In Tagum forum, soldiers surf for porn as Gonzales speaks
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HOT SPOT. These soldiers had a grand time browsing pornographic websites during the first day of the Local Peace and Security Assembly (LPSA) in Tagum City’s Bulwagan ng Lalawigan on Thursday, while National Security Adviser Norberto Gonzales was delivering a speech. President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo attended the event the next day. The soldiers managed to go online because the venue had been turned into a wifi hotspot for the event. Click here for more photos. (davaotoday.com photo)
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February 11th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
what is the relevance of this issue to the speech of Gonzales? It only implies one thing – that there are media people who go beyond their jobs and out to destroy someone if only to get attention. A good lesson – Choose your media friends. Advice to the media – be propfessional. Not surprising why there are media people who are shot.
February 11th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
the relevance, you dimwit, is that the soldiers in the picture do not have respect for the national security adviser. that you think that taking pictures like this is reason for journalists to be shot is pathetic.
February 11th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
the photojournalist who took this photo did a good job. what an eye to catch a shameful thing like this.
this military people should be reprimanded.
February 12th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
…and the nerve, really, because the wifi connection? it was government’s.
uh.uh…corruption from down up.
February 12th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
this just shows that soldiers are humans. the photographer would have been more professional if he cautioned the soldiers instead of publishing the photo for everyone to see.
i am sure the soldiers can take the reprimand but the shame it brought to their families will be unbearable.
thanks to the vultures who prey on human weaknesses!
February 12th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
so it’s okay to view porn in a government-organized public forum while a cabinet secretary is speaking in front? don’t you think the soldiers should have thought about the shame before they did what they did. i’m sure people have no problem surfing porn IN THE PRIVACY OF YOUR ROOM OR HOUSE OR CUBICLE. but certainly not in public! you empathize with these jerks and castigate a photojournalist who is just doing his job. shame on you!
February 12th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
these men were on official business. on government time and probably using a laptop that was bought by the people’s taxes. they were in uniform and surrounded by hundreds of people.
however, mr. gonzales is correct. it was merely human weakness.
i only hope that you do not have a wife who may read your comment. i hope you do not have a daughter who will see how passionately you have defended such a vile ‘weakness’. i am sure your wife and daughter will not be as quick in sharing your bias for this obvious act of depravity.
February 12th, 2008 at 11:10 pm
Sorry if you find that “hot spot” pics relevant but I was expecting professional publications on the speech of Gonzales vis-a-vis the local peace and order situation in Tagum. It seemed that your focus was on “what people were doing” rather than “what the speech was conveying”.
February 13th, 2008 at 8:51 am
paolo, we have a story on gonzales’s speech. it is still being processed and will be up on the website today.
but admit it: you’re an idiot.
February 13th, 2008 at 9:15 am
no wonder the NPA is winning the war
February 13th, 2008 at 11:35 am
@ paolo–the soldier lost the grip, his thoughts wandered in the wide world called web. thanks to your money. thanks to my money.
but the speaker also lost his hold. see? this happened while he was delivering a supposed to be important speech.
that this soldier was engrossed in his little world of sleaze apparently reflected the kind of message being conveyed, if there was any message being conveyed in the first freaking place…
February 13th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
To the media – Please don’t bring your cameras inside the public comfort rooms. You might take pictures and post them in the newspapers. Nakakatakot!!!
February 14th, 2008 at 2:48 am
the pictures say it all, it would seem that these soldiers are more interested with naked women rather than hearing speeches about peace and security…what’s next? soldiers looking for prostitutes while a war rages on?
February 15th, 2008 at 3:23 am
Q: what is the relevance of military men publicly surfing porn to the speech of NSA Gonzales?
A: both reeks of decadence, corruption and immorality..
i give credit to mr sta ana for being so PATHETIC that he cud muster guts to lend reason to such wretched act.
February 15th, 2008 at 11:03 am
the government’s a genius!
February 16th, 2008 at 8:19 pm
i agree that the picture should be posted. i believe it is newsworthy & certainly tells gives me an idea where tax money is being abused.
it’s a great shot. so truthful & brutally honest.
in regards to the soldiers’ personal lives, too bad. i don’t have anything against them. i do not know them, but it was irresponsible behavior by govt workers in a session paid by govt money. that newsworthy enough & needed to be told. why censor that?
but i am quite surprised by this site writers responses in the talkbacks. responding to criticism by calling them jerks, pathetic is quite unprofessional & unbecoming of journalists. i understand that it is tempting to fire back with namecalling, but i would advise restraint.
i visit this site frequently and i picture professionals who aren’t afraid to dig deeper in search of the truth. the name-calling and stooping to the level of some of the talkbackers is disappointing. i would advise looking at how other newsmagazine journalists handle criticism.
February 17th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
oh come on.. they did something bad but who could blame them? how many months could they have been in the jungle suffering not only from battle fatigue but from loneliness as well? if you were in their shoes i wouldnt wonder why youd do the same.
February 17th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
oh come on ongks. if i were on their shoes–if i were that soldier–i certainly would not succumb to the audacious display of utter cheapness and disrespect to, above all else, myself.
February 17th, 2008 at 7:47 pm
Maybe that’s their projection of peace.
he he he……
These guys thought nothing but their own satisfaction.
They should send to iraq or chad for retraning without compensation………
teka muna…..
saan ba magmamana yan???????
February 18th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
Okaaaaay, soldiers surfing for porn while in a public forum using taxpayers’ money-funded materials/resources? Shame on them! Jesus, guys, what the hell were you thinking?
That must have been one crappy boring speech, or perhaps respect and moral have really gone down the drain in the army. (Or maybe the soldiers just doesn’t give a damn what Gonzalez is saying, figuring it to be empty rhetoric).
what’s next? soldiers looking for prostitutes while a war rages on?
Bazcon, aren’t some of them already doing that?
(also, there’s a immature part of me laughed my head of at this and who wants to be idiotic and paraphrase Marie Anotionette: “Let them have porn!”, seeing that the average Filipino soldier have been very much jacked over by the highest officials)
February 19th, 2008 at 12:41 am
To paolo sta ana:
You wrote, “Advice to the media – be propfessional (sic). Not surprising why there are media people who are shot.”
I’m trying to understand why, in a situation wherein soldiers browse through porn instead of listening to a cabinet secretary’s speech, you decided to blame — not the irresponsible soldiers, not their lax superiors, not the long-winded Gonzalez — but the media who exposed the travesty.
Shooting the messenger. That’s actually quite primitive.
I was deeply upset when you said it was understandable that journalists are getting killed. In a democracy, NO ONE should be killed simply for doing a job. It’s unthinkable. Your callousness is part of the culture of impunity which allows the killers of journalists to go unpunished.
February 19th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
These soldiers may not have done the right thing, but the media should have been more tactful and professional in handling the sitation.
I’m sure these soldiers are not totally irresponsible beings contrary to what this photo tells us. Let us not be too self-righteous in condemning other people and forget that all of us make mistakes from time to time.
We need to be more tolerant of other people and just focus on their good deeds in order for this country to prosper again. And the media plays an important role in that.
February 21st, 2008 at 4:27 pm
I SALUTE OUR PROUD MEN IN UNIFORM FOR THIS HEROIC DEED
February 21st, 2008 at 4:31 pm
This might be done using Photoshop! This is sooo easy to fabricate!
Do not believe!!!
February 28th, 2008 at 9:36 am
How unprofessional for the both of you. And you sir, even posted it on the Internet. Can’t you report anything better? By better, I mean more substantial.
All in the name of publicity, tsk tsk tsk…
February 28th, 2008 at 11:09 am
Only in the Philippines.
February 28th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
i think its photoshop..imposible naman ganyan ka klaro ang photo.. lcd paman ang gamit…
February 28th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
Kasi kaming mga sundalo ayaw naming ng mga ganyan na puro satsat. Mas nagagandahan kami manood ng mga bold kaysa makinig dyan sa mga politiko.
February 28th, 2008 at 6:17 pm
Coldfeet and to all of you who “think” that the photo was photoshopped–well, sorry. I was there.
March 3rd, 2008 at 12:44 pm
@padre damaso
amen!
@coldfeet
photoshop?! malamang malinaw at klarong-klaro kahit sa ganung distansiya, kaw na mismo nagsabi: “lcd paman ang gamit…” tsaka isang malaking HALEEER?! syempre lcd, laptop nga e… san ka ba nakakita ng naka laptop sa public na gumamit ng crt monitor? pfft…
March 24th, 2008 at 1:39 am
This only shows that AFP don’t have the MILITARY DISCIPLINE and MORALITY anymore,or maybe this is just a way of showing they DON’T TRUST THE LEADERSHIP of the GOVERNMENT anymore. “IT’S BETTER TO WATCH PORNO RATHER THAN TO LISTEN TO THOSE STUPID DUMB ASS POLITICIANS…so dont judge this SOLDIERS becoz they are not books..HE-HE-HE! BULOK NA TALAGA ANG SISTEMA NG ATING BANSA….IBALIK NYO PO ANG TOTOONG GOBYERNO NG HINDI NANONOOD NG PORNO ANG MGA SUNDALO.
April 24th, 2008 at 11:29 pm
It’s too irresponsible to generalize that the organization doesn’t have discipline and morality just because a few of its members were caught trying to “excite” themselves.
June 3rd, 2008 at 9:54 am
pikon ata ang mga taga davaotoday?