Conrado de Quiros ed Sabah: Say tugtuwan mureng [CDQ on Sabah: The real idiot]

Pinmaway natan ed PDI so aalageyan nen De Quiros nipaakar ed Sabah.

Say kuanto say akankasalanan na krisis ed Sabah et saray Kiram. Et say kaokolan ya nikolong kono et iray Kiram.

Why did the Inquirer allow such a lousy opinion piece to grace its pages? Of course, freedom of expression allows anything whether it is supported by facts or not.

De Quiros has missed completely that Sabah claim is not yet withdrawn waiting to be pursued not tomorrow but now. The Supreme Court in deciding the baselines law suggests that the claim to that territory of the Philippines is valid and legal. It is incumbent upon the president to reclaim it as regards the land and the proprietary rights of the Sultanate of Sulu and Sabah.

The failure of Pnoy in dealing properly with the Kirams shows the utter incompetence of the present administration.

The peace agreement with the MILF cannot be rushed. Malaysia is bent on excluding Sabah from the peace agreement and the Philippine government acts like a fool and a pawn to the landgrabbers.

The Kirams were trying to communicate with Aquino but their letters were ignored. Three years have passed but Aquino has yet to form the Bi-partisan Legislative-Executive Advisory Council on Sabah (BELACS) initiated during Ramos time.

BELACS is part to blame because the composition changes every after elections. There should have been a permanent council on Sabah as legislated by law.

Unong ed abogado na Sultanato, nen 2011 anggad 2013, ag ni nanbayar na renta so Malaysia. The Malaysian renters have not paid the customary payment to the Sultanate of Sulu amounting to a measly 5000 Malaysian ringgit.

Did the royal army of the Sulu Sultanate plan to invade Sabah? No.

According to De Quiros, the people of Sabah had spoken that they belong to Malaysia; that they are central to the issue. This is beside the point. Who said that we wanted them to join the Philippines? In the first place, if the Sulu Sultanate did not agree to lease the land to the British and all the things that happened after that, the Sabahans could have been Filipinos since the promulgation of the 1935 Philippine constitution.

I have realized that De Quiros writes like a crazy demagogue, an inane propagandist whose style and tone is pompous, self-righteous and pretentious.

Iray dinastiyan politika, ag ira naiyagel [Political dynasties, they are indefensible]

Iramay politikon iyayagel day dinastiyan politikal et self-serving. Irayan politiko et ag napanpiaan. Siopa iraya?

Sikara di Angara Sr. tan Jr., Allan Peter Cayetano, Dick Gordon, ayay Pangolo natan, si Binay tan dakel ni ran ag napangaranan balet wala iran akairong natan.

Amay political parties reform bill  ya ikakana nen Angara Sr. so minabang dia no ag nipasa so anti-political dynasty bill et iray political dynasties.

This bill will only entrench the traditional political elite as long as the bill on political dynasties is not passed.

The little respect that I have for these senators and politicians who keep on defending their clans and families has gone to naught. Disrespect is what they deserve.

Cayetano, for example, said clearly that it is unfair to denounce political dynasties when there are good political dynasties.

His line of reasoning is the same as Angara Jr's argument.

Kuanen Binay, akin sebelan iray kuwalipikado ya onbatik? Is Nancy Binay qualified to run as senator of the republic?

Why would Enrile like his son to run and win as senator? What interests would a continuation of an Enrile in the Senate entail? Would it mean protecting their smuggling and logging businesses? Does it mean continuing the competition between Jackie and Bongbong in the Senate? Is the Senate the playground for their teenage rivalries, a spectacle to behold in the national arena?

Anggapoy nayarin irason pian naidipinsa iray political dynasties.

Sikaton gagalawen day inkamureng daray bomobotos. They are playing out the ignorance of the voters.

Natan akibabali met si Bernas ya constitutionalist kono ya miembro na 1986 Con-Ass et say kuanto nen pantotongtongan da ya inter dad saray bomobotos so kaoleyan ya manpili ta saya et mas walaan iray kawayangan nen say diktaan da ra. Anto? Sikaton irayan miembro na Con-Ass so walaan ya baleg ya kasalanan ed inkangiras dan mangiyan na ditalyadon probisyon nipaakar ed political dynasties.

Say kuanto ni ed samay people's initiative ya ikakana daray kontra ed political dynasties ya arawin onsalindak iyan kanonotan lapud dakel iran patbek na prosiso. Intilak toy ilalo to ed saray bomobotos ya singa inbabaga ton mabayag ni pansabian. Aliwa kasin sikara ya miembro na Con-Ass so tetelen ed sayan nagagawa?

Politicians who support or defend political dynasties knew that there is something at stake for the office they are trying to secure for their selves or for their own relatives. Do political families had a monopoly of public service? None but by entrenching themselves in politics that is what they are trying to say, that the barangay, town, city, province or nation could not move without them. The truth is that, their existence in Philippine politics is only a confirmation of the selfish interests that made the Philippines so poor and underdeveloped.

Political and economic democratization means democratizing not only wealth and opportunities but also power to all who are capable as a leader not to selected, more often corrupt, families and clans.

Kaokolan ya ontonday Malaysia ed panagsakit ed saray walad Lahad Datu[Malaysia must desist from harming the people in Lahad Datu]

Iramay nan-gamgam na dalin na Sabah et walay sebeg da ya paksiaten iramay akandalin.

Those who grabbed the land of Sabah has now the temerity to evict those who owned the land.

Say Prime Minister na Malaysia et walad balita angiter na go-signal ed saray sundalo to nipaakar ed saray totoo na Sultan na Sulu tan Sabah.

Akin agawa ya?

Lapud inaboloyan nen Pnoy so sayan getma na Malaysia ed saray ibubuga to ed TV, diaryo tan arum nin midya.

Malaysia has no right in evicting the people who went there to assert their claim to the land. It is their land unlike the Malaysians and their British patron who are arrogant landgrabbers, squatters.

The Sultanate of Sulu, since it cannot get any help from the government, must elevate this to the UN Commission on Human Rights so that any violation committed by gangster-type Malaysian police or army is reported, thereby internationalizing the issue.

Malaysia and Great Britain must now be exposed as parties to this greatest injustice committed against the people of Sulu and the Philippines.

The cession order of 1946 and the incorporation of Sabah into Malaya and Malaysia is void for Sabah is placed under the sovereignty of the Philippines. Effective occupation was effected against the consent of the owner, the Sultanate of Sulu and later the Philippine Government.

Malaysia must stop from engaging in a fight against the representatives of the Sultanate of Sulu.

Pnoy must make pronouncement supporting Sulu and expressing his wish to Malaysia to stop the planned attack, that any attack against the representatives of the Sultanate is also an attack against the Philippine government and that it has no recourse but to protect its citizens and enforce their claim.

Akin kaokolan so Sultanato na Sulu tan Sabah ed panag-aksubi na Manangkayan or Spratly Islands? [Why the Sultanate of Sulu and Sabah is fundamental in claiming Manangkayan or Spratly Islands?]

Abaloan ko maung si Ferdinand Marcos balet andi manaya. No amta to so awaran na Sulu ed panag-aksubi na Sabah et amta to met komon ya say Spratly Islands et parti na teritoriyo na Sultanato na Sulu. Et ag to la nginaranan na Kalayaan no ag say tugtuwa ton ngaran.

Iramay tinmombok ed sikato ya pangolo kapara to ran kulang ed inkatalisiw ed awaran.

Si Ramos inyan tod "backburner" so Sabah ta ag to amta ya say Spratly Islands et gawa na Sulu.

Ontan met si Cory tan Arroyo.

Mas lalo la yay si PNoy ya say nononoten to say basingkawel.

Palawan, Spratly Islands known in Tausug as Manangkayan, and Sabah belonged to the Sultanate of Sulu.

The claim of China over the Spratly Islands is laughable to say the least.

Manangkayan means giant clam; it is a group of islands that were known to the inhabitants in the area, the Sama, Tausug and Badjao peoples of the Sulu Sultanate, their boats plying there for fishing and trade.

How could the Chinese invent such ludicrous proposition that they own the area?

Pity the Chinese intellectuals and the historians who allowed themselves to be used in state propaganda.

Manangkayan or Kalayaan Islands is part of Sulu Sultanate that is now part of the Republic of the Philippines.

How could the people of Palawan and Sulu not know the islands several miles away from their shore for the past thousand years predating the Chinese?

Sayan gobierno no gabay ton solido so panag-aksubi ed Manangkayan et aralen toy awaran na Sulu tan Sabah.

It cannot give up on Sabah just like what the Pangasinense senator Leticia Shahani would like to do or her brother, FVR during their height of influence and power.

The government kept on ignoring the Sultanate of Sulu with an unforgivable excuse that their letter was lost in bureaucratic maze. What the heck is an administration like this? If they can do that to a royalty what more to the ordinary Juan de la Cruz?

The bungling conduct of Pnoy is deplorable and unpardonable. His underlings are equally guilty of negligence displaying their ignorance of the valid claim.

Saray manbebenben ed gobierno tayo manlapud si Marcos anggad si Ramos, manlapud si Arroyo anggad si Aquino III et balbaleg so kakulangan da. No say ninononot da odino soy nononoten da et pangkaabigan na Pilipinas, agda komon ginawa so ginawa ra.

But they are all cowards including the present president. They do not have the nerve to stand alone; they are always soliciting the help of the US. They want someone, a patron to depend on.

What can we expect? Mistake after mistake after mistake.

Say Pilipino bilang Papa [The Filipino as pope]

Marakrakep no si Arsobispo Tagle et napili ya papa ed Roma.

Balet say sangkaunaan lan onkokontra ed sayan posibilidad et aliwa iran sangkaili no ag iray Pilipino lamlamang.

Say numiro uno ed sayan nigatibon kaisipan et iray paparin Pilipino singa si ritiradon Arsobispo Cruz.

Akin kasi?

Duaran sangkaili so nanpakabat ya si Tagle et sakey ed saray ilalo na Asya ed inka-Papa.

That he is too young, which allegedly makes him unfit to become the pope, is not a sufficient reason to discourage him and the people to believe that he is capable of getting the job.

Being young at more than 50 is not even disadvantageous. It is an advantage to the church to put Tagle as pope as he could oversee the church for a long time and make his reforms felt in the next fifty years.

Sabah: Akin so Malaysia onekal ed GRP-MILF talks? [Sabah: Why Malaysia must get out of GRP-MILF talks?]

Saray sangkamurengan ya totoo et walad gobierno. Number 1 si Pnoy. Akin?

Diad tongtongan na GRP tan MILF, akin wadtan ni so Malaysia?

I have written elsewhere that involving Malaysia in the talks is disadvantageous to the country because we have an outstanding claim over Sabah and that Malaysia has no delicadeza when it is one of the countries that gave arms to these secessionist groups, first MNLF and then MILF and another splinter group now and in the future.

Malaysia, can you please get out of the talks?

Nayarin onekal kad tan ed saray tongtongan?

Sayan gobierno et mureng ta ag to amtay panmaungan na Pilipinas tan Sulu tan Mindanao.

Si Pnoy et nanmaliw ya spokesman na Malaysia.

The Bangsamoro pact will not progress as long as Malaysia is there as dishonest broker. It will not prosper as long as the Moros are not united as one party.

Take a look at the GRP-MNLF that led to the creation of ARMM. Misuari is out of the loop complaining that he and his group are not consulted; he is rejecting the framework.

Kasumpal na MILF, anto niran grupo so niyanak pian mitongtong la lamet ed gobierno?

The framework will never succeed as long as self-interests of each Moro leader prevail over the common good of its own people.

The first step to get it right is to get rid of Malaysia in the bargaining table.

Second is to resolve the Philippine state's and Sulu sultanate's proprietary claim over Sabah. Sell the land according to its proper market value not the measly 5,000 ringgit and use the money to develop Sulu and Mindanao. Sabah's GDP in the late 1990s was 8.3094 billion Malaysian ringgit, which is equivalent to P 109.185516 billion.

Third is the consolidation of Moros in one political organization before any talks can begin.

Sabah: Say sangkabalgan ya andi-katunongan ya ginawa na UK ed Pilipinas [Sabah: The greatest injustice committed by UK against the Philippines]

Say Sabah et gawa na sultan na Sulu ya pinaopaan to ed British North Borneo Company nen 1878. Nen 1946 inpaway na Gran Britanya so North Borneo Cession Order ya “with effect from the fifteenth day of July, 1946, to the extent that the Crown should, as from that day have full sovereign rights over, and title to, the territory of the State of North Borneo and that said territory should hereupon become part of her Majesty’s Dominions.”

The wording itself betrays the land-grabbing intention. The British knew for a fact that the land was leased from the Sultan of Sulu. Parliamentary proceedings were clear that Britain did not own North Borneo.

Ed arum ya salita, ginamgam da so dalin ya gawa na Pilipinas lapu lantid say Sulu et nipadalem la ed Ripublika na Pilipinas ya abirbir so kawayangan to nen Hulyo 4, 1946.

Inbana day cession order ed bulan na Hulyo ta niyanak lad dia so tatawagen ya Ripublika na Pilipinas.

Sayan ginawa na United Kingdom so sangkabalgan ya andi-katunongan  laban ed Sulu tan ed saray Pilipino.

What the UK did was illegal as Francis Burton Harrison said because it did not consult the parties involved.

The US did not do anything to push for the claim because it did not want to tackle the issue with a close ally, a fellow imperialist, its own mother. The US is a party to this great injustice to the people of Sulu and to the Filipino people.

Sabah et gawa na Sultan na Sulu anggad natan.

Anggapoy kanepegan na UK ya gamgamen so dalin ya ag to gawa.

Insan to inyalis so titulo ed Federation of Malaya, tan Federation of Malaysia. 

Now, the Malaysian "squatters," the latter term coming from Leon Ma. Guerrero, are acting like the British imperialists, landgrabbers.

Now the theory of effective occupation can be thrown out because the very basis of it is the illegal cession order.

Their Queen must and should own up this grave abuse of power disregarding the rule of law at a time when colonialism and territorial aggrandizement were seen as anathema to peace.

The Atlantic Charter signed between Roosevelt and Churchill in August 1941 stated explicitly that both countries "seek no aggrandissement, territorial or other." UK was signatory to the UN Charter in June 1945.

A year after, in 1946, the North Borneo Cession Order was born contrary to the spirit of the Atlantic and the UN charter.

Hypocrisy!

It is the greatest injustice to the Sulu people and the Filipino people that must be resolved now!

Saray toon kabusol na Pilipino tan akin [Enemies of the Filipino people and why]

1. Akalistan numiro uno ya kabusol daray Pilipino iray pamilya Marcos. Anggapo ni asumpalan na dakel a kaso laban ed sikara lapud inkapekewet na sistema na katunongan diad sayan bansa.

Dakel so tinatakew da ya ag ni nipawil ta akaamot ed saray Swiss bank accounts da. Ilalastog ni nen Imelda ed sakey ya BBC documentary ya walaan iray kuwarta ya onsulok ed $ 900 billion dollars. Angalaan da so sayan kabaleg a kuwarta no ag say impanyirong nen Ferdinand ed Malacanang?

2. Si Danding Cojuangco et sakey ya crony nen Marcos ya nankuwarta met ed gobierno. Benben toy San Miguel Corporation tan arum ni ran kompanya.

3. Sakey met si Lucio Tan ya crony met nen Marcos. Sangkamayamanan ed Pilipinas ya gawa toy PAL. Say padisir ko walay baleg ton papil ed manipulasyon na disisyon ed Korti Suprima. Walay baleg ya kaso to lapud ag to manbabayar na buis. Pigaran bilyon ya pisos ya ya makatulong komon ed gobierno, singa pamaalagey na ospital.

4. Sakey ya crony nen Marcos si Roberto Ongpin ya anggad natan et manmamanipula na negnegosyo ed Pilipinas. Amay kaso na DBP et sakey ed saray pinankuwartaan to.

5. Si Juan Ponce Enrile ya pangolo na Sinado et akinabang ed oley nen Marcos. Initdan day logging concessions to. Diad Caraga, walay kompanya tod man ya manggagaway posporo.

6. Si Fidel Ramos ya datin pangolo ya taga-Pangasinan et sakey met ed saray too nen Marcos. Akinabang ed oley to nipaakar ed Expo Pilipino tan IPPs sikaton baleg so singil na kuryinti anggad natan.

7. Si Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo tan say asawa ton si Mike Arroyo ya dakerakel so anomalyan agawa nen oley da. Anggad natan ag ni ra nikulong ed Bilibid.

8. Say pamilya Aquino ya anggad natan anggapo ni nagagawa ed panangibonog na Hacienda Luisita. Akinabang ira ed SCTEX lautla yay pangolo natan.

9.  Saray masisiban politiko, congressman, mayor, councilor, ya nonoten day ikapal na pitaka da.

10. Saray totoo na PRC ya walad likod na pamaakaran a samsamen day Scarborough tan Kalayaan.

Ekal kad tan, Enrile; onekal lan amin iray sinador [Resign, Enrile; resign all the other senators]

Si Juan Ponce Enrile ag to amta so tatawagey balangon na ngaran. No amta to ya abayag lan inmekal ditan ed Sinado. Anggano no ontan, ag ko napukpukan ya ibaga ed sayan masiken ya onekal lad tan.

Balet aga la duga ed siak so resignation nen Enrile; kaokolan lan onekal amin ya sinador ya akinabang ed liquidation by certification.

Anggapoy galang ya natitilak ed sarayan sinador. Amin ira et corrupt.

Siak ya sumusulat na awaran et kaokolan ya wala iray risibo ya ipanengneng no agastos ya tua so inter dan grant, sikara balet i-certify da labat et duga la?

Anto ya?

Antoy ginawa tan antoy gagaween na Commission on Audit ya inmaboloy ni ra ed sayan pikewet ya pamaakaran?

Bagbagen lay Senado. Abolish the Senate. Deralen lay COA. Demolish COA.

It is corruption in broad day light. They are bickering because of people's money that goes unaccounted for.

And no one will come out clean of it.

Saya so rason ya kaokolan ya mangigapo na balo. This is the reason we must start anew.

Saya et ed panamegley na CONCON, constitutional convention.

Say kuanen Enrile ni ed samay anti-corruption conference ya ag kono nailaloan ya naekal so corruption ed anem ya taon. What can we expect from someone who benefited from corruption in all his years in government?

We can stamp out  corruption in just one year. Everyday put someone in jail, a politician who embezzled government coffers. Start with the Marcoses and Enrile, the senators and congressmen, justices and judges, mayors and councilors down to barangay chairman and councilors and we can see that the following year the country and its people will be at peace, happy that justice and righteousness will reign once more in this benighted land.

Say andi-kakanaan na pilikulan Tagalog [The bankruptcy of Tagalog films]

Nen Disiembri agawa so Metro Manila film festival et sakey lamet ya mangipanengneng na inkalabos ed kanonotan daray pilikulan Tagalog likod ed samay biopic ed bilay nen Aguinaldo tan amay pilikula nen Nora Aunor ya ag ko ni ra abantayan.

Irayan pilikula so babantayan daray totoo lautla iray makapalek ya mangibabawag no anton suri ya kultura so naaawat daray ibabagan "masa" tan iray "elite" met ya say padisir ko et manbabantay met ed saraya.

Iray diriktor ya Pilipino ya benben ed beklew daray producer et onabuloy ed saray pilikulan basura: iray pilikulan slapstick, iray pilikulan onpapaway si Vice-Ganda ya napnoy dialogue na inkabastos, iray love story ya gasgas lad plot, iray horror movies ya aminpiga lan inusar so saman ya title ya ompano onabot nid 100, iray pilikula nen Enteng Kabisote tan Agimat ya anto kasi so ontumbok ag la amta.

Natan anto lay arapen na pilikulan Tagalog ya tatawagen ya pilikulan Pilipino?

Nen embeneg iran taon, dakel so pilikulan Tagalog ya soy tima to et nipaakar ed kabit, ed saray bii na sakey walay asawan laki. Anggapo lay nanonotan dan ipaway ya makatenyeg na poso tan kanonotan?

I could not see in Tagalog films the necessary spice for an effective plot, the dialogue is so trite so lacking in emotional content that will uplift the human spirit. What you see and get are values promoting lack of civility, awkward manners and acting, disingenuous plot and bombastic and unrealistic sets.

That's the reason I stopped watching Tagalog films. I also got tired of watching Hollywood movies.

Say labay kon nabantayan et pilikulan gawa tayo ya mangipanengneng na ugali na totoo, maung odino mauges, ed sakey ya tongtong odino istoryan makapaintiris.

Alimbawa, nayarin istorya ed bilay na politiko ya masiba ed oley odino poder ya antoy pansabian to ed saman ya kagagawa to.

Istorya na bilay na sakey ya doktor, nars etc. ya totongtongen toy nagagawa ed propesyon to likod nid samay pamilya to.

Nayari met ya istoryan nibasi ed awaran, amay agawa nen earthquake nen 1990, iramay krimin ya ag ni arisolba, iramay delap ya no panon nipanengneng so saray mararakep ya ugali ed satan ya krisis.

Istorya ed saray tradisyon daray etnikon grupo. No singa istorya nen Aliguyon na Ifugao, so dialogue et siempri ed Ifugao, no istorya nen Apolaki na Pangasinan say tongtong et Pangasinan, no istorya nen Labaw Donggon ed Hiligaynon odino Kinaray-a.

Iray istorya nipaakar ed antoy arapen.

Iray istoryan apanoy laban-laban ya walay kakanaan tod plot, iray istorya nipaakar ed saray omaarnis, iray istorya nipaakar ed bakal ed Kastila, Amirikano tan Hapon.

Iray makapataktakot ya istorya.

Dakerakel so nayarin ipilikula balet iray Tagalog ya producers mangiras iran mannonot, say nononoten da labat et say pantuboan. Mangiras iray sumusulat, mangiras iran manusar na ilalam da parad sakey ya marakep ya istorya.

Say pilikula kaokolan ya mangipanengneng na riyalidad. If the main character goes home to Pangasinan and talk to his relatives, should he be talking in Tagalog? No, he must speak in Pangasinan. In the same way that a story about a Cebuana teacher must involve her language and culture. The diversity of Philippine culture is muted and silenced in Tagalog movies. In Mendoza's Thy Womb, how relevant was the use of Tagalog among Badjao and Sama-speaking communities in the plot?

I long to see a year-long activity in which one can watch in a weekend in a local cinema films that showcase the diversity and values of Philippine culture. Watching Hollywood should be a thing of the past and the celebration of our creativity in films is mustered to the fullest.