First of all, why do people who favour the passing of the
Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) in its current unconstitutional form see
themselves as “peace advocates”? Does that imply that war is a certainty
if the current draft BBL is not passed? What does that say about the
Moro Islamic Liberation Front — that terrorist organisation the
Philippine government foolishly got in bed with? Obviously, it implies
that they will be flooding the Mindanao countryside with blood if they
do not get their way. That seems to be the logic in the notion that
pro-BBL Filipinos are “pro-peace”.
Faced with my expression of dissent to the passage of the
fatally-flawed BBL now being debated in the Philippine Senate, some bozo
on Twitter challenged me to provide a “better alternative”. So I gave her this response:
.@tatancast #Federalism. Grant autonomy to 1 group & it sets the precedent for others. So far only the MILF get its way coz it’s got guns.
After that there was silence. Or, to be more precise, some further
inconsequential waffling that failed to address the pertinent points
made during the short “discussion”.
And that little micro-debate, in essence, is a microcosm of the
Philippine “debate”. You can easily see now why Filipinos stick to old,
traditional, obsolete, and even fatal ideas. It is because they
habitually fail to explore ways forward. Instead, they cling to the
quaint historical myths that imprison their small minds.
Step further back and we will note that, today, the only Filipino politician providing real thought leadership
in this time of abject national confusion is Philippine Senator
Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos Jr. He stands out amidst all the other
politicians — more astoundingly those who have categorically proclaimed
their intent to run for no less than the Philippine presidency in 2016 —
who are spending their days contributing to the drivelous national
noise of traditional Filipino-style political ‘debate’.
Marcos is the only Filipino politician who habitually maps a way forward.
He was the first to do that back in the dark days following the
cold-blooded massacre of 44 of the Philippines’ finest police officers
by elements of the terrorist Moro Islamic Liberation Front. While
Filipinos waited for days, utterly baffled by Malacanang’s silence
following that tragedy, Marcos had been busy developing a roadmap forward to guide fellow Filipinos who had been reeling from the shock of that hideous atrocity.
Today, still consistent with that proactive approach to leadership and going against the tide of Filipinos’ renowned retrospective style of thinking things through, Senator Marcos is exploring viable alternatives
to what is evidently the failed “Bangsamoro” enterprise of the
administration of President Benigno Simeon ‘BS’ Aquino III. By all
accounts, Marcos had done his homework. He spent months travelling the
islands consulting with a soundly representative cross-section of stakeholders in that affair, making sure that all sectors of Philippine society are heard.
On the back of that hard work and unprecedented statesmanship, Senator Bongbong Marcos is the only Filipino national government official truly qualified to talk about the future of the people of Mindnanao.
Note the words in the statement above: the people of Mindanao.
Senator Marcos has made this about all Filipinos who happen to be
living in Mindanao. He does not make it about the Moro Islamic
Liberation Front, nor about Muslims or Christians. Even Malaysia has
been cut out of the discussion altogether.
Why then do Filipinos need to continue listening to the moronisms
being served to them by the likes of Teresita Deles, Miriam
Coronel-Ferrer, and the man still known as “Mohagher Iqbal”?
That’s not a difficult question to answer. Filipinos habitually listen
to idiots and allow themselve to be mesmerised by their ululations because they are too lazy to think like modern human beings.
A Filipino faced with a sound argument that runs counter to the body of ancient pre-21st Century beliefs
she holds sacred acts like a cat frozen in its tracks in the middle of
the road blinded by the headlights of a car barrelling towards it. Like that Twitter bozo I mentioned earlier, Filipinos, like the imminent roadkill that they are, simply lack the brain power to process alternative views essential to their very survival.
What does Senator Marcos get for his trouble? Well, when you are a bright strobe standing amongst dim bulbs, you become a target of the ambient dimness. According to a GMA News report, the following constitutes the “intelligent” response of the Philippines’ community of so-called “peace advocates”…
In a statement, the coalition of 32 peace advocacy groups called Marcos’ plan to draft an entirely new version of the BBL as indicative of the “depths of megalomania he is capable of and the utter disregard he has for all government institutions and peace process.”
Classy indeed.
If Filipinos can call spending months meeting with the people who are
most affected by the BBL fantasy a “disregard” for the “peace process”
with a straight face, that by itself describes the profoundness of the
intellectual bankruptcy that grips this former American colony which, by
the way, was given its independence by the United States in 1946 (not “won” in 1898 following some mythological “revolution”).
It’s time Filipinos step up and catch up with the modern way the rest of humanity thinks and put a stop to their comfy relationship with mediocrity.
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