For
years I had been following the exploits of a maritime seafarers rights advocate
""Evangeline dela cruz Tobias" . Her bravery and dedication in
the advocacy of fighting for Filipino seafarers rights. Sadly it seems that
some Filipino seafarers do not
understand at all on her cause and instead prefer that the seafarers
welfare be just regressed back to the way it was during the 80's and 70's ,
were things on that job were horrible and Filipino seafarers back then are mere
cut throat criminals (and some "remanants" of those sailors still
exist up till today).
As
of yesterday December 17, 2019 . Her profile "Vanished" and any other
means to locate her in social media have gone cold, she simply erased or
deactivated everything. A month before this she said on her social media that
"she will be making major changes", and would rather be an
"animal rights" activist instead . I'm not exactly figuring out what
it was , but I bet her "vanishment" in the social media means that
she doesn’t want to be found .
Maybe
its best that she disappear and would find an interest on somewhere else., and
I can't blame her if it's what she did. The whole maritime seafaring industry
is rotten to begin with , and there's a lot of bad people - not awful but
really bad people. I understand her despair on her leaving and perhaps that the
maritime seafaring industry should be left to self-destruct itself. Let that sector or community rot for its
wickedness, Evil people there are beyond any kind of redemption as far as I can
tell and I saw it first-hand. The only difference from them to criminals is
that criminals are bounded and sent to prison by Philippine law , compared to
seafarers that are just simple sent back to their home country and then goes
back again on their assigned ships to wreak havoc and spread torment like
cancer.
I
do understand very well the frustration "Vangie" encounters in
handling Filipino seafarers. And she was really under appreciated by seafarers.
I hope that where ever she is she has finally made (and found) peace on that
new vocation.
