Fiat Justitia Ruat en Coelum

Fiat Justitia Ruat En Coelum

Man’s discovery that his genetalia could serve as a weapon to generate fear must be ranked as one of the important discoveries of the prehistoric times. From prehistoric times to the present, rape has played a critical manifestation of this. It is a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in fear.

Stereotypical rape scenes as depicted in movies and even radio programs do happen in real life. Gilugos sa kogonan, gilugos sa kasagingan or kawayanan aren’t imaginary scenarios used to add color to lewd narratives; they usually and quite commonly take place in those proverbial places.

Tricycle drivers waylaying and then raping their young passengers have become stereotypical. Not that tricycle drivers are generally the raping kind. Maybe they just easily make it to the news because they have nowhere to run. They end up beaten up by the victim’s kin at police stations and in front of TV cameras unlike the powerful types who could run away aboard with SUV’s.

You could not blame me for being hysterical or to say the least, pervasively judgmental about the alleged raping of the 22-year old Filipina graduate from Zamboanga in November 1 this year because I do have two sisters and just imagining the inhuman affliction and the torture of chastity caused by the p---s of the ‘kano would make you line of thinking aware of the possibility that it too may happen to you family, relatives or friends.

The laceration of the precious piece of flesh caused by six (according to US Embassy only five) US servicemen is no less than a clear index that rape really is a universal crime—one that is recognized by most states as that which endangers the irrevocable dignity of humanity. No doubt, this woman deserves justice and whatever the circumstances are, her rights remain the same. Some people say that that woman actually is sex worker, but she is not. And if she were, would it save the men from being palpitated with the teeth of law? They say that prostitutes can never be raped. Usa na ka panamastamas nga argumento! Yes they too can be raped as long as force and coercion were employed. I posit that it will take no lawyer to understand what the Revised Penal Code says!

If memory serves me right, it was Raul Manglapus who once jokingly said that if you are being raped by a good looking man, just lean your back and enjoy it but if disciples of Gremlin tries to satisfy their lust on you, you must think it’s the end of the world! As of the present, I am putting my reservations on this issue at the lower spectrum but it is my strong conviction that justice must be serve notwithstanding who the parties are and where these people came from.

Fiat Justitia Ruat En Coelum! To Atty. Katrina Legarda and her team, I extend my unequaled moral support!