“Doing things that could prevent the return to power of Duterte could do well to resuscitate American influence in this part of the globe”
THE core and substance of all independent states is to constantly uphold their independence as a nation.
Sovereignty is the substance that gives meaning to our right to exercise all that freedom embodied in the Constitution.
From a stricter Constitutional point of view, anything not provided in the Constitution automatically loses substance of enforceability.
Any citizen who wishes to enforce his right must refer to the Constitution, otherwise his right can be dismissed.
Such judgment stems not from the guilt or innocence of the person indicted or accused, but for the person indicted to be be tried within his jurisdiction.
In fact, indicting an accused can never be adjudged as equivalent to a fair trial by western standard.
By indicting Apollo Quiboloy in the US already constitutes a denial of his right to confront his accuser.
If one will sum up the case, such already constitutes a presumption of guilt for the accused. Such is the equivalent for the fact that the accused was denied to confront his accuser.
This now becomes a dilemma.
Before the trial proceeds to determine the guilt, the US Court assumes he is guilty of the crime lodged against him without the latter confronting his accusers.
The problem is those accused of these crimes are intruded to elicit public sentiment against them.
The crime for instance of sex trafficking is utterly biased against pastor Quiboloy. Sex trafficking is demeaning to one who claims to be a man of the Church.
This explains why our neighbor China looks at our political leaders as synch of subservient clowns by their former colonizers.
There is that double insult laced into the case against religious leader pastor Quiboloy.
I remember that the late father of today’s President, Ferdinand Edralin Marcos, worked hard to stretch our jurisdiction over crimes committed in this country by foreign forces, but today we completely reversed it.
Every state should civilly and diplomatically assert its sovereign right. This is the mark of its independence. Moreover, this is the only right embodied in the UN Charter.
Marcos fought to his death against American jurisdiction over his person and family, insisting he was kidnapped by the same cabal of traitors that now lord over the government of his son.
This bootlicking Marcos government wants to hand over the accused to the US government of his alleged crimes They found good reason why they want Quiboloy jailed for alleged sex trafficking and fraud.
What makes the case unusual is the interest of the US to indict pastor Quiboloy.
The US is eager to acquire jurisdiction over his case. The US and its local barker called Rappler are taking turns in maligning Duterte and his avid follower, Quiboloy. Because they see it as their way to make a revenge.
Duterte is a rabid anti-American and is anti-US bases.
Doing things that could prevent the return to power of Duterte could do well to resuscitate American influence in this part of the globe.
In the case of Quiboloy, locking him up with Duterte will slow down a religious rival like what they did to a religious leader who died in exile longing to return to this country.
Many believe that to hand over Quiboloy to US jurisdiction could facilitate the demand of the International Criminal Court to try our former president.
It is same reason why the opposition appears to be united, knowing the return of the Duterte administration could scuttle the ambitious plans of US imperialism in the South China Sea.
It is not that the US wants to resurrect their power in this part of the globe but for Americans to realize that history is both dynamic and speaks both of the truth, and the Duterte administration symbolizes US unilateralism has come to an end.
Gone are the days of the might of the US economic and trade sanctions; that today the NATO is unable to meet the challenges of an emerging empire, China. ([email protected])
