Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Liecaster steals name of Truthcaster, posts a slander and gets a shut-up

A man who stole the name of Preacher Eliseo Soriano goes online in NowPublic.com to humiliate the owner of that name but gets a warning for closure for possible slander.

Identified as Conrad J. Obligacion in Topix.net, this guy sporting the name, "Truthcaster" ironically has Eliseo Soriano as his object of destruction. Evangelist Soriano has been for years sporting the name, “Truthcaster” in his Bible Expositions online. From his many years of broadcasting truth, he is known as Truthcaster in many quarters.

The unidentified reporter with clear connections with the Iglesia ni Cristo (INC) posted a story on January 21, 2009 titled “Behind Phillip Garcia’s libelous ramblings” in Nowpublic.com. Garcia earlier wrote in another news site, in Newsvine.com an article titled, “Behind the Iglesia ni Cristo’s King Maker Role: A Chain of Crimes and Mythical Numbers”.

The INC is publicly known for filing case after case against the preacher, using for witnesses people that Soriano had excommunicated from the Ang Dating Daan (ADD) group. The latest was that they had Soriano on the Interpol’s wanted list for “Sex Crimes.” Soriano had earlier excommunicated a gay from his congregation who was found out from investigations that he had raped some 14 of his subordinates. In retaliation, Daniel Veridiano, alias “Puto” filed a rape case against the preacher. This was when he had to leave Soriano’s group where he could no longer be accepted for flagrant disobedience to church doctrines.

The rape case filed by Puto against the preacher was dismissed by the regional court of Pampanga but for unknown reasons, it had been re-filed by Raul Gonzalez, the Secretary of Justice, himself who had no connections with the case. The INC is very influential with the Philippine government arising from its bloc voting practice. As a result, the INC endorsement is heavily sought for by politicians, local and national.

Soriano is widely known for exposing false prophets. When he has to discuss biblical truth, he is inevitably led to discuss the false teachings of so-called churches. One of those he had been criticizing wildly is the Iglesia ni Cristo who claims Christ is a human being aside from other claims, and collects tithes after tithes. As a result, many INC members have left their fold.

The reporter said, “After reading the piece I begin to understand that this Phillip Garcia does not have any idea whatsoever what libel is.” Garcia, however, was able to present as many sources as he could.

The unidentified INC supporter had posted Soriano’s picture and had captioned it “Interpol Wanted Poster” although it was Garcia he was supposed to deal with. He also posted Phillip Garcia’s picture.

NowPublic.com’s moderator, Amyjudd, however flagged the story and had required the unidentified reporter to improve his story. She said, "the site does not allow posts that slander someone personally" and that "we feel that the post indeed does just that." “Whatever your purpose is with this post, this may not be the way to go about it,” the moderator said.

On February 4, 2009, the moderator closed the thread saying that the poster failed to come up to expectations: “I am closing this comment thread due to the author’s lack of action to deal with the wrench on [his] post.”

Relative to this kind of work, in 2008, Rizalino L. Arrabis, another member of the Iglesia ni Cristo had been posting a hundred-and-one personal attacks against Soriano. They had been deleted, however, by Rob Walker, another moderator in NowPublic.com who had issued him a warning. Walker noticed Arrabis' penchant for starting his comments by twisting everyone's name, and then would follow up with some verbal venom.

Arrabis had been posting his attacks in relation to two posts looking for EraƱo Manalo who was not responding to Soriano's challenge to a debate to defend his teachings. The story can be found in INC shouts: "Where is Sir Erano Manalo? and INC still shouts: "Where is Sir Erano Manalo?. Both of these can be found in NowPublic.com.

30 comments:

Anonymous said...

The name Liecaster does fit this slanderer. Moderator Amyjudd just took action as she deemed necessary.

People like this are well-rounded in calling you names when they don't have one in the first place. When experts speak and find out that they don't care about journalistic principles, they do get that "Shut up!" to prevent them from talking more TRASH.

Photojazz said...

Thanks for the action of the moderator, i really appreciate. This is truly a sign of desperate moves by our detractors. Bro Eli Soriano spreads the word of God and surely devils will try to stop him. But in the end we know that the truth shall prevail.

fiona said...

Liecaster is no different from his leader Manalo, they are both cowards hiding beneath their mothers' skirts. A VERY CHEAP MOVE BY A MANALO FOLLOWER WHO LEARNED VERY CHEAP DOCTRINES FROM MANALO!

Anonymous said...

while the "truthcaster" Bro. Eliseo Soriano is propagating the word of God truthfully from the Bible with all his efforts and sufferings, this cohorts of the INC-Manalo consistenly trying to propagate poisonouse inventions of maliciouse informations not only in the Philippines but around the globe, using the Good privelages offered by the internet world making it the way to distribute their evil agendas to.

this act of slanderer(s) are more evil than the porn sites that scattered in the webnot to (exagerate, but thats true, hehehe).

just visit Bro. Eliseo Soriano's websites: www.truthcaster.com, www.theoldpath.tv, www.angdatingdaan.org

Unknown said...

In our cyberworld where we post like we talk, the mechanical difference between speaking and writing is not much of consequence. But libelous statements are not the same as slanderous statements.

The material difference is that libelous statements MAY be true. Slanderous statements ARE not true.

Amyjudd was quick to note that the poster was posting slanderous statements.

Unknown said...

thanks you so much moderator! you did an excellent job! iglesia ni cristo ni manalo is so very desperate bcoz manalo himself can't face bro eli soriano in terms of man to man debate! so they go to personal attack to bro eli soriano instead of spreading the truth about the words of God like bro eli did. thank you...more power moderator...GODBLESS!

Unknown said...

I agree to you philip and jazz. Hopeful of True justice in the end. The truth always prevails

Unknown said...

Serves that Obligation right. No matter how hard he tries to cast a shadow on his trash-facts, the stench of slander is bound to get the people's attention.



:)

AJ said...

LIECASTER is a CRAP,another DESPERATE MOVE OF IGLESIA NI MANALO.SUCH A LOSER

Jocelyn Bautista said...

It is no wonder the man will use the "Truthcaster", this name is all over youtube right now showing the truth about the gospel. What else wouuld he use. His own name Conrad J. Obligacion will never command a even a quick glance from a viewer/reader. Thanks to the moderator to spot a fake man.

Unknown said...

Please comment on the story - not on the mechanics of it.

Kenneth, I have studied my journalism. I know the difference between libelous statements and slanderous statements.

Are you trying to insinuate that the moderator, Amyjudd is wrong?

Are you trying to say that what that liar said MAY BE RIGHT?

You already know that Bro. Eli did not rape anybody. Isn't that enough for you to know to stop fighting me?

joyce narral said...

Liars should shut their mouth. This liecaster just get what he deserved.
After stealing the name truthcaster from someone who deserves it and earned it from hardwork in preaching God's Words, this wannabe writes nothing but fabricated stories.

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Ken Suhrie said...

“Liecaster” exist, simply because we have “Truthcaster”. Of course, pretty obvious. “Liecaster” represents the wicked person and “truthcaster” embodies the righteous person.

Didn’t they notice that even how hard they tried to get the name “truthcaster”, they will never be a “truthcaster” because none of the wicked will do righteous deed. Truth always reign in the end and in any means, no wicked will win this war. They will always be a loser. It will just reveal on their wicked works a false “truthcaster”. “Liecaster” must fit as well.

I would like to commend the action done by the moderator. Good job!

Jocelyn Bautista said...

My wish is to stand united in this crisis. What's in a word when it means thesame thing.

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Unknown said...

Eduard Kenneth Au,

In the context of blogging, you cannot just crystallize something posted in the Internet and bring it to the courts and say this one is published and so it can be libel. Will it be admissible in court as published? Will cyber materials stand the test of evidence?

I can see the point of Amyjudd. I quoted her; and I cannot change “slander” to “libel” as you insist. Libel is for the courts to declare.

When you claim libel, you have to be able to prove that the element of malice is present. If you had been following the background of the news I posted, you will learn that the one attacking Phillip Garcia was told to tag his piece as “opinion” and he did. Now, where’s your bravado about your “libel?”

If the lawyers often say libel is hard to prove, why are you so swift in declaring something as libel as first glance? Don’t play lawyer like that. As it is, you have already diverted the attention from the story to technicalities, implying that you have the expertise on the issue.

By the way, Amyjudd is not my friend as you described her, lest that “Truthcaster” will think she is not being objective and is simply siding with us. She is a moderator of NowPublic.com and she knows whereof she speaks. To play safe, she used the word, “slander,” and what’s wrong with that? Isn’t blogging like talking? Between you and that moderator, I would go for her.

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Paladin said...

Kennethau,

You are misinterpreting things. In fact, you are out of topic. The topic is the just action done by the moderator of the news site towards the postings of the fake Truthcaster namely Conrad Obligacion. Please, focus on that.

Ka Yabang said...

Kenneth Au - feeling lawyer, feeling Ph.D.

Maligo ka para matanggal yabang mo.

Unknown said...

Please go to NowPublic.com

http://my.nowpublic.com/culture/liecaster-steals-name-truthcaster-slanders-and-gets-shut

TheWatchMan said...

The truth will always overcome evil and lies in the sight of God. No matter how others technically analyze this article, it still proves that there are people who simply enjoy maligning Brother Eli Soriano and they are the ones who will be exposed and judged someday.

If Liecaster's postings were sensible, he would have not gotten reprimanded by one of the moderators in NowPublic.com Let this be a lesson for him; not everyone is an INCM ally.

Er said...

This Liecaster stole my identity, used my name in a blog and my culture at

http://ervasol.blogspot.com and http://catholicivatan.blogspot.com

He's not "Er Vasol"
He's not an Ivatan and
He's not a Catholic

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