WHAT NEW POLITICAL ENTITY HAVE YOU HATCHED WITH THE MILF MR MARVIC LEONEN (AND OTHER QUESTIONS)?
Philippine chief of peacetalk panel Mr Marvic Leonen, what "new political entity" were you and Mr M. Iqbal of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) referring to in the joint statement you both signed in Kuala Lumpur yesterday, 24th April 2012 under the very watchful eye (a kind of Malaysia diktat one might easily suppose) of Mr Ghafar Tengku Mohammed of Malaysia???? (Picture of the signing taken 6 hours before this post was made.)
Reference to the "new political entity" is contained in point number 6 about power sharing. Incidentally, how do you propose to deal with the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) when they decide to have their own "political entity"?
Going back to that joint statement you signed (on behalf of the Republic of the Philippines and its more than 90 million souls) with the MILF, we dare say that we breathed a sigh of relief: we are glad you put a kind of caveat in that joint agreement there whereby you have stipulated that the Government of the Philippines will "retain" some powers in matter of defence and external security (sub-points "a" to "f" in point 6 of the agreement.)
That said, we found it utterly disturbing when after a thorough examination of the 10 points in that signed joint agreement, there was no mention of INTERNAL SECURITY. The total ABSENCE OF any reference to state powers with regard to our or the nation's INTERNAL SECURITY is glaring! We don't understand! We really don't... Does the government mean that the state will be absconding from its prime responsibility vis-à-vis citizens of the republic and the provinces (political entities) they inhabit in terms of internal security?
Mr Marvic Leonen, we, the citizens of the Republic of the Philippines, the people who make up this nation, the people who elected members of the political system of this country into positions they find themselves, deserve to know what exactly you have planned to do or are doing with the MILF and their masters, the Malaysians!
This is worrisome! Yes, we the citizens of the Republic of the Philippines deserve to know what is it exactly you signed for on our behalf.
ReplyDeleteThe term "new political entity" could not have been lost on a top jurist like Dean Marvic Leonen. The "new political entity" doctrine is the continuation of the Gloria Macapagal Arroyo plan to dismember the Republic when the past administration almost signed away a big portion of Mindanao to Malaysia's proxy. The Supreme Court stopped it on time.
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