Trump names Philippines as terrorist nation, implies Filipinos are 'animals'
This is the first thing Trump has said that I agree with!!!!
The Philippines Response To Trump's Comment:
August 9, 2016
House reso seeks to ban Trump from entering PHL
A resolution filed at the House of Representatives seeks to ban US
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, Sr. from entering the
Philippines for supposedly “being inimical to the national interest.”
House Resolution 143 was filed by Albay Rep. Joey Salceda following
Trump’s mention of immigrants from the Philippines who may pose threats
to the United States.
"We are letting people come in from
terrorist nations that shouldn't be allowed because you can't vet them,"
Trump earlier said.
Salceda said Trump has no basis nor justification to the labeling of Filipinos coming from a terrorist state.
He said such “ugliness of utterances, largely unprompted and
undeserved” are in contrast to the hospitality shown by Filipinos
towards Trump when he launched a property in Makati City called Trump
Tower.
“Trump has clearly generated impressions not conducive to
public good and has shown disrespect or makes offensive utterances to
the Filipino people,” Salceda said in the resolution.
“Be it
resolved, as it is hereby resolved, that the Bureau of Immigration and
Deportation permanently refused Donald J. Trump entry into the
Philippines,” the resolution added.
Malacañang had earlier taken
offense over Trump’s remarks, and reminded him how he once described the
Philippines as a “special place.”
“Mr. Trump has even professed
his love for the Philippines during the launch of his 57-storey luxury
apartment in Makati," Communications Secretary Martin Andanar said. —Kathrina Charmaine Alvarez/KBK, GMA News
Bitter truth: Do we deserve to be called a 'terrorist nation' by Trump?
August 9, 2016
Last week Donald Trump, the U.S. Republican Party's presidential
candidate for the upcoming polls, was at a rally in Portland, Maine,
where he reiterated his stand against taking in immigrants from what he
referred to as "terrorist nations.""We are letting people come in from
terrorist nations that shouldn't be allowed because you can't vet them.
You have no idea who they are. This could be the great Trojan horse of
all time," he said. “Terrorists, including members of the Islamic State
extremist group, will sneak into the U.S. as refugees.”Reports noted
that Trump then went on to list several countries that he felt the U.S.
should be wary of: Afghanistan, Iraq, Morocco, Pakistan, the
Philippines, Somalia, Syria, Uzbekistan, and Yemen.These countries, he
said, had immigrants who were arrested for conducting or threatening to
carry out violent attacks, teaching bomb-making to recruits, and
otherwise supporting terror groups.An Agence France-Presse (AFP) report
observed that the countries enumerated by Trump were "mostly
Muslim-majority nations." The Philippines, of course, is not counted as a
Muslim-majority country, as it is identified as predominantly Catholic.
Also, most Filipinos who migrate to the US are not Muslims but
Catholics.Trump may have gone overboard in calling the Philippines
(which, by the way, has allowed a Trump Tower to be built) a "terrorist
nation" but his accusation isn’t entirely baseless.In April this year,
local terrorist group Abu Sayyaf — who are supposedly fighting for
autonomy in Mindanao but whose members have been known more for
kidnapping for ransom — beheaded Canadian national John Ridsdel.Ridsdel,
along with fellow Canadian Robert Hall, Norwegian Kjartan Sekkingstad,
and Filipina Marithes Flor, were kidnapped from the Holiday Oceanview
Samal Resort on Samal Island on Sep 21, 2015, by the extremist
group.They initially demanded a ransom of PHP1 billion (or around
US$21,306,060) for each hostage. The amount was brought down to PHP300
million (or around US$6.4 million). The ransom was never paid.Two months
after Ridsdel's beheading, they also executed Hall.Since the Abu Sayyaf
Group was formed in the 1990s, the Philippine government has not
stopped its efforrts against them, but, so far, it has failed to wipe
out its members.ASG has been described as a splinter group of the Moro
Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), a rebel faction that wants greater
Muslim autonomy in Mindanao, the island located in the southern part of
the Philippine archipelago.The Washington Post recalled: "ASG kidnapped
20 people from a resort in 2001, including three Americans, one of whom
was beheaded. In 2004, Abu Sayyaf carried out the worst terrorist attack
in the history of the Philippines, targeting a ferry in Manila Bay,
leaving 116 people dead. The following year, its militants carried out
bombings across the country."Although the Abu Sayyaf has been considered
as "largely subdued" at the moment, it's reported ties with al-Qaeda
and, subsequently, the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) is
definitely cause for alarm.An April 2016 TIME feature noted that "Abu
Sayyaf leader Isnilon Hapilon — now styled Sheik Mujahid Abu Abdullah
al-Filipini — has been appointed ISIS’s leader in the Philippines."Rohan
Gunaratna, an international terrorism expert at S. Rajaratnam School of
Security Studies in Singapore, told TIME that "it’s very likely that
[Abu Sayyaf] will declare a satellite of the caliphate in the coming
year. Once that is done, it will be much more difficult to dismantle
these groups."By "groups," Gunaratna is referring to other extremist
outfits who have hosted training sessions with foreign terrorist
operatives.It may be recalled that in January 2015, Zulkifli bin Hir — a
Malaysian described as a key facilitator between Indonesian and
Filipino extremist groups — was cornered and killed in Mamasapano in
central Mindanao.The government paid a heavy price for that encounter.
Forty-four members of the Philippine National Police's Special Action
Force were killed. The event stalled President Benigno Aquino III’s
administration's peace negotiations with the Moro separatists.Decades
before Mamasapano, the Philippines was also used as a launching pad for
the Bojinka Plot, which was funded by none other than Osama bin Laden
and Jemaah Islamiyah leader Riduan Isamuddin (also known as Hambali).It
turns out that Mohammed Jamal Khalifa, bin Laden’s brother-in-law, had
moved to the Philippines sometime in the late 1980s to set up numerous
financial fronts to benefit al-Qaeda.The Bojinka plot was a
three-pronged attack by Islamists Ramzi Yousef and Khalid Sheikh
Mohammed for Jan 1995.They planned to assassinate Pope John Paul II who
was in the Philippines for the World Youth Day celebrations, blow up 11
airliners in flight from Asia to the United States to shut down air
travel around the world, and crash a plane into the headquarters of the
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Fairfax County, Virginia.The
Bojinka Plot was disrupted after a chemical fire started at the
apartment where the Yousef and his group were staying.Cops later
descended on Room 603 of Doña Josefa Apartment along Quirino Avenue
in Malate, Manila. While Yousef and his other companions fled from the
scene, a man named Abdul Hakim Murad was caught and later
interrogated.Yousef and Mohammed were unable to stage any of the three
attacks.The only fatality resulted from a test bomb planted by Yousef on
Philippine Airlines Flight 434 which killed one person and injured 10
others in Dec 1994.They had also planted other test bombs in various
locations. These tests didn't have any casualties.While Yousef was later
arrested in Pakistan, Mohammed went on to become the principal
architect of the 9/11 attacks.With that said, we ask: Is the Philippines
a terrorist nation?For now, there is no clear answer. What we know is
that there is a definite terrorist threat in the country that seems to
be gaining strength. For people like Trump, that's enough to get a
country branded as a terrorist nation.
Filipinos are so thin skinned. They can criticize and insult others, but God forbid somebody should tell the truth about them.... Pathetic Filipinos...
August 6, 2016
Duterte calls US ambassador 'bakla' over campaign comments
It looks like President Rodrigo remains at odds with United States
Ambassador Philip Goldberg despite having met a few times after the
elections.
In a speech delivered late Friday night at Camp
Lapu-Lapu in Cebu City, Duterte called Goldberg “bakla” or “gay” for
comments the envoy made during the campaign.
Duterte insults U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines... Biting the hand that feeds him, so to speak... Yet another genius move by a Filipino...
U.S. Response To Duterte's Comment:
US summons PH envoy over Duterte’s ‘bakla’ tag on Goldberg
August 9, 2016
MANILA — The US has summoned Philippine Charge d’Affaires to
Washington D.C., Patrick Chuasoto, to clarify “inappropriate comments”
made by Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte about US ambassador to the
Philippines Philip Goldberg.
“We’ve seen those inappropriate comments made about (U.S.) Ambassador
(Philip) Goldberg. He’s a multi-time ambassador, one of our most senior
diplomats,” U.S. State Department spokesperson Elizabeth Trudeau told a
news briefing.
Trudeau, however, declined to disclose the meeting between US officials and Philippine CDA Patrick Chuasoto.
“I’m not going to read out that detailed conversation, but it was specifically on those remarks,” said Trudeau.
Mr. Duterte last week detailed the meeting last week between he had
with US Department of State Secretary John Kerry, who visited the
Philippines from July 26-27. Ambassador Goldberg was also present at the
meeting.
Duterte, known for his foul mouthed manner, belittled the US
$32-million fund donation announced by Kerry and has called ambassador
Goldberg “bakla” or “gay ambassador” and “son of a bitch” during the
recent meeting with soldiers in Davao City.
“I am pissed with him” (referring to ambassador Goldberg). He
meddled during the election, giving statements here and there. He was
not supposed to do that,” Duterte told the audience of soldiers.
Goldberg has earned the ire of Mr. Duterte after he criticized the
President’s joke during the campaign about the rape and murder of
Australian missionary Jacqueline Hamill in 1989.
Meanwhile, the US government has raised deep concern on rising number
of vigilante style killings of people linked to drugs in the country,
reaching more than 400. It called on the Duterte administration to
uphold rule of law in implementing war on drugs.
Elizabeth Trudeau, spokesperson of the US Department of State, said
the US would continue to call on Philippine officials “to emphasize the
importance of this fundamental democratic principle.”
“We strongly urge the Philippines to ensure its law enforcement
efforts comply with its human rights obligations,” said Trudeau in a
press briefing at the US State Department on August 8.
She said the US-Philippines partnership has beenbased on respect for
rule of law. “We believe in due process. We believe in respect for
universal human rights. We believe fundamentally that those aspects
ensure and promote long-term security.”
Legal experts have warned Duterte that he could face charges of
crimes against humanity before the International Criminal Court (ICC) in
The Hague. SFM
UPDATE:
Duterte Response:
Duterte won't apologize for calling US ambassador 'bakla'
August 13, 2016
President Rodrigo Duterte maintained he was not going to apologize
to United States Ambassador Philip Goldberg, saying it is the envoy who
needs to apologize to him first.
"Hindi nga siya nag-apologize sa
akin, why would I apologize to him? Siya mismo ang nag-una," he said in
an ambush interview after a speech made in Camp Teodolfo Baustista in
Jolo, Sulu.
In a speech last week, Duterte called Goldberg
"bakla" over the envoy's comments during the campaign period. That
resulted in the US Depart of State summoning the Philippines envoy in
Washington to explain Duterte's comments.
The rift between
Duterte and Goldberg started after the former Davao City mayor made a
controversial remark over the rape of an Australian missionary in 1989.
Australian Ambassador Amanda Gorely reacted saying rape and murder should never be trivialized.
Goldberg, in a television interview, supported Gorely's position.
Duterte said he was hurt by Goldberg's statement during the campaign.
"Talagang nasaktan ako kasi election time eh. Ngayon, medyo okay na
ako. Sino ba ang hindi magalit, election time tapos magbitaw ka ng
salita na ganoon?" he said.
Washington summoned Filipino charge
d'affaires Patrick Chuasato to explain Duterte's remarks, which the US
called "inappropriate and unacceptable."
Presidential
spokesperson Ernesto Abella on Thursday that explanations have already
been made to the State Department, while defending the comments as not
meant for the public. Duterte himself expressed confidence that
US-Philippine ties remain strong. —JST, GMA News
I WAS READING ANOTHER WEBSITE FOR DATING FILIPINAS AND FOUND THE READER COMMENTS INTERESTING AND SUPPORTIVE OF WHAT IS BEING SAID ON THIS BLOG. SO, I THOUGHT I'D SHARE WITH YOU THEIR EXPERIENCES AND COMMENTS AS WELL.
Rusty Kolpsays:
July 7, 2012
at 10:03 pm
I would like to leave just a comment regarding online dating mostly the
phillipine dating sites but this pewrtains to many more also.
For three years I have been seeking to bring girl here to USA for marriage in
this time I have met so many fake girls using fake pictures different names and
so on ,yes so many not have computers but to use the cyber cafes they must make
the most of there time , this means logging onto as many sites as possible all
at the same time,chatting to as many guys as possible all at the same time and
lieing to as many guys as possible all at the same time,granted not all do this
but 75% are taking your money under false pretense I have never heard so many
excuses and so many problems that anyone person can have.
I think when a another guy contacted me and told me truth abut this certain
pinay he said it best (They learn from a very young age what to say and how to
say it in order to get money out of your pocket ) and I agree it seems the
spread what things to say because so many use the very same problem excuses
over and over , the dating sites are full of girls using others pics and using
god name to make you believe what they say. I still hope I find a real pinay to
marry but now I m much wiser after loosing $14,000.00 dollars in three years of
searching
mikesays:
May 12, 2014
at 12:10 pm
Yes… it is lots of fake people online and off…. This is how the world is.
But learn how to be more professional in spotting them.
1. If every picture is always too perfect, this is you first sign but still
talk to them.
2. Quickly say, I want to see you. And ask them how can I see you? If they ask
you to send money for a cam, you are almost there. Then try to send them a
cheep cam….. no money but try to send cam.
3. Ask for some all things in their pics. Peace sign, feet, anything that is
not a normal thing. And I though if these on my own so I know you can thing of some things.
Andysays:
April 6, 2016
at 10:53 am
Just to make you feel better. I courted a filipina, visited her 5 times,
then she tells me she needs to get away from her family. I just found out she
came to USA already! Getting ready to marry another American.!!! Wtf!
Tyrone Davissays:
October 9,
2014 at 1:58 am
Well I met this young pinay through a relative already living in the USA she
introduced us I looked her up on Facebook we got to know each other I flew to
her country and married her and boy that was a big mistake when she CE to the
USA she changed completely found out it was a scam and now she is living with
someone else I took care of her and her family for four years o flew there
three times and this is what o got in return some pinays are honest some are
not you just got to be careful because some will use you just to get out of the
country.
I got scam and it was marriage fraud but one day I will findy true Asian queen.
Davidsays:
October 31,
2014 at 6:33 pm
Just stay away from thais and filipinas. It´s all about money. Try
Vietnamese or Korean, where you find the most honest and beautiful women!
jonalyn fulguerassays:
November 3,
2015 at 10:00 pm
hi im a filipina but i agree with you manu of the girls who joining a dating
website just want to get out of their country but i think when someone already
trusted you and love you its enough to love him back and give what he deserve
many filipina is a user just try not to get fooled.
wintersays:
December 26,
2015 at 11:43 am
Not all.. Some Filipina are nice and not after of the money. Of course you
have to consider someone with breeding and the kind of person she is. If you
are dating someone who is a bitch on the street then I will not argue on that.
Most of them are likely like that. But if it is professional and well educated,
I don’t think they are like that.
Aprilsays:
December 28,
2014 at 2:28 am
Mine is very different. Ive been to college in the philippines, lived in
europe for a while (my husband stalked me on facebook for a while ,wooed me
then married me. He is in the military and stationed in europe). I followed him
there, reached 2 years mark of being married, went back to the states for
another duty station and christmas time comes this 2014.. He tricked me into
sending me back to philippines for a supposed visit to my family christmas and
just message me recently he wont buy me a return ticket to the u.s . Im a
permanent residence. I felt so stupid. I was emotionally depressed because he
never help me adjust to foreign life when i was there. I was in depressed mode
and he used it against me after i return here why he wants me to stay here for
a while when in fact if he did not emotionally buffed me hen i was there i
would be okay. I never join any dating site, im educated in my country. I even work inside
the base in germany to help off set the cost. It breaks my heart to pathom that
the harsh reality is, people looked down to us filipinas because of the reasons
stated above but there are other stories like mine. My husband was my first
foreign friend ,boyfriend and i married him. I never looked for one but he showed
up in my doorstep, swept me off my feet and threw me like im just a thing. I
guess mine is a different story.
Annonymous April 16, 2016
Well as
some of you guys may remember I had a thread on hear awhile go about my now ex
handing a baby over to her to keep as the mother could not afford for her food.
I never could get the real answer what ever happened to it or if really even
existed but I did not hear much of it after a few weeks. Anyways I was with her
since June 2011 and I really grew tired of her games and alot of people telling
me that she was so lucky to have me mainly by Filipino guys who assumed my
condo or even 2 taxi drivers I never asked why they said it but I just shrugged
it off,
I really
gave the relationship my best but it was fruitless and a waste of time to
continue, I also had a message in my facebook from another guy saying that he
had met with her a few times but had never done anything and that he wanted to
marry with her. When i confronted her about it at first she denied it then he
gave me more specifics and I was able to tell it was a genuine message and I
confronted her with it again and she told me that they were just friends. This
girl is from a broken but nice family and was also working in a mall when I
first met her long hours, I really did my best to support her by sending her an
allowance every month, flagship smart phone's and nice designer brand watches etc
she also stayed with her sister and sister in-law and her niece in one of the
condos, Her brother already found a new girl but they still wanted to help her
and the baby. Her brother is working in another city. She also had a nice trip
in Australia and we spent a few weeks on the Gold Coast so why she wanted to
play games is beyond me.
Anyway
enough is enough I could not tolerate it as I had for around 4.5 years so I
just told her it's over I can't live like this anymore. She already transferred to some rough boarding house
as she did not want to return to her mothers and sister room.
So
I tried using Date In Asia but really not much luck there. Too many liars and players. Many fakes.
ANOTHER FOREIGNER SCAMMED BY FILIPINA ON DATE SITE THAT LIED ABOUT HER AGE!! THIS IS VERY COMMON ON THE DATE SITES!!
Nabbed Over Affair With Minor
Thursday, March 10, 2016
By Oscar C. Pineda
CEBU. Japanese national Yoshio Morino was
presented to the media on Thursday, March 10, 2016, following his arrest
for having an affair with a minor. (Sun.Star Photo/Amper Campaña)
THE
National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) arrested the other day (March 9)
a Japanese national for allegedly “sleeping” with a minor inside a
motel room here in the city.
Yoshio Morino, 69, from Setagaya Ward, Tokyo, told reporters that he
did not know that the girl was a minor and apologized for it.
NBI agents went to Room 406 of Queensland Motel, Arcadio Maxilom St.
in Barangay Careta, Cebu City, at 3:30 p.m., and found Morino with the
15-year-old girl.
Agents turned the girl over to the social worker and to her parents in Naga City where the victim lives.
Morino signed a waiver yesterday, freeing the NBI from liability for
arbitrary detention as he will be detained at the NBI stockade without
charges.
Prosecutor II Mario Ley Gidayawan gave the suspect’s counsel Roberto
Arendain to submit a counter-affidavit before or not later than March
21.
Sun.Star Cebu is withholding the girl’s name as she is a minor.
The NBI agent handling the case, lawyer Donaver Inesin, said they are
now preparing a case of rape in connection with Child Abuse Law or
Republic Act 7610, and violation of Expanded Anti-Human Trafficking in
Persons Act of 2012 or Republic Act (RA) 10364.
Visit
Morino, a retired chef and a widow from Setagaya Ward in Tokyo and
who arrived the country one and a half month ago, said the girl stated
in profile picture that she was 19 years old.
“She told me that if you buy me a new cellphone I’m gonna be your
girlfriend,” Morino remembers the girl telling him when they met.
The Japanese tourist admitted having sex with the girl, believing that she is already 19 years old.
“But I never forced the girl,” said Morino.
Cebu Vice Gov. Agnes Magpale, who presented the suspect yesterday in a
press conference, said Morino befriended the girl through social media
and arranged a meeting in Talisay City, Mandaue City and Cebu City.
Inesin said the two first saw each other last Feb. 23 in a mall in Talisay City.
She said the suspect then brought the 15-year-old girl to a motel in Mandaue City, but nothing happened between them that time.
“Pagka-February 25, didto na siya (that was when it happened), forced against her will, consummated gyud,
(and) were looking at a rape case,” said Inesin, and this reportedly
happened in the suspect’s rented room at City Seascape in Mandaue City.
After their meeting the victim told her parents what happened and
they sought the help of the Provincial Women’s Commission (PWC), whose
co-chair is Magpale.
Entrapment
When the suspect met the victim again last March 9, the victim’s
parents alarmed the NBI. When the suspect and victim took a cab, NBI
operatives on motorcycle followed them until they checked in a motel.
Inesin gathered from the victim that the suspect created an account “Filipino cupid dot com.”
“So we could assume that her friends (victims) are also using the
same website, although we cannot go further nga abuse pud sila,” said
Inesin.
The victim said she went with him just for fun.
Magpale said they will visit schools and inform teachers and students on the dangers of visiting suspicious websites.
She admitted an increase in the number of abuse victims.
The PWC, co-chaired by Magpale, is composed of law enforcers from NBI
and PNP; prosecutor’s office; medical and psychology professionals and
Capitol officials.
Published in the Sun.Star Cebu newspaper on March 11, 2016.
I’m fairly well traveled. I’ve been
in the Philippines many years and have experienced it.
Here’s the true take on the
Philippines:
1. Never relaxed or felt safe at all
whilst moving around in Manila. Was constantly on edge and waiting for bad
things to happen. Was on guard but all the time felt nervous. Going out at
night unless by taxi was a big no-no. Even by taxi was a risk.
2. Went to Clark AFB, a cyclone came
in and weather was terrible for about three days.
3. Couldn't eat at McDonald’s
without children or women with babes in arms banging on the restaurant windows
asking for money. Have never seen as much poverty or as many slums as in Manila
and children begging. It had all the sounds of a dysfunctional country.
4. The only positives were the
women spoke English and understood better.
5. Was constantly hassled by beggars
in the street and really believe Manila to be the worst city ever visited.
6. Food on the streets, was by and
large greasy, unhealthy and inedible unless went to lousy fast food joints.
People being mugged in broad
daylight in Manila, gangs of well dressed Filipinos robbing people without
shame in Jeepneys working in groups of up to 8, terrible poverty, drugs being
placed in peoples drinks knocking them out and getting robbed, credit card
scams in restaurants, aggressive and nasty attitudes from Manila taxis
threatening and refusing to open meters, cheating and scamming as soon as you
get off the plane, police and security with machine guns at shopping malls and
ever increasing threats from Muslim insurgents.
My God, it makes Pattaya sound like
kindergarden!!!
I have made a few friends from the
Philippines on Facebook and can assure readers ALL BAR NONE are trying to get
out of the Philippines and work elsewhere. Never met one, male or female, that
says they love the Philippines and want to stay.
There you
have it… As Paul Harvey would say, “and that’s the real story.”
Why would anyone want to visit the
Philippines???
Reader Comments:
Scruffy cities.
Boring, unhealthy food. Above all, skip Manila. Worst city in SE Asia by far.
the Philippines way ahead in the murder stakes.
Downsides:
Many natural disasters (storms, earthquakes, volcanoes)
Much poverty
Food is often bland
Taxation on world-wide income (only of interest to those wishing to live
there).
Everything is inferior:
- The ubiquitous grime
- The catholic bigotry seems
an insult to the intelligence
- The filthy food where each
dish is bursting with fat and sugar
- Too low roof Jeepneys where
it enters and leaves squatting
- All types of more expensive
and less good housing.
The Philippines, the banking system there is just shit,
they learned from the Americans, the road system is shit and the traffic is
unbelievable, the train system does not exist and the ferries are overcrowded
and dangerous. Since Marcos every government came in on the promise to do
something against corruption and then they just filled up their own pockets and
disappeared. So if you don't want to be disappointed make a circle around the
Philippines and call it a "No go Zone"
Woman Faces Theft Complaint For ‘Robbing American Boyfriend’
Friday, January 15, 2016
By Gerome M. Dalipe
A
RETIRED American sued his former girlfriend for allegedly stealing his
gold coins and making an unauthorized withdrawal from his bank account
amounting to about P100,000 total in 2014.
Lewis Franklin Johnson filed a complaint before the Office of the
Cebu City Prosecutor accusing Cherie Emnace Momongan of theft and
violation of Republic Act 8484 (Access Devices Regulation Act of 1998).
State Prosecutor Simaco Labata found evidence to charge Momongan with
theft and violation of Access Devices Regulation Act of 1998 before the
Regional Trial Court.
In his affidavit, Johnson said he sought the help of the National
Bureau of Investigation (NBI 7) after he discovered that his gold coins
worth $1,200 were lost.
He also found out that his silver coins worth $17 were missing. The
American also reported the unauthorized withdrawal from his dollar bank
account amounting to $1,148.
Johnson and Momongan went to the bank and reported the unauthorized withdrawal.
The bank manager told them they could provide video footage of those
who withdrew from their bank, but it would need clearance from their
head office.
Momongan also confessed to Johnson that she was “kidnapped” and was brought to a warehouse.
She claimed she was blindfolded and was kept inside a dark room.
Momongan said she was “lucky” since she escaped from her captors. She
later received text messages threatening her. Johnson said they decided
to report the incident to the NBI 7 for fear of their lives.
But NBI 7 investigators doubted Momongan’s claim that she was kidnapped.
While she claimed to be from Barangay Lahug, Cebu City, Momongan is not familiar with Gen. Maxilom Ave.
The investigators suspected that the respondent stole the gold and
silver coins and illegally withdrew money from Johnson’s ATM card.
The American received text messages from someone who posed as Momongan and let her withdraw money from his ATM card.
The NBI 7 investigators then accompanied Johnson to view the CCTV
from the bank and confirmed that Momongan made several withdrawals on
various dates in October 2014.
“It is clear that the kidnapping story is just a hoax and respondent
(Momongan) did unauthorized withdrawals,” said Prosecutor Labata in his
resolution.
Labata said Momongan took the ATM card, gold and silver coins from the deposit box.
Momongan also admitted to Johnson that she just wanted his money and wished she could get more from him.
Momongan failed to submit her counter-affidavit, which would have
given her the chance to refute the charges lodged against her.
Published in the Sun.Star Cebu newspaper on January 16, 2016
Filipina
marriage scams occur when a woman lures an unsuspecting Western man into her
dangerous web with promises of love and devotion. The man who is usually from
the United States, United Kingdom, or Australia falls in love with the person
the Filipino woman is pretending to be and marries her. Once the deceptive
woman gets what she wants out of the marriage she discards her husband.
Sometimes the Filipina will trash the husband's reputation in the process, and if
there are children involved the situation becomes even more frightening.
How Do Filipina Women Meet Western Men
A prominent way a woman living in the Philippines will meet a Western man is
over the internet. She will post an attractive picture of herself online at
various dating and social networking sites. She will quickly tell a man who has
shown interest in her how much she loves him and how much she wants to be with
him. Sometimes she will be professing love to more than one man at a time. She
will appear virtuous and come off as the perfect woman and excellent wife
material. Sometimes she will tell of hardships and ask for money before
marriage, other times she will wait until she is in the U.S., Australia, or
U.K. to begin taking money from her husband. Before continuing with this
article it needs to be said that not all women in the Philippines are scammers.
Unfortunately it can sometimes be difficult to tell the difference between an
honest woman and a migration scammer until a marriage has taken on a darker
component and eventually dissolves.
The Cleaner Scam
The cleaner scam occurs when a Filipina woman marries a man who has the
intention of moving to the Philippines to live with her. Usually he will have
to return to his home country for a period of time to make arrangements. His
Filipina wife convinces him to add her name to all of his bank accounts. After
he does this she empties the accounts and he never sees her again.
Scams to Get Into the States
Many Fililpina women will scam men so that they can move to the U.S., U.K., or
Australia where life is better and money is more abundant. Often they will wait
until the allotted time after which the husband cannot say the marriage is a
fraud, and then divorce the man. Sometimes a woman is already married and will
ask for her brother or cousin to come live with her and her husband. When this
is the case, the "brother" or "cousin" is really her first
husband.
The Dump Truck Scam
-Tampo Phase
The dump truck scam is form of marriage fraud that can last for a number of
years. A man from the U.S., U.K. or Australia will marry a Filipina woman who
has made him fall in love with her with pretty words and verbal caresses. The
husband will bring his new wife back to his home country, only to discover she
is not the person he thought she was. She will begin to act distant, unhappy,
and snappish.
- Distracted Phase
In this phase of the scam the filipina wife will stop listening to and being
attentive to her husband. She will act distracted when speaking to him, or
"doodle" on paper during important conversations. She will ask for
money for things she doesn't need, stop taking care of the house, or doing
anything to contribute to the marriage.
- Falsely Reporting Abuse
A filipina woman may call the police and say she is being abused by her husband
during this phase when she really is not. According to the Mail Order Bride
blog, "...female perpetrators of immigration fraud are highly familiar
with U.S. Domestic violence laws and understand a false claim of abuse not only
insures free legal assistance but also invokes new federal laws prohibiting
their removal from the United States" . Not only does this harm the
reputation and legal status of the accused husband, it takes valuable time and
resources away from women who really are being abused.
-Using Children
Sometimes a filipina woman will have children with her husband while still in
the midst of a migration scam. She may do this with her husband's knowledge or
she may trick him into impregnating her. Once children are born it makes it
much easier for a marriage scammer to get what she wants. When children are in
the home a husband is asked to leave if she cries abuse. She will often file
for a restraining order, file for welfare benefits, ask for a divorce for which
she will receive free legal aid, and get most if not all of the marital assets.
In some cases the father will be cut completely out of the child's life and the
marriage scammer will use legal means to achieve this, even though her husband
is a natural born citizen.
Everyone Suffers from Marriage Scams
Marriage scams happen more often than people realize and when a marriage scam
is successful a number of people suffer.
One marriage scammer was married to her American husband for years and had
three children with him. She cried abuse and ended up getting sole custody of
her children and all of the marital assets. The victim of the filipina
migration scam was ordered to pay more in child support than he made and was
not even allowed to keep enough money to pay for his life sustaining
medication. This filipina's ex-husband is now living in the Philippines with
his new wife. The ex-husband is a pastor whose passport was taken from him by
the United States Embassy because of the actions of his ex-wife and he cannot
return to the United States because of telephone threats on his life made by
the police of his hometown. This victim of a migration scam cannot come back to
the U.S. to see or protect his kids right now, though he is fighting to change
that.
Another marriage scammer actually married her husband in the United States,
though she was only there on a Visa. After the marriage her personality changed
completely. After the marriage fall apart the husband found out he was not even
legally married to the Filipina woman because she already had a husband in the
Philippines. He then found out his "wife" had stolen money from a
local V.A. Hospital and was filtering it through an account in his name. The
woman was never seen again even though the U.S. government has searched for her
for over a decade.
Some women will divorce their husbands as soon as they can legally stay in the
United States. Others will exhort large amounts of money before doing so. Some
Filipina migration scammers will get their husbands to buy them a house, car,
pay for their education, and have babies with them before they toss them aside.
In the end the husband is left hurting, kept away from his children, and has to
rebuild life from scratch.
This American did not know lending means giving in the Philippines?
Yet another American duped. The only
part that confuses me is how it took him that long to realize he was being
cheated.
Caregiver Dupes Disabled American of PhP915K
Staff Report Published: December 23, 2015
MANILA: A disabled American has accused his Filipina caregiver of
allegedly duping him of PhP915,000 and filed estafa charges against her,
media reports said.
Since being hired, Leah Caparida, 33, borrowed money from him for 21
times. He said he gave her cash in 20 out of the 21 instances she asked
for a loan, Marvin Hensel, 57, was quoted as saying by Inquirer.
In an affidavit submitted to the Manila Police District general
assignment section, Hensel reportedly said he was filing 20 counts of
estafa against her.
He was quoted as saying that Caparida started borrowing money in May 2015.
She often claimed that she needed the cash for hospitalization, the report said.
Since then, almost every week, Hensel would lend Caparida money, sometimes in dollars, sometimes in peso.
On Monday afternoon, Caparida attempted to borrow PhP27,000 to pay her bills in a Bulacan hospital.
“I refused (to give her the money) after I confirmed with the
hospital…that there is no such patient in her name ,” Hensel was quoted
as saying by Inquirer.
ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF THE FINE WOMEN IN THE PHILIPPINES. EXCEPT THIS TIME SHE'S GETTING WHAT SHE DESERVES.
Woman Faces Charges For Duping Belgian Guy
Sun Star
Saturday, November 28, 2015
A
WOMAN from Cebu City is facing criminal charges in court for
allegedly duping a Belgian national into sending her money by
pretending that she applied for work abroad and undergoing medical
treatment in 2013.
The
Office of the Cebu City Prosecutor has indicted Alamarie Mabasa for
estafa, which is a violation of Art. 315 of the Revised Penal Code.
“It
would appear that the intention of respondent (Mabasa) in telling
fabricated tales was to take advantage of complainant’s trust and
brotherly affection,” the resolution penned by Assistant City
Prosecutor Naruzen Delfin-Lorete.
Bail
is set at P60,000.
Alexander
Schick filed the estafa case against Mabasa, whom he met in April 11,
2013 via software application Skype. The accused worked as a sales
agent for Schick’s online ticketing business.
When
Schick visited the country in May 2013, he and Mabasa met and became
good friends. Mabasa confessed to Schick about her problems with her
family, health, personal and financial problems.
The
accused asked money from Schick, who then sent her via money
transfer.
Mabasa
also asked Schick to send her money for the processing fee for her
application for Taiwan and her medical treatment. The
Belgian
national sent her $3,620, or P155, 660 (at P43 to the dollar).
But
last January 2014, Schick became suspicious of Mabasa’s motive,
prompting him to verify from Mabasa’s friend about her condition.
Schick
later discovered that Mabasa never really left the country for Taiwan
nor underwent medical treatment.
Schick
said he was “deeply aggrieved” by Mabasa’s deceitful
misinterpretation” and ‘false medical condition.”
Schick
sent Mabasa a letter, demanding from her to return the money, but to
no avail.
A
certification from the Bureau of Immigration in Manila confirmed that
Mabasa never left the Philippines for Taiwan.
Mabasa’s
former friend, Marissa Paner-Alferez, also executed an affidavit
stating that the accused also collected payments from her clients
without her authority.
Mabasa
ran errands for Alferez’s wedding planning venture.
In
the resolution, Prosecutor Lorete said Mabasa duped Schick into
giving her money by pretending to have worked in Taiwan and
undergoing medical treatment.
“It
was a scheme to extract money from him (Schick), who unfortunately
parted with his money,” said Lorete.
Vacationing American National Arrested – Dies
in Jail in Cebu City
ONCE AGAIN SOMEONE DIES IN THE CUSTODY OF THE POLICE (PNP) AT STATION 2 IN CEBU CITY. THIS IS THE SAME POLICE STATION WHERE I WAS HELD IN CUSTODY BEING MISTREATED FOR 21 DAYS AND THE 11 YEAR OLD GIRL DIED.
YOU CAN READ MORE ABOUT MY EXPERIENCE IN THE POSTING "ALLEGED: NOT A SHRED OF INVESTIGATION" IN THE COMMENTS AND THE 11 YEAR OLD GIRL THAT DIED IN THE POSTING "POLICE BRUTALITY SEEN IN 11 YEAR OLD GIRL'S DEATH".
Vacationing American National Arrested – Dies
in Jail in Cebu City
Posted - November 25, 2015
CEBU CITY, Philippines – A vacationing American
national who was in Cebu City visiting a friend has died in jail
after telling police he could not breathe.
51-year-old was arrested and later died in a Cebu
City jailwith a seedy past from earlier
this year.
Cebu
City police say that Pikl’s death had no
foul play involved – an autopsy has yet to be conducted.
Pikl’s familyl disputes the Philippines media
reports that he went “wild” and “berserk” before dying.
Skip Pikl, Mark’s brother, said the reports are
“troubling.”
Pikle, an American veteran and retired
correctional officer, “would not have acted that way,” his
brother Brian said.
Family members said their brother walked in pain
and was due to have surgery to correct the problem.
Richard Woodling, consul general at the Philippine
Consulate General of Portland, said the
circumstances around Pikl’s death sound “rather suspicious.”
A report on the incident said that Pikle was
arrested on Wednesday after “getting wild” near a hotel inFuente
Osmeña.
Pikl
reportedly complained to police officers that he could not breathe
while being detained inside his holding cell.
Cebu
City Police reiterated that “We assure
the public that there was no foul play.”
The cause of Pikl’s death is still under
investigation.
Brian Pikl said the family is working with the
State Department and the American
Consular
Agency to conduct an autopsy and
return Pikl’s body to the State of Oregon – Mark Pikl is
originally fromSalem,
Oregon.
Locals suspect foul play when hearing of the death
of the American national as the jail where Pikl died was also the
subject of media attention when earlier this year an 11-year-old died
after she was beaten and electrocuted while being detained.
Officers at that jail are facing murder charges
for the incident with the young girl – now the family of Pikl may
be faced with the same consequences in the death of their brother.
I'm happy to say that finally after 7 years in a Philippine court, on
November 15, 2019 my case has been DISMISSED PERMANENTLY.
UPDATE:
US
man cleared of rape after 5 years in Philippine jail
US man cleared of rape after 5 years
in Philippine jail
By
Teresa Cerojana (Associated Press) | Updated
August 2, 2016 - 6:45pm
A court in metropolitan Manila
cleared Scott McMahon, of Seattle, after finding no clear evidence that he
committed rape. Freescottmcmahon.com
MANILA, Philippines — An American
man jailed in the Philippines for more than five years was freed Tuesday after
being acquitted of rape.
A court in metropolitan Manila
cleared Scott McMahon, of Seattle, after finding no clear evidence that he
committed rape, as a Filipino woman alleged, a court official said on condition
of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to reporters.
A jail officer, Omar Surigao, said
that after the acquittal, McMahon was released from the Muntinlupa City jail in
metropolitan Manila. He said McMahon's mother, Shelley Campanella, was among
those present when McMahon was released.
McMahon, who has two children with
his Filipino fiancee, had been detained since April 7, 2011.
Campanella has said that her son was
wrongly accused of rape by the woman after he filed a case against her for
allegedly traumatizing his young son.
The woman, the wife of McMahon's
friend, had allegedly burst into McMahon's home with police, shouting as she
looked for her estranged husband. The incident allegedly traumatized the son.
"We are so thrilled that this
part of the nightmare is over and that Scott will not be spending another day
in prison," McMahon's sister, Jennifer, said in a video posted on
Facebook, calling the rape accusation "retaliation" by the woman for
the case McMahon had filed against her.
ALLEGED: NOT A SHRED OF INVESTIGATION
This is a true story happening in the Philippines now. It was published in The Seattle Times -
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King County man languishes in Philippines jail fighting rape charge
Scott McMahon, who moved to the Philippines in 2003, has been held in filthy conditions in a case one lawyer says is so flimsy it wouldn’t have warranted an arrest in America.
A Seattle-area man living in the Philippines has been held in an overcrowded jail in suburban Manila for more than four years, waiting most of that time to stand trial on rape allegations that he and his supporters claim are false.
Scott McMahon, 44, a former heavy-metal guitarist-turned-construction worker from Renton, contends he’s innocent and has been wrongfully imprisoned on the word of a woman bent on retaliation after he filed a criminal complaint against her.
“It’s just preposterous,” McMahon said in a telephone interview from the Muntinlupa City Jail. “It’s just a complete frame-up. I haven’t done anything wrong.”
The Seattle Times could not locate the Filipino woman who has accused McMahon. A Muntinlupa City prosecutor involved with the case declined to comment.
No physical evidence exists that a rape occurred. Records show prosecutors have pursued the case largely based on the 48-year-old woman’s claims that her estranged husband and McMahon sexually assaulted her at her home early one morning in February 2010.
“Even if I wanted to fight and wrestle free from their tight hold, my strength was useless against their strength,” the woman alleged in an affidavit translated for this story.
The woman, who has said she is a tabloid reporter who met her husband several years earlier in a South Korean bar, first made her allegations in August 2010, six months after the rape allegedly occurred. The claims emerged a month after a judge ruled that a criminal case based on McMahon’s child-abuse complaint against the woman could proceed, records show.
This is the second time a Filipino woman has accused McMahon of rape. In 2008, prosecutors dropped charges against him after a different woman withdrew her complaint, swearing in an affidavit her rape claims were “not true.” McMahon’s supporters say that case, like the current one, involved someone trying to extort McMahon.
McMahon contends that since his latest arrest in April 2011 — an event broadcast by a Manila TV news station — an associate of his accuser has repeatedly visited him in jail, trying to persuade McMahon to pay the woman money and withdraw his complaint against her in exchange for her dropping the rape claims.
McMahon said he told the man, “That ain’t gonna happen.”
Instead, McMahon said he expects to be vindicated of the charges, which are punishable by a life sentence.
Testimony
The trial of McMahon, an American citizen who moved to the Philippines in 2003, began only last month. After the court postponed several hearings, he testified April 28. Among other things, he told the court about his accuser’s alleged extortion attempts, and that he and his family were out of town for 11 days in February 2010, including the day the rape reportedly occurred.
McMahon’s testimony came after the case dragged on for months. The court has postponed several hearings, and supporters say they’re not sure when a judge might decide the case.
“Unfortunately, I would say that being detained for long periods of time while awaiting trial in the Philippines is fairly typical,” said Carlos Conde, a Filipino researcher for Human Rights Watch, an international human-rights advocacy group.
Meantime, McMahon, whose fiancé and two children are Filipino citizens, remains in jail. In September, a judge denied his bail petition from three years earlier.
“The court holds that there is strong evidence of guilt against the accused which warrants the denial of his motion for admission to bail,” the judge wrote.
Shelley Campanella, McMahon’s mother, described the drawn-out proceedings as a kangaroo court. “We’re stuck relying on a legal system that’s clearly broken and corrupt,” she said.
Campanella and McMahon’s sister, Jennifer Smith, who both live in the Seattle area, have launched a campaign to free McMahon, enlisting the David House Agency, a Los Angeles-based crisis-management firm.
The agency, which specializes in helping Americans imprisoned abroad on dubious accusations, helped Tacoma’s Jason Puracal win an acquittal of a wrongful drug- trafficking and money-laundering conviction in Nicaragua. The agency’s director, Eric Volz, also advised Seattle’s Amanda Knox, who last month was cleared of the wrongful conviction of a 2007 murder in Italy.
“It’s factually impossible for Scott to have committed this crime the way the prosecution says it happened,” said Volz, who was once vindicated from a wrongful murder conviction in Nicaragua.
Music student
McMahon grew up largely in Kent and Renton and attended the Art Institute in Seattle to pursue a music degree. In the mid-1990s, he started a heavy-metal band called Indika that gained modest popularity around Seattle, Campanella said.
In the late 1990s, he traveled to the Philippines and landed a construction job through family connections. He married a Filipino woman, and the couple had a son. A few years later, McMahon split from his wife and met another Filipino woman, Marnelli Abad. The couple had a daughter in 2007.
By 2008, McMahon, his fiancé and his two children, then 4 and 1, lived in a gated subdivision in Muntinlupa City, a suburb of Manila.
That fall, when a neighbor — a Belgian national named Jan Vermeulen — separated from his wife, McMahon said he let the man stay at his home. But McMahon’s generosity apparently upset Vermeulen’s wife, McMahon and his supporters contend.
In December 2008, Vermeulen’s wife complained to police that her husband and McMahon beat her during an argument at her home. Both men were arrested, though charges eventually were dismissed, court records show.
A few weeks after the arrests — while McMahon was still in jail based on the assault claims — the Philippines’ Bureau of Immigration raided McMahon’s home, records show.
Vermeulen, who was staying at the home at the time, said in a telephone interview his ex-wife orchestrated the raid through her police contacts after he separated from her. “She came in with a TV news camera team and two guys from immigration,” Vermeulen said.
During the raid, Vermeulen said he was arrested and McMahon’s family traumatized. Eventually, Vermeulen was deported with no charges pending against him, he said.
Meantime, McMahon was released from jail. Soon, his son began suffering nightmares and grew generally fearful in the raid’s aftermath, records say. A psychologist later diagnosed the boy with post-traumatic stress, and McMahon filed a complaint against the woman for causing it.
In August 2010, a month after a court ruled a criminal child-abuse case could proceed against the woman based on McMahon’s complaint, she went to police to claim McMahon and her husband had raped her, records show.
In court papers, the woman claimed the rape occurred six months earlier at her house but that she didn’t tell police about the rape earlier partly because her husband had threatened her.
Legal team
Based on her allegations, McMahon was arrested in April 2011 — shortly before a hearing on the woman’s child-abuse case.
Volz, the David House Agency director, has recruited legal experts to McMahon’s cause, including the California Innocence Project (CIP), a California Western School of Law program dedicated to vindicating wrongfully convicted inmates.
Michael Semanchik, a CIP attorney who last fall attended some of McMahon’s bail hearings, said the case against McMahon is so flimsy it wouldn’t have warranted an arrest in America.
“If the authorities in the Philippines would have done even a shred of an investigation, they would’ve quickly realized that Scott couldn’t have done this,” he said.
During a bail hearing, a witness told the court he and his family had been with McMahon and his family on the day of the alleged rape in a town eight-hour drive from the woman’s home. A prosecutor countered McMahon could have taken an hourlong flight back to Muntinlupa City to commit the crime.
In October, McMahon’s legal team sent a brief to the U.S. State Department detailing due process violations and other case flaws. A State Department spokesman acknowledged the department is aware of McMahon’s case, but declined to comment about it.
Conde, the human-rights advocate, said he has visited McMahon in jail, describing the conditions there as “filthy and overcrowded with an overpowering stench.” That’s not uncommon for Philippine jails, he added.
