The traitor class DIE HARD III Herman Tiu Laurel 08/08/2011

The traitor class

DIE HARD III

Herman Tiu Laurel

08/08/2011
Early last week, I predicted the creation of a “substate” in Mindanao this September under the auspices of the present government to accommodate the US’ little surrogates in that part of the country, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). I explained to my three friends, noted “sons of Mindanao,” the oft-repeated pattern of attacks on government military units preceding all attempts at a US-imposed solution to the Mindanao territorial problem. At the same time, I informed them that rumors of a September substate implementation in fact emanate from circles within the government “peace panel.”

Since few still understand what a “substate” really means, I explained by way of a statement from the Independent International Commission on Kosovo (IICK): “The classic 19th century concept of sovereignty, even if it rarely pertained in practice, was a concept of absolute territorial sovereignty. In the 21st century, sovereignty is necessarily shared and dependent on agreements with a range of international actors.”

In that report, the concept of “earned sovereignty” was mentioned as integral to the substate, which unambiguously means eventual independence. It said, “Earned sovereignty is achieved… (whereby) the state and substate entity may both exercise sovereign authority and functions over a defined territory.” Moreover, “international institutions may also exercise sovereign authority and functions in addition to or in lieu of the parent state.”

Then, it gets more interesting: “The second core element is institution-building… Here the substate entity, frequently with the assistance of the international community, undertakes to construct institutions for self-government (while)… The third… is the eventual determination of the final status of the substate entity.”

And here’s the clincher: “In many instances the status will be determined by a referendum, while in others it may involve a negotiated settlement… Invariably, the determination of final status for the substate entity involves the consent of The International community … (emphasis mine)”

Since Kosovo is a prime example, then we should know that such a framework is no solution to the problem, given what we can see happening there today.

Kosovo, which is 92 percent Albanian and 8 percent other minorities (including ethnic Serbs), was radically destabilized in the early 1990s when it was still under Serbia’s moderate autonomous Rugova government. Back then, the US sponsored the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), which led a campaign of terror against the Serbs; thus, provoking the ultra-nationalists. The resulting internal strife subsequently provided the US the perfect excuse for a UN peacekeeping force.

Kosovo was thereafter pried apart from Serbia in 1999 after three months of the US’ bombing of Belgrade. The KLA eventually assumed leadership in Kosovo government, but is today under investigation by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for many atrocities.

In early January, PACE voted to support a report by Swiss MP Dick Marty that alleged “a criminal network tied to the Kosovo Liberation Army, KLA (which) executed prisoners and harvested their kidneys to sell for illicit organ transplant” (with) Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci as head of the operation.

Former International Criminal Court (ICC) Milosevic prosecutor Carla del Ponte at that time was also investigating Thaci until the US pressured for her removal.

However, despite the sordid background of the US’ allies in Kosovo, it declared independence in 2008, over the objections of Serbia, Russia, China, Spain and many other countries.

That will also be the eventual fate of the MILF substate. And the promise of a long-lasting peace is nothing but an illusion.

Just two weeks ago, July 26, BBC reported: “Kosovo police forces of the ‘substate’ of Serbia, Kosovo, made a ‘bid to take over two border crossing in the ethnic Serb north’… Kosovo police units, who came under fire, pulled back after Serbs refusing to recognize their authority took up arms and mounted roadblocks. Nato-led peacekeepers moved into the area to calm the situation. The US and EU criticized the Kosovan government for acting without consulting international bodies. The whole episode shows just how problematic the north of Kosovo remains.”

The UN peacekeepers intervened to keep the two sides apart and both economies continue to suffer. The end result of the substate concept and political arrangement is that where there was once a relatively genuine sovereign state, two puppet states emerge. As with Serbia and Kosovo, both puppet states today, the Republic of the Philippines will be diminished and the MILF will rise as a rival in the area so that both will be kept by foreign powers in constant conflict.

The new diminished Philippine Republic and the new substate of the MILF are all thanks to the “great patriotic peacemaking efforts” of the Cojuangco-Aquino clan, which has always led in creating “better conditions” for national dignity and sovereignty — from the oath of allegiance of Benigno S. Aquino Sr. and Aurora Aquino, grandparents of BSA III, to the Japanese conquerors; to Ninoy Aquino’s exposé of the Jabidah project to retake Sabah; to Corazon Aquino’s ceding of Sabah to Malaysia; and now, the new MILF substate.

We owe all these to the Cojuangco-Aquinos who are now riding the bandwagon of oil and natural gas having attended the MILF-PeNoy Tokyo talks, sharing the bonanza with J. Robinson West, chairman of PFC Energy and US Institute for Peace.

Such is the traitor class that the US has entrenched into power through various means, such as Hocus PCOS—the reason BSA III is only too willing to oblige lest he find himself soon in the same position as Gloria Arroyo today.

While this is happening, other treasonous rats also play — from the CodeNGO et al. gobbling up the P4-billion administrative cost of the Conditional Cash Transfer; to Purisima, Tentangco et al. wallowing in the fruits of RP surplus investments in their foreign investement partners. Truly, for as long as this traitor class remains in power, there is no hope for this nation.

(Tune in to Radyo OpinYon, Monday to Friday, 5 to 6 p.m., and Sulo ng Pilipino, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 6 to 7 p.m. on 1098AM; Talk News TV with HTL, on “Mis-Rule of Law: From Edsa Dos to MILF Substate,” with Atty. Alan Paguia and Sen. Koko Pimentel, Saturday, 8 to 9 p.m., with replay at 11 p.m., on GNN, Destiny Cable Channel 8; visit http://newkatipunero.blogspot.com and http://hermantiulaurel.blogspot.com for our articles plus TV and radio archives)

(Reprinted with permission from Mr. Herman Tiu-Laurel)

Source:  The Daily Tribune

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