Sunday, April 4, 2010

Maria Venus Raj Live on the Buzz: Blog Posts and Stories of Raj's Fans Matched with her Statements

 Watch it here

At exactly 4 pm in the afternoon I got home with my family from Tabaco City having gone to a wake of a relative who passed away at the age of 103. I  immediately boot the computer to update some news regarding Maria Venus Raj and her hot issue that everyone is talking about right at these moments.

On the Facebook fan site Petition for Venus Raj to remain as Bb.Pilipinas-Universe 2010 , a fan posted on the wall that Maria Venus Raj will have a live interview on the Buzz this Sunday afternoon. Fans including me rushed to ask what time would Raj appear on the show. Some fans are very resourceful and helpful that they posted links to a television streaming site for others to see it live on their computer screens.

Raj then appeared at around 5 pm in the afternoon. Boy Abunda became the person whom Venus talked to.A vtr served as an introduction to open up the issue and to welcome Maria Venus Raj on the show. The vtr showed Raj being crowned as Bb. Pilipinas-Universe 2010 and then dethroned in less than a month. It also showed a number of beauty queens who were then dethroned  specially those who has issues on their nationality and as they say Venus is the latest on the list. The birth certificate of Maria Venus Raj was also on the scene being the main point of her issues. It says that  Venus' father was a catholic Indian national having the name Vincent Raj and married to her mother. It is also said that on the record, Maria Venus Raj was born in Camarines Sur.

The interview was then started. Boy Abunda concentrated on what really is inconsistent. Raj told him that she was really born in Doha, Qatar and raised in the Philippines. This statement had proven her Filipino citizenship. Venus then told that from the start, BPCI knew about this. Regarding her birth certificate, she said that she only had  her birth certificate when she was graduating high school applying for a scholarship in college. It is indeed true that her aunt made the inputs of the record and it was released three years after her birth. When Boy asked her why did not her mother change those things, she answered with tears that her mom is more concentrated on how to let the family survive despite the situation that they have. Truly indeed that changing the inputs of public documents may require an amount that most cannot afford like that of Raj's family. She also said that why did BPCI didn't told her regarding the issue earlier during the screening. Raj also explained that she has no hard feelings with the BPCI  only that she wants to know the deep reason of her dethronement. Until now she said, she is really confused and questioning why is she dethroned easily. Raj had even no hard feelings on her father whom she never met since she was born and to her parents, she is very thankful that she is alive. 


Raj said that what really hurts her are the speculations that she was born out of wedlock. I believe, what she means is that this may be the reason why she was dethroned. Abunda asked her if there are any rules that restrict children born out of wedlock from joining the pageant; well of course for God's sake there's no any rule like that. As I see through it another thing that hurts her are the speculations that questions her self regarding honesty. I personally admit that there are really people who are not for Raj and it is true that they mention certain comments on Raj's honesty. Maria Venus Raj will really defend her crown . The interview was closed by Raj having a message for her family and thanking them. However, Raj didn't mention anything about the said  press conference tomorrow Monday.
Some viewers here at home said that she should have lawyers because her case should really be presented before the court. Raj has lawyers who are helping her now."Venus' camp will not take this to court if her lawyers don't see anything working for their advantage. So let's not stop campaigning for Venus, our Bb. Pilipinas-Universe!" this was posted by a fan on the wall of the two fan site. Until now, Venus' supporters keeps growing and growing and by that interview, it is expected that more and more people will support Raj 'til the end.

Saturday, April 3, 2010

And Now, it's Stella Araneta's Turn (to have a fan site)

"Madame Stella de Araneta is a Colombian woman who operates the oldest beauty pageant in the Philippines.

Mrs. Araneta is notorious for sabotaging the chances of Filipino beauty queens in various beauty pageants by:

* manipulating the results of Binibining Pilipinas
* dethroning the original winners out of technicalities
*... sending the wrong representative to an international pageant
* allowing the Filipino beauty queens to wear inferior and outdated Colombian designer clothes.

 

Few more days from now, it's already a week after the dethronement of Maria Venus Raj and it's also a week old for the campaign to bring her back the crown and let her represent the country for the prestigious Miss Universe Pageant. Two fan pages were soaring the web's airwaves and encouraging every Facebook user to join them on their campaign for the crown of Raj.

As the two sites grow, another fan site was just born maybe this morning. When I opened my computer and got access to the internet, a link to the new fan site was posted on Bring back the crown to Maria Venus Raj...'s wall. This fan site now appeals to fire Miss Stella Araneta. The fans of the two sites believes that Araneta is responsible for the dethronement of  Maria Venus Raj being the Bb. Pilipinas -Universe 2010. Maybe, this site was created because fans may no longer fight their feeling of hatred for the said lady. The Facebook fan site is called FIRE MRS. STELLA ARANETA. Just a few hours, from three fans now it has 29 fans as of this time and it expected to have more as the days goes on and on. Maybe, it will grow more if Raj will mention against the BPCI on a said press conference on Monday.

The previous post of this blog shows the note from the site written of course by the administrator. On this note, the administrator shares his side of being indifferent to the party of Maria Venus Raj and to Madam Araneta. As I read it, the writer shares the diplomacy of Araneta and the grandeur of her profession as well. However, it also shown that he is disappointed to the lady because of the issue of Raj's dethronement. He explains on his note that Araneta's diplomacy might lose because of the issues that links to the dethronement of raj such as the negligence of the screening process conducted by the BPCI.

Taking a look on the site's wall, the comments and reactions of the fans are really strong against Araneta. Even the shout out (shown italicized above) may be very offensive on her part Well what can we do? This is what they feel. But is rampant on the site were photos which really speak millions of hatred for Araneta.

 Why Pitoy Moreno?

On the photo above, Trump asked Araneta and Moreno what they had done to Maria Venus Raj and then got Fired. How come that Pitoy Moreno is also included on the hatred of the people for Araneta? This might be because Moreno is part of the BPCI and close to Araneta.  As you can see, they were together in an event maybe a ribbon cutting ceremony on a store opening. His closeness to Araneta  is not of course an enough reason. Fans would've think that Moreno is involved in the dethronement of Raj.

On the discussion board of the fan site, a topic is open. The topic asks its fans to suggest the replacement for Stella Araneta being the Chairperson of the BPCI. One fan suggested that it should be no other than Gloria Diaz ( Miss Universe 1969). Her reason is that Diaz is also a beauty queen. Stella, she says just got only Miss International title and for her it is inferior compared to the Miss Universe title which Diaz got. The fan also suggests Rene Salud. On the her last sentence, she may mean that Filipinos has to choose no other people who is not from the Philippines. 

     

 

"Why would Stella dethrone Raj because of being half? Why? Is she Filipino? She even doesn't have a Filipino blood? It would be better that the one who will choose the country's representative to the international arena will be from its own people not a foreigner..."

- reaction from a fan...

 

Friday, April 2, 2010

DISAPPOINTED WITH MRS. STELLA ARANETA (From A Fan site)

from the Facebook Fan site:FIRE MRS. STELLA ARANETA!
 
Dethronement is a very serious process and cannot just happen overnight, apparently with no valid reason. I want to understand but I feel there must be a legal basis for BPCI to pursue such deliberate action. The decision to dethrone VR has been taken after many days of agonizing deliberations, for or against. Let it be known I'm not in defense of BPCI and its cohorts of advisers. But since we were not privy to the internal affairs of its inner sanctum, might as well give the Organization the benefit of the doubt. 

My views are mine alone as that of a 3rd party from a distance with no pretensions, bias or prejudice towards what must have transpired in the process. To say that dethronement was taken in response to a public clamor, or in the wake of conspiracies, or due to someone's influence, whim or fancy is utterly disdainful capricious thinking. Note that BPCI is ably supported by a team of legal luminaries, and any decision taken along that line particularly as it sought to dethrone a proclaimed winner in a nationally televised search system must be verifiable and cannot be done in haste. 



 Ms. Stella Araneta with a man (unknown) Photo from Google.








Mdm Stella de Araneta is a seasoned diplomat, a key officer of the corps diplomatique of her native Colombia to the Philippines and the Pacific Rim nations. Diplomatic protocol forbids that her office involves in the containment of half truths, she cannot deviate from the rules as the appointed National Director of the 3 grand slam pageants in the Philippines. She also cannot remain indifferent to complaints from the public and have to deal with them squarely in a transparent manner. She is guided by the niceties of diplomacy as she represents the interests of her native country in this region of the world. 

Madame cannot allow her office nor her staff to be mired in any controversy that might scandalize her diplomatic stature for that matter. If such will happen, the consequences of such despicable acts will have reverberated in the sacrosanct nature of the diplomatic circles. She cannot allow these to happen.

Maybe the blame should be cast to the people who handled and promoted VR candidacy since the very start. They have manipulated her into believing, hence acceptance, she being vulnerable to the lure of national fame and confident in her renewed capabilities to overcome. But Venus cannot pretend not to know if there was indeed fraud when she filed her registration for the annual search. 


A photo from the fan site showing (Unknown),Araneta,Pitoy Moreno and Trump












International competitions like the Ms U have stringent rules to adhere to. And the National Directors from all over the world have a responsibility to abide by those rules. Defrauding the organizers, or ignoring these rules if there is any possibility that truth will resurface in the end is a risk that cannot be allowed. Can the rules be ignored? Nah!. Which is the lesser evil? Dethronement of the titleholder as opposed to the national embarrassment of 90 million Filipinos and the culpable shame of a diplomat’s office if BPCI were found to have condoned or connived with half truths along the way?

If the findings were irreversible and the case established against VR, there’s no other way out but for BPCI to save face, and Madame will have no recourse but to cut loose from any form of worldwide condemnation as it is seen that a clean way out is too remote to find.

Just my 4 centavos worth

Helen Nicolette Henson a fan of Venus Raj's Campaign Site?

As I was checking the Facebook fan page site BRING BACK THE CROWN TO MARIA VENUS RAJ... , I was so surprised seeing the account of Helen Nicolette Henson as one of the fans of the campaign. I quickly clicked it and saw many people commented with a big congratulations for her being the new Bb.Pilipinas-Universe 2010. But then, it doesn't get out through my mind that this account is fake.I remember when I visited the Facebook account of Raj, Nicolette's Facebook account was there shown at the wall having a shout of "tweet tweet". At first I was so suspicious about that shoutout as an insult to our beloved Raj. But then I never had any comments about it, knowing that wall shoutouts are visible on any friends' wall. Another is that Henson's account name is Nikette Henson not her full name. And as I checked on the fan profile of Henson, she posted that the said site was a poser and she even requested her followers to report the said site.and it is also pretty obvious that the account on the fan page is not even a Facebook friend of Raj.
Going back on the fan page of Henson, she has this shoutout that says "It's a borderline between a happy and an aching heart. God bless us all." On this, Henson may feel mixed emotions of happiness and sadness because of what happened to her close friend, Raj. Well of course the site is flooded with comments and messages and not to mention that it has more than 4000 fans. How many fans has Raj? It only has exactly 1910 fans. Well, we have to work hard for it to grow and grow more.
On the two fan pages which campaigns the petition for Raj and mostky on forums from other sites, it is so embarrassing that people get to speak negative words for Henson which is really wrong. We have to prove things first. Let us wait for the news to come specially for the said presscon of Raj on Monday. Rumors says that Raj is opt to tell everything. Oh how I wish...


PS:
We are not here to offend Henson or anyone that we believe who is innocent about this issue. So people please who does not believe in Raj, if you have nothing to say good or let's say if you can't wait for the upcoming blasts to come, then you better tell your opinion in a professional way. Vice Versa for those "anti-Henson."After all, we are all Filipinos,we should be united, and we should be sticking to the truth.

Breaking News!

BREAKING NEWS: MS. MARIA VENUS RAJ IS GOING TO HAVE A PRESSCON ON MONDAY. GUYS, SHE NEEDS OUR FULL SUPPORT. LET'S MAKE THIS CAMPAIGN TO A HIGHER LEVEL. ANYONE PLEASE MAKE A WEBSITE.AND CALLING ALL BLOGGERS: PLEASE MAKE BLOG ENTRIES FOR VENUS AND INCLUDE THIS CAMPAIGN AS A SUPPORT. THANK YOU GUYS!!! LABAN NI VENUS, LABAN NG MGA BICOLANO LABAN NG BAWAT PILIPINO!!!

Let's prepare for this, Please give us updates about the rally.

Fans Plead Everyone to Use Raj's Photo as their Profile Picture

As the campaign is now growing for the petition of Raj's crown, the fans' only way of showing their support is through social networking sites particularly Facebook. The pages who were only less than a week old reached more than 700 fans and the other one still roars more than a thousand. Photos and other online campaign materials are all over spread out the net. Example of these is the previous post of this blog which showed the fans' creativity as a medium of their campaign.
As time passes by, the fans of Raj now appeals the public to use the photo of her as their Profile picture to support and campaign for Venus Raj as the Bb.Pilipinas Universe 2010 until the fight is over. In the photo, the post is shown at the fan page site Petition for Venus Raj to remain as Bb.Pilipinas-Universe 2010  and it was posted by one of the fans of Raj. After how many seconds that it was posted, little by little, people on the said site began to make the photo as their profile picture to campaign Maria Venus Raj and for her title.


We, the people who believes and supports Raj, encourages everyone to do same and let's fight for justice, fight for what is right, fight for Venus.

Pictures that Speak Millions of Support for Maria Venus Raj

Maria Venus Raj is now on silence about the issue of dethroning her as Bb.Pilipinas-Universe 2010. But her fans gets loud at social networking sites, tabloids, newspapers and any other portal which people may freely speak up. Words are not enough that's why there are concerned people who use their creativity as a medium of campaign for Maria Venus Raj as Bb. Pilipinas-Universe 2010.
The following works of art can merely say the fight for Venus is not over. As these people create, other people distribute the works encouraging everybody to join them to have one battle cry; Bring back the crown to Maria Venus Raj!!!


 






Laban by Aldin Navarra: Black Movement for Venus



You're Fired!!!: Wall photo from Facebook



The Next One by Owen Reyes: From Facebook


 



We encourage more artists and supporters to join us and use your creativity on this campaign for justice.