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
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http://hermantiulaurel.blogspot.com for our articles plus TV and radio
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(Reprinted with permission from Mr. Herman Tiu-Laurel)
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL:
http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110808com5.html
