| by Ninez Cacho-Olivares
(October 16, 2012, Manila, Sri Lanka Guardian) Give it less than a
decade, and the Philippines will no longer have a Mindanao, what with Noynoy
Aquino virtually handing Mindanao on a gold platter to the Moro Islamic
Liberation Front, an armed Islamic group that is now being given everything
that would take the MILF five steps nearer to establishing an independent
Islamic state in Mindanao.
Why less than a decade?
Elementary. With one foot already in that Noynoy-created sub-state for the
MILF, complete with granted territories which may even include Palawan, and by
giving the MILF disguised as the Bangsamoro a 75 percent of the wealth share,
along with its having dominion over the Bangsamoro’s earth, sea and sky, plus
the fact that the MILF will be given power and authority to ink financial and
other project deals as the Islamic nations will be aiding it, it won’t take
long for the MILF to build up an armed forces, complete with air, land and sea
military power — all on the basis of “development” and “progress” but which
will eventually be used against the Manila government.
With air and sea power, along
with army power of the MILF-led Bangsamoro, how long does one think it will
take this “sub-state” to wage war for independence and win?
As things stand, Noynoy will be
creating, through executive order, the so-called Transition Commission which
will have 15 members, all of whom are to be appointed by Noynoy. The Muslims in
that commission will be in the majority, while the minority, numbering seven,
would be the representatives of the Aquino administration, and naturally would
be his allies, who will moreover not be expected to be independent thinkers,
but lapdogs of Noynoy, which means that the MILF will be dictating the terms
and conditions in a bill that will be sent to Congress to establish a
Bangsamoro sub-state in Mindanao.
So why should a Transition
Commission even be empowered to come up with the establishment of the
Bangsamoro draft bill when this, if such is even deemed constitutional, is the
business of Congress?
Even a bill from Congress is
questionable, as Congress does not have the power and authority to abolish the
Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) and replace it with the Bangsamoro
state through a mere law, as this needs a constitutional amendment.
Are Noynoy and his rubber stamp
Congress ready to amend the Charter? If so, that may be constitutional but
Congress, following its rules, cannot just amend the Charter simply for that
abolition of ARMM purposes, as once Congress forms itself into a constituent
assembly, the entire proviso in the existing Charter is open for amendments.
Any member of Congress has the right to introduce whatever amendment that
member wants introduced.
That could be problem — not to
mention the problem the administration will have before the high court on the
constitutionality of the establishment of the Bangsamoro in Mindanao. No
question about it. It is a moro state.
Neither Noynoy nor the MILF is
willing to call a spade a spade by admitting that what is being established for
the MILF is a state, complete with a “ministerial” government evidently to mean
a federal form of government.
As for the MILF’s “police force,”
the secessionist group is to have its own police force, which goes against the
constitutional grain. But, under the Noynoy administration, the Constitution is
something to be trampled on — whenever it goes against what Noynoy wants.
The ARMM, claimed Noynoy too many
times, is a failed experiment. But did he not also say that with his appointee,
ARMM Gov. Mujiv Hataman, ARMM is being reformed under his appointee?
Apparently, ARMM can hardly be a
failed experiment — enough to abolish it, to give way to the MILF and
unilaterally abrogate the peace agreement the Philippine government under the
then Ramos government signed with the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF).
Then too, does Noynoy truly
believe that the establishment of the Bangsamoro in these expanded territories,
exercising near absolute powers will not be a “failed experiment” too?
It will be. Worse, the Philippines
will be losing the entire Mindanao, thanks to our treasonous president, Noynoy.
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