Will anyone put a stop to Aquino’s madness?

THE arrogance with which President B.S. Aquino 3rd’s allies in the House of Representatives handled the debate and hasty approval of the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) on Monday did not really come as a surprise, but was nonetheless appalling for its breathtaking depravity.

No fewer than 14 amendments meant to correct the glaring constitutional infirmities in the BBL were summarily rejected by the ad hoc committee dominated the Aquino administration. And to add insult to injury, the draft selected for transmission to the full House plenary for a vote was not the one that resulted from several months’ of review by congressional staffers and a variety of outside experts, but a new draft of the BBL virtually identical to the original, and provided to the congressional committee by Malacañang over the weekend.