In the certified true copy of the House Resolution (view image gallery below) that urged the removal of Mark Jimenez from the roll of members of the House, most glaring of the signatures belongs to Gilbert “Gibo” Teodoro, who was then the leader of the Nationalist People’s Coalition (NPC) headed by Eduardo “Danding” Cojuanco, the party’s titular leader, and chairman of the San Miguel Corporation in partnership with the Philippine government.

Manny Villar was the Speaker of the House when Romeo G. Jalosjos was retained in the roster of Congress.

Mark Jimenez was removed from the House of Representatives in a suspiciously swift process that took only three months for a crime filed outside the Philippines involving excessive political contributions to the Clinton campaign. His case was still being tried by the United States district court at that time and yet the forces in government saw it most crucial to deliberate on and deliver his speedy removal.

In 1996, an 11-year old girl by the name of Rosilyn Delantar was raped by Romeo G. Jalosjos, the congressman of Zamboanga del Norte. He was arrested for this unforgivably heinous crime in 1997, and despite his conviction, he was allowed to continue serving in Congress from prison. He was even allowed by Congress, under the leadership of Manny Villar, and with Gibo Teodoro as a member of Congress and leader of the NPC block, to win a second term in 1998.

Now, Erap is also allowed to run for president despite being a convicted plunderer.

What kind of principles does our government have if those convicted of heinous crimes such as statutory rape and plunder in the Philippines are favored and supported by presidentiables in the likes of Gibo Teodoro and Manny Villar? Through this, they have converted our Congress into a haven for heinous criminals.

Why was the process for removal shortened and simplified for Mark Jimenez? What makes the people involved so afraid?

From 1996 to 1997, Manny Villar was a congressman at the height of the Jalosjos case. In 1998, he became Speaker of the House, while Gibo Teodoro became a congressman and leader of the NPC block headed by Danding Cojuangco.

And in 2003, the year Mark Jimenez was removed from Congress, the same people were present in government, with Villar now a Senator under PGMA’s rule.

What kind of a president will Villar and Teodoro be if they supported a convicted rapist?

Today, Mark Jimenez was de-listed from the official list of Presidentiables for 2010. This mirrors the events of his removal from Congress.

Why are they so afraid?

(House Resolution to unseat Jimenez can be viewed in the gallery below.)

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UNEQUAL TREATMENT: AN OVERVIEW

Romeo Jalosjos was charged and convicted of the heinous crime of raping an 11-year old girl. He was convicted on December 1997 by the Regional Trial Court, yet he was only removed from the roster of Congress more than five years later on 23 April 2002. After his conviction, Jalosjos, during the speakership of Manny Villar, ran and won his second term. Thus, for a span of five years, a rapist was included in the roster of the House of Representatives. Eventually, the House resolved to remove Jalosjos from its roster, finally acknowledging that his “conviction of a crime involving moral turpitude, like rape, bars any person from occupying an elective or appointive position in the government.”

On the other hand, upon a bill introduced by several NPC congressmen including then Congressman Gibo Teodoro, Mark Jimenez was hurriedly removed from the roster of the House of Representatives on 22 October 2003, only three short months after the file for extradition arrived. Jalosjos was already convicted during his continued stay in Congress, while Mark Jimenez had not yet been convicted of any crime at that time, and was hence removed for “lack of residence in the district”. As a matter of fact, Mark Jimenez is a resident of the 6^th district of Manila as he has faithfully maintained a residence there coupled with an intention to return. Mark Jimenez’s independence and advocacy for total human rights drove the congressmen to conspire to unseat him.

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Hulog ng Langit Foundation’s sole benefactor is Mr. Mark Jimenez.

The Hulog ng Langit Foundation has so far baptized over 30,000 children all across the Philippines. It’s aim is to baptize 1 Million children from poor families.

Mark Jimenez also shelled out 340,000 Pesos to bail out the parents of these students who were filed a case against by the pre-need companies who victimized them all.

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He also talked about his communication with the Human Rights Committee in Geneva, Switzerland of his intention to file a complaint against the government of the Republic of the Philippines for the repeated and successive violation of his human rights.

In 1995 one of the hottest issues in the U.S. was about the plight of Cuban refugees seeking asylum in the U.S. Due to harsh and repressive conditions in Cuba under the socialist regime of Fidel Castro, tens of thousands of Cubans were attempting to flee the tiny island just a few hours from the coast of Florida.

Sailing on rickety boats and makeshift rafts, they brave the elements hoping to drift ashore somewhere in Florida and regain their freedom. Hundreds of men, women, and children sailed everyday. Hundreds died at sea.

Cubans in Miami organized the Brothers to the Rescue and launched a massive rescue effort to help their compatriots.

Always having a soft heart for the oppressed and the downtrodden, Mark Jimenez gladly lend a helping hand to the Brothers to the Rescue. He contributed generously to the effort. As a result of his humanitarian gesture, Filipinos in the area gained respect of Cubans. They regarded Jimenez and other Filipinos as their true friends.

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• December 16, 2005

• Non-scheduled stopover in Narita Airport, Japan (bad weather and technical problems)

• Stranded for 14 hours

• 200 passengers, 160 of which were Filipino

• 18% Japanese, 2% other nationalities were given hotel accommodations

• Mark “MJ” Jimenez complained in behalf of the Filipino passengers, but the staff only provided food, blankets, and pillows.

• MJ contacted four hotels for the accommodation of his fellow passengers at his own expense

• MJ tore the US$500 voucher given by NWA saying “the Filipino’s dignity cannot be bought for US$500 or for any other sum.”

• He sued Northwest Airlines for US$5M and appealed to each Filipino passenger to do the same.

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• 88 people died and 300 were injured.

• Mark Jimenez provided 74 families with Php10,000 cash plus Php10,000 worth of groceries.

• He also made funeral arrangements for some of the victims.

• This was the first official operation headed by “Hulog ng Langit Foundation”.

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