The Filipino people have been taken for fools, and continue to be taken for fools. We must be one of the biggest, if not the biggest, laughingstocks in the world right now.
Daniel Smith has been out of the country since last year. In this age of Photoshop and other such image-editing software which most magazine pulications already consider as basic tools, can we really believe those photographs from last year allegedly showing him holding the current newspaper? Come on!
And now, he is suddenly said to have been shipped out without notifying the Philippine authorities. How convenient that the court has declared him not guilty, no? Now the US Embassy—and the honorable people at our own DFA—can claim that he was taken out, all quite officially, while people were sleeping. Yes, indeed, he was, but the departure was last year 
. Now, he need never be presented to the Filipino people physically, ever.
The Americans spit in our faces and rape us, and we say,
Thank you, sir. PLEASE COME…AND COME…AGAIN. But in case you really have to go, please know that you don’t have to say goodbye when you go.
Love,
Gloria Walang-gloria
