Guilty!

No, not yet anyway. It’s just such a catchy title that I couldn’t resist.
But I am wondering. If ever Eliseo Soriano, founder, former presiding minister and former leader of the cult Ang Dating Daan – MCGI would ever decide to surrender or get caught and extradited back to the Philippines, would he be found guilty or would he be exonerated?

For now, nobody knows. Until and unless the wheels of justice are allowed to turn no one will ever know the outcome. If it’s true that Soriano left the Philippines sometime in 2005 then he had been on the run for almost 4 years now.

WANTED: Soriano Eliseo

Of the 18 male fugitives of Philippine nationality on the Interpol Wanted list, only two are accused of sex crimes. Both of them are supposed to be preachers of God’s word. One is a catholic priest and the other is Eliseo Fernando Soriano. The priest is accused of raping a 14 year old girl, a member of his parish. Soriano is accused of raping a male subordinate. Any accused person should be considered innocent until proven guilty. The law requires the accused to face his accuser in a court of law and there prove his accuser wrong.

The rape accusation is not the only legal problem facing Soriano should he decide to come back to the Philippines. There are also a few libel cases filed against him by the Iglesia ni Cristo and also by the Muslims. The one filed by the Muslims stemmed from  some unsavory remarks made by Eliseo Soriano against Muslims and their prophet. This was broadcasted in one of his daily talk shows where he regularly spew diatribe against regular people, politicians and other religious organizations. And get this, he does his daily sermons via CD-rom. So there is a chance that Muslims have a copy of this episode.

Muslims protest Soriano

Anyway, the lawsuit by the Muslims calls for PHP1 billion in damages. That’s a lot of money! And because he hasn’t been in the Philippines for quite a while I’m pretty sure his resources are on the lean side. You see, Soriano get his money from his members and his many businesses one of which is selling cooked food which he says he prepares himself. Without him, I guess no one will prepare and sell the food.

The Muslims claim in their lawsuit that Soriano “uttered malicious sweeping … imputation of crimes … against them(Muslims)” which they say “exposed them to dishonor, disgrace, shame…”. Soriano,  as is the case in all of his legal troubles, denies he did what he’s accused of. But do the Muslims have a case? Can they show proof that indeed Soriano maligned them and their prophet? Well, you be the judge. Here’s Eliseo Soriano and what he said about Muslims. I got his off of youtube and cut the other stuff to leave just the part where he calls Muslims killers and then proceeded to malign even their prophet.

Here’s the transcript translated in english:

Soriano: “That’s what Muslims do. I’m not saying this because I’m crazy and I have a death wish because they indeed kill.”

Soriano: “You encounter a Muslim, they’ll criticize the bible. They say the bible is wrong. I say, they’re crazy. I tell them ‘well if the bible is wrong then why are you using it to justify Mohammad’s prophecy?’ They say the one mention in Deuteronomy 1*:18-19 is Mohammad and then they turn and criticize the bible. They criticize the bible and then use it to justifies Mohammad’s prophecy then you’re crazy, even Mohammad is crazy”.

As you can see, Soriano does not have even an iota of respect for leaders of other religions and regularly maligns them. You probably seen and heard how he libels leaders of the Iglesia ni Cristo.

There you go. I think the Muslims have enough evidence. One billion pesos is a lot of money. Soriano will be very hard pressed to produce this amount. As usual, Eliseo Soriano swears to high heaven saying the original of this tape was doctored and fabricated. He thought this would be enough. But then comes an expert in voice recognition who challenged him to submit to tests that would prove either the voice was from someone else, or is it really Soriano’s. Typical of Soriano, he maligns the expert and questioned his intention. Anyone who is not guilty will welcome the chance to prove his accusers  wrong. Not Eli.

Big mouth

It’s looking really grim for Soriano. I personally don’t think he’ll ever go back to the Philippines. Like what I’ve said in a previous blog, Soriano’s end is here and now. The instrument he used to become popular, his big mouth, is the same instrument that brought him crashing down. Goodbye Eli, and good night.

Eli Soriano babysitting

It’s been quiet for a few days now. Those friends of mine Eli Soriano fanatics who’ve been writing nasty editorials and passing them as news. The likes of Abao and Garcia and their fellow fanatic cult followers. But I still have a slight problem. They haven’t taken down those post and blog entries. And a few others, like Joseph Herdon started taking their place and writing on their blogs. I really want this to stop that’s why I’ve been holding off publishing a few articles.

You see, the fugitive accused rapist same-sex sodomizer Eli Soriano built his career by libeling and maligning innocent people. His modus operandi is to rouse mob mentality and ignore reason and then follow it up with his racketeering to raise money to support his dirty deeds. Well, that’s all about to stop because he himself has taken away his primary stage, which is the podium. He allegedly committed rape, now he’s wanted by the law. He can’t fight this in court because he knows he’ll lose and that would bring the immediate demise of his career. So he opted to be a fugitive, and be a simple blogger where at least he can still write and milk money from the few gullible followers he still has. But his end is almost certain. He can’t do this for a long time. The long arms of the law will catch up with him.

Eli Soriano comtemplating his predicament

His sidekick Daniel Razon knows where Soriano  is, as well as all of the MICs and of course Jane Abao and her troop of writers/libelers. I also have pictures of some of his followers dated sometime in 2007 with their fugitive leader. If they continue to help him hide and not tell the police where he is, this makes them guilty of harboring a known fugitive. Truly a cult full of criminals.

I hope they stop libeling and maligning so I too can stop and concentrate on what I really wanted to do. All I wanted from the start to for them to stop their libel and remove all libelous post. If they don’t, we keep going. See you losers at the finish line. Eat my dust suckas.

International Arrest Warrant out for Eli Soriano

Source: http://article.wn.com/view/2008/08/16/Intl_arrest_warrant_out_for_Eli_Soriano/

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ANG Dating Daan’s charismatic leader, Brother Eliseo “Eli” F. Soriano is now an international fugitive after the International Police Commission (Interpol) issued a “Red Notice” or an International Arrest Warrant against him for rape. Now dubbed as a “fugitive wanted for prosecution” by the Interpol, the international police body listed the countries likely to be visited by the 60-year-old Soriano as Brazil, Singapore, Thailand and the United States.

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Soriano fled the Philippines and has not been heard since. He is now considered an international fugitive and earned him an International Arrest Warrant from the Interpol.

In June 2008, news came out that he posted bail and reportedly surrendered to local police officers. But it was all a trick. For what purpose, no one knows. One things is sure. Eliseo Soriano has no qualms breaking the law. With the help of a corrupt police officer and a fat bank account from his followers’ contributions, he falsified public documents to make it look he surrendered.

Ely Soriano charged with falsification of public document

Source: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/metro/view/20080829-157610/Ely-Soriano-charged-with-falsification-of-public-document

The head of Ang Dating Daan evangelist group Eliseo “Ely” Soriano and two others were charged with falsification of public document at the Manila City Prosecutor’s Office for allegedly faking the certificate of detention in order to post bail for his rape charges.

The Church of God International supreme head, who was indicted for the rape of his male follower at the regional trial court of Macabebe, Pampanga, was sued for violation of Article 171 of the Revised Penal Code, along with a Pandacan police officer and a bondswoman.

Investigation showed that Soriano never surrendered nor was he arrested or detained at the Pandacan station on June 21, but a certificate of detention was still issued on his behalf by Pandacan Police Officer 3 June Gumaru, said Criminal Investigation and Detection Group-Manila chief Superintendent Joaquin Alva. Alva said Gumaru and bondswoman Belen Talentado conspired to falsify the certificate of detention—a document required in Soriano’s posting of P240,000 bail. Gumaru, who told the Philippine Daily Inquirer in a previous interview that Soriano had “surrendered” to him to avoid being apprehended, later admitted in a sworn affidavit that he had never seen the church group leader.

In the same statement, the policeman also confessed that he went to the sala of Judge Silvino Pampilo Jr. of RTC Branch 26 to get the release order for Soriano. “Gumaru even received the release order of Soriano to make it appear that Soriano was indeed in his custody … Clearly, Soriano was not arrested nor placed in the custody of Gumaru and thus not entitled to post bail,” said Alva in his report, stressing that an accused cannot post bail without surrendering or being arrested by law enforcers. He added that Gumaru was no longer authorized to sign a certificate of detention since he was no longer the jailer and was already assigned to a different Pandacan station.

Administrative charges have already been filed against the policeman in connection with the case, Alva said. Talentado, meanwhile, claimed in a sworn statement that she was approached by a supposed secretary of Ang Dating who asked for assistance in the filing of cash bond for Soriano. She said she brought the documents to the Manila RTC and facilitated the posting of Soriano’s bail with the secretary’s help. Though the church group head did not appear to be directly involved, Alva said Soriano was included in the complaint because he was the “beneficiary” of such a procedure. “There should have been no problem because the case is bailable, but Soriano probably did not want to go through the process,” he said. Alva said they will study the possibility of asking the court to cancel Soriano’s bail since it was not done correctly.

Court records showed that on May 17, 2000, Soriano allegedly “took advantage of his moral ascendancy and/or influence” to direct his former assistant secretary general to come into his room, massage him and have anal intercourse. It added that the sexual acts were done “against the will and consent, and to the damage and prejudice” of the complainant. In November 2006, a warrant for Soriano’s arrest was issued by Judge Lucina Dayaon of the Macabebe RTC Branch 54. Soriano’s whereabouts are still unknown, said Alva.

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Money, the root of all evil

Let me tell you a tale of greed and corruption. This is a story of a televangelist who managed to take control of church properties worth 69 million pesos and transfer the ownership from his previous church on to his name, making the properties his own. These properties when registered then to his previous church but when he started a new church he managed to get these properties registered to his name. In between registrations 63 millions pesos worth of properties cannot be accounted for. The year was 1993. By 2000, this self-proclaimed “the only sensible preacher today”, the properties of the church as down to a measly 55 thousand pesos. When his chief security found out about this, he confronted the leader. The “sensible preacher” had no sensible explanation which prompted the chief security to call a press conference and divulge this obvious corruption.

Many members were disappointed, disgruntled and dismayed by the preachers embezzlement of church monies which prompted them to leave the church. The “sensible preacher”, afraid that he would lose all the members of his church, was forced to explain himself and the loss of church properties. He read a letter, supposedly written by him, promising to transfer the ownership of church properties to the church.

Admitted violating church rules

With this obvious blunder, he effectively admitted having taken ownership of church properties, thus admitted to violating Article IV, Section 1 of the Articles of Incorporation of his church which states that all church properties must be in the name of the church. Unknown to members of his church, hectares of land that was supposed to be in the name of the church are now in the name of the “sensible preacher”.

Swimming in money

Rotten Vegetables in the garbage

In 2001, this preacher attempted to mortgage the only convention center the church had and used for its thanksgiving. The building was appraised at almost 335 million pesos. The center had an annual sales income of more than 1 billion pesos. If one would add the sum of money donated by its poor members from 1980 to 2005, this would add another 1 billion pesos to the coffer of the church, not counting the yearly, mid-year and quarterly special contributions of poor members. This building is registered under his name, not the church.

In addition to this income which would make the Ayala’s green with envy, the “sensible preacher” owns a myriad of businesses, including:

• an animal farm, apartments
• drinking water
• poultry and piggery feed supply
• Photo and Video processing
• fastfood restaurant and lumpia factory (remember the lumpia made from discarded vegetables)
• auto supply store
• a beach resort
• gas stations
• fish farming ponds
• and many others.

With all this wealth, one would think this church, headed by “the only sensible preacher of our time” would have at least one descent place to perform their kind of worship. Not one has been built since its inception. Where does all the monies go?

adapted from a book by Daniel S. Veridiano.

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I came across a post by a certain Jane Abao at newsvine.com which was made to look like a news report. In this blog, Abao claims that a certain Pastor Reckart from Tampa, Florida added himself as one of Soriano’s shills who were supposedly “twitting” Executive Minister Erano Manalo into debating the fugitive Soriano. Let me respond to that blog.

First off let me just state that I am an avowed admirer of Executive Minister Manalo. I mean, what is not to admire? He led the Iglesia ni Cristo(InC) into a worldwide church in only 41 years! He did this without help from anyone but his God and his fellow ministers and workers. No foreign government, no rich benefactor, no business ventures, no criminal activity, nothing! The InC is now in Rome and Jerusalem! Truly remarkable by any standard.

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Hiding like a rat

Anyway, Soriano is now hiding like a rat being a fugitive from the law, was caused by one person alone, and that is Soriano. Abao in her article claims the InC is hounding and hunting Soriano and says the InC even solicited the help of the Interpol! Yes, she wrote that! Now I know the InC is in a powerful and influential state right now. But I know they don’t meddle in things that doesn’t have anything to do with religion. This is the simple truth; Eli Soriano is wanted by the Interpol because an arrest warrant was issued for him for raping a male subordinate. That’s it. There is no meddling by a third party, let alone the InC. The InC has nothing to do with that case and yet Soriano and his shills continues to maliciously tie the InC to Soriano’s predicament. Abao and her cohorts though , through instructions from someone, quite possibly Soriano, are trying to make the InC the scapegoat in this whole matter.

Soriano angling for a debate

Razon vs Soriano

Soriano’s panties are in a bind because for some reason only he knows, he wants to debate Executive Minister Manalo! I can’t help but shake my head. Soriano debating the InC’s Executive Minister!

Well Soriano, maybe you should first put your teachings in order before challenging Minister Manalo. Let’s watch the contradiction of teachings between Soriano and his second in command Daniel Razon.

Soriano vs Razon

They are both talking about theSexbomb Girls, an all girl singing group best known for their skimpy outfits. Razon in particular was talking about Jopay, a member of the group. This youtube video shows the contradiction and disunity of the teachings of Soriano.

Here’s a transcript of clear contradiction.

Daniel Razon at beginning at 0:33.: “I’m not watching the show. I’m watching Jopay. That’s when Satan comes in”.

Eliseo Soriano at 0:53: “What’s wrong with watching Sexbomb? Even my grand children they look like Sexbombs.”

Soriano, before you get to debate another religious group mayb eyou should put your group in order. Then maybe someone will take you seriously.

I'm with Stupid

In our world today, people associate things with what it looks like. As seen in the movie “Forrest Gump”, people ask Forrest is he’s stupid because to them, he looked “stupid”. It’s not defined in the movie what “stupid” looks like but we all know what the “look” is and why we associate it with stupid. But here’s the classic response of Forrest and it teaches a valuable lesson that we all must learn and benefit from. His reply was “stupid is as stupid does”. What does this phrase mean? It just means that stupidity is not what a person looks like, but for what he does. If a person does stupid things, then that person is indeed stupid. Whether he looks smart, sounds smart, pretends to be smart, calls himself pantas, whatever. If he does stupid things, he’s stupid.

Phillip Garcia

Such is the case of Phillip Garcia whom I’ve written about. In that blog, I’ve pointed out the errors of his ways, explaining to him what constitute libel and the consequences of being found guilty of libel. I’ve quoted the definition of libel hoping he’d understand and realize his mistake, correct himself and move on. Normal people would always steers out of danger when they realize that there is indeed danger looming. But Phillip Garcia is not normal. Much like his idol Eliseo Fernando Soriano, the fugitive televangelist, they carry on with their wrongdoing oblivious of the damage to themselves and the victims of their baseless accusations.

In his latest blog entry, Garcia rehashed the same libelous blog post he posted on newsvine. This time he added scan of what he says are “proofs” of his allegations. Except that he posted are the same reports of INC members allegedly committing crimes. Let me repeat, these are reports of “INC members” allegedly committing crimes. First off, read well Garcia, when citing a newspaper (in Phillip Garcia’s case, that would be tabloids) as sources, one needs to provide the name of the author, the title of the piece, the publication name, the publisher, where the article was published and when it was published. Scans are not enough because for all intents these cans could have been doctored. Next, be absolutely sure you understand what you are doing. Granting that these scans are reliable, one could readily see, the cases are against member of the INC, not the INC itself or its leaders. Therefore, it is libel for Garcia to accuse the INC and its leaders of any crime for as long as these are the sources presented.

Another example, it is not libel for me to say that Eliseo Fernando Soriano is a fugitive is I cite the Interpol Wanted Poster of Soriano. The site is verifiable and from a reliable source and the information can be easily verified as true.

Classic examples worthy of note is the exchanges between Soriano and Ang Tamang Daan host. Soriano calls the INC killers, he get sued for libel because he cannot prove the INC killed anyone. INC ministers calls Soriano an extortionist, Soriano does not sue. Why, because the host have proof that Soriano did indeed extort money from his followers.

Finally, Garcia presented scans of a tabloid called “The Bombshell” which was published in the 1950′s. This tabloid was published by an anonymous writer with an ax to grind against the INC. I know, I have the book.

Prison

So in parting, I again give an advice to both Eliseo Soriano and his shill Phillip Garcia. You disrespected the INC for a long time and they showed patience. Finally, after so many years of lying, where are you now? A fugitive, without a life, a name or a country. Don’t let this shill of yours Phillip Garcia suffer the same fate. You know what to tell him.

To Phillip Garcia, stupid is as stupid does. Don’t be stupid. Don’t do stupid things. Or you might end up in prison.