My analysis
13 Aug 2009
The problem here is that Shay Cullen's article is published from his own web site, and of course, anything I write to Preda in response to the article will be completely ignored. Therefore, I take the liberty to reprint Shay Cullen's article word for word for one very good reason: If I were to link to it, the link would most likely be disabled. You can check this by the number of links on the Preda web site that do not work anymore or have been removed after comments I made about them were discovered to be too embarrassing.
However, my observations on this (Shay Cullen's libelous article is printed AFTER my comments, so that you can see his exact writings):
The woman made a voluntary withdrawal. However, it is a fact that she made the withdrawal from the United States. Therefore, there is a strong possibility that she was 'bought off', so therefore I must agree with the statement, like it or not.
However, that said, the military member always maintained that the sex had been consentual. This action on the part of the woman seems to confirm that, so I have no disagreement with the findings of the Supreme Court on that count.
Then, Cullen makes his first mistake: He said that due to rallies and protests, the business would be lacking in the Philippines. That is pure nonsense, as much of the business ventures leaving the Philippines in droves are due to other factors having nothing at all to do with an innocent man being jailed "with rats and cockroaches" but is an indication on how badly Shay Cullen looks at the justice system here in the Philippines: If he gets his way, it is great a great justice system; if not, then there are paid off judges, and jails with rats and cockroaches to spew forth from his writings.
Plus, it is his opening to state the conditions of the jails and the jailing of children (where he makes his money). Now he goes into his second mistake: Claiming that the bars and honky-tonks was the reason for the base closures in the Philippines. That was NOT the issue, except that he made it an issue at every opportunity. The reason for the base closures was economics: The Philippine government wanted to raise the base rents to a point that the American government would pay for a new Philippine Air Force (the old donated F-5 was getting too dangerous to fly). Sorry about that, the ploy backfired and the USA simply withdrew than pay such exhorbitant fees.
He continues his mistakes. He says HE discovered VD in children, but according to his book, "Passion and Power", the discovery was by St. Joseph's Community Center on or about June 5, 1982 (page 160), and that there were eighteen children in all, vice the "12" mentioned in the article, but in his book, he says that three days later (which would be June 8), the social workers began looking for the children. "We found 12 and brought them to the clinic, they were all infected." On July 11, 1982, or two months later, Sister Maria went to Shay Cullen for help (page 161) - So the sister went to him for help after he "rescued" 12 children? Does that make sense to you, or did he take credit for what St. Joseph's Community Center did?
How is that for Shay Cullen's defaming the hardworking Filipinos and Christian workers by implying that they did not recognize his help even after he was already giving it BEFORE HE WAS ASKED?
Note that in the last two paragraphs he contradicts himself: He says that there are thousands of workers in dignified positions in hotels and family resorts, then concludes with the statement that, "It reemerged in 1996 run by the international sex mafia with thousands of European and Australian sex tourists and retired US servicemen enjoying the sexual exploitation of young women and children they once enjoyed." So, the thousands of workers in dignified positions in hotels and family resorts are likewise sexual slaves? Which truth would he have you believe?
Now, seriously, think of this: My understanding of events is that Hartmut "Harry" Joost began to confront Cullen with some of the frameups that Shay Cullen was doing in 1996. Harry himself orchestrated a couple of legal complaints against Shay Cullen, but not many, maybe four or five to my knowledge. I contacted him in desperation when my daughter was raped in 1998, and that's when I met him, working to free Victor Keith Fitzgerald.
Since 1998, I have filed nearly 50 or so cases against Shay Cullen, Preda staff, DSWD and others when I found wrongdoing and undo interference in my daughter's case, and Shay Cullen often says that the "international sex mafia" has filed some 50 or more cases against him and Preda.
So, does this mean I am a one-man international sex mafia, now that Harry is dead? Or are you, the reader, included in that as well?
Smile, my friend. This situation is crazy, but not overwhelming. Those blindly supporting this compulsive liar will one day have to see him for what he is.
Oh, and calling someone a "compulsive liar" is not libelous, as there is nothing rediculous, defamatory nor criminal in telling lies. But distrust in an adult that tells such lies is an obvious conclusion. Fact of life.
My favorite example of a compulsive liar is the child caught with candy on the hands and around the mouth: "Did you eat all that candy?" and the child will point to a sibling as the culprit or simply say he didn't.
The Inconvenient Contradictions (Fr. Shay's columns are published in The Manila Times, in publications in Ireland, the UK, Hong Kong, and on-line.)
The outpouring of public concern and outrage over the acquittal and overturning of a rape conviction and a life sentence by the Philippine Court of Appeals against US Navy Marine Lance Corporal Daniel Smith, was less than expected. The public had been conditioned by the affidavit of desistance of the victim made last 8 March 2009. Soon after that the young woman, Nicole (not her real name), departed to the United States with a special immigrant visa, if not a green card and a generous financial gratuity by way of compensation. A deal had been done. The complainant was neutralized and the court could proceed with the expected acquittal.
The Court of Appeals division 11 is composed of three female judges. They ruled that they had ignored the affidavit of Nicole, but that she was not an innocent provincial girl but a woman of "indecorous behavior". More or less saying that the victim had asked for it and was to blame. The ruling said in effect that the lower court had been wrong in convicting Smith of rape because the evidence showed that it was a "spontaneous unplanned romantic episode". Indeed!
It ruled that semi-intoxicated Nicole, even though she was carried on the back of the marine to a van where the "spontaneous romantic episode" happened, gave her consent. Many have taken issue with this decision. But it was the only "political" decision possible.
For many Americans and Filipino officials and business leaders, it is unimaginable for a US marine to be imprisoned for life in a filthy, disease-ridden Philippine jail with criminals, rapists, rats and cockroaches. It would lead to unending protest rallies in the United States, and an end to all US investment and aid to the Philippines.
That was the reason the US government insisted on keeping Smith in the US Embassy and not in a Filipino jail. They were right, those jails are unfit for human habitation. They are still the abode of Filipino children and we wish many Filipinos would consider it unimaginable that children would be incarcerated with adult criminals and rats and rally to have them released.
But what a campaign it was for the activist groups during the past three years that saw rallies, marches and denunciations of US military rapists and women abusers. There were even calls by some opposition politicians for the Philippines to rescind the Visiting Forces Agreement(VFA) that allows US ships and planes to use the Philippines ports and airports and conduct military exercises. It was the widespread sexual exploitation of women and children by US servicemen and sex tourists in the honky-tonk bars of Olongapo and Angeles City and elsewhere that led to the campaign to close the bases and convert them to economic zones.
That was a ten year campaign that succeeded beyond our wildest dreams. It started the day in 1983, when I discovered 12 children, the youngest was 9 years-old, infected with venereal diseases and hidden away from the public and media in the Olongapo city general hospital by the mayor and US admiral. Not even the Red Cross came to save them. Exposing that nearly cost me my life.
The bases are closed since 1992 and hundreds of manufacturing enterprises, hotels, and family tourist resorts employ as many as 80,000 Filipinos with dignified work. While the bases went away, the sex industry did not completely die. It reemerged in 1996 run by the international sex mafia with thousands of European and Australian sex tourists and retired US servicemen enjoying the sexual exploitation of young women and children they once enjoyed.
Today, sex slavery is growing and thousands of women and children are trafficked into the sex clubs that proliferate across the land from the cities to the seaside resorts. Child rape, prostitution of children, forced abortions and every kind of sexual exploitation is rampant. There are no campaigns, rallies nor marches for them. Why not? Thousands of foreigners are doing this every day and night in sex bars, clubs and hotels across the land and it is just as evil and wrong and outrageous as what the marchers and protesters said Daniel Smith did to Nicole and there is not a placard of protest to be seen. END
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