Thursday, June 4, 2009

GABRIELA TO DESTROY YET ANOTHER LIFE

It seems that the women’s group GABRIELA has found yet another two “victims” to recover their waning anti-Visiting Forces Agreement campaign following Subic rape case victim Nicole’s decision to drop their so-called help and leave for the United States in March 2009.

Vanessa, another girl claiming to have been raped by a US serviceman is now under the wings of GABRIELA. However, unlike Nicole, the new adopted case is dead set in only causing a public stir and is unwilling to file a formal complaint against the John Jones who allegedly raped her; this despite being consistently persuaded to do so by the militant women’s group and Lawyer Evalyn Ursua who defended for Nicole during the height of the Subic rape case. Aside from being the professed champions of rape victims, GABRIELA is also planning to anchor their electoral campaign and anti-VFA propagandas on Navy Lieutenant Senior Grade Nancy Gadian who exposed the alleged P46 million Balikatan fund scandal.

Proving their expertise in engaging on public trials, Representative Liza Masa who is also currently a senatorial wannabe of the upcoming 2010 elections has deliberately filed a resolution at the House of Representatives which would call for an investigation into the alleged fund scam. Aside from seeking a probe, Masa has also asked the Congress to provide protection to Lt Senior Grade Gadian and her family.

Based from these two issues, we can only deduce the following motives behind GABRIELA’s determined move to exploit Vanessa and Nancy.

First, there was never a plan for Vanessa to file a formal legal complaint against John Jones as her public appearance – complete with the same strategy of having her whole face covered - was merely launched to project inaction on the part of the government which in GABRIELA’s case would be better than engaging their adopted case into a long-drawn legal battle, that is, propaganda wise and which could also accidentally prove that there was never a rape incident in the first place.

For Nancy’s part, GABRIELA was quite blissful for having found a woman officer whom they can finally utilize to attack their longtime nemesis – the AFP and everything it stand for as an institution. These two issues are more than enough for GABRIELA to advance their electoral campaign for the 2010 elections. This would also help in propelling the senatorial plans of Liza Masa.

Now, would Vanessa and Nancy just allow themselves to be used as a pawn by a group professing to be the champion of women’s right when they are merely using these two “victims” for their own political ambition?

1 comment:

  1. It is very strange that GABRIELA never opened her mouth about sexual abuse of child soldiers in the NPA.

    One case was of a 17 year old girl from Nueva Ecija, who was identified as “Ka Rina”. She was recruited by the armed components operating in the province of Nueva Ecija sometimes in l997 with a promise that she will be sent to school and that they will extend financial assistance to her family aside from the salary that she will receive. Because of financial need the girl believed that finally she will be able to help her family only to find out that she will be serving the carnal needs of male members of the New People’s Army in Nueva Ecija.


    To put a stop on the nightly sexual assault she suffered, she was forced to cohabit with her commander and became his “sex toy”. For almost three years she endured being a sex slave and finally in 2007 she decided that once and for all, her suffering must stop and decided to go back to the folds of the government.
    http://www.cmobn.com/articles/freedom_fighters.html

    If GABRIELA was a real org. for women they should open their mouth about it, but GABRIELA never did.
    GABRIELA is a puppet on a string controlled by comrade torturer Sison.

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