Friday, April 25, 2008

ANIME SELECTS RETURNS TO AX WITH MORE INTERACTIVE SHOWS!

ANIME SELECTS RETURNS TO AX WITH MORE INTERACTIVE SHOWS!

Featuring the Cast of Anime TV, Bang Zoom!'s Adventures In Voice Acting and Guitar Hero II

Open call for 10 people to be a part of our "Day in the Life of an Otaku" segment

Comcast’s Anime Selects ON DEMAND network will return to Anime Expo® this year with an amazing lineup of special events at their studio on the convention floor.  The annual extravaganza for fans of Japanese-style animation and manga, Anime Expo® will be held at the Long Beach Convention Center in Long Beach, California, June 29-July 2.  More information can be found at www.anime-expo.org.

This year, expect more interactive events as Anime Selects welcomes the cast of Anime TV to stop by the studio and put on a live version of their popular weekly podcast series. Fans and convention goers will be encouraged to participate and meet and greet the actors. Also, expect to see some of the cast be our guest MC on some events.

Returning this year are fan favorite events such as Open Mic, Konami’s DDR, Cosplay Contest and Bang Zoom!’s Adventures in Voice Acting workshop where fans try their hand at being a VO actor. After the workshop, expect signings and a meet and greet with a very special guest VO actor – courtesy of Bang Zoom Entertainment.

The new event at the Anime Selects studio is Red Octane’s Guitar Hero II. This successful game will make its AX debut and Anime Selects is thrilled to have fans stop by and share their god-like guitar skills.

To add to the excitement of the convention, Anime Selects is strongly encouraging anime clubs that plan on attending AX to participate in many of our events. Do you think your anime club is the best in the nation? Prove it by stopping by our studio and join in our events. Some events will be designated as “anime club challenge” events.

Last year, Anime Selects followed Man-Faye for a day around AX. This year, they’re looking to follow 10 devoted Otaku who would love to share their story of how and why they attend AX. To participate, please send an email to info@animeselects.com with your name, age, picture of yourself in cosplay and a short essay (no more than 200 words) on the following: “Why cosplay is important to anime conventions.” You must be an AX attendee to participate. Open call closes on June 21, 2007.

AX2007 HIGHLIGHTS

Unless otherwise noted, all events are in the morning or afternoon, at the Anime Selects studio on the convention floor.

Friday, June 29

1:00

SOS Brigade Storms the Booth with Haruhi love and dance!
(Meet the ASOS Trio!)

1:30

Dance Dance Revolution – Basic Level – Anime Club Challenge – Prize Giveaways

3:00

Open Mic – Anime Club Challenge – Also Open to All

4:30

Guitar Hero II – Basic Level – Prize Giveaways

Saturday, June 30

1:00

AnimeTV™ Live event – Join in on the discussions, meet and greet the cast, cast signings

5:00

Cosplay Contest – Prize Giveaways to best dressed – Audience Votes

Sunday, July 1

12:00

Bang Zoom!’s Adventures in Voice Acting Workshop – Try your hand at VO Acting

4:00

Cosplay Contest – Prize Giveaways to best dressed – Audience Votes


ABOUT ANIME SELECTS

Anime Selects is one of 19 VOD (Video-On-Demand) channels available to Comcast and Cox digital subscribers through Select ON DEMAND. Since its launch in 2004, Anime Selects has been one of the most watched VOD channels and continues to grow.  IKKI TOUSEN, MARMALADE BOY, SHINGU: SECRET OF THE STELLAR WARS, ESCAFLOWNE and GUNDAM SEED DESTINY are just a few of the hits available from Anime Selects, which also airs original programming, covering major anime conventions in the U.S. as well as Japan.

ABOUT SELECT ON DEMAND

Select On Demand is ushering in the next generation of television programming with the development of new digital cable networks designed exclusively for on-demand viewing. With a growing portfolio of digital networks from Anime to Fitness to Home Improvement and Gambling, Select On Demand is revolutionizing a whole new way of watching television through VOD technology. VOD, short for Video-on-Demand, is a service being offered through digital cable that allows viewers to select videos from a menu on their televisions and get instant viewing access. Viewers can fast forward, rewind and pause the programming they’re watching, just as they would while watching a DVD. This interactivity allows complete control of personal viewing time.

ABOUT ANIME EXPO®

Located in Long Beach, California - Anime Expo®, the nation’s largest
anime/manga convention, serves to foster trade, commerce and the interests of the general public and animation/ comics industry. This event serves as a key meeting place for the general public to express their interest and explore various aspects of anime/manga, as well as for members of the industry to conduct business. AX 2007 will be held June 29 – July 2, 2007 at the Long Beach Convention Center in Southern California. SPONSORS: ADV Films, Bandai Entertainment, Copic Markers, Digital Manga, Gaia Online, Go! Media, Infinity Studios, ImaginAsian TV (IaTV) and the Los Angeles Times. More information can be found at its website (www.anime-expo.org). 

ABOUT ANIMETV™

AnimeTV™ is a free fifteen (15) minute online video podcast program produced by Bang Zoom! Entertainment, Inc. (Headquartered in Burbank, CA) appearing every other Thursday evenings at 8:00 pm, Pacific Standard Time on www.goanimetv.com and a host of other outlets including iTunes and YouTube.com.  More information can be found on the show’s World Wide Web site, which is located at www.goanimetv.com.

ABOUT BANG ZOOM! ENTERTAINMENT, INC.

Headquartered in Burbank, California, Bang Zoom! Entertainment, Inc. is a leading and award winning full service audio post production studio working in the fields of feature films, television, electronic entertainment, anime and direct to home entertainment projects. Founded in 1993, Bang Zoom! Entertainment, Inc. maintains operations in the U.S. with three buildings, six recording/mixing stages and just under 200 staff of actors, writers, directors and technicians.  Bang Zoom! Entertainment, Inc.is also committed to carrying out projects that contribute to the promotion of innovative cultural awareness internationally.  More information about Bang Zoom! Entertainment, Inc. and its products can be found on the company’s World Wide Web site, which is located at www.bangzoomentertainment.com.

ANIME SELECTS RETURNS TO AX WITH MORE INTERACTIVE SHOWS!

ANIME SELECTS RETURNS TO AX WITH MORE INTERACTIVE SHOWS!

Featuring the Cast of Anime TV, Bang Zoom!'s Adventures In Voice Acting and Guitar Hero II

Open call for 10 people to be a part of our "Day in the Life of an Otaku" segment

Comcast’s Anime Selects ON DEMAND network will return to Anime Expo® this year with an amazing lineup of special events at their studio on the convention floor.  The annual extravaganza for fans of Japanese-style animation and manga, Anime Expo® will be held at the Long Beach Convention Center in Long Beach, California, June 29-July 2.  More information can be found at www.anime-expo.org.

This year, expect more interactive events as Anime Selects welcomes the cast of Anime TV to stop by the studio and put on a live version of their popular weekly podcast series. Fans and convention goers will be encouraged to participate and meet and greet the actors. Also, expect to see some of the cast be our guest MC on some events.

Returning this year are fan favorite events such as Open Mic, Konami’s DDR, Cosplay Contest and Bang Zoom!’s Adventures in Voice Acting workshop where fans try their hand at being a VO actor. After the workshop, expect signings and a meet and greet with a very special guest VO actor – courtesy of Bang Zoom Entertainment.

The new event at the Anime Selects studio is Red Octane’s Guitar Hero II. This successful game will make its AX debut and Anime Selects is thrilled to have fans stop by and share their god-like guitar skills.

To add to the excitement of the convention, Anime Selects is strongly encouraging anime clubs that plan on attending AX to participate in many of our events. Do you think your anime club is the best in the nation? Prove it by stopping by our studio and join in our events. Some events will be designated as “anime club challenge” events.

Last year, Anime Selects followed Man-Faye for a day around AX. This year, they’re looking to follow 10 devoted Otaku who would love to share their story of how and why they attend AX. To participate, please send an email to info@animeselects.com with your name, age, picture of yourself in cosplay and a short essay (no more than 200 words) on the following: “Why cosplay is important to anime conventions.” You must be an AX attendee to participate. Open call closes on June 21, 2007.

AX2007 HIGHLIGHTS

Unless otherwise noted, all events are in the morning or afternoon, at the Anime Selects studio on the convention floor.

Friday, June 29

1:00

SOS Brigade Storms the Booth with Haruhi love and dance!
(Meet the ASOS Trio!)

1:30

Dance Dance Revolution – Basic Level – Anime Club Challenge – Prize Giveaways

3:00

Open Mic – Anime Club Challenge – Also Open to All

4:30

Guitar Hero II – Basic Level – Prize Giveaways

Saturday, June 30

1:00

AnimeTV™ Live event – Join in on the discussions, meet and greet the cast, cast signings

5:00

Cosplay Contest – Prize Giveaways to best dressed – Audience Votes

Sunday, July 1

12:00

Bang Zoom!’s Adventures in Voice Acting Workshop – Try your hand at VO Acting

4:00

Cosplay Contest – Prize Giveaways to best dressed – Audience Votes


ABOUT ANIME SELECTS

Anime Selects is one of 19 VOD (Video-On-Demand) channels available to Comcast and Cox digital subscribers through Select ON DEMAND. Since its launch in 2004, Anime Selects has been one of the most watched VOD channels and continues to grow.  IKKI TOUSEN, MARMALADE BOY, SHINGU: SECRET OF THE STELLAR WARS, ESCAFLOWNE and GUNDAM SEED DESTINY are just a few of the hits available from Anime Selects, which also airs original programming, covering major anime conventions in the U.S. as well as Japan.

ABOUT SELECT ON DEMAND

Select On Demand is ushering in the next generation of television programming with the development of new digital cable networks designed exclusively for on-demand viewing. With a growing portfolio of digital networks from Anime to Fitness to Home Improvement and Gambling, Select On Demand is revolutionizing a whole new way of watching television through VOD technology. VOD, short for Video-on-Demand, is a service being offered through digital cable that allows viewers to select videos from a menu on their televisions and get instant viewing access. Viewers can fast forward, rewind and pause the programming they’re watching, just as they would while watching a DVD. This interactivity allows complete control of personal viewing time.

ABOUT ANIME EXPO®

Located in Long Beach, California - Anime Expo®, the nation’s largest
anime/manga convention, serves to foster trade, commerce and the interests of the general public and animation/ comics industry. This event serves as a key meeting place for the general public to express their interest and explore various aspects of anime/manga, as well as for members of the industry to conduct business. AX 2007 will be held June 29 – July 2, 2007 at the Long Beach Convention Center in Southern California. SPONSORS: ADV Films, Bandai Entertainment, Copic Markers, Digital Manga, Gaia Online, Go! Media, Infinity Studios, ImaginAsian TV (IaTV) and the Los Angeles Times. More information can be found at its website (www.anime-expo.org). 

ABOUT ANIMETV™

AnimeTV™ is a free fifteen (15) minute online video podcast program produced by Bang Zoom! Entertainment, Inc. (Headquartered in Burbank, CA) appearing every other Thursday evenings at 8:00 pm, Pacific Standard Time on www.goanimetv.com and a host of other outlets including iTunes and YouTube.com.  More information can be found on the show’s World Wide Web site, which is located at www.goanimetv.com.

ABOUT BANG ZOOM! ENTERTAINMENT, INC.

Headquartered in Burbank, California, Bang Zoom! Entertainment, Inc. is a leading and award winning full service audio post production studio working in the fields of feature films, television, electronic entertainment, anime and direct to home entertainment projects. Founded in 1993, Bang Zoom! Entertainment, Inc. maintains operations in the U.S. with three buildings, six recording/mixing stages and just under 200 staff of actors, writers, directors and technicians.  Bang Zoom! Entertainment, Inc.is also committed to carrying out projects that contribute to the promotion of innovative cultural awareness internationally.  More information about Bang Zoom! Entertainment, Inc. and its products can be found on the company’s World Wide Web site, which is located at www.bangzoomentertainment.com.

Monday, April 14, 2008

VOICEWORX 4




VOICEWORX 4




A unique service for all Entertainers.

GET MORE CLIENTS WITH THIS BRILLIANT MUSIC CD!

Just play a CD... But these are no ordinary CD's...

These audio CDs contain your advertising messages and contact details plus! ... Music too

Just pop the CD in and let us do the talking!

Just supply us with a list of your messages and we record and produce the finished product!
 

Easy!


In between the music everyone will hear your advertisements! 

You can include any message you like!


Tell your customers...

Your website details

Your telephone number

Advertise your merchandise, booking information, products, special offers...


Say whatever you want to say and pick up new clients!

Here's what you get:

4 audio CD's with mixed music
all interspersed with your advertising messages

The CD's are 20 minutes, 30 minutes, 45 minutes and 60 minutes long

You get all 4! 

You can have them as MP3's if you prefer.  Just ask.


Want your CD's different lengths?  Just tell us!

All we need from you is a rough idea of what you want to say and your contact details...

Leave the rest to us!



These are high quality digital studio recordings

The total cost is £119.99 - That's it!



 

A unique service for all Entertainers.

We make high quality digital voice overs, introductions, jingles, sweepers, dry voicers and all kinds of audio.

We have created voice overs & audio for Radio, Television, Theatre, Cabaret, Cruise Ships and Entertainers all over the world. 

Our custom voice-over package contains a selection of popular introductions, playoffs, short sweeps, and effects in a variety of styles and moods all at one great price...all customised to you!

We also custom make voice overs and audio to your requirements.

Just tell us what you need.

We only use professional voice over artists.

Add the professional touch to your act with great custom voice-overs

This is a great-value voice-over and intro package specially made for magicians & entertainers

A CD packed full of music intros, playoffs and links all customised with your name (or the name of your act).  Created by professional voice-over artists

The CD contains great intros and voices in a mixture of styles from fun and upbeat to dark & mysterious, all with your act name.

Just send us your name, or the name of your act and we'll create a package of custom made intros, playoffs and voice-overs just for you.

It's the best-value custom jingle package available


What you receive:

A complete voice-over package on CD

It features loads of different intros, playoffs and jingles all with the name of your act on them.

The music and effects are in a range of styles, from bright and lively, to deep and mysterious.  You get all the tracks in all the styles and each one is customised with your name. 

Just use the ones you need.

Sound too good to be true?  Just email us for a demo.  You won't believe your ears!

info@creativoices.com

Oh!... and yes, the price really is just £149.99.  That's it.

We make voiceovers for professional entertainers all over the world. 

We also make jingles for TV, Radio, Theatre, Holiday & Hotel Companies & Cruise Ships.  We make voice-overs for Documentaries, videos, commercials, the list goes on. 

Each package is in high-quality digital audio, mastered onto CD at 44.1KHz and can be played on any CD player.

You may also be interested in bespoke voices, narration, jingles and audio - just email us for details



A unique service for all Entertainers.

GET MORE CLIENTS WITH THIS BRILLIANT MUSIC CD!

Just play a CD... But these are no ordinary CD's...

These audio CDs contain your advertising messages and contact details plus! ... Music too

Just pop the CD in and let us do the talking!

Just supply us with a list of your messages and we record and produce the finished product!
 

Easy!


In between the music everyone will hear your advertisements! 

You can include any message you like!


Tell your customers...

Your website details

Your telephone number

Advertise your merchandise, booking information, products, special offers...


Say whatever you want to say and pick up new clients!

Here's what you get:

4 audio CD's with mixed music
all interspersed with your advertising messages

The CD's are 20 minutes, 30 minutes, 45 minutes and 60 minutes long

You get all 4! 

You can have them as MP3's if you prefer.  Just ask.


Want your CD's different lengths?  Just tell us!

All we need from you is a rough idea of what you want to say and your contact details...

Leave the rest to us!



These are high quality digital studio recordings

The total cost is £119.99 - That's it!



 

A unique service for all Entertainers.

We make high quality digital voice overs, introductions, jingles, sweepers, dry voicers and all kinds of audio.

We have created voice overs & audio for Radio, Television, Theatre, Cabaret, Cruise Ships and Entertainers all over the world. 

Our custom voice-over package contains a selection of popular introductions, playoffs, short sweeps, and effects in a variety of styles and moods all at one great price...all customised to you!

We also custom make voice overs and audio to your requirements.

Just tell us what you need.

We only use professional voice over artists.

Add the professional touch to your act with great custom voice-overs

This is a great-value voice-over and intro package specially made for magicians & entertainers

A CD packed full of music intros, playoffs and links all customised with your name (or the name of your act).  Created by professional voice-over artists

The CD contains great intros and voices in a mixture of styles from fun and upbeat to dark & mysterious, all with your act name.

Just send us your name, or the name of your act and we'll create a package of custom made intros, playoffs and voice-overs just for you.

It's the best-value custom jingle package available


What you receive:

A complete voice-over package on CD

It features loads of different intros, playoffs and jingles all with the name of your act on them.

The music and effects are in a range of styles, from bright and lively, to deep and mysterious.  You get all the tracks in all the styles and each one is customised with your name. 

Just use the ones you need.

Sound too good to be true?  Just email us for a demo.  You won't believe your ears!

info@creativoices.com

Oh!... and yes, the price really is just £149.99.  That's it.

We make voiceovers for professional entertainers all over the world. 

We also make jingles for TV, Radio, Theatre, Holiday & Hotel Companies & Cruise Ships.  We make voice-overs for Documentaries, videos, commercials, the list goes on. 

Each package is in high-quality digital audio, mastered onto CD at 44.1KHz and can be played on any CD player.

You may also be interested in bespoke voices, narration, jingles and audio - just email us for details



Saturday, April 12, 2008

OzineFest 08 1.mp4




OzineFest 08 1.mp4




POCHOLO GONZALES new Cellphone Number

POCHOLO GONZALES new Cellphone Number

Hi Guys, To all my friends. I have a new
cellphone number its 09272404886. Please
delete the old one. Thank you very much.

Visit www.creativoices.net

POCHOLO GONZALES new Cellphone Number

POCHOLO GONZALES new Cellphone Number

Hi Guys, To all my friends. I have a new
cellphone number its 09272404886. Please
delete the old one. Thank you very much.

Visit www.creativoices.net

Friday, April 11, 2008

OzineFest 08 3




OzineFest 08 3




OZINE FEST




OZINE FEST




Excesses in Rep. Dumarpa’s bill

Excesses in Rep. Dumarpa’s bill


HOUSE Bill No. HB000948, “An Act Prohibiting Religious or Racial Profiling Against Indigenous Cultural Communities” or (short title) the “Anti-Religious and Racial Profiling Act of 2007” is commendable for seeking to wean law enforcers from the lazy way in the work of fighting criminals, especially terrorists.

It “prohibits acts that are commonly described as religious or racial profiling against Filipinos who are considered minorities by virtue of their cultural or religious background.”

It was filed by Congresswoman Faysah Maniri-Racman Dumarpa (1st District, Lanao del Sur) on July 10, 2007.

Profiling is basically a police and criminology term. It follows the basic sociological science method of making sense of the complexities of human society by breaking down members of a population into groups that share common characteristics.

Offensively, the generally held police agencies’ profile of lawbreakers in the United States described them as mostly non-white and black.

As a result of this profiling, there was an increase of police brutality against American blacks and unconscionable mistaken-identity killings of innocent blacks by law enforcers. Sometimes the perpetrators were black policemen themselves.

In US states where the Latino and Asian populations increased, and where gangs representing segments of these two demographic groups earned notoriety, the usual suspects that policemen immediately visualized came to include Hispanics and Asians (including Filipinos).

HR groups protest

Because of the high-profile mistaken arrests and shooting, human rights groups and churches protested. District attorneys instructed the law-enforcement and police departments to be more careful and to be more smart in applying their criminal profiling “manuals.” (In fact, the American Civil Liberties Union or ACLU and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People or NAACP have proved that in many places in America, and in the national average, more crimes are committed by whites than by blacks and the other non-whites.

Profiling then became a bad word.

Policemen and other law-enforcement agents became more cautious in acting on their profiles of most likely carnappers, kidnappers, armed robbers, thieves, drug dealers and rapists—behaving more politely when they stopped, questioned and searched people of color.

But a lot of things changed in the States—and in the Philippines—after 9/11.

Anti-towelhead bias

After 9/11, policemen seemed to have reverted to the old crude ways, but this time bias is toward people who looked like the common Hollywood-movie Muslims (or “towelheads” like Osama bin Laden). The trouble is that the “towelhead” image in a policeman’s mind does not distinguish between a Sikh who wears a turban and Arabs (many of whom don’t wear any headgear at all).

Now US immigration check strictly checks Muslim-named aliens arriving not just from Arab countries but also India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines and other countries where the terrorists are known to have a foothold or some kind of branch.

That kind of religious and racial (Arabic-looking) profiling is also being practiced in the Philippines. It’s very hard to say the police must not use racial or religious profiling when evidence and internationally verified intelligence data show that the vast majority of those who are known to be Jemaah Islamiah and al-Qaeda connected suspects are Muslims by religion and Arab or Middle Eastern by race or origin.

The thing for law enforcers to do is to be more studious and scientific about the way they wage their war against terrorists. They must not be superficially guided only by the “general profile.” After all there are also “Balik Islam” types of terrorists from all countries who are sporting Christian names. And there are also Arab Christians whose names seem to sound like those of Muslim Arabs.

The unpleasant experiences in the USA of law-abiding Muslims, and even non-Muslim US citizens mistaken for Muslims by the authorities, are the things Rep. Dumarpa’s bill wish to stop from happening here in the Philippines. The bill lays down heavy punishments for miscreant law enforcers.

But like every effort to impose virtuous action by law, this one too has its excesses and unintended consequences.

Making jokes a crime

Because it will make it criminal for anyone to imitate other people’s manner of speaking, accent or intonation, the unrivalled hilarity of Willie Nep’s impressions of Presidents Marcos, Aquino, Ramos, Estrada and Arroyo will no longer be possible. And recalling Mr. Seeryo Apoostol’s repeatedly addressing a female at the Estrada-impeachment trial as “Madam Wetness” will be considered not only an insult to my fellow Visayan Filipinos but also a crime under Rep. Dumarpa’s law.

And “Mongolian Barbecue,” that TV comedy that was a hit for a decade since the start of the Aquino administration, would no longer be possible.

I don’t at all like all those tasteless skits making fun of gays and exaggerating the mannerisms of their more scandalous archetypes. But I wouldn’t welcome a law passed to ban them.

Ms. Dumarpa and her coauthors should rid their bill of anything that abridges freedom of expression and the freedom to laugh about anything and anybody. Libel and slander laws should suffice.

The “Anti-Religious and Racial Profiling Act of 2007” should focus only on law-enforcement people who lazily and stupidly depend on general profiles and violate the human rights of the innocent.

Excesses in Rep. Dumarpa’s bill

Excesses in Rep. Dumarpa’s bill


HOUSE Bill No. HB000948, “An Act Prohibiting Religious or Racial Profiling Against Indigenous Cultural Communities” or (short title) the “Anti-Religious and Racial Profiling Act of 2007” is commendable for seeking to wean law enforcers from the lazy way in the work of fighting criminals, especially terrorists.

It “prohibits acts that are commonly described as religious or racial profiling against Filipinos who are considered minorities by virtue of their cultural or religious background.”

It was filed by Congresswoman Faysah Maniri-Racman Dumarpa (1st District, Lanao del Sur) on July 10, 2007.

Profiling is basically a police and criminology term. It follows the basic sociological science method of making sense of the complexities of human society by breaking down members of a population into groups that share common characteristics.

Offensively, the generally held police agencies’ profile of lawbreakers in the United States described them as mostly non-white and black.

As a result of this profiling, there was an increase of police brutality against American blacks and unconscionable mistaken-identity killings of innocent blacks by law enforcers. Sometimes the perpetrators were black policemen themselves.

In US states where the Latino and Asian populations increased, and where gangs representing segments of these two demographic groups earned notoriety, the usual suspects that policemen immediately visualized came to include Hispanics and Asians (including Filipinos).

HR groups protest

Because of the high-profile mistaken arrests and shooting, human rights groups and churches protested. District attorneys instructed the law-enforcement and police departments to be more careful and to be more smart in applying their criminal profiling “manuals.” (In fact, the American Civil Liberties Union or ACLU and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People or NAACP have proved that in many places in America, and in the national average, more crimes are committed by whites than by blacks and the other non-whites.

Profiling then became a bad word.

Policemen and other law-enforcement agents became more cautious in acting on their profiles of most likely carnappers, kidnappers, armed robbers, thieves, drug dealers and rapists—behaving more politely when they stopped, questioned and searched people of color.

But a lot of things changed in the States—and in the Philippines—after 9/11.

Anti-towelhead bias

After 9/11, policemen seemed to have reverted to the old crude ways, but this time bias is toward people who looked like the common Hollywood-movie Muslims (or “towelheads” like Osama bin Laden). The trouble is that the “towelhead” image in a policeman’s mind does not distinguish between a Sikh who wears a turban and Arabs (many of whom don’t wear any headgear at all).

Now US immigration check strictly checks Muslim-named aliens arriving not just from Arab countries but also India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines and other countries where the terrorists are known to have a foothold or some kind of branch.

That kind of religious and racial (Arabic-looking) profiling is also being practiced in the Philippines. It’s very hard to say the police must not use racial or religious profiling when evidence and internationally verified intelligence data show that the vast majority of those who are known to be Jemaah Islamiah and al-Qaeda connected suspects are Muslims by religion and Arab or Middle Eastern by race or origin.

The thing for law enforcers to do is to be more studious and scientific about the way they wage their war against terrorists. They must not be superficially guided only by the “general profile.” After all there are also “Balik Islam” types of terrorists from all countries who are sporting Christian names. And there are also Arab Christians whose names seem to sound like those of Muslim Arabs.

The unpleasant experiences in the USA of law-abiding Muslims, and even non-Muslim US citizens mistaken for Muslims by the authorities, are the things Rep. Dumarpa’s bill wish to stop from happening here in the Philippines. The bill lays down heavy punishments for miscreant law enforcers.

But like every effort to impose virtuous action by law, this one too has its excesses and unintended consequences.

Making jokes a crime

Because it will make it criminal for anyone to imitate other people’s manner of speaking, accent or intonation, the unrivalled hilarity of Willie Nep’s impressions of Presidents Marcos, Aquino, Ramos, Estrada and Arroyo will no longer be possible. And recalling Mr. Seeryo Apoostol’s repeatedly addressing a female at the Estrada-impeachment trial as “Madam Wetness” will be considered not only an insult to my fellow Visayan Filipinos but also a crime under Rep. Dumarpa’s law.

And “Mongolian Barbecue,” that TV comedy that was a hit for a decade since the start of the Aquino administration, would no longer be possible.

I don’t at all like all those tasteless skits making fun of gays and exaggerating the mannerisms of their more scandalous archetypes. But I wouldn’t welcome a law passed to ban them.

Ms. Dumarpa and her coauthors should rid their bill of anything that abridges freedom of expression and the freedom to laugh about anything and anybody. Libel and slander laws should suffice.

The “Anti-Religious and Racial Profiling Act of 2007” should focus only on law-enforcement people who lazily and stupidly depend on general profiles and violate the human rights of the innocent.