IN his privileged speech Wednesday afternoon introducing the Basic Law of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region – the replacement for the fatally-flawed Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) President BS Aquino 3rd and his elitist accomplices in the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) tried to fob off on the rest of the rest of the nation – Senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. made a wry observation:

“For too long,” he said, “Mindanao has been somewhat dubiously referred to as the ‘land of promise.’ Aspirants for national offices, recognizing that in order to win elections on a national scale they must win in Mindanao, have promised the Sun, the Moon, and the stars to its people.”

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