INTERVIEWED lengthily by Ted Failon yesterday morning (on ABSCBN/DZMM’s Teleradyo), the Chairwoman of the Philippine government panel negotiating--the better word is “colluding”-- with the Moro Islamic Liberation to create the Bangsamoro substate, spoke like a tape-recorder incessantly claiming that the Palace-backed draft of the Bangsamoro Basic Law pending in both houses of Congress conforms to our Constitution. She kept on insisting that her and President B.S. Aquino’s desired BBL can exist without the need of amending our Constitution.
Her words fatally carry the impure notes of falsehood. Unlike her claim, the words of better experts than her, Filipinos moved by patriotism like former Supreme Court Justices Vicente Mendoza and Florentino Feliciano, former senator Aquilino Pimentel Jr. (who authored our country’s Local Government Code), and Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago, ring true.
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