Princess Jacel for senator
(Herman Tiu Laurel / DieHard III / The Daily Tribune / 04-13-2015 MON)
The BangsaMoro Basic Law (BBL) has simultaneously become a unifier for the vast majority of Filipinos as well as a major source of division for the Philippine military and police into acrimonious camps.
Enemies of the Republic hankering for the permanent separation of North Borneo (Sabah) and parts of Mindanao must be laughing their heads off.
The national discussion on our cultural and religious minorities, particularly on the Philippines’ Muslim communities, must be raised to such a height that the nation gains a deeper understanding of the myriad issues stretching across the past and future of what are undoubtedly Filipino lands and seas.
Elevating the level of discourse can never be easy when government itself is engaged in shameless disinformation and misinformation that say peace depends solely on yielding to a rebel group, such as the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), and its sponsors’ demands no matter what the cost.
Therefore, the task of distracting the nation from forming a rational perspective is as easy as creating the next Mindanao beheading or roadside bombing by some supposed “rogue” elements.
Were it not for the MILF’s naked brutality, as caught on video and in the news, and the BS Aquino peace panel’s horrid lies on the Mamasapano tragedy, Filipinos would still be Pied Piper-ed by the MILF-peace panel narratives.
BS Aquino, his peace panel cum enemy propagandists, the MILF, and its Western alliance backers (namely, Canada, Australia, Japan, and other US client governments and NGOs comprising the International Monitoring Group) are ganging up on the Filipino public to hammer it with propaganda that equates peace with surrender to MILF terms.
Thankfully, the Filipino is no longer too susceptible to the deceptions. Yet something more is needed to deliver the “coup de grace” to the pro-BBL-MILF propaganda and political badgering: Discrediting it outright by showing that all Filipinos, including Muslims, are united as one nation.
Over the Lenten holidays, several parties from various non-partisan political movements conferenced over SMS and the Internet on the relentless US-Malaysian streamroller to pass the BBL by June of this year. It was Ado Paglinawan, discoverer of the 60-30-10 Smartmatic-PCOS election fraud algorithm, who struck upon what may well become the “coup de grace” against the BBL. “Why not start a Princess Jacel for Senator Movement,” Paglinawan opined, and raise the symbol of resistance against Malaysian usurpation of Philippine territory and subversion of the Republic’s unity?
Princess Jacel Kiram-Hasan was the Philippines’ Joan of Arc in the patriotic quest of the Sultanate of Sulu and North Borneo, together with the Filipino nation, to restore Sabah to its rightful place as an essential and historic part of Philippine patrimony.
By force of her charm and wit, Princess Jacel immediately became spokesperson of the Sultan of Sulu at the pivotal moment when the Royal Sultanate Army, under the late Sultan Jamalul Kiram III, returned to Sabah to bring to international attention the Sultanate and the Filipino nation’s rightful claim.
Princess Jacel’s name, for those not in the know, is a combination of the first names of her father Jamalul and mother Celia. If there’s anyone who has shown the articulation and mettle to face down Malaysia and the MILF, it is Princess Jacel.
I suggested the move to several parties, arguing that calling for a Muslim senator in the next government would ensure participation of the sector. But one of those I contacted cited an even better argument--that it would be a referendum on Sabah and the BBL. Just imagine if the nation gave Princess Jacel an overwhelming endorsement.
As a senator of the Republic, Princess Jacel will raise to even more commanding heights the point of view of the vast majority of Filipino Muslims who do not subscribe to the MILF’s treacherous conspiracy with Malaysia.
After the passing of Sultan Jamalul Kiram III in 2013 and the assumption of Sultan Esmail Kiram II, support is now being extended by the Wazir of the Sultanate (coordinating its cabinet) Al Marim Centi Tillah, together with spokesperson Abraham Idjirani and Fiscal Basa as chair of the Rumah Bichara or Advisory Council--all learned individuals able to represent the Sultanate and the national Muslim community. Then there’s also Firdausi Abbas who has lately exposed the military weakness of the MILF due to its aging leadership.
But, as any initiative involving the Sultanate should be brought first to the Sultanate’s leadership, we suggest that we permanently put to rest efforts of foreign interests to subvert the Philippine claim to Sabah and divide the Filipino nation by a pivotal move, a “brilliancy” as in chess or a lethal Kani Basani throw in Judo, that checkmates or pins the adversary down with finality.
Raising a Joan d’Arc with the message that there is no Muslim-Christian war, that Sabah is an inalienable part of Philippine territory, and that the nation’s Muslim minority is an integral part of the national community is such a move.
In the continuing consultations with many parties, we believe that a Joan d’Arc in the person of Princess Jacel, who has become the face of the Philippines’ claim to North Borneo, serves the mission best. We shall bring this proposition to the Sultanate and its council, to the public, and to the many political parties to consider for universal adoption Princess Jacel Kiram-Hasan as a unity candidate for the entire nation.
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