The Philippine Daily Inquirer quotes Executive Secretary Ermita:
“It is disturbing,” Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita said. “We have to go hard on these people.”
WTF? The quickest way to make people click, download or get a copy of the sex tape is to say, it is banned or it has caught the attention of authorities. I’m sure the women involved are consulting their lawyers and will take appropriate action against Kho. My point being: if you don’t want to, you won’t click or download or see it.
I wonder when will We, the people, go hard on our leaders for the crappy job they’ve been doing? Over 20 years our per capita income has not changed whereas in the same timeframe, inflation has continued to raise the prices of goods and services. The government is so tax hungry that it is even considering taxing text messaging. Not simple text messaging, the only reason to raise taxes on it is because government wants a piece of the pie that companies make, by allowing cross sending of text messages between networks. Hell, this country has come to the point of taxing books.
We dodged a bullet when the NTC has apparently dropped their thinking on trying to tax electronic commerce.
Economics 101 tells us that one shouldn’t raise taxes when industries aren’t performing or during bad economic climate. This government in its quest for revenue will find itself without revenue because people will not be able to pay taxes for lack of jobs and business.
Mr. Secretary, with all due respect: don’t worry about Kho or the “moral compass” of Filipinos. The same goes for every fraking official of this government. That’s not your job.
Then again, as @mlq3 points out in reply to my tweet:
“@cocoy that is the rhythm method of public discourse”
Such is the state of discourse in the Philippines.
My profuse thanks to @Solstitial. She was kind enough to permit me to use her tweet. The title of this blog post was taken from her tweet.
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Kho is a diversionary tactic to drown out the issues that matter.
Kho’s video will increase viewership – it’s sleaze, it’s raw, it’s primeval – and the hoi polli will take to it like the birds and the bees.
books? knowledge? kho just took the next level – he is living what the rest of us just read or fantasize about – banging who*es :lol:
I hope those senators will focus on the real issue, they will just use those people for their political agenda and also be visible to the media.
Stop this nonsense, focus on the real issue
Chip Tsao: Hong Kong Servants
Terrie Hatcher: “…some med school in the Philippines”
Society columnist: “acrid smelling OFW’s fake perfumes”
Oxford Dictionary: “Filipinas are housemaids”
Katrina Halili: “kinakan*tot sa pwet pagkatapos kinakain ang te-te”
SMALL ISSUES BIG ISSUES.
Pekeng-peryodistas violation of Nicole no big issue
Terrorism good for the economy no big issue
ZTE, no big issue
idiocy of PMayers on Failon no big issue
SMALL ISSUE BIG ISSUE
We will bite the bullet. If they tax us over the limit. The point here is: Where are our taxes going? To their pockets? If you ask for
more payment of your services. You must improve your services. Dont
waste funds or steal funds for yourself and for your mga asungots.
It is but predictable that a country that cannot pass a decent bill to control population growth would be so enamored with, well, reproduction.
We’re nothing but a small town being run by old women and their swaggering gossip tongues and man-whores who dick around proclaiming bastards are normal.
Thus, our country love bastard-makers like Revilla and Estrada. Maybe Kho should run for politics soon.
Alam mo, Jon, ba’t na-involve ang Senators? Kasi gusto sa mga Senators makakita sa sex-video pagkatapos blow-by-blow account ni Kho atsaka ni Halili pa-ano nila ginagawa!!!!
HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!
Hey y’all – have you heard about this? http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/regions/view/20080421-131679/Davao-radioman-brings-case-to-UNCHR
Senators want to see the video play free…mga mambobosong tarantado!
hay naku…
all form… no substance
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remember Yano’s
Kaharap ko sa dyip ang isang ale
Nagrorosaryo mata niya’y nakapikit
Pumara sa may kumbento
Sa babaan lang po sabi ng tsuper kase me naghuhuli
Mura pa rin nang mura ang ale
Banal na aso, santong kabayo
Natatawa ako hihihihi
Banal na aso, santong kabayo
Natatawa ako hihihihi
Sa ‘yo
Nangangaral sa kalye ang isang lalake
Hiningan ng pera ng batang pulubi
Pasensya na para daw sa templo
Pangkain lang po sabi ng paslit
Talagang di ba pupwede?
Lumipat ng pwesto ang lalake
Anuman ang iyong ginagawa sa iyong kapatid
Ay siya ring ginagawa mo sa akin
sad but true, Jon. sad but true!
my server is blinking like stars in Centurion. All they tok about is Kho and Halili and Quinto and Belo.
Dude, it’s smoking! it’s smoking!
Smith did not thought of making video when he raped Nicole. The
Senators would be eager to see the video play free also. Mga
mamboboso…
Unforgivable! — binaboy ng dalawa ang kanta ni His Royal Highness George Michael. Grrrrrr.
Kho is just whoring his stuff — he wants to be an artista — or a macho dancer extraordinaire. Let him. And Halili, well, let her file her against him, if there is one.
The real laugh is Bong Revilla. How the hell did this clown become a senator of the Republic? Well, his own father, Senator Revilla Sr tried to be useful by elucidating a point via his “kilohan ng manok” if my memory serves me right during the Estrada impeachment trial (I almost died laughing from that scene).
So you watched the vid eh?
Senator Revilla acted on the Alec Baldwin issue and now this. I think his PR people think they’ll give him good publicity with relatively little blowback. It fits his image for one thing as a macho guy. He’s been very quiet in the senate and you can’t really rely on him to speak up on more pressing issues. What if he gets it wrong?
He needs something for reelection, obviously. Isn’t it his third term yet?
The senate perverts will hang Kho but failed on ZTE! DAMN!
Hey ya’ll legal luminaries out there, does Katrina have a case? Does the SEnate have a case?
It’s like Nicole recanting!!!!!
If the Senate wanted Nicole for perjury … so can the senate …
But hey, Nicole is pyanga-pango-brown-skin-punked nose she’s all game to the SEnators
Since Katrina Halili is tisay … SEnators back-off
It’s like JOey de Venenta whistleblowing on ZTE
VERSUS
Justice Sabio whistleblowing on MERALCO …
See who got the boot by the pekeng-peryodistas …
“TOO MUCH ADO ABOUT KHO” — Cocoy
Appropriately titled. Hot of the pekeng-peryodiko, Katrina Halili claimed that there are plenty of Katrina Halili look-alike. It couldn’t be her, so she claimed.
BUT WHY SUE DR. KHO? HUH? The Senate should stop the invistigation! Because it’s not her after all!
This is one downside of the Information Technology. The past had
printed pornographic reading materials and pictures. Now you can
download them in the internet, and in hand held video players.
Whatever you do, pornography will always be here. Because there is
a market for it.
It really affects the morality and the delinquency of the young people. Before, there were “bomba” movies. Now, we have “bomba”
videos available in the internet. It is progress in the reverse
way…
It really affects the morality and the delinquency of the young people. Before, there were “bomba” movies. Now, we have “bomba”
videos available in the internet. It is progress in the reverse
That’s where parental responsibility comes in.
Internet browsers have a website rating feature – and kids can be blocked from accessing inappropriate sets. Or a user account can be given to a child, with admin rights disabled. Or have alternative activities – sports, crafts, errands, etc. Check out – http://www.theantidrug.com/
There are kids with Ipods. They can download pornographic materials
without parental restriction. There are also photo cameras. They
take pornographic pictures. Show them to friends.
Kids are always curious. Especially about sex…
kahit ang mga reply sa post na ito, pinapatunayan ang punto ng titulo mismo. ni wala man lang nag-react sa paglalagay ng tax sa mga libro. para sa mga intelektwal, dapat nagwawala na sila sa bagay na ito, pero hindi, mas interesado sila sa mainit na kaso ng sexy star na nagsasayaw.
A country cannot continue to live on debt forever. All these complaints about taxes are simply symptoms of the deeper malaise.
There is no free ride. The breakdown of what was fragile so called democratic institutions is now sowing all these sordid issues one after another. The Senate taking up a sex tape issue!!!!!
How low can we still go?????
Did Dr Kho practice medicine while in the bedroom with Ms Halili?
HA!HA!HA!HA! Good kwestyon, Blackshama!
23-year-old Halili has no case against Dr. Kho kasi sabi na niya na hindi siya yon
Smith v Nicole case has haunted us again.
I just cannot understand why our idiot senators are entertaining the allegation when she has already cllaimed she’s not the one.
It’s like Nicole saying she was not raped!!!!
Aaaaaay naku!!!!!!!
I’m sure, Blackshama, I’m sure. First, his thermometer, to measure Katrina’s temperature, you know, the basics of good medicine practice, heheh.
http://jcc34.wordpress.com/2009/05/21/katrina-halili-god-and-the-church/
My lady boss told me once: “If you sleep with dogs, you catch fleas.”
Alex Baldwin’s comment was self-deprecating humour not a stab at Filipinas or Russians. Prostitution or mail order brides may be illegal, but the Senator should wake up to reality. It happens. If the Senators want entertainment, I saw Charice premier her song on Oprah with David Foster, Dianne Warren in the audience on the same weekend Alex Baldwin made that remark. And on the reverse, you have two Davids from AmIdol entertaining young Filipinos.
Real, honest issues (like the photo in the post) or positive events that connect people, are not as titillating as tabloid issues and cheap erotica. Fleas!
The sordid truth those that try to make things better end up in hot water. The public easily dismisses them as mga pasaway na wala namang business. Mga sawsaw lang sa mata nang publiko. Often they get shot.
Katrina Halili just got an American Visa. She’ll join Nicole!!!!
HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!HA! So does Quinto!
Why do Flip corrupts go to America to be a good citizen? Why can’t they be a good citizen in my FlipLand under the mango tree?
will the woman in question be a susan wilson?
at long last, anti-video voyeurism law already proposed…
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regrettably, she (and the other victims) will be a susan wilson…learning the hard way that a high-tech invasion of privacy wasn’t against our existing laws.
jcc,
If I may just be allowed to comment.
You will be the first to tell us that morality cannot be legislated, not the last.
I am sure that the law they are about to draft, if not drafted already, will only delve on a policy or law which such policy or law aims to protect.
In short, that laws aims to promote social justice. And that having been said, it can only deal on the social if legal aspect and away from any kind of moral prescription.
In other words, I don’t think they are trying hard to legislate a kind of uniform morality as this is not possible.
You know what, Coy? I’ve seen three videos of Kho with Belo, Quinto and Halili weeks before it hit the press. I didn’t watch the video in its entirety because I thought they were foreigners. THEY DO LOOK LIKE FOREIGNERS!!!!
There’s talk of “video voyeurism” on MSM and there are articles in myriad blog posts and in google books previews on the topic. Non-consensual video (or audio) taping even for a consensual sex is highlighted in this disgusting affair. The video voyeurism includes this non-consensual video-taping.
Is there an existing law that penalizes this video voyeurism?
The lawyer of the woman in question said this afternoon that they don’t care who internet-uploaded and distributed copies of the video. He said that they won’t just accept apology and that the man in question in this sex scandal must face the brunt of the law – the “Anti-Violence Against Women and Their Children Act of 2004″ (R.A. 9262).
Also, Lawyer Katrina Legarda last night said that the man in question could be penalized by an existing law – the R.A. 9262. In a slide flashed on the tv screen was a highlighted text “make films thereof.” The lawyer meant that this particular part of the said law apparently was the one violated.
Taking a look at the section of that law, “Section 3. Definition of Terms,” the phrase “make films thereof” is taken in its real context under the sub-subheading “Sexual Violence,” as follows:
“forcing her/him to watch obscene publications and indecent shows or forcing the woman or her child to do indecent acts and/or make films thereof”
So, does this stipulation already constitute video voyeurism? Was sexual violence committed in what appears to be a consensual sex?
Senator-Lawyer Pia Cayetano in a radio interview yesterday afternoon said that it’s high time the Philippines has an anti-video voyeurism. There it is…the law still has to be created in light of this sex scandal.
Sadly, the Susan Wilson story is unfolding…video voyeurism is not yet a crime here in the Philippines.
At most, the perpetrator could be penalized by R.A. 9262 by inflicting “Psychological Violence” on the victim. Still hard to prove because the perpetrator is saying that the sick video-taping of their sexual encounter is meant as a private video and he was not the one who disseminated it to the public.
At least “psychological violence” is more appropriate and more specific than what the lawyers are saying.
The Phillipines goverment officials should focus on the most important issues such as graft and corruption and streamline goverment old practices. The country was economically far better than Singapore and some Asian country in the 50′s and the 60′s. Look at what happened to the economy. The video tape between Dr. Hayden Kho and Kristina Halili was a private encounter between two consenting adult which unfortunately went to the wrong hands and distributed in the internet without their consent. We have to be subjective if indeed Miss Halili was not aware that is it being video taped. This is similar to Paris Hilton where their private intimacy was distributed and even legally sold in video stores in the U.S. It very difficult to stop these once the internet takes over. These are issues that Kristina Halili will have to face and Hayden Kho’s carelesness without regards to ramification of his action. There is no set law in the Phillipines with regards to issues where a private intimacy between two consenting adult video tape was distributed without their consent.
Just few days ago (17th of May), a documentary was aired in Spain about Manila city..this show is a pretty popular one coz ‘Callejeros:Viajeros’ go from places to places to see how the lifestyle of people are…
And so they went to Manila to get a scope of the life of different
‘typical’ persons in the city. So yeah, they’ve interviewed several Filipinos living in a mountain of dump, by the train rails and yes even in CEMETERIES. They also interviewed prostitutes, foreigners in Manila who are mostly Spanish, and a filthy rich disgusting Filipina showing off her mansion and her maid putting her freakin shoes on her freakin feet… **see Callejeros: Viajeros en Manila — it’s in youtube and googlevideo, although it’s all in Spanish you can understand pretty well what’s goin on.
And the main issue in the Philippines right now is a freakin porn video of a sexy actor and actress. And the senate is taking over this freakin case. WHAT THE FREAKIN HELL??
You mean to tell me, those peope living in the shanty towns who are millions by the way, not even having enough food to eat, selling their own daughters’s bodies for money, making their homes from pieces of woods or plastics have their public servants spend their precious money and time and effort on a porn video like it’s the biggest issue???
really… WHAT THE FREAKIN HELL??
It’s as simple as this, once you make a home video of you having sex, you’re making your own porn video. Now it’s out in the internet, SO FREAKING WHAT???
Yes, this is the most wasteful and useless topic. I am more enraged that this is what is occupying Filipinos than more pressing problems such as education and growing unemployment for the ordinary Filipinos. BASURA ang topic about kho and company!!!
hell yeah… what the frakkin hell indeed.
how can we get this indignation to the mainstream?
are there mainstream radio commentators who blog?
it’s just another video in the net which anyone who chooses to watch it gets to see two people doing an act of whatever the hell they’re doing…(well good for the ones who choose to see it because they’re actual celebrities which makes it more worthwhile than watching commoners??– yeah it’s a messed up mentality which I don’t share but it’s true) it’s called reality
Now can our politicians actually do their job and not waste it on things that don’t matter at all??
guess not
I’m mortified… just plainly fckin mortified…
… daaaaang
… no surprise here from flipland ladrones garapales… they are a bunch of useless madapakas…
… boksing, ‘merkan idol rejects, bilyar (8-ball), i.yutan, etc… matter to them most…
… who’s to blame? … look in the mirror – he/she’s looking at you kid!