ANTI-CYBERCRIME PREVENTION ACT OF 2012 IS NOW REAL!

Here is excerpt of the newly signed law the Republic Act No. 10175 or Anti-cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012. I post this because I wanted you to be aware that this law is now a law where I am a culprit. You may ask a lawyer to interpret this but this thing will now flow in our life and in our system. You may like it or not or a portion of it but this Act is now real.

CHAPTER II
PUNISHABLE ACTS

SEC. 4. Cybercrime Offenses. — The following acts constitute the offense of cybercrime punishable under this Act:

(a) Offenses against the confidentiality, integrity and availability of computer data and systems:

(1) Illegal Access. – The access to the whole or any part of a computer system without right.

(2) Illegal Interception. – The interception made by technical means without right of any non-public transmission of computer data to, from, or within a computer system including electromagnetic emissions from a computer system carrying such computer data.

(3) Data Interference. — The intentional or reckless alteration, damaging, deletion or deterioration of computer data, electronic document, or electronic data message, without right, including the introduction or transmission of viruses.

(4) System Interference. — The intentional alteration or reckless hindering or interference with the functioning of a computer or computer network by inputting, transmitting, damaging, deleting, deteriorating, altering or suppressing computer data or program, electronic document, or electronic data message, without right or authority, including the introduction or transmission of viruses.

(5) Misuse of Devices.

(i) The use, production, sale, procurement, importation, distribution, or otherwise making available, without right, of:

(aa) A device, including a computer program, designed or adapted primarily for the purpose of committing any of the offenses under this Act; or

(bb) A computer password, access code, or similar data by which the whole or any part of a computer system is capable of being accessed with intent that it be used for the purpose of committing any of the offenses under this Act.

(ii) The possession of an item referred to in paragraphs 5(i)(aa) or (bb) above with intent to use said devices for the purpose of committing any of the offenses under this section.

(6) Cyber-squatting. – The acquisition of a domain name over the internet in bad faith to profit, mislead, destroy reputation, and deprive others from registering the same, if such a domain name is:

(i) Similar, identical, or confusingly similar to an existing trademark registered with the appropriate government agency at the time of the domain name registration:

(ii) Identical or in any way similar with the name of a person other than the registrant, in case of a personal name; and

(iii) Acquired without right or with intellectual property interests in it.

(b) Computer-related Offenses:

(1) Computer-related Forgery. —

(i) The input, alteration, or deletion of any computer data without right resulting in inauthentic data with the intent that it be considered or acted upon for legal purposes as if it were authentic, regardless whether or not the data is directly readable and intelligible; or

(ii) The act of knowingly using computer data which is the product of computer-related forgery as defined herein, for the purpose of perpetuating a fraudulent or dishonest design.

(2) Computer-related Fraud. — The unauthorized input, alteration, or deletion of computer data or program or interference in the functioning of a computer system, causing damage thereby with fraudulent intent: Provided, That if no

damage has yet been caused, the penalty imposable shall be one (1) degree lower.

(3) Computer-related Identity Theft. – The intentional acquisition, use, misuse, transfer, possession, alteration or deletion of identifying information belonging to another, whether natural or juridical, without right: Provided, That if no damage has yet been caused, the penalty imposable shall be one (1) degree lower.

(c) Content-related Offenses:

(1) Cybersex. — The willful engagement, maintenance, control, or operation, directly or indirectly, of any lascivious exhibition of sexual organs or sexual activity, with the aid of a computer system, for favor or consideration.

(2) Child Pornography. — The unlawful or prohibited acts defined and punishable by Republic Act No. 9775 or the Anti-Child Pornography Act of 2009, committed through a computer system: Provided, That the penalty to be imposed shall be (1) one degree higher than that provided for in Republic Act No. 9775.

(3) Unsolicited Commercial Communications. — The transmission of commercial electronic communication with the use of computer system which seek to advertise, sell, or offer for sale products and services are prohibited unless:

(i) There is prior affirmative consent from the recipient; or

(ii) The primary intent of the communication is for service and/or administrative announcements from the sender to its existing users, subscribers or customers; or

(iii) The following conditions are present:

(aa) The commercial electronic communication contains a simple, valid, and reliable way for the recipient to reject. receipt of further commercial electronic messages (opt-out) from the same source;

(bb) The commercial electronic communication does not purposely disguise the source of the electronic message; and

(cc) The commercial electronic communication does not purposely include misleading information in any part of the message in order to induce the recipients to read the message.

(4) Libel. — The unlawful or prohibited acts of libel as defined in Article 355 of the Revised Penal Code, as amended, committed through a computer system or any other similar means which may be devised in the future.

SEC. 5. Other Offenses. — The following acts shall also constitute an offense:

(a) Aiding or Abetting in the Commission of Cybercrime. – Any person who willfully abets or aids in the commission of any of the offenses enumerated in this Act shall be held liable.

(b) Attempt in the Commission of Cybercrime. — Any person who willfully attempts to commit any of the offenses enumerated in this Act shall be held liable.

QUESTIONS RARELY ANSWER

Here are some questions uncommonly answer by people perhaps unaware or maybe unfamiliar to them, in Tagalog term they called it ‘MA at PA’ (Malay ko at Pakialam ko).  But I would like to share it to you and the answer of an anonymous and reliable respondent who simply had a lot of mingling on the subjects.

Question: How can you differentiate a girlfriend and a mistress?
 
 Answer: The difference is financial. Girlfriends are independent and can assert their independence by spending their own money. If you’re totally dependent, wala ka na (That’s it). 

Question: You’ve talked to a lot of mistresses. Can you tell us one particularly memorable story? 

Answer: There was one woman who never called herself a mistress. She used the word “playmate” to describe her relationship with the man, who was then married. When the man and his wife separated, he asked her to be with him, but she refused. She said they were only playmates. She knows she will never marry the man.
And then the woman also became the victim of a mistress. It turns out her husband was also seeing another woman. That’s what made her stop seeing her playmate. She said she didn’t want a place in hell. 

Question: Did she believe it was a sin? 

Answer: For 25 years the woman did not take communion, and everyone kept asking her why. Finally one night, she told her story to her parish priest, over dinner. The priest gave her an absolution and called her story “a beautiful love story.”
I know a devout Catholic went to the priest to ask for forgiveness because of adultery. The priest said she couldn’t be forgiven because the affair was still ongoing. 

Question: Who is the most successful mistress? 

A lot. These are the women who are recognized by the man’s family and accepted by society. 

Question: Are mistresses happy? 

Answer: I think so. Why would they stay? 

Question: Even without marriage? 

Answer: Mistresses should know it will never happen. 

Question: Why won’t some husbands ever leave their wives? 

Answer: These men want to be in their comfort zone. A place where they are on familiar ground, and there is no need to uproot one’s self or learn new rules. They’re in a place where they are used to the house help, and they know where the bathroom is. They know the bad side of their wives and they know how to dominate them. Men want to have their cake and eat it, too. It is very rare for a Filipino man to leave his first wife to marry his mistress. 

Question: Do mistresses feel the man loves them more?
Answer: Yes. A classmate of mine was head of an NGO that monitored sex and pornography on TV. During the course of their research they talked to little girls whose mothers watched television. Do you know what their mothers told them? They said they wanted to be the mistresses on TV instead of the wives. On TV, the wives are always shown wearing dusters, cleaning and suffering while the man goes off with his mistress in the sexy dress. 

Question: So if I form a partylist for mistresses, will I get enough votes? 

Answer: A lot of our politicians won when it was revealed that they had mistresses. 

Question: Are mistresses homewreckers?
 
Answer: It’s a stereotype. It may not be her intention but that’s what the public perception is. 

Question: Why do men need mistresses? 

Answer: I asked that question in the Rotary Club. A man said, “You know why we do it? We do it ‘cause we can get away with it.” It’s the forbidden fruit. The allure of mistresses in the shadows, that’s her mystery. 

A man I know also said, “It’s nice to wake up with a beautiful face beside me.”
At one point in a woman’s life she has to choose whether she wants to keep her face or her figure. When a woman is thin her face is compromised, it’s sunken. But if she wants a younger-looking face with no wrinkles that means she has to choose to be fat. Mahirap maging babae. (It’s hard to be a woman). 

Question: So it is normal to have a mistress?
 
Yes. Even taxi drivers have mistresses. She might have a carinderia or be a labandera who washes his clothes for him. Madudunong ang mga taxi driver (Taxi drivers are smart). During a marriage, the husband and wife can experience a sexual death. The wife bears children, finds other sources of fulfillment, her body gets bigger…that is when men look for others. But you’ll be surprised. A lot of mistresses are not as pretty or as accomplished as the wife. 

Question: Why is this so? 

Answer: Because mistresses don’t argue.  Here’s a quote from someone: “At the end of the day I don’t need a bright woman to argue with, I just want a pretty girl who will shut up when she needs to shut up.” Men want somebody, someone who is low-maintenance emotionally. Men who have reached their Viagra stage especially lose a lot of confidence, and need women who try to restore it.
I know of a heterosexual, not bisexual, man who left his wife and kids for a transsexual, even if he knew she underwent a sex change. The transsexual told me it had nothing to do with sex. She simply fulfilled all his psychological needs.
Essentially, every man is a narcissist, especially mama’s boys. And Filipino men are all mama’s boys.
A typical Filipino man is always dominated by women throughout his life. First, he is dominated by his mother, then a girlfriend, then his wife, then his daughter, then his mistress, then maybe a “chimay,” if he is a “chimay” killer, then by Mama Mary when he is old, gray and dying. Who is at fault in the relationship, the man or the mistresses?
The men are to blame, not the mistresses. The Philippines is the only country left where people still go to Mass every Sunday, and pews are filled from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and yet it is the also the only country where mistresses are freely flaunted. Also, we are the only country left without a divorce law. 

Question: So without the Catholic church, life wouldn’t be as sweet as this. 

Yes, the “forbidden fruit.” 

Question: If there is divorce do you think people will still have mistresses? 

Answer: Even in America where there is divorce, there are still mistresses. Divorce will never work here because men will be required to pay alimony. There are more men in Congress than women. Husbands can get away without paying a cent. During the Japanese occupation we had divorce in the country. The movie “Rosario” was about a woman ahead of her time in that period. She slept around, smoked and flirted. As punishment, she was exiled to Hong Kong for three years. Those were the days.
I still wonder why women’s groups like Gabriela don’t try harder to change the laws. The laws concerning concubinage and adultery favor the man. Men are only guilty if they are caught having an affair under scandalous circumstances, and it still has to be proven. For women, adultery is an automatic crime.
Women in Congress don’t want to change the laws because it’s against the church. And there is always the question of, “What will happen to the children?” It is usually the wives who don’t want to leave a marriage because of the children, not the husbands. 

Question: What about mistresses who don’t get anything much financially from the men? 

Answer: I don’t know. True love? 

They say numbers 1 and 3 usually end up on the same side, as with numbers 2 and 4. Does that mean the minimum for a Filipino man is 4? 

Maybe even more. 

What is the ending for mistresses? 
The same as a wife’s. You’ll fall out of love. The currents come and go.
You grow tired of each other, the man becomes cruel.  You can experience sensory fatigue or sexual death, or he becomes boring or poor or sick. You just go with the flow. There are no rules. It’s a wise mistress who realizes that like everything, there’s an ending. Wise mistresses are the most successful mistresses. They know that husbands don’t belong to them.

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CLOSE ENCOUNTER WITH REGINA RICA

When a batchmate invited me to be with them to visit ‘RICA’ as her term, right away I said yes and upon saying what is ‘RICA’ was, I felt jubilant because the last time I went to pilgrimage site was in my college days almost 15 yrs ago.

Then night of September 8 came, I slept but I couldn’t sleep. Me and my son prepared that morning with hardly no sleep at all.  We went to my friend house to regroup. We left our converging point at around 8:30AM and went straight ahead to our destination: The True Sacred Place in Tanay, Rizal, i.e REGINA RICA.

The gate was closed yet but I had a peep of what was inside. “Lo and Behold my beautiful ascendant came into my sweet”, I whispered. We came and she was very beautiful. As I hold the arm of my son I never took out my glimpse over Regina Rica even as we go inside.

When we started to go up on mountain to take a closer look at this 71feet statue, I was stirred by a call of a gardener restraining me because of wearing sleeveless shirt which I thought was not prohibited. I suddenly put up my jacket and proceeded climbing.

As we were going up, I had my ‘tingling-effect’. There was a part of me that wanted to see what it is felt-like to take pictures inside the very same sacred spaces. (In Tagalog term ‘Masubukan nga’). When we got to the foot of the image, there was a little seminar in us on how the whole pilgrim was all about.

I now went inside with jitter and passed through a narrow stair toward a medium-built cubicle called ‘ADORATION’. There you can see the devotees kneel in front of what we call a representation of ‘Holy Life’. I kneel and had a little pray. After praying I brought out my camera which was in my pocket and slowly centered the lens unto the portrayal. In my mind maybe I can get apparition somehow out of my photos or I can share the photos to other wishful believers. These are the photos never before seen in any form of media outlets.

After the mass ended we finally decided to go home. Upon spelled going home we had the opportunity to shared thoughts and feeling, exchanged jokes and experiences. And as I looked back and meditated, I realized what this day brought to me. Not the pictures, not this article, not the place, not the friends but my interactions, my contact, my mingled, my apparition not in my pictures but apparition that came within my heart to my DIVINE CREATOR.