Oh by the way…if she was drunk…how can she, without any shadow of a doubt, accurately recall the events? I think she’s just trying to find someone to blame for her own stupidity rather than take responsibility for what happened to her.

I don’t support rape but I’m also not in favor of stupidity.

This will help explain why U. S. Marine Lance Corporal Daniel Smith’s 40 year sentence is a BIG mistake! A pure case of TRUE INJUSTICE!

Please…..come to the Philippines and you will soon discover that it is truly Daniel Smith that we, Filipinos, are rooting for; NOT the publicity-starving “Nicole”. We are rooting for Smith’s acquittal. May God be on our side.

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/metro/view_article.php?article_id=38632

i believe this article. the author of this article is FILIPINO.

Please allow me to put a little balance into this post with comments on the scriveners cited because there is bias in the resulting collage, in my opinion.

When Rasheed’s World says he thinks the conviction of Daniel Smith was “fair” it is important for readers to know that “fairness” in a trial in the Philippine Archipelago has a slightly different meaning than in the United States because there is no jury system. A single judge makes the decision. But speaking of fairness, Rasheed repeats certain allegations about the three other Marines who were acquitted by the same Judge that are, uhmm, unfair to publish at this point. What’s fair is fair, and Rasheed must see the glass as a quarter full.

Which brings me from the first to the last of your citations, Rachel Khan whose Khanterbury Tale wants the Media to keep the true name of Nicole secret even though it has already been officially divulged on live national television by the Judge himself when he read out the Decision in the case. And forever imprinted on Google and Yahoo memory. Of course, fairness in her ethic allows her and a guy that is usually not Out Of His or Her Mind, to continue to accuse the three adjudged innocent Marines by name. What could be fairy tales that have evolved from early accounts, allegations and lynch mob feel-angry stories are being repeated as gospel truth–is this “fair”?

Marichu Lambino is a professor and lawyer at the University of the Philippines, but the snippet of her longish piece on this case, does not do justice to her compleat understanding of the difference between “jurisdiction” and “custody.” You have unfairly portrayed her as ignorant or biased, which she is not, in my opinion, though she and I differ on other matters.

Luis Teodoro writes in the more traditional starboard vein — victimology is their favorite skein of stemwinding wool. Knowing no other virtue greater than nationalism, his concept of “fair” is whatever kicks Uncle Sam in the teeth for wanting to have some kind of relationship with the Philippines, even if its rescuing Filipinos from the mudslides of nature and the landmines of the New People’s Army, whose recent anniversary I am sure he celebrated.

Like Gormful I laud the brave rape victim, because, like the convict Daniel Smith, she has not lost the presumption of innocence in this matter. It is a thing by the way that none of these folks seem to accept, that the case is on appeal, and what his millions of supporters and millions of detractors in the Archipelago mean, is that the jury would still be out on this case. If there were a jury system, the verdict has a better chance of being called “fair”. And even more that it will be JUST.

By the way, you don’t mention the elephant in the room–the Visiting Forces Agreement, which is the real target of the Lynch Mob isn’t it?