I find this Wikipedia entry about plagiarism interesting: Plagiarism, as defined in the 1995 Random House Compact Unabridged Dictionary, is the “use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one’s own original work.” Within academia, plagiarism by students, professors, or researchers is considered academic dishonesty [...]
The Color Of Doubt Is Gray
May 2, 2009 By 59 Comments
In writing about the Subic Rape Case, I have never claimed any special authority, training or competence to do so, being mainly a useless bum, and bow with obsequiousness and embarrassment to those who do. What follows is just a personal summary of my own thoughts on the case. Clearly non-required reading for the Wisest. [...]
For The Record Lang
April 27, 2009 By 43 Comments
JUST IN CASE anyone is interested in reading the actual Court of Appeals Decision in the Subic Bay Rape Case, (instead of distorted summaries by newspaper columnists, radical activists and the inconsolable but rapidly shrinking lynch mobs), I have uploaded it in PDF format to the Internet Archive for safekeeping and historical purposes. The Accused-Appellant’s [...]
Consoling the Lynch Mob
April 25, 2009 By 82 Comments
The only real consuelo I can offer to the Lynch Mob is the news that the US Military may court martial Lance Cpl. Daniel Smith, probably for causing so much trouble between two old allies and giving the Lynch Mob such a golden opportunity for propaganda.
Serving The Ends Of (In)Justice
April 24, 2009 By 23 Comments
So it has come to pass that an American Marine convicted of raping a Filipina has had the lower court’s adverse finding reversed.
The Presumption of Innocence
March 20, 2009 By 150 Comments
hen does a person accused of a crime lose the Presumption of Innocence? It is a cherished democratic principle that a person accused of a crime must be “presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a Court of Law.” After the Makati Regional Trial Court ruled that an accused American service man [...]
SCORP on Leo Echegaray: “Accused-Appellant”
March 7, 2009 By 68 Comments
This is thanks to our esteemed GabbyD, who, in lieu of acrimonious debate in a recent thread, asks for authoritative research to answer the question of what to call Daniel Smith now that he has been found guilty of rape beyond a reasonable doubt by Makati Regional Trial Court. If not the legally incorrect and journalistically [...]
Unethical to Call Smith “Convicted Rapist”
March 6, 2009 By 74 Comments
The Supreme Court of the Philippines (SCoRP) recently produced three written Decisions on the custody case of Lance Corporal Daniel Smith: a 9-4 Majority Decision by Justice Rodolfo Azcuna; and two Dissenting Opinions by Chief Justice Reynato Puno and Associate Justice Antonio Carpio. In the Majority Decision, Lance Corporal Daniel Smith is invariably referred to [...]
Barking Up The Wrong Treaty
February 23, 2009 By 19 Comments
Let it not be said that we at Filipino Voices did not understand the VFA controversy long before the compleat explanation of it had become common knowledge even in the Main Stream Media and the rest of the Blogosphere. Let it be on the record herewith, that we at Filipino Voices understood the answer given [...]
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