On Tuesday, January 6th, at around 8 o’clock in the morning, hundreds, if not thousands of Young Moros, from different groups and organizations of various schools and colleges in the City of Marawi and Lanao del Sur, gathered and Marshed in Quezon Avenue of the city for the MARSH PEACE RALLY urging the National Government [...]
Bloggers’ historic act in Arroyo impeachment, nay or aye?
November 14, 2008 By 102 Comments
I have blogged a number of times here in FV criticizing the decision of the Supreme Court on the MoA-AD case arguing in the main that the development of the law on separation of powers could be heading further in the wrong direction as a consequence of the decision. Among others, I raised the following [...]
Just What Is The Bangsamoro Development Agency?
November 5, 2008 By 9 Comments
I am feeling very queer about this so-called Bangsamoro Development Agency because despite its being established in accordance with the Implementing Guidelines on the Humanitarian, Rehabilitation and Development Aspects of the 2001 GRP-Tripoli Agreement, the GRP totally have no hand upon its control. A few international corporations such as the Japan International Corporation Agency among [...]
SC MoA-AD ruling, ‘a burlesque of the Constitution’
October 20, 2008 By 11 Comments
The Philippine Supreme Court is right from the very outset in stating that the essential question before it in Province of North Cotabato v. GRP (October 15, 2008) is “the extent of the powers of the President in pursuing the peace process” (emphasis in the original). The Court also cited the correct case law (Pimentel [...]
Ameril Umbra Kato – O RLY? SRSLY?
October 5, 2008 By 90 Comments
Mindanao, and Jester, Wait For Peace
September 13, 2008 By 4 Comments
My colleague, Jester (If I may be permitted to use this term), is in pain over Mindanao and the seemingly interminable conflict in the Philippines’ “region of promise.” We are, too, Jester. And like you, I am impatient, nay, distraught over how the people of Mindanao are caught in this war which threatens to be [...]
Talk, Jingoism and National Self-Defense
August 20, 2008 By 8 Comments
When I was in elementary my first encounter with a Muslim was the sweet and hellish sensation of the Durian fruit. They bought this to school every so often and the room was filled up with the smell of durian. We played and interacted with them there really was no difference. I could see none. [...]
SC review of MoA blatantly irregular, imperils peace process
August 18, 2008 By 2 Comments
The future State of Bicol per Senate Joint Resolution No.10 (SR 10) will have greater powers than the Bangsamoro Juridical Entity proposed in the MoA-AD (the Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain between the Government of the Philippines and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, now under scrutiny by the Philippine Supreme Court.) The senate resolution, [...]
The ‘Federal’ Republic of the Philippines: A Preview.
August 16, 2008 By 13 Comments
How would you like to have a unicameral legislature with some 425 members? Okay to have that Congress holding its sessions over in Bohol? How about the Philippines fully including Sabah and the Spratlys in its domain. Finally. how about an iron-clad rule prohibiting the sitting president from seeking election in the new federal government? [...]
Federalism: a constitutional response to secession
August 13, 2008 By 16 Comments
(The piece below was first published in the moribund Pinoy-rin.net and Inq7.net on April 10, 2001. When I reposted it in PCIJ on July 29, 2005 as a reaction to Sheila Coronel’s “Dreaming of Federalism,” it elicited some purposeful exchanges among commenters; it was also picked up, and a shorter form of it was published [...]
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