Refocusing Perspectives

"Who else?" The man in solemn face stood before a crowd of hundreds. All seated inside a room oddly mixed with natural brown wood color and images of plants sophisticatedly framed to remind viewers of nature absent in the urban metropolis and whose silence is possibly enjoined only when all windows and doors are shut in absolute confinement for the moment.  The minds in that venue are centered on the horror of violence with increasing questions on culture of terror and that perceived decimation of political sensibilities or conviction that society can be changed for the better.  But this disquiet of collective thoughts grimaced as the man started. "I am a Muslim. I live in Taguig." And he spoke on and on and on. He was listened by a number of people of dissimilar faith but sharing the same cause. Peace. I wonder if the man who took the podium and spoke with costly mileage of television and cameras can speak the same way as that Muslim man from

Addressing the concerns of security management which directly affected the peace process and the passage of the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) is not the responsibility of the Catholic Bishop Conference of the Philippines. Photo sourced from Golden Rule's FB page. While peace advocates pressed that the Mamasapano incident should not be used to derail the readings and finalization of BBL; should not be confused by the lack of coordination among security forces in its anti-terror operation; and should not be confounded/abused by the emotional sentiments of survivors, it must be asserted too that such obvious operational miscalculation should be addressed by the National Security Council of the country. The legislative body's investigation for policy recommendation relating to security management should aid too in improving NSC operational policy and process in interdicting high-value targets. Concerns about national security are the job of the NSC and as such any policy recom