POST 9 ANG BATU CONTINUED

8:50 Manila time
August 11, 2009
HIJRAH 1430 Sha'ban 20
UP SHOPPING CENTER

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MAHARLIKA VILLAGE

Maharlika Village is symbolic of
our struggle to be a people of one
race of one spirit and of one nation
Here we shall live as our forebears
lived in the pat when we were but
a stream of the Malay race. A proud
and fiercely independent people
owing allegiance to no one but to
ourselves.

[F.E. Marcos
President of the Republic of the Philippines]
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MY COMMENT (MC):
THIS IS WHAT I WROTE DOWN ON A PIECE OF PAPER AFTER I COPIED WHAT I SAW & READ IN THE BRASS MARKER ATTACHED TO THE "IRM (ISLAMIC REPUBLIK OF MAHARLIKA) BATU" SOMETIME IN THE PAST. I THINK THE ORDER & NUMBER OF LINES IS EXACT BUT I THINK I DID NOT SEE ANY PERIODS OR COMMAS. I DID NOT NOTE THE DATE & TIME... I GUESS WE ARE NOT REALLY BORN-HISTORIANS... THIS IS ONE DIFFERENCE OF THE WESTERNERS WHO ARE TRAINED TO WRITE ABOUT WHAT THEY ARE DOING OR EXPERIENCING... THEY CLAIM OUR ANCESTORS HAD ONLY LEAF OR BAMBOO TO WRITE ON (THEY HAD ORIGINAL SYSTEM OF WRITING LIKE SURAT SUG/JAWI & ALIBATA/BAYBAYIN)... THE LAST TIME I CHECKED ON THE MARKER, IT WAS ALREADY GONE. MOST LIKELY STOLEN & SOLD TO JUNK DEALERS FOR THE PRICE OF THE BRASS. JUST LIKE THAT ORIGINAL FIRE HYDRANT IN FRONT OF U.P. DILIMAN PALMA HALL... WHOEVER PLACED THAT MARKER THERE MUST NOT REALLY HAVE BEEN THAT SERIOUS ABOUT IT DESPITE ITS INSPIRING & LOFTY LANGUAGE... "FIERCELY INDEPENDENT ... BUT TO OURSELVES." YET THEY COULD NOT PROTECT THE MARKER FROM SIMPLE THEFT/THIEVERY!!! I WONDER IF THEY HAD SOME OFFICIAL RITES WHEN THAT WAS INAUGURATED... I REMINDED THE SULTAN OF SULU ABOUT THE MARKER BUT IT SEEMS THEY HAVE NOT REALLY THOUGHT ABOUT IT... MAYBE IT WAS ONLY MARCOS'S OWN IDEA OR THAT OF ONE OF HIS ADVISERS... THAT MARKER & THE STONE SHOULD BE MEMORABLE FOR MALAYOLOGISTS... ANYWAY... ALSO, WHEN I PASSED THAT PLACE SOME WEEKS BACK WHEN THE INC HAD SOME MEDICAL OUTREACH THERE, I NOTICED THE STONE HAD SOME GRAFFITI... THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO HATE US THAT MUCH? WHO CAN HATE MALAYS THAT MUCH? BECAUSE OF OUR SKIN COLOR? BECAUSE OF THE RELIGION, ISLAM? I REALLY AM WONDERING HOW THE WESTERNERS, PARTICULARLY THE SPANIARDS & PORTUGUESE, THE BRITISH & THE DUTCH, & THE AMERICANS REGARD THE MALAYS TODAY... WAS THE STONE A NATURAL FORMATION OR DID THEY PUT IT THERE FROM SOMEWHERE?

TO BE CONTINUED (VERY IMPORTANT)

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