From the
Philippine Daily Inquirer.
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MANILA, Philippines—The mother of road rage murder suspect Jason Ivler said the US embassy should take custody of her son, just like what it did for erstwhile rape suspect Daniel Smith, because just like Smith, Ivler "fought for his country."
“I would like the US embassy to take him in their custody because it's their job to protect their citizens, more so my son who fought for his country,” Marlene Aguilar on Wednesday said, adding her American citizen son served in the US military and was deployed to Iraq.
Smith, a US marine soldier who, in 2006 was found guilty for the 2005 rape of a Filipino woman in Subic, Olongapo, was sneaked out of the Makati City jail and brought to the US embassy by government agents shortly after his conviction, after the Philippine government decided to comply with the provisions in the RP-US Visiting Forces Agreement, without waiting for a court ruling on the contested issue. The provisions are presumed in effect if an American soldier is sent to the Philippines during joint exercises under the RP-US VFA.
Smith was an active military personnel at the time and therefore was covered by the provisions of the VFA. If indeed Ivler had served in the US military, he is apparently not active at the moment.
But Aguilar insisted, “It's their duty to protect my son, whether they like it or not.”
The US embassy, Aguilar said, had initiated communication with them and sent some papers for Ivler to fill up.
“They want Jason to answer them personally and get the information directly from him,” Aguilar added.
She also said she would personally write a request to the US Embassy to take custody of her son.
"I'm appealing to the US Embassy for them to protect him (Ivler) from Philippine authorities," Aguilar said.
She said her son’s human rights were violated when he was arrested inside her house last January 18.
TV newscasts of the arrest showed that Ivler fired the first shot at National Bureau of Investigation agents when they found him hiding inside the stockroom of his mother’s house. He was eventually wounded, handcuffed and carried to a waiting NBI van. Footages also showed that agents had to restrain him, at times, putting their feet on him and twisting his arm to make sure he could not fight back.
Ivler was found wearing a bandolier containing ammunition for the high-powered firearms he used to try resisting arrest.
But Aguilar said NBI agents “treated him (Ivler) like an animal when he has fallen and been wounded.”
During the interview, Aguilar said her British bodyguard must have tipped off police about Ivler.
“I recognized the informant as Mark Hauser when he was interviewed on TV. He was my bodyguard for more than two years. He told NBI agents about the possibility of Jason being in the house,” Aguilar told reporters.
Aguilar added that Ivler never intended to kill the NBI agents and he would like his relatives to move on. According to his mother, he has no regrets.
Aguilar said she and her son were finally able to talk Thursday morning inside the intensive care unit of the Quirino Memorial Hospital where the suspect remained confined.
Aguilar, in her third visit to the hospital, quoted her son as saying, "I didn't want to kill any of them (NBI agents). I wanted them to kill me."
She said Ivler also told her to relay to their relatives: "Tell them to get over it."
When asked if Ivler showed any remorse for the death of Renato Ebarle Jr., the man whom he had allegedly shot dead after he failed to overtake him in traffic, Aguilar would only say, "Jason does not regret anything that's happened in his life.''
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Wow...this guy kills a motorist and shoots at NBI agents and he does not regret anything that happened in his life.
I hope the US doesn't take custody of him. He should rot in jail. The mother as well.
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