ALARMING: The joint statement by the Govt of the Republic of the Philippines and hardline rebel group Moro Islamic Liberation Front signed on 24th April 2012 in Kuala Lumpur contains a reference to the creation of a "new political entity."
But what could the term mean?
The meaning of the term "new political entity", i.e., an independent government, a new political enclave, etc., etc., could not have been lost on a top jurist like Dean Marvic Leonen. We believe the "new political entity" doctrine contained in the GPH-MILF Decision Points of Principles as of April 2012 is actually a continuation of the disrupted 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 MILF. The Supreme Court stopped it on time.
We believe that the reference in that joint agreement to a 'new political entity' being created can not be a lapse in judgement, certainly not by a top jurist like Dean Marvic Leonen. We believe that this agreement is spelling out a potentially realistic surrender of republican sovereignty over a big portion of our national territory to God knows which entity.
Another important point that's so glaring in that "agreement" because of its absence: The non-mention of internal security powers by the state in that agreement is rather alarming; what does it say or not say? That if the state's internal security is threatened and that the threat is emanating from that new "political entity", the state will have no powers to do something about it... In other words, the AFP, whose mandate is to protect the people of the republic and has for its sworn duty to defend the state from threats coming from within (as well as from external threats), shall not lift a finger???
Alarming in the extreme...
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