Again GabbyD asks the right questions here: the real problem for a society is: given we are different, what brings us together? what makes us a group? whats common among us? and how is this commonality determined? So you see, all roads of Pinoy discussion ultimately lead to these questions. In summary: What does the [...]
Federalism, the Canadian Experience — What Can We Learn?
November 28, 2008 By 14 Comments
Videos taken from the “Dialogues on Federalism” forum, held November 28, 2008, 10 AM to 12 NN, at the University of the Philippines Diliman NCPAG. The speaker that morning was a member of Canada’s Senate, Senator Sharon Carstairs, who was introduced by Senator Aquilino Pimentel, jr. The host was Dean Alex Brillantes of the College [...]
Cha-Cha, Presto Marcato con Moto
November 26, 2008 By 4 Comments
Frustration and Tomorrow
November 21, 2008 By 17 Comments
It’s frustrating! The divisiveness, the single-minded nature of this country and how often our leadership’s decisions are idiotic, self-centered, often indecisive, and self-defeating— it baffles the imagination, you know? Did I mention, frustrating? Not just our politics, even our local church is so frustratingly stultifying you have to wonder, if this is the same Church [...]
Pimentel Says Federalism Scheme May Take Effect After 2010
August 26, 2008 By 1 Comment
(August 24) Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Q. Pimentel, Jr. (PDP-Laban) today said the 14th Congress should pursue the plan to adopt a federal system of government although it may take effect after 2010 to dispel apprehensions that it may be taken advantage of to extend the terms of office of incumbent officials of the executive [...]
Demystifying sovereignty in peace & AD talks
August 25, 2008 By 3 Comments
Blogger Dean Jorge Bocobo observes that “a lot of the verbiage on ancestral domain in the MOA-AD comes verbatim” from The Indigenous Peoples Rights Act (IPRA). The MoA-AD is the Memorandum of Agreement between the Government of the Philippines (GRP) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front on “ancestral domain” the constitutionality of which is currently [...]
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 Folly of Good Intensions
August 18, 2008 By 11 Comments
“Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or central direction, it reduces the area over which political power is exercised. In addition, by dispersing power, the free market provides an offset to whatever concentration of political power may arise. The combination of economic [...]
Ancestral Domains, Indigenous Peoples and Other Juridical Fictions
August 17, 2008 By 6 Comments
ISAGANI A. CRUZ (PDI Columnist and former Justice of the Supreme Court) recalls how he once assailed the Constitutionality of the Indigenous People’s Rights Act of 1997 in his capacity as a taxpayer — but failed in a 7-to-7 tie decision in Cruz and Europa v. DENR-NCIP (6 Dec 2000). Considering it’s pertinence to the [...]
Chief Justice Puno: Constitution Does Not Allow Secession
August 15, 2008 By Leave a Comment
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