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Correct me if I’m wrong but most other rape victims who successfully sent their rapists to jail do not enter into a compromise with the convict to overturn the conviction. Because of Smith’s conviction, Nicole got her dignity back. And I’m still trying to understand why she had to lose it so quickly again.

CARLOS H. CONDE BIO | MORE POSTS
Reading and rereading Nicole’s it, I am convinced that, more than anything else, it was meant to depict Smith in a benign light, that he was not the monster that this case has made him out to be.

CRIME “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.”
The US Chapter of Bagong Alyansang Makabayan, or BAYAN USA, an alliance of 14 Filipino organizations across the United States, condemns the arrogant and costly continuance of the so-called “joint military exercises” between US and Philippine troops known as Balikatan under the auspices of the controversial Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA), despite widespread opposition from the [...]
Last nights questionable ratification by the Lower House of the bicameral conference committee version of the Philippine baselines bill was another blow to the sovereignty of the country and was especially disappointing coming at the heels of the government’s failure to exercise its authority over convicted US soldier Cpl. Daniel Smith.
In the Smith case, the [...]
Anakpawis party-list Representative Rafael Mariano today assailed Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro’s statement treating the Visiting Forces Agreement between the Philippines and the United States like “wedlock” between the two countries. He said that “the relationship between the two countries is marred with “historical injustice and continuing master-slave relations” and cited more inequalities under the decade-old [...]
The umbrella group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan today contradicted the claim of Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile that the Philippines has a lot to lose with the abrogation of the Visiting Forces Agreement.
“Before US bases were booted out in 1991, there was talk that the Philippines would be on the losing end if the bases were [...]
The recent decision of the Supreme Court ordering the transfer of rape convict US Cpl. Daniel Smith to a Philippine detention facility at the same time upholding the constitutionality of the RP-US Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) fails to give justice to the Filipino people’s struggle for national dignity and sovereignty.
The Supreme Court, by ordering [...]
The Stop the War Coalition-Philippines, a broad network of over 80 civil society organizations, today expressed its “partial approval” at the Supreme Court’s decision to order the transfer of convicted rapist US soldier Daniel Smith to Philippine authorities even as it continued to challenge the constitutionality of the Visiting Forces Agreement.
“This is a partial victory [...]
In a press conference of petitioners against the Visiting Forces Agreement, the umbrella group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan called on the Philippine government to immediately regain custody of convicted rapist Lance Cpl. Daniel Smith and to sack its foreign affairs secretary Alberto Romulo and interior secretary Ronaldo Puno.
Yesterday, the SC ruled that the Romulo-Kenny Agreements in [...]
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