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Part 5. Three more blog sites allegedly plagiarized by Senator Tito Sotto

by Nerisa Almo posted on August 17, 2012  STATS: 30859 Views | 56 Comments

Canada-based Filipino novelist Miguel Syjuco (not in photo) found three blogs which he claimed were also plagiarized by Senator Tito Sotto (in photo) for the second part of the latter's Senate speech against the RH Bill earlier this week.

Photo By: Nerisa Almo

Katatapos lang magbigay ng paliwanag ni Atty. Hector Villacorta, chief of staff ni Senator Vicente "Tito" Sotto III, sa U.S.-based blogger na nagsasabing kinopya ng senador ang isa niyang blog post.

Hindi pa humuhupa ang gulat at dismaya ng mga netizens sa ganitong balita, ngayon naman ay tatlo pang blogs ang lumalabas na kinopya rin umano ng senador para sa speech nito laban sa Reproductive Health Bill na pinagde-debatehan ngayon sa Senado. 

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Ayon sa ulat ng Interaksyon, na lumabas ngayong Biyernes, Agosto 17, sinabi ng award-winning novelist na si Miguel Syjuco na guilty si Senator Sotto sa pangongopya ng tatlo pang blogs.

Sa personal account niya sa Facebook, binanggit ng Canada-based Filipino novelist ang tatlong blogs na umano’y pinagkopyahan ni Senator Sotto ng ilang parte ng kanyang ikalawang speech sa Senado.

“I've gone just through Tito Sotto's second speech and discovered he lifted, verbatim, from three sources easily found online,” sabi ni Syjuco.

Sa kanyang sumunod na post, nagpasalamat siya sa kapwa blogger na si Raissa Robles, isang Filipina journalist, at sa online community na tumulong sa kanya sa pag-check.

Sinabi rin ni Syjuco: “I found three instances of verbatim plagiarism. And all I had to do was plug in the English chunks of his speech into Google.”

Narito ang paghahambing sa ikalawang talumpati ni Senator Sotto sa tatlo pang blog na nahanap ni Syjuco.

1. Senator Sotto’s speech:


“Sanger was so intent on reducing family size that she seemed to not stop even at abortion. Many believe that under the right circumstances, Sanger would have condoned infanticide. Indeed she wrote in her book Woman and the New Race: ‘The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.’

“This comes from the woman who formed the philosophical base for IPPF.

“But there was even a darker side to Margaret Sanger: a side that IPPF people try to cover up or explain away. That was her belief in ‘eugenics.’ Eugenics is defined as ‘the application of the laws of hereditary to physical and mental improvement, especially of the human race.’”

“Re-imaging Life and Family: The Global Scandal” by Marlon Ramirez on talkingsense.multiply.com, September 2008:

“…Sanger was so intent on reducing family size that she seemed to not stop even at abortion. Many believe that, under the right circumstances, Sanger would have condoned infanticide. Indeed, she wrote in her book Woman And the New Race: ‘The most merciful thing that the large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.’ This comes from the woman who formed the philosophical base for Planned Parenthood. You can also see that her interest in birth control was not just due to some humane concern for health of women (which birth control doesn’t help anyway), but was driven in part by her desire to encourage women to engage in sex without having children.

“But there was another side of Margaret Sanger; a side that Planned Parenthood people try to cover up or explain away. That was her belief in eugenics. Eugenics is defined as ‘the application of the laws of heredity to physical and mental improvement, especially of the human race.’ To Sanger this meant the systematic elimination (through birth control, including abortion) of all those people she and her cohorts considered to be of ‘dysgenic stock’ in order to create a race of superior intellectuals.”

2. Senator Sotto’s speech:


“The two activists met in December of 1936 when Sanger traveled to India to speak with Gandhi about birth control, population and the plight of women in India. At that time, Sanger staunchly advocated the global use of artificial contraceptives and, in order to make the acceptance of such contraceptives easier to the Indian populace, sought to make Gandhi an ally. While Sanger claimed she merely wanted to pay her respects and give a personal tribute to Gandhi, she coveted nothing less than his endorsement of the widespread use of artificial birth control methods. Gandhi firmly stood by his belief that the spiritual bonds of marriage are strengthened by sexual abstinence. He thus completely rejected Sanger's plea for contraception as a tool to control population growth, fearing it would lead to an increase in non-procreative sex, which he viewed as immoral lust.

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  • 16  cj_03

    08/17/2012 | 09:00 PM
    Geeeezzzzz... ! What a shame!
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  • 15  edmund_galila

    08/17/2012 | 08:39 PM
    eww sotto napapaghalata natutulog sa pansitan..mag aral2 naman ng batas at wag paghohost lgn sa eat bulaga ang expertise..magsilbi sayang pinapasweldo at pork barrel ng gobyerno galing2 kokotra sa RHbill d naman pala alam kung ano ang kanya sinasabi me iyak2 pa..kahiya.
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  • 14  PTnextdoor

    08/17/2012 | 08:38 PM
    Sana naman magising na tayo sa next election, sana manalo na ung mga tao na may knowledge talaga sa batas hindi puros pa pogi lang at sikat. Kahit sa pag bibigay ng sariling opinion hindi marunong.
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  • 13  luvtaz

    08/17/2012 | 08:38 PM
    SHAME ON YOU, MAN!
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  • 12  iphone4s

    08/17/2012 | 08:36 PM
    lahat naman ng mga naka upo sa gobyerno im sure meron taga gawa ng speech, even the president.. no big deal.. mas marami pang dapat na pag tuunan ng pansin ang mamamayan kesa sa mga plagiarizm issue...kaya dapat mga pulitiko, mag isip kayo! hwag i asa lahat sa mga chief of staff.. having said that, hindi plagiarizm ang problema sa lipunan, kaya hwag na palakihin pa ang issue... move on lahat tayo nagkakamali..
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  • 11  grinandgiggles

    08/17/2012 | 08:26 PM
    Di man lang makaisip ng sariling opinyon at kailangan pang mangopya...anong klaseng mambabatas yan kahit sa eskwela di pwede ang mangopya!
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  • 10  gertrude

    08/17/2012 | 07:51 PM
    huwag naman paglaruan at basta lang pagtawanan. hindi lang poppulation o health ng pilipino ang nakasalalay. bilyong piso din ang nakataya ang gagastusin na manggagaling sa taxpayers. kaya dapat bago magspeech, magsulong, o tumutol pagaralan mabuti at hindi lang basta magresearch sa internet o umiyak iyak.
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  • jagjof

    08/17/2012 | 07:43 PM
    siguro natatawa si senator piche pie ngayon sa kapwa nya senador ....kasi siguro sa isipi nya dunung-dunungan kayo yun pala hindi kayo nagawa ng speech nyo. im sure si bong revilla, jinggoy at iba pang senador may taga-gawa din sila ng speech maski sina enrile kahti batikan na yang mga senador may gumagawa pa din ng speech nila...ang nakakahiya ay yung pangongopya ng mga speechwriters nila....kaya dapat tito sen, tsugiin mo na yang chief of staff mo at ikaw mismo ang mag-apologize sa mga kinopyahan mo kahit pa ang depensa ng tamad mong abogado na walang copyright ang mga bloggers.....gawin nyo lang katawa-tawa ang kapalpalkan ng nangyari na ito sa eat bulaga at malilimutan din ito ng publiko.....ang mga pinoy pa may national amnesia kayang taglay ang mga noyps....
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  • gertrude

    08/17/2012 | 07:37 PM
    batas ang sinusulong/tinutulan niya na apektado mga pilipino, sa pera ng bayan galing sweldo ng staff niya biglang malalaman mo blog ang source. usapang health na nauwi sa plagiarism/copyright.
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  • gertrude

    08/17/2012 | 07:30 PM
    baka ideny nya pa yan. pag nagvolt in ang mga blogger na yan lalo silang mahihirapan icontrol, hindi lang sila kay sarah makakarinig ng masama. yung quote/quoting nga hindi maintindihan ng chief of staff niya, plagiarism pa kaya.
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  • daffodils87

    08/17/2012 | 07:22 PM
    This is the result of a person who has very limited knowledge on the issue of RH Bill, plus a limited vocabulary, there you go. The Philippines will not progress if the people will stay asleep to all these kinds of politicians. Wake up countrymen, the country needs a total change.
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  • jagjof

    08/17/2012 | 07:19 PM
    hay tito sen......tigbakin mo na yang abogado mo! now na! otherwise sira na ang political career mo. damage control damage control............
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  • anya_met

    08/17/2012 | 07:17 PM
    tsk tsk tsk!!!
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  • magsasaka

    08/17/2012 | 07:05 PM
    Rainbows apologize for angry skies.
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  • jams31

    08/17/2012 | 06:31 PM
    Bulaga ka ngayon tito sen.
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  • popstar

    08/17/2012 | 06:16 PM
    Boom.
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