Who will know if C-130 was bombed or sabotaged?

The Victims of the Amazing Philippine Aviation

Recently there was a C-130 crash. The following miserable data could be gleaned from a visit to the crash site:

Arrival at scene, instant image -- dagat, occasional fishermen and bancaImmediate environment of the air disaster -- dagat

Videotape of crash site -- maraming tubig
Air craft impacting -- dagat
Impact heading -- degree latitude, degrees magnetic, degree longitude, dagat
Air craft cockpit -- nasa ilalim ng tubig, don’t ask
One third of main cabin -- sa tubig din
Fuselage 
Aft fuselage part -- recovered from dagat daw?
Rear fuselage -- so far recovered from dagat, daw
Engines 
Possible parts-- don’t ask
Wings 
Right wing -- don’t ask, look in dagat
Left wing -- don’t ask, look in dagat
Landing gear -- dagat
Altitude of First strike on impact -- degrees magnetic, dagat
Seats and harness -- dagat
Survivors -- none, kinain dagat
(Anyone who didn’t want to return to family? Investigate.)
Remains 
None -- boots, uniforms, IDs, wallets? dagat
Disaster pouches -- 
Metal splatter, hot spots -- who would know if there was sabotage?
Cabin floor collapse -- how to know? ask dagat
Components outside impact swath -- unknowable, ask dagat
In-flight structural damage -- ask dagat
Temperature on ground -- immaterial, ask tubig
Investigation On Site Report -- report about langoy langoy sa ibabaw by divers, cannot dive deepPersonnel on the scene account -- puro dagat
Possibilities
Dagat rises on high tide
Dagat subsides on low tide
Airplane still in the deep

Philippine Air Force Gen. Cadungog will have to explain a lot to the families of the victims. PAF cannot investigate. PAF can’t find the bodies. Fishermen and other people found small pieces of wreckage and personal items, that was all. If the bodies of the casualties were charred, the water would have swallowed the burnt flesh and ash. In an abnormal circumstance such as this, if there was an NTSB and foreign funding was provided for the agency there may have been enough equipment for personnel to make a dive into the 600 deep waters, a marine vessel of NTSB to bring both instruments and personnel to the site, and so on.

But there is no safety agency in the country. Sec. Mendoza, his people, the Department of Budget, Congress, the office of Madame Gloria, we all wonder what they’re doing after Cory Aquino, Fidel Ramos, Jose Marcelo Ejercito all failed to put up such a vital agency that vibrantly exists in other countries including the small ones like Singapore; even HongKong, a city state, or New Zealand (although NZ is not necessarily just a small town state) I think, have their very own. Some African countries that are underdeveloped may even have their own, it’s a real shitty situation for RP.

The Philippine Navy even suffered its own air mishap earlier this year. No one seemed to bother about the crash since the people in the air craft and the pilot did not die, suffering only bruises and cuts.

There seems to be something terribly wrong. What is going on with aviation in the country? Some fools are drumming up issues like aviation should get less attention because the country is suffering from a food crisis. PR girl Ellen Tordesillas (who lately teamed up with Yvonne Chua of Manila Standard, Booma Cruz of Probe TV and ABS-CBN, Jennifer Santiago, Luz Rimban, etc. to form a new PR group called VERAFILES) blogged that RP has too many international airports that it is remiss at managing the food deficit. The article in Ellen’s blog was written by Ernesto Pernia.

No self-respecting country will scrap its aviation. Ellen and Mr. Pernia should try blogging about more safety in the Philippine aeronautical highway than bitching about food. Everyone recognizes the problem about our oil and food crises, but there is little attention being given towards our safety in land, sea and air. For God’s sake, maybe even a thousand road mishaps have happened all over the country that should never have occurred at all. The Sulpicio and other sea mishaps are now lost items of human memory, except those of the survivors and the bereaved families of the recent sinkings. If we all forgot that there were no less than twenty -- that is 20 in numerics -- marine vessels, big and small boats that went down into the deep seas during Typhoon Frank’s onslaught that would have been very sad indeed.

Although in fairness to Ellen and Mr. Pernia, the international wire is fraught with bad news about the airline industry. Due to high gasoline, diesel, crude prices, the high stake of flying by air has driven away many customers. Those that want to go to destinations fast are merely compelled by circumstance to do so. It might even be said that aviation all over the world is currently, temporarily, a dying industry. But look at the small air lines in the country advertising low rates, they are trying to bolster their shrinking egos perhaps, but there is more to saving the industry than just letting it die.

Here in the country, government has created the strong republic nautical highway and the many new RORO destinations has instantly become a popular route for commuters. Mainly because it is cheap. But an aeronautical highway, is very long into the future. Dr. Enerico Sampang, President of the Philippine State College of Aeronautics (currently website not available, but Wiki has some brief highlights about Philsca) dreams of an aeronautical highway. Again, that will be in the future. The institution of a colleague of Dr. Sampang from the aeronautical education community just suffered another airplane crash when a trainer plane with a student pilot in it crashed just after the C-130 went down.

What is government to do? In a situation like the one prevailing in the country’s aviation industry, so much needs to be done and it is not simply buying one radar for Davao. It is not merely suspending or even taking away the franchise of a floating coffins service provider like S-Peruwisyo Lines. No one has even lifted a finger to thoroughly investigate what happened to the 20 odd other boats that sank during Typhoon Frank’s fury. No one is trying to make policy or much less, policy sponsorship or much, much less, unified policy advocacy for safety.

Safety. Should anyone really care for it? If people like Ellen who are complaining about food, people like Vice Gov. Emmanuel Piñol are complaining about the land they don’t own will be given back to their rightful owners, people like Supreme Court Chief Justice Reynato Puno and his colleagues - specially that fixer and wheeler-dealer Antonio Carpio will be worried about a judicial revolt that will rain fame, money, favors, women and love and passion and torrid sex on their supremest house, the political opposition flukes about when they will get to strangle a small president with their angry fingers, the ultra-right about when they can take over the country in behalf of a few politicians and greedy businesspersons, and the poor when they get to be rid of their poverty, no one will be thinking a bit about aviation. What is that shit anyway?

No one outside of the affected will even say, the recent crashes are a really sad day for our aviation. We grieve deeply for the families of those that were victims of the recent crashes.

If our efforts do not go to naught, some day, we shall pay a tribute to all of your kin that died and any small or large indemnity due them will go to you, the bereaved and grieving. Lose not your little hopes for that day…

My Largest Sex Organ (topside)

I ran across the article of Laura Schaefer featured in msn messenger today. (She must be a fellow German descendant. My ancestors are Germans and used to carry the surname, Brun after they settled in the Philippines and changed it to our present family name. The surname is also otherwise spelled by our relatives who went very far to Russia as Vroon, or in fiercely independent Bavaria as Braun. Here in Makati, I see a company Braun Chemicals. I never really had the least interest in finding out if we’re related. For all I know, their family name comes from Brawn, spelled in a different way, which is quite a different thing altogether, hehehe. Just joking. J)

Laura’s article interests me because she made my brain my largest sex organ! Whew! Read on guys!!!

The Male Brain, ExplainedBy Laura Schaefer
[excerpt]

Remember his brain is his largest sex organ

In males of several species including humans, the preoptic area of the hypothalamus is greater in volume, in cross-sectional area and in the number of cells. In men, this area is more than two times larger than in women, and it contains twice as many cells. And what, say you, does this have to do with the horizontal mambo? Plenty. This area of the hypothalamus is in charge of mating behavior.

This small structure connects to the pituitary gland, which releases sex hormones. So if your bf wants to get intimate all the time and you feel like Ms. Low Desire, remember: You're just experiencing normal, brain-based differences.

Returning Land to Our Muslim Brothers

The discussion below gives a brief idea about ancestral domains. As much as possible, the minimum requirement for peace in Mindanao is a livable space, free from the fetters of intervention and war-mongering that rival tribes and foreign invaders in the past had undertaken. But as had been agreed upon in the peace negotiations, MILF will be granted by government with certain powers over their ancestral domain. The enemies of the peace pact cry foul. In all honesty, those that protest the annexation of selected pieces of real estate and the granting of powers of governance and self-defense are using the wrong premise. That is a practical and logical reaction since the objectors to the peace process between GRP and MILF are taking the wrong side of historical movement.

The United Nations seriously addresses the issues plaguing indigenous peoples all over the world. But even that fact will not prevent interest groups from asserting what they want others to believe as right: that tribal peoples will not be able to hold water to their money, influence and might. At the end of it, the enemies of the peace pact in Mindanao will find they are in the wrong side of the fence and will agree to compromise. By then, it will have been too late. An artificial War will have erupted into full-scale hostilities not only in Mindanao but also in Manila.

The only redeeming factor in the coming rush of violent events, is when the protestors of the peace process will be the first to die. And God-willing, I will be among those to first draw the sword to make that happen.

Ancestral Domain Claims

Understanding the ancestral domain claim of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) is not difficult. Since the period of the late Pres. Marcos, up to the time of Tita Cory, FVR and to some extent, in Erap's time, comprehensive efforts have already been taken to give back land belonging to the tribal peoples of the Republic of the Philippines. . . .The ancestral domain awards process is not perfect. But so far, there has been scant publicity that will put the entire effort per se in a negative light. To a large extent, the awarding of ancestral domains may still be considered a success. See the rest of the post here.

Is the GRP-MILF Peace Negotiations Really Dead...?

Did Malacañang really back track on the peace process? What is Gabby Claudio doing back in Malacañang and yet uttering statements being quoted out of context by the media?

Is the peace process dead? . . .

To create milestones toward consensus, the leaders of the Roman Catholic Church met and formed joint resolutions with leaders of MILF. It was obviously not a mere grand standing act similar to that of mayors, congressmen, governors, vice governors, and all the other shitheads that the entire ecological system is suddenly teeming with. It was a true-to-form reaching out to blaze trails to peace, to refuse to accept the certitude of the defeat of the peace process. Puno and his gang's blocking notwithstanding, the senators and other malicious trolls' railroading of an all-out war, regardless. More about this post here…

Speaking of trivia and trivializing…

Blogger Corrimhao apparently does not like Chief Justice Reynato S. Puno. However I learned a new expression that is absolutely unblasphemous, courtesy of dearest corrimhao: susmaryopaze!

Corrimhao's susmaryopaze Posts:

Peaceful travel in North CotabatoI like to eat Erap ( excuse me :) )

Staying away from trouble

I am not willing to bet that their will a war in the country. However, at this time, I think it would be prudent to be prepared. Politicians, other kinds of interest groups are all agog over the what Girbaudz called portent of war. In reality, the events to come are more of the terror kind. Everyone is therefore advised to be both sober but also perennially observant, vigilant, cautious and prudent. Going to malls is still not advised against, but take an occasional look at this blog, at Girbaudz's Universe, at Shepherd of Lions Gathering and linked blogs. Some announcements may be made in the near future. You might just save your day.

Mindanao is really meant for its original people...

Now I see what good will come out of the stupid ripostes in various fora about the Mindanao Peace Process. And it will be a lot of good, a really, really lot of good. I only recently made a comment in The Warrior Lawyer's Blog. That simple comment gave me an inspiration to write this post.
Linked item:
Noralyn Mustafa, To Be or Not To Be Bangsamoro, Philippine Daily Inquirer

Neither Threaten Nor Ever Twiddle With Might

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Biazon, Legarda, Roxas, et al: Anti-Peace pact pols

ARMM ELECTIONS, PEACE TALKS

In Mindanao at this time, they're holding an election to choose the ARMM Regional Governor. The winner will get to be the implementor of the final GRP-MILF peace agreement and virtual head-of-state. But that latter role is being protested by some.  Senators even say RP selling sovereignty. Read the article in Philippine Star at the post page by Christina Mendez dated today, August 11, 2008. Click here please.

Mindanao Peace: A Call for Help for Muslim Tribes

Let Us all join hands to
Help Our Muslim Tribes Now!

Not everything is going well at this time in Mindanao. In a recent encounter in Barangay Culambog, Pikit, North Cotabato, one government trooper died and fifteen MILF elements were killed. A lot have things have to be put right. The current troubles in Mindanao must stop. Blogger Girbaudz says:

Portent of War in Mindanao

I shall not venture to give any substantial number of facts except point to some vignettes from the past, existing and current events, statements and discussions about the issue of the government's peace negotiations with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). Click to the linked page here…

On the other hand, the suffering members of tribes in Mindanao (in our own syndicate, we prefer calling our brother and sister Muslims by the sobriquet, Muslim Tribes, instead of just Muslims, to differentiate them from other Islamic communities around the world -- some of which consist of the majority population in Islamic states) are not going to get happier. The brief news article below really hit my gut:

Roxas hit for allegedly fomenting anti-Muslim sentiment

By Perseus Echeminada

The Philippine Star

Monday, August 11, 2008 A former Commission on Human Rights (CHR) commissioner hit Sen. Manuel Roxas II over the weekend for allegedly fomenting anti-Muslim sentiment when he announced that Christians in Panay Island are now raising funds to arm their brothers in Mindanao and oppose the creation of an expanded Muslim autonomous region.

Lawyer Nasser Marohomsalic told reporters during the weekly Kapihan sa Sulo Hotel forum in Quezon City last Saturday that high-ranking government officials particularly senators, are unnecessarily raising alarm over the proposed memorandum of agreement on ancestral domain between government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).

He said Roxas, who is among the strong advocates against the supposed agreement, is practically agitating anti-Muslim sentiments, an allegation that Roxas vehemently denied, stressing he is for peace in Mindanao.

“The statement of Senator Roxas has created strong anti-Muslim sentiments,” Marohomsalic said.

He said the controversy over the ancestral domain issue in Mindanao has practically diverted the attention of the people from the economic crisis facing the country, including the high prices of commodities and oil.

The former CHR commissioner said the ongoing peace negotiations with the MILF are just a repeat of the peace negotiation of the government with the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), which resulted to the creation of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).

Marohomsalic said the proposed memorandum of agreement on ancestral domain only aims to expand the coverage of the present ARMM but the area is actually lesser compared to the original accord forged with the MNLF.

Roxas, for his part, said he is for peace in Mindanao, but not for an unconstitutional agreement like the GRP-MILF agreement on ancestral domain.

Roxas said that peace won’t be achieved through force and threats just like what he claims is advocated by former AFP chief and Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process Hermogenes Esperon Jr. and the Arroyo government. – With Aurea Calica

Whatever your faith is, I implore you to pray for the swift resolution of the troubles in Mindanao. I ask you to be involved and to concerned. Howsoever lowly our station in life, let us all pitch in what little we can offer to not let those that are sabotaging the effort towards peace in Mindanao succeed.

The road ahead is long and tricky, savage and could be violent. Are we prepared to let our future generations be hostage to the whims and caprices of a few people in the Supreme Court? Will we just allow our ethnic communities be forever at the receiving end of oppression? Will we let the Supreme Court continually make rulings that are inimical to the interest of the country?

Will the Filipinos not want to stand up and make history? Will people like Governor Jesus Sacdalan, Vice Governor Emmanuel Piñol, Rep. Isabel Climaco, Mayor Celso Lobregat, Rep. Erico Fabian, Sen. Mar Roxas, Rep. Rufino Biazon, Sen. Ping Lacson, Sen. Loren Legarda, be more precious to all of us than the Maguindanao Tribe Maranao Tribe Tausug Tribe, Sama Tribe, Yakkan Tribe, Badyao Tribe, the original people of Mindanao notwithstanding the other Tribes in the area, who used to be a sovereign, very proud and highly cultured people?

Are these idiots and nincompoops combined any better than the Tribes' long-standing relations with the Brunei Royalty -- authentic and non-authentic -- as well the regular Bruneians, the Indonesian Royalty and their subjects, the Malaysian Royalty and the commoner Malays? Let us remember that we have a very rich link both in blood and interchanges with our literal relatives in those countries.

The sooner that we realize how to harness these relations, the faster we will realize that those who think they are as powerful as their saboteur acts and subterfuge, and malevolent determination to divide this already crippled country of ours, are just as the Chinese, Indonesian and Malaysian progressive thinkers, call the pseudo politicians: paper tigers.

Paper tigers? As for me, I would neither want them inside my book shop nor even an inch near it.

The Severe and Terrible Misfortune of a Downtrodden People courtesy ofthe Supreme Court

Economic vs. Aborigine:

A Succession of Crimes

vs. Ethnic Peoples

I cannot say I like all the Muslims in the world. I do not even like all the Muslims in the Philippines! But I like some Muslims that are good, they are all too down-to-earth, very proper in their manners, very civilized in their ways, very decent, very cultured, highly intelligent and adaptive to their circumstances wherever they are.

It is the evolution from, or painful genetic tolerance of, I think, the turning by the repelled mad colonizing Turks of all Muslim habitats in the Middle Earth into wastelands by slashing and burning everything then top-layering the hearth with inches and inches of salt so that no vegetation will ever grow there again! The Turks achieved their vengeance and the Middle East turned into deserts, millions of hectares of desert.

The Arabs became so dirt poor that historians say, brother fought against brother, sister against sister, parents turned against children, children killed their mothers and fathers, just for a small speck of food.

Many Arabs became roamers, nomads. Bedouins, as a result of the desertification by the Turks. It was a final solution against the Muslims, a ghastly genocidal, wholly vengeful act. Millions of Arab Muslims died; millions are still to die and keep dying up to this time.

Millions of them were swept away by forced migration to other countries. Some reached the Philippines and converted the original tribes. They are even in Baguio City of all places! Implanted in the genes are the sufferings and responses to the insufferable environment of the arid wretched land called desert.

A miracle that Arabs and other Muslims still roam the earth and we are now living amidst them and they amidst all of us. But that it is the way of nature. And Arabs and Muslims deserve more tolerance than we can muster. It is not their fault that they are what they are. Gen. Esperon, Philippine Peace Negotiator, can understand them all. He lived with them when he grew up in Mindanao.

Pres. Gloria Arroyo understands all of them, too. She grew up, with Esperon as a younger tot then, with Muslims likewise in Mindanao when Pres. Macapagal let her do her growing up in Iligan. I grew up in Mindanao too, and long before the coming of the government-sponsored settlers to Mindanao, my family was already settled in that promised land.

The recent ruling of the Supreme Flakes, errr, Supreme Meat Lover's, uhuurrrm! (must be hungry to the bones), Court of the Supremes (not the singers) against an agreement between government and Mindanao tribes people, Filipinos in name, could be an issue that will be debated for all of human history.

It is a terrific, astounding violation of a natural right, the debasement of a people, their wants and desires and lifelong determination. It is plain and simple criminal stupidity and unforgiveable wanton disregard for a People's prospect for self-help, self-reliance and self-determination. I deeply admire the Supreme Flakes Honorable Members if any, who inhibited themselves from touching this shit! But the Chief Justice is a shameless freak!!! A big big Bull shit to you man!!! Fuck you and to hell with you cold, heartless bastards!!!

The Supreme Flakes, errr… Meat Lover's Supreme errr, Court of the Supremes, will go down or up (as the case may be) in history as the Great Solomonic Arbiter of a centuries-old issue that happened to want immediate resolution in recent time. The question is: will the baby survive after the rendering of the great Judgment? Or will the baby be sacrificed.

I venture to submit the hypothesis that the latter will be true. The baby will killed. The baby is just a figure of speech, as you might know. It does not necessarily mean that the Muslims in the South are toddlers. Their community is one of the most resilient in all of history even if subdued at times by the forces of Spain, America, Britain, Netherlands, other small and large nations --- super powers as it were.

Always denying the one-upmanship of others. Always fiercely independent, even if they turned into marauders, kidnappers, thieves and murderers. It was always because of their steadfast belief in self-determination and their own resolute sovereignty, and their love for their own homeland.

It is really just a mighty wonder why the Republic of the Philippines' past civil registrars ever granted Certificate of Land Titles to people like the Spaniards, Americans, Koreans, Japanese, foreign drug lords, money launderers, others in Luzon, Visayas, Mindanao? It's economics, plain and simple. And on the tail, trailing happily behind like a rabid dog, is politics.

In handing down the verdict favoring a petition by Gov. Emmanuel PIÑOL and company for temporary injunction or temporary restraining order vs. the signing at Marriot Hotel, Putrajaya, Selangor, Malaysia of the Ancestral Domain Agreement leading to a Peace Agreement between the Philippine Government -- also referred to as GRP and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in Malaysia, the Court of the Supremes set aside the millennium-long stewardship of the Maguindanao, Maranao, Tausug, Sama, Badjao, other tribes of lands in the South. Another crime against our ethnic peoples. But a pleasant economic solution for all of those who had acquired Mindanao for themselves but are not from that place and not members of tribes.

Supreme Flakes' was a major economic victory for landowners. It was a superior conquest for the Supreme Meat Lover's… They must be truly celebratory and euphoric at the moment. Imagine slapping in the face Malaysia, Philippines and the United States in one stroke? The Supreme Flakes also slapped other behind-the-scenes foreigners pitching in to help, but that insult was more invisible than otherwise.

The US Institute for Peace (USIP), funded by US Congress but fiercely autonomous, helped the Muslims and the government find both real and imagined solutions to the Conflict and Troubles in Mindanao. Other countries were also on hand, and who knows what all their agendas might be? Hmmmm…? But they were all there to pitch in their help. I do not blame them at all for being excessively charitable. Supreme Flakes alias SC slapped, spit and shat on them all!!! Fuck the Supreme Flakes!!!

The government and Muslims have been at the peace talks since time immemorial. Always there was economic and political agenda on the part of the Philippines lurking behind its negotiators. Until now. There was more tolerance, acceptance, you could even say, love. I don't know about the sex, it's for you to find out, but I imagine you have to throw in a lot of nerve into the negotiators to keep indulging in something so trivial. Sex? Trivial?

Ask the Malaysians in Marriot Hotel, dearie… was Phing Lacson so envious he was not invited there? Wrong question students! And Ms. Paminta at Laurel Legarda, she was frothing in the mouth over broadcast about the need for the Supreme Flakes' order. Wow! What does she have to get out of it? Imagine there is none, owww, I don't believe that bull…!!!

Be that as it may, the agreement between the Philippines and the Muslims would have been a fair one even if it went as far as Congressman Teodoro Locsin said, creating another Afghanistan. Who cares? The Filipinos and foreigners have raped Mindanao and Sabah for a long, long time!

Committed excesses and crimes against the tribal peoples, not only in Mindanao but also in Visayas and Luzon in the Philippine Islands! It is high time to repay those crimes. It just happened that the religion of some of the tribes in Mindanao is Islam. That is the complication in the whole equation. But it was Islam in the Arab Land, the Middle East, the entire Muslimdom that made the Turks resent the Arabs and subject them to genocide; kill them, burn their land, place them in eternal jeopardy. So there is a little poetic justice in all that. Be that as it may be shitty…

Maguindanao and the Peace Agreement

The Maguindanaos are the dominant tribe in the MILF. Before the agreement was cooked up, the late leader of MILF who wrote to the US President many years ago for help in making peace in Mindanao was a Maguindanao. An honorable fellow, Salamat Hashim, erstwhile chair of MILF. Member of the Maguindanao royalty. Estrada and his blood thirsty lieutenants made war on Salamat and his band of warriors in what Estrada called, all-out-Hitlerian-war. (I did not know that Estrada was a Hitlerite.

Well, at least he wears that famous moustache, too… so he probably really is…) The Maguindanaos, have family, blood links with the Indonesians. A function of the migration in the early times, it was. Maguindanao Royalty are fully related by blood to the Indonesian Royalty. Did you know that Indonesia and Malaysia have Kings and that they are one way or another related to one another? Including the real, old Royalty of Brunei? Queens? Princesses? Ladies-in-Waiting? They do!

There is so much to expect from peace agreement between the GRP and the MILF. Much to expect from a peace pact between dominantly Malay Filipinos and Indo-Maguindanaos.

Even if the new autonomous entity in Mindanao will be entirely different in its ways and governance than the Malacañang-governed government of the Republic of the Philippines, it is something to revel about. If someday the relations will work out, the autonomous government in Mindanao might lead to the annexation of two new entities, an independent Sabah and an independent region of Muslims in Mindanao.

Again it must be pointed out, that a huge number of Filipinos are in Sabah. Disregarding religion, Sabah was part of the Philippines in the early times. As a result, a lot of Filipinos lived in Sabah while their relatives were in the Philippines and vice versa. People without relations in either places commuted to and fro because of brisk barter trade between Malaysia and the Philippines and this allowed inter-marriages.

Or opened up inter-regional migration. So now, many Malaysians live in the Philippines and Filipinos in Sabah. This is the same with the Indonesians and Maguindanaos. A lot of Indonesians came and have been coming to the Philippines time and again while Filipinos go to Indonesia to visit their relatives. Even Ms. Vina Morales, a Philippine singer-actress celebrity is a member of the extended Royal Family of the Maguindanao Sultanate. That is why Robin Padilla keeps pestering her about his love and desire to be a Prince of the Maguindanao Sultanate someday.

There is a problem when all the underlying connections and functional relations between ethnic peoples, albeit, even countries, are hidden beneath what is visible to the eye or taken for granted by those that are aware of them. Now that these submerged relations and links are being brought to the fore, the resistance from economic and political interests are too great and too deep to fathom!

Comes the Supreme Flakes, resolute and grim, insufferable and devoid of any historical perspective, legal and omnipotent, ever possessed with knowledge and Reasons but not the Ultimate Reason. Comes the politicians and economic giants getting together and filing a case with the Supreme Flakes, and offering their Kingdom's Reasons. Supreme Flakes crumbles and bows to the politicians and economic giants.

The surfacing of the commonalities will flounder and there will be a going-underground motion again and duck-diving for our brothers and sisters who have suffered enough from the crimes of their fellow humans in this part of the world. As if the same had not been happening and cruelly enough in many other parts of the world as well. In Albania, Croatia, Chechnia, in the Silk Road of China, in the other Muslim parts of Russia, etc.

Humanity must end is scourge of the Tribal Peoples. Even if it means giving them a Muslim Government, that must be done. For God's sake, if the Supreme Flakes are really sincere in doing their thing, then they must issue an Order against allowing the Dinagats from living in the mountains of Antipolo, Tanay, other places in the world because Christians and other people including us Malays have driven them away from their habitats near the sea and rivers. (That's why they are called Dinagats in the first place, idiots!)

The Supreme Flakes should drive the Tausug from their residences near the sea in Sulu. Like the term Dinagat, Tausug also means people of the sea. The Supreme Flakes should even let all the Tribal Peoples suffer genocide.

As flaky as they seem, the Supreme Flakes are like the Turks who murdered millions of Arabs over the centures, laid barren the Middle East in one sweep, and made a valuable contribution to history: the creation of a perfect, super desert. And don't think that only Arabs were victims there. The Israelites were also hit by the Supreme Flakes… errr… Turks!!! Shit!!!

The TRO is an economic and political triumph! Wow!!! But it reeks of carabao manure and it patently, fuckingly shitty!!! It is a sort of a Cory Aquino response to problems that cannot be solved: "Hoy, everyone, everyone, I do not know this question, can you produce a study? Form a committee for God's sake! I'm going to my mahjong session and this is delaying me! Shit!!!"

The Supreme Flakes, the businesspersons and politicians are urging all the elements and objects in the entire Universe to study the problem and perchance, form a committee… or perhaps a multitude of Babylonic committees…

If I did not know that the Supreme Flakes accepted big big bribes since the 70s, I would never have questioned the TRO. If they were truly honorable, I would have just slept soundly thereafter and for some time, allowed them to shit on their crime against our ethnic brothers and sisters in the south…