Federalism is a great form of government, but it is the biggest DECEPTION in the Philippines. It’s designed to create an Islamic Homeland and Dynasties.
Every president of the Philippines since 1987 has been bought and paid for by the leaders of the Moros(Muslims).
To have an Islamic State in a Non-Islamic federal form of government invites CHAOS and or possibly later secession from the country. India, USA, Australia, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina are some of the countries with the federal form of government. Issues with Islam exist but so far not one of them has a Muslim state. Because they know that it will only lead to chaos. Yet the Philippines tempts this Bangsamoro State idea. Learn from the mistake of Russia. They did this, and is now miserably paying the price. Religion and Government must be kept separate. Doesn’t the Philippine legislature understand this? Or possibly the legislature of the Philippines was “bought and paid for” by the Muslim advocates and the Political Dynasty advocates?
The idea of federalism goes back to General Emilio Aguinaldo in 1898. Even back then Aguinaldo embraced federalism only because of the Moros. The moros wanted an independent state.
Federalism is embraced by the Bangsamoro. The Moros(Muslims) already have 5 provinces inside the BARMM. The BARMM has autonomy. It is self-governed. It receives over 30 billion pesos per year. It does not report to the DILG like all the other regions do. The BARMM only answers to the president of the Philippines. But why are they still clamoring for a Bangsamoro Islamic State? Why aren’t the Muslims(Moros) happy with the BARMM? When they had the ARMM, they weren’t happy. Now they the BARMM, they are still not happy. They are really pushing for federalism. Why? Because they want their own ISLAMIC STATE.
Before, with the ARMM the muslims weren’t able to impose sharia law on all 5 provinces. Now with the BARMM, sharia became the law for all 5 provinces. But they are still not happy.
To fool the people, they no longer talk about Bangsamoro. Now they just talk about how great the federal form of government is. And that federalism will solve the problems of our unitary form of government. This may be true. The success of federalism has been proven in many countries. But that is not the reason why Federalism is being introduced in the Philippines. They want federalism because they want the bangsamoro to be a state. The Federalism that they want to shove down your throat has the hidden poison pill of the Bangsamoro.
In 2008 the former president Arroyo failed to pass the Bangsamoro basic law, then again in 2015 president Aquino failed to pass the Bangsamoro basic law. Now they are switching their strategy, Duterte is pumping up the benefits of Federalism, knowing that the gullible people will gobble it up. Since 2007 when the 12 senators (14th congress) introduced the senate joint resolution for the federal form of government, the Bangsamoro was already embedded as one of the states. Don’t be fooled by this devious ploy.
Under the guise of peace and prosperity the Philippines is willing to give in to the Bangsamoro. Why can’t the Muslims(Moros) live in peace with the other religions in the Philippines without asking for a state of their own? None of the other religions in the Philippines are demanding for a state of their own. In the history of the Philippines only the religion of Islam waged war and continues to wage war against the Philippines. No other religion has done this.
Yes, the Filipino Muslims are our brothers and sisters. So are the Christians, the Aglipayans, the INC, the Hindus, the Buddhists, the Mormons, and all the other followers of religions in the Philippines. None of the other religions want a state of their own, only the Muslims(Moros) do.
Don’t let the cries of the individual Muslims(Moros) get your sympathy or the intimidation of their militaries (MILF and MNLF) strong arm you into bending to their will.
Be strong and tell your Muslim(Moros) brothers and sisters that they just have to learn to live with the rest of us Filipinos under one flag, one nation under God. How difficult is that? Not for you and I, but for the Muslims(Moros) I suppose that is an impossibility.
The Muslims(Moros) in the Philippines formed their own militaries, MNLF (Moro National Liberation Front) and the MILF (Moro Islamic Liberation Front). These two militaries constantly wage war against the Armed Forces of the Philippines. They constantly disturb the peace of the nation, to push and intimidate the country into giving the Muslims(Moros) a nation of their own. Their campaign has always been that they have been oppressed as a people. The fact is, in the Philippines, the Muslims(Moros) have as much right and exercise as much right as any other follower of any religion or any citizen in the nation. The Muslims(Moros) are not oppressed. The indigenous people are the oppressed.
First and foremost it must be clarified that MOROS are MUSLIMS. MOROS are the followers of the religion of Islam. The people of Sulu, Mindanao and Palawan are not all Moros. The MOROS only comprise of less than 25% of the population of Sulu, Mindanao, and Palawan. The first Moro arrived in the archipelago in 1380. Prior to 1380 the indigenous people did not even know who or what Moros were. They called themselves by their tribal names. When the Spaniards arrived in 1521, to their surprise they were confronted by Muslims who they referred to as Moros. That’s when the term Moro in the Philippines started. So it is absolutely incorrect and a propaganda (big lie) for Muslims to call all the people of Mindanao (including non-muslims) as Moros. Christians are not Moros. Moros are Muslims.
What is Bangsamoro? Bangsa = Nation; Moro = Muslim; Bangsamoro = Nation of Muslim or Muslim Nation.
The BANGSAMORO immediately makes an assumption that all the ancestral lands of the sulu archipelago, Mindanao and palawan all belong to the Muslims(Moros). They made this assumption and they have the legislature fooled.
How can the bangsamoro be the original inhabitants when the moros(muslims) arrived in the archipelago only in the 14th century?!
Let me inform you folks. The “natives or original inhabitants” at the time of conquest and colonization were not the bangsamoro people. The original inhabitants were the indigenous people who practiced several forms of worship and one of them just happened to be Islam. Muslims (Bangsamoro) are not indigenous people. They are the followers of the religion of Islam.
Before the introduction of any religion or ideology into the Philippines, the indigenous people already had their own languages, traditions, beliefs and practices. These new introductions or additions of religions and beliefs simply became part of the established original.
The archipelago was divided into ruling tribes with Datus as their chieftains. Commerce was vibrant. Commerce attracted the Muslim(Moro) traders to the Sulu archipelago. They did not come for the sake of religion, they came because they wanted to make money. They traded with the tribes of the Philippines.
All throughout the archipelago a vibrant society was already established by the indigenous tribes.
The earliest historical writings claims that the fist arrival of Islam was in the Sulu archipelago in 1380 (14th Century). The conversion of the natives into Islam was gradual. The early Muslim(Moro) missionaries had the opportunity to gather the tribes under one religion, the religion of Islam. There were other religions but they were not entrenched in politics and governance as Islam was. Islam provided an ideology, a way of life and a form of governance which other religions in the area did not provide.
So as Islam gained its spread starting from the south to the north, they met no resistance for over 140 years. Islam enjoyed and prospered in the spread of its religion and its governance by practicing the law of the Qur’an and attaching the title of Sultan to the highest ruler of an area. The sultan (arabic in origin) became a higher position of leadership than the native tribal Datu (tribal chieftain Philippine origin).
Then when the Spaniards arrived in the archipelago in 1521 and brought Christianity with it, Islam confronted competition in the archipelago for the first time. From that moment on Islam no longer had monopoly in the Philippines. This gave the indigenous tribes in the Philippines the opportunity to choose to be Christians, Muslims(Moros), or neither of the two.
Currently many Educated Filipinos make the mistake of dis-associating the words Moro and Muslim. The two words are one and the same. Moro is a direct translation for Muslim. Because most Filipino scholars believe that MOROS are not Muslims, they claim that the moros are indigenous people. Prior to 1380 there were no Moros(muslims) around only indigenous people. Yet a Moro won’t embrace any other religion because the Moro is the follower of Islam. You do not call a Catholic, Moro.
The Muslims(Moros) claim that they deserve their own state because they are an indigenous people. WRONG! Muslims(Moros) are the followers of Islam. Muslims are not indigenous people, neither is it an ethnicity. If a tribe converts to Islam and all the members of that tribe become Muslims(Moros), it does not make the Muslims(Moros) indigenous, it only makes the indigenous people in that tribe Muslims(Moros). Then of course the biggest lie is the claim of the bangsamoro to be the original inhabitants of Mindanao, Sulu and Palawan.
This push by the Muslims(Moros) for a state of their own is not just from the Muslims within the Philippines. Other Islamic countries are involved. The country that stands out in full support of the Muslims in the Philippines is the country of Malaysia. They have been involved since 2007 with the former president Arroyo.
The religion of Islam should be treated just like any other religions in the Philippines. The Philippines should uphold the “separation of church and state as it is stated in the constitution. The government should not financially support any religion. Giving the bangsamoro a state of its own is a violation of the constitution. It is financially supporting the religion of Islam.
The Philippine Government is religiously biased. To defeat the Bangsamoro once and for all, legislature must be convinced that the Bangsamoro people were not the original “natives or inhabitants” of the entire Philippine archipelago or the sulu archipelago, mindanao or palwawan for that matter.
To reiterate: The indigenous people were the original “natives or inhabitants” and not the Bangsamoro. The bangsamoro (nation of muslims) people are not indigenous people.
The Bangsamoro wants federalism because they want a state of their own, where their religion (Islam) dictates the government. They want their religion (Islam) to be dominant over the government. The Quran dictates the lives of individual Muslims(Moros), the way they live, and the way they are being governed. They are following the commands and dictates of the prophet Mohammad.
Within the Bangsamoro Shari’ah law is supreme. Article 5 Sec 11 of the BBL: “The justice system in the Bangsamoro shall consist of Shari’ah law which shall have supremacy and application over Muslims.” Not the law of the Philippines but the Sahri’ah law.
Under Shari’ah law, non-muslims(Moros) are second class citizens. The core context of the Shari’ah law violates the preamble of the constitution of the Philippines. The Bangsamoro puts Shari’ah law above all other laws. Shari’ah law puts the Quran above the law of the country.
The Philippine constitution specifically states that the “separation of church and state shall be inviolable”. This means that there must be no union of religion and government. The bangsamoro state embraces this union of Islam and government. This violates the constitution.
Bangsamoro will be an Islamic State within the boundaries of the Philippines. Non-Muslims stepping into the Bangsamoro territory steps in as a second class citizen (an infidel) and therefore are only to be tolerated and never welcome.
The Muslims(Moros) has been working very closely with the president of the Philippines to create their own autonomy since the independence of the Philippines in 1946. They were successful with Diosdado Macapagal who granted them 5.7 hectares exclusively for Muslims(Moros) in 1965 in Zamboanga City. Then in 1975 and 1976 with Ferdinand Marcos. They were more successful with Cory Aquino in 1987 and 1989 when the BARMM was created giving them 4 provinces. Then in 2001 Gloria M Arroyo granted a plebiscite to gain more territory, the province of Basilan making it 5 provinces for the BARMM. Then again in 2007 with Gloria M Arroyo to help formulate the Bangsamoro which was declared unconstitutional in 2008. This did not stop the Muslims(Moros). The next president elect was Benigno Aquino III, he pushed the Bangsamoro idea again but it was defeated in 2016.
But now they feel a bit more secure with the new president elect Rodrigo Duterte. Duterte’s plan is not to talk about BANGSAMORO but instead he is pushing Federalism. Now his campaigners are just talking about how great the federal form of government is. And that federalism will solve the problems of our unitary form of government. This may be true. The success of federalism has been proven in many countries. But that is not the reason why Federalism is being introduced in the Philippines. They want federalism because they want the bangsamoro to be a state. The Federalism that they want to shove down your throat has the hidden poison pill of the Bangsamoro.
| A joint resolution for a Federal system of government was introduced by these 12 (SENATORS AQUlLlNO Q. PIMENTEL, JR., EDGARDO ANGARA, RODOLFO BIAZON, PIA “COMPANERA” CAYETANO, JUAN PONCE ENRILE, FRANCIS “CHIZ” ESCUDERO, JINGGOY ESTRADA, GREGORlO HONASAN, PANFILO LACSON, FRANCIS PANGILINAN, RAMON “BONG” REVILLA, MANUEL “MANNY” VILLAR) to the 14th congress 2007-2010 on April 23, 2008 to introduce a Federal system of Government, which will guarantee the Bangsamoro a state of its own. Here are the highlights: Click on the link to peruse the 73 page proposal.
As a prelude to this form of a federal government, the Bangsamoro bill went back to the senate for some adjustment. This time 13 of the incumbent senators supported the Bangsamoro Bill and signed the bill on September 15, 2014. These thirteen senators are: Franklin M. Drilon, Vicente C. Sotto III, Alan Peter S. Cayetano, Loren B. Legarda, Ralph G. Recto, Joseph Victor Gomez “JV Estrada” Ejercito, Maria Lourdes Nancy Sombillo Binay, Francis Joseph G. Escudero, Paolo “Bam” Benigno Aguirre Aquino IV, Edgardo J. Angara, Pillar “Pia” Juliana Cayetano Sebastian. Gregorio B. Honasan II, Teofisto L. Guingona III |
This is where most Filipinos are blindsided. They are mesmerized by the goodness of Federalism that they forget that the Bangsamoro State is included in the deal.
Most Filipinos do not understand the intentions of the Bangsamoro (Nation of Muslims) for the push of Federalism. The Non-Muslims are blinded by their own goals for federalism. The non-muslims are thinking about all the goodness that federalism will provide. However, the Moros(Muslims) have only one plan, “ASSIMILATION”.
There is a little phrase in the Bangsamoro Law, “Schedule plebiscites for expansion” and this is the killer. Simply meant, the Muslims(Moros) in any state where the Moros are clustered (specifically barangays) can petition and file to join the bangsamoro state.
Here is another blow: Since this type of plebiscite concerns the Bangsamoro “All rules and regulations governing Bangsamoro elections and plebiscites shall emanate from the Bangsamoro Electoral Office.”
So if your mentality is to let the Bangsamoro have their own state and that you will be safe within your own state, you are mistaken. Your state can be nibbled at by the Bangsamoro via this “Schedule plebiscites for expansion”.
The Bangsamoro will have the control. These are all in black and white but heck who is reading? Right?
If the word “Muslim” managed to squeeze into the 1987 constitution and changed the name of Mindanao to “Muslim Mindanao”, unnoticed by the general public until it was too late, the bangsamoro expansion clause will pass too if this federalism goes through.
Currently there are 17 regions in the Philippines. The majority of the senators come from Metro Manila leaving the other regions without senatorial representation.
The people of the Philippines in the far flung barangays are crying for Regional Senatorial Representation from the government of the Philippines.
Those who are pushing for federalism feel that the Philippines will achieve more representation for the regions outside Metro Manila which has been dubbed as imperialistic. They argue that the federal form of government will efficiently cater to the needs of the country. The contention is that federalism will hasten economic development since the financial control is within each state with no significant limitation or restriction from the central government.
It is true that the current system of distribution of public funds is disproportional and biased towards the NCR (metro manila).
What they fail to understand is that one of the 17 regions in the Philippines is the BARMM (Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao). The pushers for Federalism want to include the BARMM or Bangsamoro as one of the states in the Federal Government. The BARMM is already a violation of the “separation of church and state” in the 1987 constitution of the Philippines.
The current system already allows each region its own budget.
How is the annual national budget of the Philippines prepared?
Currently the top ten provinces with the fastest economic development are all in Luzon. Coincidentally, the 20 of the 24 senators are from Luzon. This is the major reason as to why Luzon receives more budget. Luzon has the senators to influence the budget since they have the final scrutiny and can make the amendments.
So if you analyze this method on how the budget is prepared, then it becomes obvious that political influence is paramount. Five of the poorest provinces are in Mindanao and they have no senatorial representation.
As far as the preparation for the budget expenditures, it starts at the barangay level, then moves on to cities, municipalities, provinces and regions. When this budget goes to the House of Representatives for review, the congressmen from each of this region will stick to their guns to protect the budget requirement. So that is not where the problem is. The problem is when the trimmings are being done. This is done by the Senate Finance Committee. Here is where the senatorial influence comes in.
Since this is the case, why do we need federalism? Why spend the billions of pesos to remodel our country? We only need “regional senatorial representation”.
We also need the barangays to exercise their authority. They need to put their yearly budget together for their administration and future projects.
Even with Federalism, if the barangays continue to be lazy and do not present their budget for the next year and just depend on the municipality or city to do it for them, the perpetual cycle of laziness will continue.
There are those who really insist that the key to the country’s liberation and for the economic prosperity of the Philippines is in its decentralization. The question that prompts to be asked is: Why ask for something we already have? Our nation is already setup for decentralization. We simply fail in its application. Here is a link to the 130 page “Local Government Code of the Philippines of 1991”. It specifically states that “Toward this end, the State shall provide for a more responsive and accountable local government structure instituted through a system of decentralization whereby local government units shall be given more powers, authority, responsibilities, and resources.’” Our provincial, City, Municipal and Barangay leaders simply need to enforce their authority over their autonomy.
| Note: The top 3 regions are NCR(metro manila), Central Luzon(III) and Calabarzon(IV-A). These 3 regions generate 62% of the Philippines GDP. With Federalism they will no longer have to share their earnings with the poorest regions of the Philippines. They do not have to share their earnings with 3 of poorest; the BARMM, CAR (cordillera), or Region 8 (Eastern Visayas). The development of the top 3 will quantum leap. They no longer have to bailout anyone. Bailout will be the federal government’s responsibility.
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For a better Philippines, the NCMF and the BARMM must be repealed or revoked.
The Philippines is already divided into 17 regions with cities, municipalities and provinces within each of the regions. These 17 regions are divided as follows: 7 regions in Luzon, 4 regions in the Visayas, 6 regions in Mindanao.
Each region is already well represented by the house of representatives (congressmen). However, the senate does not represent the regions properly.
Currently (2016-2019) the senate is only represented by one(1) senator from the Visayas, and only three(3) from Mindanao. The other 20 senators are from Luzon and 15 of them are from Metro Manila. Do you call this proper representation of the people in the Philippines?
That is where the disparity is. The lack of representation of the far flung barangays.
Wouldn’t it be more uniform if Mindanao had at least 6 senators to represent each of the 6 regions of Mindanao?
With the current state of affairs a candidate needs millions of pesos to be a senatorial candidate. Because his/her campaign must be nationwide and is only directed at the most populous cities and municipalities to guarantee the most votes. Plus the comelec is prejudiced in the acceptance of certificate of candidacy.
How often have you witnessed the COMELEC declare a provincial senatorial candidate as a nuisance candidate. The comelec is in cahoots with the big time money makers in the metro manila area. Unless the provincial candidate has millions of pesos and big time connections his/her chance for even being accepted by the COMELEC is hopeless.
However, with the mandatory regional senatorial representation the senatorial candidates must come from each of the 17 regions of the Philippines. Even the poorest region will have a senator to represent them. And their senator will be elected by them and not by voters from another region. The senator will be accountable to voters within the region he/she will represent.
If you are from Davao Region, you are guaranteed one senator. If you are from the Zamboanga Peninsula region, you are guaranteed one senator. If you are from eastern Visayas region, you are guaranteed one senator. Each region must have a minimum of one senator to represent in the legislative branch of the government.
Each senator will be elected from the region they represent. Senatorial election will no longer be a national election where the rich and popular from the NCR region (metro manila) will dominate the list of candidates. The senatorial election will be regional.
The only position that will be elected via national election will be the president and vice-president of the Philippines. The rest will be by region (senators), by province (governors/congressmen), by municipalities/cities (mayors,councilors,congressmen).
Senatorial representation by region will have the effect of flattening the power structure. Regional problems and concerns within a national view can be addressed more effectively. A senator’s performance, accountability, and electability become meaningful to a more defined and identifiable regional constituency.
As an example: The senator for Region VII (Eastern Visayas) will be elected by the registered voters within Region VII (Eastern Visayas) and not by the registered voters of the other regions.
The number of senatorial representation for each region will be determined by population, the minimum is one per region.
Let us make the senators accountable for their actions or inability to prosper the nation. With the current political structure the senators think they are immune. Once elected they only think of the capital region of the Philippines. If the senate members are elected from the each of the 17 regions of the Philippines, they will think twice about not properly representing their region.
If they do not represent the region properly they will not be re-elected. They can’t get support anywhere else. A senator from Iloilo can’t campaign to the people from Cebu for support. Each regional senator to his own region. Accountability will help control the beast.
Many are blind to the fact that the Philippines with its unitary form of government is one of the fastest growing nation in the world. We have been lauded as one of the best countries to invest in. Our GDP has been growing steadily and the infrastructure developments have been scaled up in the last decade. The bottom 3 regions who spend more money than it generates have been steadily getting influx of capitalism to improve their economy. If it were a federal form of government these 3 poorest regions (states) will starve. They will not be able to sustain. They are only sustaining and improving now because of our unitary form of government.
Federalism in the Philippines is pushed by four types of People.
Don’t be tempted by the push of Federalism. The proponents of Federalism insists that imperial metro manila hogs all the income of the Philippines and that very little is being distributed to the rest of the Philippines. They are even insisting that the money of the poor provinces go to finance Metro Manila. These are all lies. It is in fact the other way around. Metro Manila is financing the poor provinces. The proponents of federalism are twisting the truth and present you with lies.
Here is the top four regions in the Philippines and where their earning capacity relates to the total earnings of the Philippines.
It does not take a genius to figure out that the politicians of these 4 regions would want to push for federalism. They would get to keep most their money. Currently, their money is being distributed throughout the philippines to help develop the poorer regions who are spending more than what they are earning.
With the unitary form of government the NCR doesn’t get to spend all its earnings. Over 40% of its earning are distributed throughout the Philippines. This makes the politicians of the NCR upset.
The federal form of government will be a dream come true for the selfish politicians who do not wish to share their wealth. Is the federal form of government good for all the regions? NO! Economically the bottom 4 will suffer. The BARMM is the poorest of the bottom 4 regions but it does not care because it has a different agenda. Its agenda is not economical. Its agenda is political and religious. The BARMM simply wants to become an Islamic state without care or concern for the other regions.
These Regions spend more than what they earn. Under the unitary form of government, year in and year out, our central government has been and will continue to infuse money into these regions. Capital infusion continues to develop these regions. But if our form of government will change from the unitary to the federal form of government these 4 regions will have to fend for themselves. Their economic progress will halt. They will concentrate on just trying to survive vs improving infrastructure.
If you are from these 4 regions, convince your leaders not to support federalism. Under federalism, you will no longer get the support that you have been getting. Your infrastructure development will suffer. If you think you are not getting enough right now, wait till you are under federalism, you will get less.
The City of Zamboanga since 1989 has been against the BARMM. When the bangsamoro basic law was introduced in 2007, Zamboanga City was at the forefront campaigning adamantly against the BBL. In 2014 when the Bangsamoro re-surfaced with a great vigor, Zamboanga City again was first in leading the pack against the Bangsamoro.
However, with this new push towards federalism, the majority of the zamboangueños have changed their tune. They are now willing to concede with the idea of allowing the Bangsamoro to have their own state within the federal government, because now they know that they can have their own state too. Greed is now getting the best of the zamboangueños. They are now dreaming of their own state and possibly their own country.
The Philippines is one of the fastest growing countries in the world not because of federalism. The Philippines is a unitary form of government and with good leadership it will continue to grow to be prosperous.
As long as Islam in the Philippines remain under the umbrella of the Philippine government (unitary or federalism), the Muslims will never bend to the will of the Philippine law. All Muslims know this: Islam is the priority. Their religion comes first. Nothing should stand in the way.
The Muslims continue to categorize themselves as indigenous peoples which they are not. Muslims are not indigenous people. They continue to classify themselves as an ethnicity, which they are not. They are even re-writing history claiming that they are the original inhabitants of Mindanao, Sulu and Palawan. The indigenous people were.
Since the inception of the BARMM (Autonomous region in muslim mindanao) and even with the additional bonus of the NCMF (national commission on muslim filipinos), the Muslims continued to be unhappy, relenting, wanting and rebellious. They continue to want more. Why? They want to have their own government.
The Muslims already have the BARMM (composing of 5 provinces), so why do they still push for the Bangsamoro? The ARMM already has autonomy, right? So why are they still insisting on the BBL? Here is why. The BARMM can’t impose sharia law in all the 5 provinces. The Philippine government prevents them from doing so. This makes the Muslims upset. What is this autonomy good for if shariah does not rule? The muslims want sharia to govern them and not the laws of the Philippines. Hence, they introduced the Bangsamoro basic law in 2007 which fortunately the supreme court ruled as unconstitutional in 2008. This prompted the Bangsamoro to come up with another strategy. To make the Bangsamoro valid in the constitution, 12 senators (14th congress) introduced the federal form of government, guaranteeing the Bangsamoro a state.
The BARMM is only a Republic Act and therefore it can be revoked or repealed. But if the BARMM becomes the Bangsamoro State in a federal form of government, it will be permanent. The Philippines can no longer take it away from them.
In this scenario, the Muslims would have stepped up from the BARMM (an autonomy without sharia) to Bangsamoro with sharia.
So now you assume that giving them the Bangsamoro state under Federalism will make the Muslims happy. Temporarily it will. Just like when the ARMM was given to them. Why will they be unhappy and want more you ask? One reason: The Quran. It dictates and tells them to have their own government and not to be under the rule of the infidels. With the Bangsamoro state within the Philippine Federal government, the Bangsamoro will still remain under the rules of the Philippines. Under the infidels. Within the Bangsamoro state, they may enforce Sharia law. But overall the state still have to report to the Federal government. This will continue to be a thorn on the Bangsamoro state. The Bangsamoro will still have to bow down to the will of the Federal government. This violates the Quran.
There will be disagreements between the Bangsamoro state and the Federal government. If these disagreements continue to be unresolved because most likely they will be religious in nature, the bangsamoro will ultimately turn tails and secede from the Philippine government to form their own country or maybe align themselves with the Islamic country of Malaysia. Since Malaysia has been involved with the Bangsamoro negotiations since 2007.
Why not just nip this at the bud. Let the Bangsamoro have their own country (independent) or a state aligned with Malaysia a federal government upholding the religion of Islam. Unlike the Philippines where all religions are equal. No favoritism.
Since the Muslim Leaders refuse to live in harmony with the other religions of the Philippines. And since Islam wants an autonomy of their own. Let them buy out their domain. Terms can be negotiated.
The Bangsamoro can have the provinces of Sulu and Tawi-Tawi. The bangsamoro can have their own country without any support from the Philippines and it won’t be part of the Philippines.
As long as the BARMM is under the umbrella of the Philippines, the Muslims will forever be in a quest for a state of their own within an Islamic Country. That wish will never happen under the umbrella of the Philippines.
The negotiation will work because the Philippines will no longer spend the billions of pesos every year in sustaining the BARMM. The Philippines will make it work because they will negotiate for the participation in the harvest of the mineral rights of Sulu and Tawi-Tawi.
This will be a win-win situation.
The Philippines will finally have its “separation and church and state” held inviolable. No more underhanded deals with Islam.
The Philippines can then revoke or repeal the NCMF (national commission on muslim filipinos). Then all the millions of pesos per year (nearly a billion pesos per year) can be redirected towards the NCIP(national commission on indigenous peoples) a non-religious government organization. The indigenous people will have stewardship over the ancestral lands and managed by the NCIP.
The Muslims in the Philippines must then live in harmony with the other religions. Those who don’t can always leave. No more favoritism. No more NCMF no more ARMM. All the MILF and MNLF camps dismantled. No more Sharia law. No civil codes for any specific religions. One nation. One flag. The only law to follow is the law of the nation.
Article III, Section 5 of the Philippine Constitution States: “No law shall be made respecting an establishment of religion,..”Yet this form of federalism which has a built in Bangsamoro Islamic State is pushed by Duterte and his supporters.
Muslims(Moros) are the followers of Islam. The Sharia Law which will rule supreme over the Bangsamoro Islamic State is a law that respects the religion of Islam. Our constitution specifically says “No law shall be made respecting an establishment of religion”What part of this doesn’t anybody understand? Only those who favor Islam will support an Islamic Bangsamoro State. Only those who favor Islam will support this type of Federalism.
(Article II, Section 6) of Philippine constitution states: “The separation of Church and State shall be inviolable.” Creation of the Bangsamoro Islamic State will violate this.
Article 6, section 29 (2): states “No public money or property shall be appropriated, applied, paid, or employed, directly or indirectly, for the use, benefit, or support of any sect, church, denomination, sectarian institution, or system of religion..”
If anyone reading this understand any portion of these words of the constitution, will understand that the existence of the Bangsamoro Islamic State in the Philippines violates the constitution of the Philippines.
Revoke the BARMM and the NCMF. They are both unconstitutional whose only purpose is the serve the Moros(Muslims). They are prejudicial and they both violate the human rights of the rest of the non-muslim citizens of the Philippines. The word “Muslim” appears in the 1987 constitution 3 times. And all 3 times it refers to Mindanao as “Muslim Mindanao”. Muslims(Moros) are the followers of the religion of Islam. They are not indigenous people, or an ethnicity and not even a race. So why does the 1987 constitution refer to Mindanao as Muslim Mindanao?
The Philippine government violates all 4 points. The Philippine government financially supports the religion of Islam via the NCMF, the ARMM and now the Bangsamoro.
It also violates Article 6, section 29 (2): where it states “No public money or property shall be appropriated, applied, paid, or employed, directly or indirectly, for the use, benefit, or support of any sect, church, denomination, sectarian institution, or system of religion..”. But most of all the ARMM and NCMF also violate the preamble of the constitution: where it states “to build a just and humane society” and “ promote the common good “ and “under the rule of law and a regime of equality…”.
The armm and ncmf are not for the common good they are only for the minority, the Muslims.
Currently the provinces of Sulu, Tawi-Tawi, Basilan, Maguindanao, and Lanao del Sur are within the ARMM region. After the revocation of the ARMM another region in its place called the “Sulu Region” will replace the ARMM.
The following provinces will be assigned to the “Sulu Region”: The provinces of Basilan , Sulu, and Tawi-Tawi.
The province of Lanao del Sur will transferred to Region X (N. Mindanao), and the province of Maguindanao will be transferred to Soccsksargen (Region 12).
After the revocation of the NCMF, it will be replaced by the official and existing non-religions government organization that represents without prejudice all the indigenous peoples, the NCIP.
To reiterate: Muslims are not indigenous people.
The NCIP was created to be the guardian of the Indigenous peoples of the Philippines. It was created to protect the ancestral lands of the indigenous peoples and to protect the “Certificate of Ancestral Domain Title” that belong to indigenous clans or families.
Each indigenous tribe of the Philippines must be granted absolute stewardship over certain territories or ancestral lands. The NCIP will have the authority to reconcile or arbitrate over claims. Religion must be kept out of the equation. Let the decisions be made strictly based on tribal claims and not religious claims.
Within the designated stewardship territory for a specific indigenous tribe, certain families within the tribe with “Certificate of Ancestral Domain Title” may continue to keep the land within their clan. Religion will never be part of the equation for stewardship or “Certificate of Ancestral Domain Title”, only proof of tribal heritage or ancestry as specified in Republic Act 8371 chapter II section 3.
These various indigenous tribes since time immemorial have lived and cultivated the lands they occupy. These lands will be in the stewardship of the tribe. Ancestral lands will be in the stewardship of the tribe who has claim over it since time immemorial. Transfer of any property ownership within the stewardship will follow the same laws of the Philippines but the land continues to be within the stewardship of the tribe.
This stewardship over territories will apply throughout the Philippines (Luzon, Visayas, Mindanao).
As an example certain barangays within a municipality may be within the ancestral land of a certain indigenous tribe. That tribe will then be given the rightful stewardship of that ancestral land. All private properties within the ancestral land will still continue to be owned by the title holders. But the tribe that has stewardship over the land will receive dividends from taxes collected from the land, which will be recorded by the NCIP (only as a monitor). The ultimate beneficiary will be the tribal stewardship. Tribal members with proven residence within the ancestral land may receive dividends in forms of educational scholarships.
The ARMM robbed the indigenous people. The ancestral lands of the indigenous people within the provinces of Tawi-Tawi, Sulu, Basilan, Maguindanao and Lanao del Sur were taken away from the indigenous people and were given to the Muslims. The Muslims have autonomy over these lands now. The government and the muslims cheated the indigenous people. Ancestral lands in the Philippines should never belong to any religion.
There is no need for the ARMM or the NCMF. Abolish the idea of giving autonomy to any religion or specifically to the religion of Islam. Give what is due to the indigenous peoples of the Philippines.
Duterte (Candidate for President) is pushing the idea of Federalism. The Bangsamoro, MILF, MNLF, BIFF and the ARMM are all excited. They can scrap the BBL idea because the promise of federalism guarantees them (Muslims) a state of their own, to be seceded later into a country of their own. You are a real champion of the MILF and Bangsamoro Mr. Duterte.
Mayor Rodrigo Duterte stood by his assertion that the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) should not be blamed for the death of the 44 Special Action Force (SAF) commandos in Mamasapano, Maguindanao last January 25. He says that “they (SAF troopers) ought not to be there.” Duterte claims this “Pumasok ang pulis and it was an [MILF] territory, which in the first place, hindi tayo dapat pumasok.” >>> Quote source from: Mike Frialde (philstar.com)
Wake up Duterte! This is the Philippines. The MILF is the enemy of the country and they have no domain inside the Philippines. The barangay Tukanalipao, Mamasapano (killing field) is the domain of the Philippines. The barangay officials there are the elected officials of the Philippines. Tukanalipao is not a territory of the MILF. The MILF (a declared enemy of our country) has no business in the Philippines. They have only one purpose and that is to break a piece of our country and create an autonomy or country for ISLAM.
Mar Roxas is another 2016 presidential candidate who sold out to the religion of Islam. He wants the Bangsamoro to have a state of its own. Being president of the Philipines makes him not just the commander in chief of the AFP but also the strong man of Islam, because the ARMM and the NCMF answers only to the president and nobody else.
Turning the ARMM into a Bangsamoro State is a dream come true for Islamic SECESSIONISTS. The MOROS don’t want to be under the thumb of the Philippines, that is why even though the ARMM has autonomy(self-governed), they still want to be an independent state. As soon as they become a state, they will secede to form a country of their own and hijack the NATURAL RESOURCES of the Philippines with them.
Of course the Federal government of the Philippines will not simply allow the Bangsamoro state ease out of the union. The federal government already spent so much money on the Bangsamoro state.
But the secessionists will insist on the separation. This can only lead to one conclusion: CIVIL WAR.
There were no Muslims(Moros) in the Philippines prior to the year 1380. And most definitely they were NOT the original inhabitants of Mindanao, Sulu, and Palawan. Moros are Muslims and they are not an ethnicity or indigenous people.
Prior to the arrival of the Muslims, the Datus and the Rajas in each of their own tribal domains or kingdoms ruled. The Tausugs, the Maranaos, the Maguindanaoans , and all the other tribes had their own ancestral domains. None of them were Muslims or Moros.
Never forget that the Moros(Muslims) were the first COLONIZERS of the Philippines. They were the first EXPLOITERS of the Filipino people. The Sultanates exploited the natural resources and the culture of the indigenous peoples. Now they even call the traditional clothing, dances, food, customs, and tools of the tribal indigenous peoples as Moro. They are the true Thieves of culture and natural resources.
By the Presidential decree 690 april 22, 1975 (ratified by Presidential decree No. 719 May 30, 1975), then President Ferdinand E. Marcos created the Southern Philippine Development Authority (SPDA) which took over the government programs for the Muslims and later became the Ministry of Muslim Affairs and the Presidential Assistance on National Minorities (PANAMIN), which took over the government programs for the Non-Muslim or other tribal groups. One of its main tasks was to integrate into the mainstream of society certain ethnic groups which seek full integration into the larger community and at the same time protect the rights of those who wish to preserve their original way of life beside the larger community.
This march forward will not stop until the Muslims will get what they want, the entire Philippines.
Note: These 4 presidents (Carlos Garcia, Diosdado Macapagal, Ferdinand Marcos, Corazon Aquino), within 30 years have successfully undid what the Spaniards and the Americans accomplished in over 518 years.
The Muslims know that the Philippine government is weak and corrupt specially the presidency. By supporting and electing the right candidate into the office is the key to the Islamization of the Philippines.
Politically supporting the right president is key in winning the battle for autonomy. President Benigno Simeon C. Aquino III (2010-2016) was against the “separation of church and state“. Aquino was and is still pro Bangsamoro and is willing to do anything to pass the Bangsamoro Basic Law.
None of the presidential candidates for the year 2016 are tackling the issues of the “ARMM” and the “NCMF” which are both violating the constitution. Even if this BBL bill is quelled, another bill in its place will surface later because the Bangsamoro still exists within the ARMM and the NCMF and they all continue to get governmental yearly budget in the billions of pesos.
A couple of presidential candidates for the 2016 election are even talking about Federalism and making sure that one of the states will be designated for the bangsamoro.
As long as the presidency of the Philippines continues to be in bed with Islam, it is no longer a question as to “if” this bill will pass, it is a question of as to “when” it will pass.
The proposed state for the MOROS within the federal system will have this in their constitution:
The powers in a federal form of government is shared by the state and the national government. Here is an example of some of the specific powers and shared powers.
The author, Franklin H. Maletsky is an advocate for this regional senatorial representation. He is an advocate for the equality of all religions. He is an advocate for the separation of church and state.
You may contact frank via his email: franklin_maletsky@yahoo.com
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