MILF's Reactions

In the recent statement given by Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) Deputy Chairman, Khaled Musa called former president Erap Estrada "a convicted criminal, a plundered, an aging womanizer." This is a reaction against Estrada's attempt to urge the current Arroyo administration to do as the former president did in his term of declaring an all-out war against the Mindanao-based separatist group. Musa also stressed some points that I agree with... why should the incumbent president have to follow the advice of her predecessor who, in the words of Musa, is a "convicted criminal - only conditionally pardoned" moreover having proven in countless decisions that he "has no brains to run this country."

I think that Estrada should just shut the fuck up and go away in his little mansions which the Ombudsman had not been able to seize in its own lack of competence. He has no further business making troublesome remarks in the current situation in the south. It is bad enough as it is.

In another statement, the MILF called the Commission on Human Rights "just another agency of the Philippine government" which they had never considered to be "an impartial human rights watch body that can be trusted to handle human rights issues especially when the adverse party is the state." More often than not, morality need not be left in the hands of any other person or group that has an official claim of authority. Human beings are different from all other creations in that we are rational thereby giving us the capability and thus responsibility to make conscentious decisions. The destruction of public and private property and the massacre of innocent people in the recent attacks in the provinces of North Cotabato, Saranggani, and Lanao are clear indications that these are terrorist attacks and nothing more. We can argue all day about nomenclature, but it remains a fact that there were innocent deaths, rights were abused, and the perpetrators have no right to have done these... they are thus criminals in the eyes of the law, morals, and people.