Who benefits from MOA

Every government has its own closet of skeletons. Each has its own tracks to cover, its own hidden agenda at one time or another. But this government, the Arroyo government especially, strikes a suspicious chord with every note in its often out-of-tune songs. The sin of omission of most journalists, again, especially in a country like ours where there is some story anywhere involving governance, is that we either touch an issue once and go or that we're too busy with other issues and there just isn't enough time in one lifetime to uncover them all or that it's "too complicated' or "not commercial enough" to even waste time on. 

 Having proven to myself how hidden agenda are a very real fact of life in a world increasingly, almost literally, cut-throat with less and less supply of almost anything ---- water, land, food, oil, even air ---- to go around with, I can't help listening to whatever story anyone has to say about anything. It's how we journalists often get to the truth, finally. I believe in ghosts, too. But while that may be near impossible to prove to someone else, there are other realities we don't need a séance for to uncover. Take, for example, current American interest in Mindanao. Now, some tunes just strike that logical chord it is difficult not to sing along. 

I didn't make the study myself and may end up quoting some friends who did follow the dates and trail of events, create the diagrams, connect the dots and make the presentation. So I decided to have Butch Valdes, CPA and Chairman of the LaRouche Society, Philippines, himself, as a guest author for the next few columns. He shares his views with other friends Pastor "Boy" Saycon and esteemed columnist Wlliam "Billy" Esposo who all, independently and from different groups, agree the issues surrounding the controversial Memorandum of Agreement between the Philippine government and the MILF are much more than meet the eye. And most of us, they say, are missing the point. And that's exactly how "they" want it.