Justice.....Just this?
From www.inq7.net:
Excerpt:
Lance Corporal Daniel Smith, 21, from St. Louis in Missouri, faces up to 40 years in prison following the verdict handed down by Judge Benjamin Pozon of Branch 139 of the Makati regional trial court (RTC).
He was also ordered to pay P50,000 in compensatory and P50,000 in moral damages.
Meanwhile, the court acquitted Lance Corporals Keith Silkwood and Dominic Duplantis and Staff Sergeant Chad Carpentier for lack of evidence.
'Nuff said? NOT!
First of all, it needs to be said that some form of justice was done today. The ass of Lance Corporal Daniel Smith, USMC, is now the property of the people of the Philippines, under the supervision of the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology, with the assistance of (nyahahaha) the inmates of the New Bilibid Prison, Muntinlupa City, to where presumably he will be remanded from his current bunk in the Makati City Jail. Forty years, Corporal, as a rapist... it'll be like the old saying -- when sodomy is inevitable, bend down, relax, and enjoy the ride.
Second -- WHAT THE HELL IS JUDGE POZON SMOKING? A MEASLY HUNDRED THOUSAND PESOS IN DAMAGES? THAT'S JUST ABOUT EIGHTEEN HUNDRED DOLLARS! ARE WE TRYING TO GIVE AMERICAN PERVERTS THE IDEA THAT IT COSTS LESS TO GET TO RAPE A FILIPINA THAN TO BUY A CAR?
Third -- Silkwood, Duplantis, Carpentier... not guilty? WHAT THE HELL IS JUDGE POZON SMOKING? Any one or all three of them could have stepped in and prevented "Nicole" from getting violated, but did any one of them? NO! THE THREE ARE GUILTY BY OMISSION! Even if the three did not cheer and egg Smith on, the fact that they did not intervene makes them accessories to Smith's crime -- aiding and abetting, so to speak.
US Marine guilty of raping Filipina, 3 others acquitted -- just this?
Not enough justice was served today.
***
Further on the story:
Smith should remain in US custody, says VFA
Excerpt:
CONVICTED rapist Daniel Smith should remain in US custody until the Presidential Commission on the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) can decide where the American Marine should be detained while appealing his verdict.
Zosimo Paredes, executive director of the VFA commission, said on Monday this is mandated by Section 6, Article 5 of the agreement.
Do they expect that the US will remand Smith to Philippine custody once they have him?
Idiocy.
The bottomline is this: Smith committed a crime against a Filipino national on Philippine territory. If a Filipino commits a crime against an American national within US borders, could we reasonably expect said Filipino to be remanded from Leavenworth to Bilibid?
Sino kaya ang ginagawa mong tanga, Paredes?
***
Timeline from www.inq7.net here:
Key events in landmark rape trial of US Marines in RP
Posted by JESTER IN EXILE
Lance Corporal Daniel Smith, 21, from St. Louis in Missouri, faces up to 40 years in prison following the verdict handed down by Judge Benjamin Pozon of Branch 139 of the Makati regional trial court (RTC).
He was also ordered to pay P50,000 in compensatory and P50,000 in moral damages.
Meanwhile, the court acquitted Lance Corporals Keith Silkwood and Dominic Duplantis and Staff Sergeant Chad Carpentier for lack of evidence.
'Nuff said? NOT!
First of all, it needs to be said that some form of justice was done today. The ass of Lance Corporal Daniel Smith, USMC, is now the property of the people of the Philippines, under the supervision of the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology, with the assistance of (nyahahaha) the inmates of the New Bilibid Prison, Muntinlupa City, to where presumably he will be remanded from his current bunk in the Makati City Jail. Forty years, Corporal, as a rapist... it'll be like the old saying -- when sodomy is inevitable, bend down, relax, and enjoy the ride.
Second -- WHAT THE HELL IS JUDGE POZON SMOKING? A MEASLY HUNDRED THOUSAND PESOS IN DAMAGES? THAT'S JUST ABOUT EIGHTEEN HUNDRED DOLLARS! ARE WE TRYING TO GIVE AMERICAN PERVERTS THE IDEA THAT IT COSTS LESS TO GET TO RAPE A FILIPINA THAN TO BUY A CAR?
Third -- Silkwood, Duplantis, Carpentier... not guilty? WHAT THE HELL IS JUDGE POZON SMOKING? Any one or all three of them could have stepped in and prevented "Nicole" from getting violated, but did any one of them? NO! THE THREE ARE GUILTY BY OMISSION! Even if the three did not cheer and egg Smith on, the fact that they did not intervene makes them accessories to Smith's crime -- aiding and abetting, so to speak.
US Marine guilty of raping Filipina, 3 others acquitted -- just this?
Not enough justice was served today.
***
Further on the story:
Smith should remain in US custody, says VFA
Excerpt:
CONVICTED rapist Daniel Smith should remain in US custody until the Presidential Commission on the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) can decide where the American Marine should be detained while appealing his verdict.
Zosimo Paredes, executive director of the VFA commission, said on Monday this is mandated by Section 6, Article 5 of the agreement.
Do they expect that the US will remand Smith to Philippine custody once they have him?
Idiocy.
The bottomline is this: Smith committed a crime against a Filipino national on Philippine territory. If a Filipino commits a crime against an American national within US borders, could we reasonably expect said Filipino to be remanded from Leavenworth to Bilibid?
Sino kaya ang ginagawa mong tanga, Paredes?
***
Timeline from www.inq7.net here:
Key events in landmark rape trial of US Marines in RP
Posted by JESTER IN EXILE
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