim – sa 2010, even *if* indeed we get hold a relatively clean election, this cannot be the solution to our collective sufferings. Only a revolutionary change can usher in a new dawn. Not necessarily bloody, but a radical change no less.
Signing off… 🙂
Ang galing mo, masha, in so many words you have captured the ugly portrait of one who used to be the most sought-after Adonis. Now he’s old and bent, dry and flaky, and, um, folded and hung!
“So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full” (Matthew 6:2).
MPR – >”So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets>. Nicely said Magno, however, you can drum it up here in this blog, wink! wink!
Suzette needs to change and improve her life in the US. Agree with some commenters she be given a chance to become productive whereever she is. Her recantation of a serious rape case diminished her credibility and for her to be seen embracing the never ending nightlife in bars especially close to any military bases. This certainly will be a recipe for disaster. That’s the bad part, but I do wish her the best. We should all do.
tru blue,
that i only quoted that but cannot put into action having nothing to boast of except my garterless brief, a treasure for a pauper like me.
“I Believe that Daniel Smith is just another victim of the Dirty Politics of the Philippines. Although most ordinary Filipinos are hospitable and good hearted, almost all the public officials in the different Philippines government agencies are crooked and corrupted. From the top officials to the low rank civil servants, a large majority of them are dishonest, corrupt and irresponsible. Daniel Smith just happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. He’s caught in between the extreme femninist and right wing groups and the government who only know how to play politics. The woman “nicole” has made many inconsistent statements. She is not to be trusted. I pray that there is still some good people who will give Daniel Smith freedom as he should be allowed to come home here in the US. He does not belong to the Philippines. The US Government should do its best to get him back home here.”
Thank you, Mr. Cocoy. Semper Fi!
Smith is young and handsome. Most of all, he’s a Marine who knows how to dive deep in the ocean. So, I think Nicole’s saying that she was carried away by the young dude could be true. Again, why would a decent girl like Nicole if she’s indeed decent be there in the bar drinking and dancing?
BEWARE: All DECENT Women
Do not drink in bars and dance. Otherwise, you’ll be branded as indecent.
Just wondering…what century am I in? 🙂
I don’t care if your patronize bars but I don’t. If a woman goes to bar with some friends and have fun, that’s okay. But if a woman goes alone to a bar late at night, drink and dance with GIs and other male strangers she doesn’t know, then you call her decent?
Decent or indecent, the issue here is rape.
If a 100% consensual and paid sex sent Jalosjos to jail, why shouldn’t this one when one party complains to have been violated? FYI, The barangay chairman of Bgy. 99 threatened Sim Delantar to stop pimping the child or he would tell the sisters in St. Mary’s that their student was being forced into prostitution. Not wanting to lose his bigtime client Jalosjos, Delantar instead moved his operations to another barangay.
Right. Indecent women can also be raped.
And wives can also be raped. Men can also be raped. Husbands can also be raped by their wives like this Luli’s husband.
My comment about Jalosjos seems incomplete. What I’m trying to say is the 11-year old prostitute isn’t even complaining she was raped. All the while, what she knew she was being paid handsomely for sex. The pimp’s greed led to his blackmailing of Jalosjos, but media took up the girl’s cause and noisily campaigned for the congressman’s and the pimp’s conviction.
In Nicole’s case the victim WAS complaining and during trial she had rejected all offers of settlement. After the favorable judgement of the court, and getting her vindication, she now wants justice to be served, to Smith?
Pardon me, but I’m not fluent in stupid.
tongue my dear 🙂
the jalosjos case is a statutory rape. an 11 years old girl cannot consciously understand her act regardless if she was selling her body at a young age. The prosecutor does not require evidence to prove guilt. A man can be automatically guilty if he engages into sex with a girl of less than legal age. This type of rape is statutory rape mandated by our Consitution. It is a strict liability law.
On Nicole , no reasonable person will wait for Justice of an almost 3 years old case. It’s frustrating. Her testimony may not be relevant to a reversal of guilty verdict because Nicole’s recent testimony was not the direct or the proximate cause of the actual original offense. The guilty verdict still stands. Rape is a crime against society, public moral and public Law. The prosecutor initiate the case not the victim thus the case is republic of the Philippines versus Smith. Nicole becomes the victim and the witness. If an acquittal scenario is likely then she’s not the only loser but the whole Republic against Smith.
Rape must be proven beyond reasonable doubt. Bail may have kept Smith from jail at the very beginning until proven guilty but settlement cannot be possible in criminal law proceeding. In criminal case, the prosecutor must prove beyond reasonable in behalf of the victim Nicole. This is not a civil case where the victim will initiate the suit and may settle the case prior to the court’s decision. Rape is a criminal offense with a different proceedings. Nicole’s rejection of all settlement was a strong evidence that she was indeed RAPE and seeking justice from the very beginning. She could have not known 2 years ago that this case has become her nightmare. That was her state of mine at that time which may not be relevant to her current decision.