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

by Nerisa Almo posted on September 19, 2012  STATS: 868 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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  • 56  keen_observerKSA

    08/26/2012 | 08:28 PM
    Kasalanan nyo yan binoto nyo eh, e di ayan magtiis kayo sa isang senador na nagkukunwaring may laman ang kokote...Senador tapos sa Iskol Bukol bwahahahaha.
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  • 55  Myopinionmatters

    08/23/2012 | 06:48 AM
    ang gawa kasi ni sotto sa senado parang taping lng.. isusulat ng writer, este ng staff nya ang script and he ll take care of the acting...with matching luha drama king sa senado...
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  • 54  whatever536

    08/22/2012 | 03:28 PM
    hmmm. not sure. pero may copyright ba ang bloggers. or are these bloggers prominent in some way. if ur working as a senator, u wouldnt qoute from someone who is unknown.
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  • 53  stubbiz

    08/22/2012 | 12:39 AM
    Ano ba yan?? Is this the Filipino pride we want to encourage our people from abroad? Kung yung nauna mong plagiarism eh inamin na at nag-apologize na lang, tapos na sana. Eh ngayon naglabasan na ang alimuom. Very disgraceful. You need extreme damage control.
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  • 52  liwayway

    08/21/2012 | 03:03 PM
    disgraceful.
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  • 51  nothing_personal

    08/20/2012 | 01:50 PM
    i didn't like how corrupt the marcos administration was, but at least marcos spoke and wrote in his own words. pero aminin na nating mga pilipino, sa mga research paper, nasanay tayo sa cut and paste din di ba. hahhahaha kaya yun, pati sa senado ginamit ng chief of staff.
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  • 50  nothing_personal

    08/20/2012 | 01:40 PM
    ayan kase sino ang sisisihin kundi ang mga taong bumoboto sa mga artistang walang laman ang utak. Botohin nyo pa ba si anabel rama pag nangandidato?
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  • 49  orangecountykid

    08/20/2012 | 10:57 AM
    Is this guy the senate majority leader? Is that how low our standard is? This is humiliating for us as Filipinos. Even if his staff took parts of his speech from various sources, it was okay provided they acknowledged the original authors who made those comments. But for him to own those comments is basically telling us that he is smart when he is far from it. He needs to fire his chief of staff and if he has an ounce of delikadesa, he should resign from the senate. But sayang yung kick backs so I think he will stay until this issue blows over. What is the lesson here - make sure to elect people who knows what they are doing and not because they are actors.
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  • 48  milomilo123

    08/20/2012 | 10:39 AM
    grabeh na to teh.....nakakahiya na
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  • 47  ladylady

    08/18/2012 | 07:04 PM
    pls naman..huwag na ulit iboto itong taong to.... sotto, revilla, lapid, marcos, miriam santiago atbp na walang ginawa kundi ang pagiging stumbling block sa pag unlad ng ating bansa.
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  • 46  amayabai

    08/18/2012 | 04:50 PM
    i should have forgiven him, but he denied it kahit huli sa akto. dyos ko, at nagyabang pa. minamaliit kesyo blogger lang.
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  • 45  batangkumon

    08/18/2012 | 02:34 PM
    Kelan naman kaya nya gagayahin yun speech ni GMA na....I..am...sorry.....! Pero sana baguhin nya ng konti para di sya mapagbintangan na nangopya na naman.
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  • 44  D_katie

    08/18/2012 | 01:51 PM
    Sign na walang asenso ang mga Filipino ,mahilig bumuto sa mga katulad ni Sotto . Ang yabang ,ayaw aminin ang pagkakamali nya.. senador na pulpol
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  • 43  iamjeniferg

    08/18/2012 | 01:43 PM
    aray ko tito! hehehe kaw katche eh....
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  • 42  skittlesrainbow

    08/18/2012 | 01:13 PM
    nyahahaha!!! ginawang iskul bukol ang senado!
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  • 41  FirstPrincess

    08/18/2012 | 11:43 AM
    Ito ang pinaka sa lahat ng Senador. Trying hard na senador, na comedian, na host, na dramatic actor. Feeling guwapo, ang haba ng baba, at di naman guwapo. Only in the Philippines... mga lawmakers na mga arttista kuno. Pweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
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  • 40  markerik

    08/18/2012 | 11:42 AM
    kung makapagsalita etong chief of staff ni sotto, mayabang! wala namang bahid ng pagsisi o sincere na pagtanggap ng pagkakamali sa kanila. mana sa amo!
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  • 39  kcprettyangel

    08/18/2012 | 11:36 AM
    Paano naman kung di rin nila alam na galing pala yon sa isang blogger, dahil di rin nila nabasa, kaya inaprobahan? Di naman siguro lahat ng blogs ay binabasa. So kahit inaprobahan ng chief of staff pwede pa ring i-fire ang sumulat. Pasensya na kc di ko rin bnabasa lahat ng blogs.
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  • 38  quibitzer

    08/18/2012 | 11:27 AM
    sotto and his staff must be so tamad that they can only do copy-paste. guess they're not so smart either as they can't come up with their own words and ideas. super deny pa buking naman. kakahiya... kakasuka...
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  • 37  Manster10

    08/18/2012 | 09:53 AM
    Mag Eat bulaga Indonesia kna lng dun nababagay ka at mag resign kna rin dhil nkakahiya kna Sa sambayanang Filipino at sana namn wak nang iboto to s susunod Na eleksyon.,
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