I love Mo twister's morning radio show. I am a huge fan of the show and remains one for more than 5 years now. But this morning's broadcast upset me so much.
Mo kept on reminding his listeners to tune in to his late night podcast that will feature, of all people, Hubert Webb. While I do understand that Mo simply wants to attract more listeners by featuring controversial personalities, featuring Hubert Webb is a different and sensitive case. Hubert happens to be an accused in one of the country's most gruesome crimes. Instead of commiserating with the aggrieved party, Mr. Lauro Vizconde, Mo has decided to give undue attention and celebrity status to Hubert Webb. It just disturbs me that Mo seems to favor an accused whose innocence has been upheld by a court where the accused's relative sits as a judge.
The careless and terribly insensitive decision of Mo to feature Hubert in his podcast is really his call. But it is my call as well to ask people to boycott his podcast. Collectively, we can do something. Together, we can stand up against impropriety and injustice.
get lost loser
ReplyDeletedear anonymous,
ReplyDeletethank you for reading my blog.
please tackle the issues that i have thrown at mo's podcast intelligently. Don't be a loser by resorting to name-calling.
keep reading.
hey! who are you talking about? webb has a relative in SC?
ReplyDeletemaybe u got confused. here is the real deal:
Associate Justice Carpio testified for Hubert while the case was still the in regional trial court. this was way back when he was still a judge in the low court. so he abstained from voting when the case was escalated to the supreme court -- during which he was already among the high court justices.
Justice Carpio has a cousin who is also a member of the SC, and that is JUSTICE CARPIO-MORALES, a women -- who did not abstain and voted for an acquittal.
get ur facts straight man.
persecuting an innocent man for the sake of justice is no justice at all. it is unfair to both parties.
dear deedee,
ReplyDeletethank you for reading my post.
do you honestly think that hubert did not commit the crime ?
you are right. justice is not merely about pointing a finger on who committed the crime. it is about punishing the one who committed the crime. it is for this reason that mr. vizconde wants hubert to rot in jail.
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ReplyDeletedear deedee,
ReplyDeletebetween the webbs and lauro vizconde, i tend to believe mr. vizconde more. mr. vizconde says that the webbs are related to the carpios by law and not by blood.
you just raised an interesting point though. now i know that the carpios are well-entrenched in the supreme court.
not just one but two !!!
dear efd,
ReplyDeleteBY LAW? WEBBs and CARPIO??? u must be joking!!! are you referring to mr. vizconde's recent "expose"??? i advise you to read more. aside from the fact that your logic does not make sense, you apparently also have hard time understanding what you read.
let me spell out mr vizconde's expose for you.
quoting an article on abscbn website:
"Vizconde also said he received information that SC Justice Roberto Abad, who penned the decision acquitting Webb, et al, has a son-in-law, Atty. Mark Hadrian P. Gamo who is married to Atty. Blesilda Abad Gamo, who is currently with the Carpio, Villaraza, Cruz (CVC) law office."
SO TO put this in terms that you can understand, here goes:
1. Justice Abad was the one who wrote the final decision collaborating all decisions of the seven justices who voted for an acquittal.
2. Justice Carpio used to part own a law firm called Carpio, Villaraza, Cruz (CVC) law office
3. Justice Abad has a nephew named Atty. Mark Hadrian P. Gamo.
4. Atty. Mark Hadrian P. Gamo is married to Atty. Blesilda Abad Gamo.
5. Atty Blesilda Abad Gamo currently works for
Carpio, Villaraza, Cruz (CVC) law office, which Justice Carpio used to part-own.
5. Lauro Vizconde is pointing out this VERY VERY FLIMSY connection as basis to say that Justice Carpio influenced Justice Abad's decision for an acquittal.
here is another simplification:
justice abad has a nephew Atty. Mark Hadrian P. Gamo who is married to Atty Blesilda Abad Gamo who is working at Carpio, Villaraza, Cruz (CVC) law office which Justice Carpio used to own. so in simple terms, according to mr. vizconde, justice abad voted for an acquittal just so Justice Carpio won't fire his daughter in law from his old law firm???? uh-oh.... talk about incredible outlandish conspiracy theories!
I hope the points above are clear enough for you.
when it comes to technicalities and to things as serious as the law and other people's lives, it should take more a 'your tendency to believe some people.' your basis should be hard facts. that is why the webbs is pushing for a DNA test of the semen sample that the NBI conveniently lost. an intelligent person knows this.
now if hubert was really the real perpetrator, and his families knew of this, do you think they'd file for a petition to do the DNA test of the semen sample found on carmela???? DNA does not lie. Why would hubert and the rest of his family push for a DNA test? because he knows that he would be exonerated. because he knows that the result would say "NOT A MATCH." so if you are asking if i really belive it was not him! I'D say 200% YES! I DO NOT BELIEVE IT WAS HIM.
as for this tendency to believe mr. vizconde over the webbs, thats your call. however i am assuming that you are making this call without the knowledge that mr. vizconde is actually engage in the corrupt system of 5-6 money market. ever heard of that? you know the business of lending money at an interest rate of 20% per month???? now i have nothing against the borrowing and lending business. but 20%??? now in your profile, you claim that you are Christian. so you must also know that the bible specifically says this is a usury which is a sin. in my opinion, a person who does not feel shame and pity for putting such high interest is not as conscientious as he claims he is.
as for thanking me for reading your blog, its clear to me now that its just a waste of time and energy. its true what they say: you'll find a wealth of information and insights on the net, and the all range from TRASHY and full of wisdom. and intelligent people knows which is which.
i wish your self-righteous, holier-than-thou self a happy life. :)
deeedee
dear deedee,
ReplyDeletethat's not what i'm talking about. but thanks for clearing things up. at least all of us now are aware that the webbs are well-connected with people that really matter especially in the supreme court.
by the way, i can't help but see that your source of information is abs-cbn. is pinky webb still with that organization ?
keep reading. funny as things are unraveled when the post is a call to boycott mo's podcast. still, we can all learn a lot from each other.
Hi! I've read the comments on this page and obviously you two have conflicting perspectives towards the issue.
ReplyDeleteI've also read a good deal of info regarding the case and bottom line is; no matter how guilty Webb might appear based on a sworn testimony, he wasn't proven guilty beyond reasonable doubt.
(In fact I believe that Webb had a strong alibi during the trial.)Don't get me wrong, I'm not siding with anyone of you. I don't mean to be unsympathetic towards the Vizconde but fairly speaking, nobody really knows what happened right? We can't condemn a person by just one malicious accusation.
So as a concerned citizen and as a nonconformist too, please do clarify again why you want to boycott the podcast? From what I understood, it is due to sensitivity of this gruesome incident right? Well, it really is disturbing and shouldn't be taken casually.
However, the case remains a mystery. Neither of us can claim the truth. People have different opinions, I acknowledge that. But by advocating this boycott simply to commiserate with Mr. Vizconde, then you have neglected the other side of justice. You already sentenced a suspect without having a fair and truthful verdict.
We can't throw our opinions outright based on how we sympathize with the public outcry. I know how messed up our justice system is nowadays, and the least we can do as citizens is to be objective and open-minded about any issue. We can't just base our judgment on opinions, sympathy and gut feeling.
Lastly, I've listened to that podcast and tried to examine the other side. And that's my little way of not closing my doors to any possibility of truth.
dear anonymous,
ReplyDeletethank you for your well-written comments.
there are other more intelligent personalities that mo could have interviewed. but he chose to feature a drug addict in the person of hubert webb. and hubert happens to be implicated in one of the most heinous crimes the country has ever seen. why give undue celebrity status to someone like him ?
also, why did mo not choose mr. vizconde as a guest in his podcast ? if we are after fair play, then mo should have given mr. vizconde the same airtime that he gave hubert.
lastly, two courts in the country have found hubert webb guilty. even in the supreme court, webb failed to the majority vote of 8. nearly the whole nation is up in arms against the acquittal of hubert. deep down, people know the truth.
keep reading.
Is the justice system would always be based on sympathy instead of logical facts, then I can tell you we're all going to rot. I think it's pointless that you spend too much effort on telling people what they should believe in. Everybody deserves to be heard.Yes, Mr. Vizconde suffered more than what he could bear but I can never accept the fact that hubert webb lost 15 years of his life just because of Alfaro's credibility. Emotions can be blinding but hey, evidence supercedes speculations.Between circumstantial and physical evidence, the latter sheds pure truth.Sometimes the truth we know are just the truth we want to believe in but it does not necessarily follow that our judgement is right...not unless we're drowned by what we call self-righteousness.
ReplyDeleteAnd to you deedee, very well said. I'm with you on this. Now that's OBJECTIVITY.
smoothwitch
dear smoothwitch,
ReplyDeletewhy don't you believe jessica alfaro ?
keep reading.
If our justice system would be based on sympathy, then we are all bound to rot. It's pointless that you spend too much effort on telling others what they should believe in. For one you are highlighting OBJECTIVITY on this page but it's clear enough that you have already convicted Hubert Webb and that goes to say you actually patronize Jessica Alfaro's absurd testimony. Emotions can be blinding but evidences are more capable of shedding pure truth. Just in case you are not familiar with how the court sees circumstantial evidence versus physical evidence, I guess you have to do a little research.
ReplyDeleteMr. Lauro Vizconde suffered more that what he could bear and he thought justice was served simply because that's what he believed in since the court worked in favor of him.He needed an entity to be blamed and he got what he wanted.
Truth is not something that we just know. It's something that we breath even when it can be very painful.
The two courts that convicted Webb do not speak of absolute truth. Besides it's not a basketball game where the winner wins by points. =D
And please, let Mr. Vizconde rest. I've heard enough of his agony. Leave it to the teledramas, that's what they are made for.
And again, do some more research.Watch Crime Investigation channels. The tagline of your blog might be put into question. Character assassination is like spitting upwards, just in case you don't know. =)
smoothwitch
dear smoothwitch,
ReplyDeleteyou still did not respond to my question. why don't you believe jessica alfaro ? but what if there is a legal document saying that hubert was in the philippines the night of the massacre ? read http://www.gmanews.tv/story/183188/only-two-senators-were-censured-including-enrile.
keep reading.
In a court of law a drug addict's statement doesn't hold any ground in the witness stand. hubert is an addict jessica alfaro is an addict. the hell with the prosecutors and NBI agents who worked the case.
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