Today’s post on the MILF Website, Luwaran dot com:
The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) has rebuffed Senator Mar Roxas anew for refusing to accept the challenge to head the government peace panel and face the MILF negotiators in an open debate to discuss the solution to the so-called centuries old Moro Problem in Mindanao.
“Why are you refusing our challenge? Be a real man and get out of your mother’s lap,” Khaled Musa, deputy chairman of the MILF committee on information, told Roxas.
“You want to become president with your biases, prejudices, and hatred for the Moros as part of your platform of government?” he asked.
He described Roxas as not “very manly”, saying that until now he is not yet married and is only using popular television host, Korina Sanchez, for his political ambition.According to report, Roxas favorite flirting mates are middle age married women, which even in Catholicism is an immoral thing to do.
Of course for the manly MILF, rampages of murder, arson, pillage, kidnapping and armed rebellion are what “real men” do once they “get out of their mother’s lap.” GMA-TV News has some reaction to the MILF ululation.
Popularity: 1% [?]
Roxas said: “Malinaw naman na ako ay para sa kapayapaan. At naniniwala ako na may pag-asa pa para sa kapayapaan sa Mindanao. Ngunit ang alok na ito ay para sa ehekutibo (It is clear that I am for peace. I believe that we can still achieve in Mindanao. But the offer is for the executive),” Roxas said in a press statement.
But why did he a member of the legislative like a cry baby quickly run to the judiciary for help in order to humiliate the executive?
because as a legislator, he had standing to question the executive’s exceeding its portfolio. judicial review and all that.
of course, the MILF are so macho and manly that they cannot restrain their own rogue field commanders who go about pillaging the homes of noncombatants. they are so macho and manly that they cry foul and complain of excessive force when the AFP brings the pain.
brilliant, really.
Question is, who of the Presidentiables is likely to take the MILF bait? Loren? Noli?
Dean,
I can almost picture all of the presidentials falling all over their feet to ‘apply’, with Loren first from the starting gate. But it will be a follow to take the MILF’s manipulative bait, which apparent intent bis to remove GMA from the negotiating frame.
NBot that she doesn’t deserve to be ‘junked’ but the reality is we should not cling to the pipe dream that the MILF is really serious. Like Malacanang its actions have ‘bad faith’ written ball over them, including the supposedly rogue attacks of Kato and Bravo.
Only a properly elected president with a genuine mandate, not any of the wannabees can commit the nation on any future peace undertaking. GMA had her chance but blew it.
During a senate hearing, where the the resource speakers are the politicians(Pinol,et al),the lumads,muslim ngos,etc.;when Loren have to leave all of a sudden, she held each hand of the politicos and whispered you have my full support(I was seated behind a politico). So, the possibility of Loren making her move any time soon is not too far fetched.
Pardon the typo above. I meant to write “it will be a faux pas for any of the presidentiables to take the MILF’s manipulative bait.”
Ding,
I am sure someone will pick up the role of “Peacemaker”. It is important. But what is more important will be the future negotiating philosophy.
negotiation is futile and should be out-of-the-question. the best way to respond to the milf challenge is to IGNORE it until they voluntary disarm and actually abide by the constitution and the law. that goes with the executive as well as the “wannabees”. any “negotiation” without those pre-conditions is just a waste of time and energy. this folly must stop once and for all.
in any event, no binding agreement can be validly entered into without first determining the legal capacity of the milf or its agents to be a “party” to such a contract.
I generally agree with Bencard’s point of view here, although perhaps we cannot literally ignore the MILF. Nor should we ignore those who almost dismembered the Republic (according to Justice Vicente Mendoza the MOA-AD would’ve been both a grant of recognition to semi-state as well as proposed treaty with that state–all within the rights and powers of the executive!)
But we really cannot negotiate at gunpoint. Nothing good can come out of that.
Dick Gordon was right that the controversies surrounding the MOA AD ought to be the stuff of the next presidential election campaign.
Come to think of it Capiz is very near to Iloilo,so Mar Roxas would rather support the Ilagas and ignore the MILF.
Now as to Loren, since one of the politicians she shook hands with to declare her all out support has his roots in Iloilo,Vice Gov Pinol.
Maybe she will ignore the Milf as well.
Bumoboto ba MILF,matanong ko lang?
Dean,
I have yet to read the full text of Justice Vicente Mendoza’s comment. But if he said what you said (at 9/10 5:30 am) he’s right on the money. It’s not Fr. Bernas but Justice Mendoza who I think is the heir to CJ Fernando. I wonder though what’s his position on the TRO.
Abe,
Can’t read his mind but I interpret his essay as follows: The TRO is moot but the Supreme Court must render an academic treatise on the basic perimeters of what the government may or may not do and under what circumstances. Am looking forward to the decision which may invite the best writing yet from perhaps dueling ponencias.
Politicians must not fuel the already charged emotions.
If I could put it his way:
It is now the Bangsa Moros’ “sacred war” against the Christians’ “noble rage.”
Where is the national leadership in all of this? Paradigm shift eklat.
Read as back-to-square-one.
Philman,
Which politicians did you have in mind as “fueling already charged emotions?”
There is absolutely no moral equivalence between the MILF and the rest of society, including the rest of Bangsamoro society.
There is nothing sacred about the war waged by the MILF, and it is not Rage we want from the Law, but Justice.
There’s no need to bring cultural theory into it.
DJB,
Nagpapapogi/nagpapaganda for 2010: Roxas, Legarda,
Although not yet a religious war, the ancestral domain dispute could be fatwa’ed into one, with Islamic message => ‘sacred war’
Arming civilians, revival of Ilagas, => ‘noble rage’ or should we say ‘righteous anger.’
i agree with bencard and djb.
While the rogue MILF commanders’ atrocious acts should be condemned, the MILF’s dig at Mar Roxas was kind of funny. Mar Roxas has been spouting statements left and right in order to stay in the media limelight, criticizing all the administration’s actions especially those in regard to the peace process.
Questioning the executive’s actions is one thing, harping on and on about it is another. When it comes down to it, Mar’s petition in the Supreme Court was a superfluity because North Cotabato officials had already filed a petition. Mar was going on and on as if he was the one who spearheaded it. Brownie points for 2010, what else?