With the fighting having erupted over the weekend in North Cotabato, the need for a resolution of the constitutionality of the disputed and TRO’d Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain between the Arroyo Regime and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front has taken on a truly urgent nature.
Four days from now the Supreme Court will convene in full to hear the oral arguments of the petitioners against the MoA-AD led by local officials of North Cotabato and Zamboanga City (possibly joined by Senator Roxas who is filing a motion to intervene today) and the reply from government as represented by Solicitor General Agnes Devanadera, armed presumably with the inputs from the negotiating panel of Malacanang, Justice Secretary Raul Gonzales, and presidential legal adviser Sergio Apostol.
Last week legal eagles like retired Justice Isagani Cruz and Dean Raul Pangalangan also detailed their reservations against the MoA-AD.
I do not know if the two gentlemen will be asked by the Supremed Court to submit briefs and appear as amicus curiae on the 15th of August but we do pray their views will also get factored into the raging national debate.
This writer is not a lawyer. But I am a Filipino and a taxpayer so I hope I am equally entitled to say how I feel.
I think Mrs. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo is about to commit or may have already committed treason against the Republic.
Source: Filipinovoices.com
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