Economic vs. Aborigine: A Succession of Crimes vs. Ethnic Peoples

I cannot say I like all the Muslims in the world. I do not even like all the Muslims in the Philippines! But I like some Muslims that are good, they are all too down-to-earth, very proper in their manners, very civilized in their ways, very decent, very cultured, highly intelligent and adaptive to their circumstances wherever they are. It is the evolution from, or painful genetic tolerance of, I think, the turning by the repelled mad colonizing Turks of all Muslim habitats in the Middle Earth into wastelands by slashing and burning everything then top-layering the hearth with inches and inches of salt so that no vegetation will ever grow there again! The Turks achieved their vengeance and the Middle East turned into deserts, millions of hectares of desert. The Arabs became so dirt poor that historians say, brother fought against brother, sister against sister, parents turned against children, children killed their mothers and fathers, just for a small speck of food. Many Arabs became roamers, nomads. Bedouins, as a result of the desertification by the Turks. It was a final solution against the Muslims, a ghastly genocidal, wholly vengeful act. Millions of Arab Muslims died; millions are still to die and keep dying up to this time. Millions of them were swept away by forced migration to other countries. Some reached the Philippines and converted the original tribes. They are even in Baguio City of all places! Implanted in the genes are the sufferings and responses to the insufferable environment of the arid wretched land called desert. A miracle that Arabs and other Muslims still roam the earth and we are now living amidst them and they amidst all of us. But that it is the way of nature. And Arabs and Muslims deserve more tolerance than we can muster. It is not their fault that they are what they are. Gen. Esperon, Philippine Peace Negotiator, can understand them all. He lived with them when he grew up in Mindanao. Pres. Gloria Arroyo understands all of them, too. She grew up, with Esperon as a younger tot then, with Muslims likewise in Mindanao when Pres. Macapagal let her do her growing up in Iligan. I was conceived by my parents and grew from a tadpole into a baby inside my mother’s womb in Mindanao and though I spent the most part of my childhood in Manila and Tacloban that makes me part of that place too, and long before the coming of the government-sponsored settlers to Mindanao, my family was already settled in that promised land. So it isn’t a wonder why I keep coming and coming back, over and over to that place. The promised land.

The recent ruling of the Supreme Flakes, errr, Supreme Meat Lover’s, uhuurrrm! (must be hungry to the bones), Court of the Supremes (not the singers) against an agreement between government and Mindanao tribes people, Filipinos in name, could be an issue that will be debated for all of human history.

It is a terrific, astounding violation of a natural right, the debasement of a people, their wants and desires and lifelong determination. It is plain and simple criminal stupidity and unforgiveable wanton disregard for a People’s prospect for self-help, self-reliance and self-determination. I deeply admire the Supreme Flakes Honorable Members if any, who inhibited themselves from touching this shit! But the Chief Justice is a shameless freak!!! A big big Bull shit to you man!!! Fuck you and to hell with you cold, heartless bastards!!!

The Supreme Flakes, errr… Meat Lover’s Supreme errr, Court of the Supremes, will go down or up (as the case may be) in history as the Great Solomonic Arbiter of a centuries-old issue that happened to want immediate resolution in recent time. The question is: will the baby survive after the rendering of the great Judgment? Or will the baby be sacrificed.

I venture to submit the hypothesis that the latter will be true. The baby will killed. The baby is just a figure of speech, as you might know. It does not necessarily mean that the Muslims in the South are toddlers. Their community is one of the most resilient in all of history even if subdued at times by the forces of Spain, America, Britain, Netherlands, other small and large nations — super powers as it were. Always denying the one-upmanship of others. Always fiercely independent, even if they turned into marauders, kidnappers, thieves and murderers. It was always because of their steadfast belief in self-determination and their own resolute sovereignty, and their love for their own homeland. It is really just a mighty wonder why the Republic of the Philippines’ past civil registrars ever granted Certificate of Land Titles to people like the Spaniards, Americans, Koreans, Japanese, foreign drug lords, money launderers, others in Luzon, Visayas, Mindanao? It’s economics, plain and simple. And on the tail, trailing happily behind like a rabid dog, is politics.

In handing down the verdict favoring a petition by Gov. Emmanuel PIÑOL and company for temporary injunction or temporary restraining order vs. the signing at Marriot Hotel, Putrajaya, Selangor, Malaysia of the Ancestral Domain Agreement leading to a Peace Agreement between the Philippine Government — also referred to as GRP and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in Malaysia, the Court of the Supremes set aside the millennium-long stewardship of the Maguindanao, Maranao, Tausug, Sama, Badjao, other tribes of lands in the South. Another crime against our ethnic peoples. But a pleasant economic solution for all of those who had acquired Mindanao for themselves but are not from that place and not members of tribes.

Supreme Flakes’ was a major economic victory for landowners. It was a superior conquest for the Supreme Meat Lover’s… They must be truly celebratory and euphoric at the moment. Imagine slapping in the face Malaysia, Philippines and the United States in one stroke? The Supreme Flakes also slapped other behind-the-scenes foreigners pitching in to help, but that insult was more invisible than otherwise. The US Institute for Peace (USIP), funded by US Congress but fiercely autonomous, helped the Muslims and the government find both real and imagined solutions to the Conflict and Troubles in Mindanao. Other countries were also on hand, and who knows what all their agendas might be? Hmmmm…? But they were all there to pitch in their help. I do not blame them at all for being excessively charitable.  Supreme Flakes alias SC slapped, spit and shat on them all!!!  Fuck the Supreme Flakes!!!

The government and Muslims have been at the peace talks since time immemorial. Always there was economic and political agenda on the part of the Philippines lurking behind its negotiators. Until now. There was more tolerance, acceptance, you could even say, love. I don’t know about the sex, it’s for you to find out, but I imagine you have to throw in a lot of nerve into the negotiators to keep indulging in something so trivial. Sex? Trivial? Ask the Malaysians in Marriot Hotel, dearie… was Phing Lacson so envious he was not invited there? Wrong question students! And Ms. Paminta at Laurel Legarda, she was frothing in the mouth over broadcast about the need for the Supreme Flakes’ order. Wow! What does she have to get out of it? Imagine there is none, owww, I don’t believe that bull…!!!

Be that as it may, the agreement between the Philippines and the Muslims would have been a fair one even if it went as far as Congressman Teodoro Locsin said, creating another Afghanistan. Who cares? The Filipinos and foreigners have raped Mindanao and Sabah for a long, long time! Committed excesses and crimes against the tribal peoples, not only in Mindanao but also in Visayas and Luzon in the Philippine Islands! It is high time to repay those crimes. It just happened that the religion of some of the tribes in Mindanao is Islam. That is the complication in the whole equation. But it was Islam in the Arab Land, the Middle East, the entire Muslimdom that made the Turks resent the Arabs and subject them to genocide; kill them, burn their land, place them in eternal jeopardy. So there is a little poetic justice in all that. Be that as it may be shitty…

Maguindanao and the Peace Agreement

The Maguindanaos are the dominant tribe in the MILF. Before the agreement was cooked up, the late leader of MILF who wrote to the US President many years ago for help in making peace in Mindanao was a Maguindanao. An honorable fellow, Salamat Hashim, erstwhile chair of MILF. Member of the Maguindanao royalty. Estrada and his blood thirsty lieutenants made war on Salamat and his band of warriors in what Estrada called, all-out-Hitlerian-war. (I did not know that Estrada was a Hitlerite. Well, at least he wears that famous moustache, too… so he probably really is…) The Maguindanaos, have family, blood links with the Indonesians. A function of the migration in the early times, it was. Maguindanao Royalty are fully related by blood to the Indonesian Royalty. Did you know that Indonesia and Malaysia have Kings and that they are one way or another related to one another? Including the real, old Royalty of Brunei? Queens? Princesses? Ladies-in-Waiting? They do!

There is so much to expect from peace agreement between the GRP and the MILF. Much to expect from a peace pact between dominantly Malay Filipinos and Indo-Maguindanaos. Even if the new autonomous entity in Mindanao will be entirely different in its ways and governance than the Malacañang-governed government of the Republic of the Philippines, it is something to revel about. If someday the relations will work out, the autonomous government in Mindanao might lead to the annexation of two new entities, an independent Sabah and an independent region of Muslims in Mindanao. Again it must be pointed out, that a huge number of Filipinos are in Sabah. Disregarding religion, Sabah was part of the Philippines in the early times. As a result, a lot of Filipinos lived in Sabah while their relatives were in the Philippines and vice versa. People without relations in either places commuted to and fro because of brisk barter trade between Malaysia and the Philippines and this allowed inter-marriages. Or opened up inter-regional migration. So now, many Malaysians live in the Philippines and Filipinos in Sabah. This is the same with the Indonesians and Maguindanaos. A lot of Indonesians came and have been coming to the Philippines time and again while Filipinos go to Indonesia to visit their relatives. Even Ms. Vina Morales, a Philippine singer-actress celebrity is a member of the extended Royal Family of the Maguindanao Sultanate. That is why Robin Padilla keeps pestering her about his love and desire to be a Prince of the Maguindanao Sultanate someday.

There is a problem when all the underlying connections and functional relations between ethnic peoples, albeit, even countries, are hidden beneath what is visible to the eye or taken for granted by those that are aware of them. Now that these submerged relations and links are being brought to the fore, the resistance from economic and political interests are too great and too deep to fathom! Comes the Supreme Flakes, resolute and grim, insufferable and devoid of any historical perspective, legal and omnipotent, ever possessed with knowledge and Reasons but not the Ultimate Reason. Comes the politicians and economic giants getting together and filing a case with the Supreme Flakes, and offering their Kingdom’s Reasons. Supreme Flakes crumbles and bows to the politicians and economic giants.

The surfacing of the commonalities will flounder and there will be a going-underground motion again and duck-diving for our brothers and sisters who have suffered enough from the crimes of their fellow humans in this part of the world. As if the same had not been happening and cruelly enough in many other parts of the world as well. In Albania, Croatia, Chechnia, in the Silk Road of China, in the other Muslim parts of Russia, etc.

Humanity must end is scourge of the Tribal Peoples. Even if it means giving them a Muslim Government, that must be done. For God’s sake, if the Supreme Flakes are really sincere in doing their thing, then they must issue an Order against allowing the Dinagats from living in the mountains of Antipolo, Tanay, other places in the world because Christians and other people including us Malays have driven them away from their habitats near the sea and rivers. (That’s why they are called Dinagats in the first place, idiots!) The Supreme Flakes should drive the Tausug from their residences near the sea in Sulu. Like the term Dinagat, Tausug also means people of the sea. The Supreme Flakes should even let all the Tribal Peoples suffer genocide.

As flaky as they seem, the Supreme Flakes are like the Turks who murdered millions of Arabs over the centures, laid barren the Middle East in one sweep, and made a valuable contribution to history: the creation of a perfect, super desert. And don’t think that only Arabs were victims there. The Israelites were also hit by the Supreme Flakes… errr… Turks!!! Shit!!!

The TRO is an economic and political triumph! Wow!!! But it reeks of carabao manure and it patently, fuckingly shitty!!! It is a sort of a Cory Aquino response to problems that cannot be solved: “Hoy, everyone, everyone, I do not know this question, can you produce a study? Form a committee for God’s sake! I’m going to my mahjong session and this is delaying me! Shit!!!” The Supreme Flakes, the businesspersons and politicians are urging all the elements and objects in the entire Universe to study the problem and perchance, form a committee… or perhaps a multitude of Babylonic committees…

If I did not know that the Supreme Flakes accepted big big bribes since the 70s, I would never have questioned the TRO. If they were truly honorable, I would have just slept soundly thereafter and for some time, allowed them to shit on their crime against our ethnic brothers and sisters in the south…