Philippine Communist Movement: Saboteurs of the Prospects for Lasting Peace in Southern Mindanao & Facilitators of Chinese Communists' Dumping of Tons of Illegal Drugs in the Poorly-Patrolled Coasts of the Philippines? 

PLUS Who Are So Afraid of Losing So Many Votes Out of the Outcome of the Final Phases of Implementation of the GRP-MILF Peace Agreement for Muslim-Majority Parts of Mindanao in Southern Philippines?

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For decades, the United States and other western nations labored so hard and spent so much money of their citizens to help bring about lasting peace in southern Mindanao. In contrast: Until a recent year, the average amount of annual total investments from the Filipino-Chinese to China was greater than the total annual Chinese communist investments in the Philippines. (Of course Filipino-Chinese investments in China also include some of the money of poor and middle-class Filipinos who are victims of severe corruption in their country, severe corruption that some Chinese communist firms exploit to buy their ways to favorable positioning in the Philippine market.)

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As per the dictates of the operatives of the Communist Party of China (CCP), how does the Philippine communist movement --  especially so if the CCP thinks the Philippines is merely having some time-limited fling with it -- so subtly but so effectively work to sabotage any peace process in the Philippines?
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(The case of politicians, afraid of damaging their short-term political prospects, silently opposing the passage of the enabling law for the new Bangsa Moro entity, an expanded Muslim autonomous region with greater autonomy, and the case of the Philippine communist movement working at grassroots-levels to stoke excessive fears from among the relevant non-Muslim populations in Mindanao, southern Philippines to sabotage the implementation of a peace agreement partly to keep the Philippines weak and the security forces perpetually pre-occupied with threats to internal security and rebellion as China completes its construction and installations of its Maritime Great Wall of Missiles – knives on Philippine and Filipino soldiers’ throats -- in the West Philippine Sea)

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President Duterte was elected by the overwhelming majority of “Christian” populations (including non-Muslim tribal, lumad groups) in Mindanao not just for his well-known hardline stance against criminality and his preference for radical but what he thought were more effective means of addressing a perennial problem for all troubled societies (the problem of illegal drugs) but also for what they believed was his competence, political will, practical thinking and stronger approaches to address the overall problems of peace and order, terrorism and rebellion (communist and Moro ones) in Mindanao.

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The “Muslim” populations (and Muslim tribal groups) in Mindanao on the other hand elected President Duterte for different sets of reasons, personal beliefs and sentiments, and political considerations. He of course calls Mindanao home, but since becoming the country’s first president from Mindanao (Davao City is figuratively a world apart from the Muslim-dominant societies west of the island and in the Sulu archipelago) he should have discovered that from a macro perspective the socio-political problems of Mindanao are even more confounding than he ever imagined or gave thought about.

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Of course, personality politics, with its manifestations in varying degrees in almost every country in the world, to some extent true even in the advanced societies (with rits maifestations rather benign) is arguably in one of its worst versions in the Philippines. Millions of votes were cast based on perceived associations with national candidates than for any reasons, personal beliefs and stand on issues. Moreover, many millions of votes were in compliance with the informal agreements between the voters and the vote-buying and vote-dictating entities (organized-crime groups, communist rebels, candidates, political dynasties and other kinds of financiers like Chinese smugglers). There are certain thresholds though, for instance a few clan patriarchs told us of why their clan members should never vote for this 2016 vice presidential candidate no matter what, this manifesting in a big way last 2016 elections that catapulted Rodrigo Duterte to power.

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What to many among the Moro civil society and the Moro rebel groups is a quest to correct historical injustices, and the opportunities to more viable pursue their collevtive aspirations, to many among the non-Muslims it is part of the steps to not only dominate them in the future but ultimately an effective means of constricting their freedom to pursue their own aspirations and that the new entity of Bangsa Moro is even an existential threat to them – the underlying narratives now entrenched in their collective psyches.

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The Philippine communist movement, who very loudly project support of the the peace agreement between the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, uses its broad and mighty propaganda machinery to create even greater fears among the mainstream “Christian” or non-Muslim populations just outside of the border areas of the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), those who live within the present autonomous region and defined areas of the new Bangsa Moro, and in the areas of Mindanao where there are significant numbers of Muslim residents. 

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Truth is, the pro-China communist movement have proven themselves very effective at reinforcing and advancing these anti-Muslim and anti-Bangsa Moro narratives, and these sentiments (mostly fears) from among the relevant non-Muslims underpin the silent opposition to the BBL by the very lawmakers and even non-Muslim civil society leaders in Mindanao (many of them of course would never admit to harboring hostile sentiments to the very idea of the BBL or the new Bangsa Moro entity, and they also know that doing so can very seriously harm their short-term political viability).

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The problem is that their bases for the opposition of the idea of a new Bangsa Moro entity with an expanded area of coverage and greater autonomy than the present ARMM are hardly in any of the public debates that seek to enlighten the majority of the mainstream Filipinos outside of Mindanao and among the civil society, and this remains unaddressed and unchallenged thus limiting the kind of broader political and civil society support to address what remains a stalled final implementation of the terms of the peace agreement between the government and the MILF. Navigating in the sea of very strong opposing public sentiments with dangerous or treacherous undercurrents is how we can characterize the efforts to finally achieve peace in the Muslim-dominant areas of Mindanao.

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What are these beliefs, preconceptions, speculations, fears and private counter-arguments by the relevant populations and which among these have any merits worth revisiting? How can these be addressed by both the MILF and the Philippine government, and especially by the lawmakers from Mindanao? In the case of the communist rebels, what new or better hybrid approaches can the government take to cause them to give up their armed struggle against the government?

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What are the other impediments and existing triggers against the prospects of both short- and long-term peace in Mindanao? Are the means to achieving peace as consequential to the success or failure of the very goals of the proponents? Can any entity or both proponents impose peace, or should greater focus instead be on the re-thinking of the process? The civil society, and lawmakers representing more tha  ¾ of the Filipinos outside of Mindanao, do they even have any good approximations of the ground realities in the different parts of Mindanao and among tribal & lumad groups? (For answers to these questions, please read the last paragraph below.)

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A dilemma for the government now is that lawmakers and very influential figures from Mindanao, and we are so sure of this, won’t easily ”betray” their personal beliefs and opinions, and biases and even bigotry, those of the majority of their constituents (those who are from or who represent “Christian”-majority areas), their beliefs relevant to the issues in this case being truly representative of the very private sentiments, fears and rationalizations of of the “Christian” members of the civil society and common folks inside the ARMM and areas in Mindanao’s southwestern; northwestern parts bordering the present Muslim Autonomous Region (ARMM); Zamboanga Peninsula and the Sulu archipelago. But can the present government effectively employ strong-arm tactics, or even incentives to make the non-Muslim lawmakers from Mindanao work in favor of the BBL, and if it does what are the consequences, in terms of votes for its candidates for future elections, among others?

The opposition to the passage of the BBL, and creation of the new Bangsa Moro entity is rooted in deep-seated sense of...

(Wait, I am about to write what even the most outspoken non-Muslim civil society influencers in Mindanao don’t dare write about and say in public. So, I am going to take my sweet time waiting for the right kind of wisdom to guide me and kuya Ernest as to how to approach the articulation of our ideas and opinions on an issue so sensitive and so important. We also fear about potential for unintended consequences that our published thoughts, ideas and honest assessments can bring about.)

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India: Bigger Steps & Even Leaps Required to Ensure Viable Future Chances of Survival (based on MAD) Against China PLUS It Needs Ever Closer Economic & Security Ties with the United States, Japan, Western Europe & Australia
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Without any greater sense of being endangered, and occasionally jolted by the  existential threat from China, India making the same unwitting mistake of the United States consenting to the Communist Party of China (CCP) to grow China’s economy at the expense of the US's national interests & future prospects for continued prosperity & relative security? Even as millions of CCP’s trolls bash, ridicule & belittle Indians & India, the Indians seem not really so rattled enough to counter the efforts of China to undermine its national interests.

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Also: India, Japan, Australia and the United States should deliberately and methodically build respective local political bases of support (mainstream populations) achieve anywhere near the entrenched general sentiments in Europe for the essential need to unite against a perceived or real common formidable foe that poses an existential threat...

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(Planning to initiate campaigns to raise awareness on the urgency of the issues, and about how Southeast Asia should be part of the drive to weaken the industrial prowess of China (country that mastered the art of theft of intellectual properties) by a collective efforts to push the technological powerhouses Japan, US and Western Europe to actively pursue a migration of their facilities and transfers of advanced technologies from China to India and select Southeast Asian countries)

soon...

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DARK FORCE IN AN ALREADY TROUBLED FRAGILE SOCIETY

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Double-Talk: How some religious leaders in their very privileged standing in the society and relatively luxurious lives indulge in the benefits and fruits of what others sacrificed their lives for. The pro-China Philippine communist movement used by the Communist Party of China to cause divisive sentiments among the country's security officers whom they pretend to care about in the case of the Mamasapano mission when it's their avowed mission and part of their reason for existence to defeat by violent and all other means)

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Introductory Topic

The Mission: A Surgical Operation to Remove a Potential Potent Saboteur of the Final Phases of Implementations for a Peace Agreement

The Results: Successful Sabotage of Prospects for Long-Term Peace and Societal Stability by the Operatives of the Communist Party of China

A highly respected religious and civil society figure, of a religious unit already much benefiting and set to immensely benefit in the final implementations of a peace agreement between a government and a Muslim group, came out so loud in condemning an otherwise successful mission to lay the ground for lasting peace in the regions long troubled by insurgencies – the mission being about neutralizing someone evidently very capable of sabotaging any prospects for a viable build-up of foundations for long-term peace. This otherwise very respectable man, indirectly accused the United States, and this country’s national government of engaging in what they negatively portrayed (including in a full-page advertisement in a national daily) as a global “war-on-terror” program of the US, echoing the characterization of the special operation by the pro-China operatives of the Phillippine communist movement who didn't want the peace agreement between the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, partly to keep the Armed Forces of the Philippines from being able to more effectively defeat the communist insurgents and from gaining momentum in its focus to develop better capability to defend Philippine-claimed and owned territories China grabbed and disrupt China's plans to grab more.

This man, in a severely corrupt country where many religious leaders were accused of being complicit to many corrupt acts and practices, did not realize the full range of benefits from the fruits of those who discreetly labored to help keep societal stability and a minimum peace and order situation his organization took for granted for decades – the relative peace and order in the country’s 2^nd biggest island super region where millions of the poor feel left out by the churches and society in general, perpetually robbed by some political dynasties and exploited by the very wealthy ones. In the island, and even within the boundaries and borders of the conflict-prone regions are billions of dollars worth of properties of the religious group, generating tens of millions of dollars of annual revenues and donations. In these regions, and among those sources of revenues and donations, the European, American, Japanese and other Western governments, aid and developmental agencies spent billions of dollars over the decades to help prevent and mitigate conflicts by investing in social and developmental programs.

This man’s, and his community’s seemingly justified loud cry of foul helped mask and gave credence to initial salvos for a sinister plot of a dark force in the country’s society that community / religious institution, long-infiltrated by the operatives of the pro-China and Communist Party of China-supported communist movement, inadvertently help give much momentum to.

And this man’s (arguably) politically-charged loud cry, among the other flexing of mighty propaganda muscled tentacles of the Communist Party of China and this country’s communist movement, partly paved the way for and led to what recently happened in a Muslim-majority city.

1^ST Main Topic

The Context: Religious Groups & The Communist Party of China-supported local movement

The Main Dangers to Peace & Stability: Inspirations for Future Acts of Mass Violence

Somewhere in southeast Asia, a special operations group of the United States security establishment set out to conduct very special training to a select group of police special force. Their mission: Neutralize one of the world’s top terrorists, who posed active threats against a society in multi-dimensional ways. The target was an expert and dedicated bomb-maker and bomb-making (and bombing) trainer who proved his worth in many ways – he accomplished successful bombings, he trained and mentored other future bombers who later accomplished bombing missions, and worst of all (best of all, if from the standpoint of his followers) the well-educated target served as a living hero and inspiration to many who have a twisted / perverted interpretation (and application) of their religious beliefs and ideologies.

The target was not just a malignant problem for communities (micro-level) but society at large, in fact he or what he’s capable of and ready to do was one of the biggest stumbling blocks (or dangers) in the implementation of a peace agreement between the government and a Muslim rebel group in many ways. He poses a threat to any prospects of a lasting peace in regions of the country where the society is wracked by decades of wars, outbreaks of violence and a very fragile peace and order situation. The Christian population within and just outside the boundaries of violence-torn regions to this day remains (and most certainly so for the foreseeable future) rather hostile to any terms of any peace-agreement between the government and any Muslim rebel group – they tend to think any concessions to the rebel group/s in the tediously negotiated peace-agreement terms are not just against their direct interests but long-term existential security threats to them and they think that the rebel group/s would be unfaithful to their end of the terms (for example, arguing that “There’s no way that the rebels will never give up their arms and weapons, they’ll just surrender their worn-out and expendable ones.”).

How INSIDIOUS?

Does the Philippine communist movement really care about the Philippine territorial integrity, or helped China create the chance for territory-grabbing?

      "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel" Samuel Johnson

The Phililippines, an archipelagic state inhabited by people speaking dozens of different languages and even more dialects, has a rather fractious fragile society, its people lacking in common binding causes. It is sad, and against the Philippine national security interests and even overall nation-building for the Mamasapano anti-terror operation to further politicized. It is already an issue rather divisive in the kinds of sentiments among a number of security personnel in the Philippines because of how the Philippine communist movement exploited it pretending to care about the soldiers and the policemen and using them to weaken the resolve of the country to decisively act on threats to internal threats, deftly working for the security and national interests of the Communist Party of China

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The United States, who has decisive sway over the leaders of many nations in the Middle East, where at least 2 million Filipinos are living and working (in Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar & Kuwait only) help maintain the relative regional stability and security there. The security situation in the part of the Southeast Asian region bordering southern Philippines (where a host of rebel plus lawless groups are actively operating) is a challenge only the United States (and not the Communist Party of China and the Philippine communist movement) is most capable of helping address. It has the overwhelming diplomatic, military, soft power and political (even moral) clout to deter, deal with and solve issues from strategic to operational levels.

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Yet, with all of the divisive issues being magnified, blown-out of proportion and tightly squeezed out of the perceived mistakes in the handling of operations in Mamasapano to neutralize a bomb-making trainer and inspiration for future collaborators of acts of terror (and likely effective saboteur of peace), and used to foment hatred of the Americans, discredit and cast in bad light the legitimate global war on terror led by the United States and close allies – only the Communist Party of China and the Philippine communist movement benefit, immensely.

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