Duterte’s ‘kidnapping’ and the role of the US ‘Deep State’

SOLICITOR General Menardo Guevarra chose to recuse his office from the consolidated ‘habeas corpus’ petitions filed by the children of former President Rodrigo R. Duterte because, according to him, the Office of the Solicitor General has “long maintained that the Philippines’ case is inadmissible before the ICC and that the international tribunal failed to timely exercise its jurisdiction.”

SolGen Guevarra argued, “Considering the OSG’s firm position that the ICC is barred from exercising jurisdiction over the Philippines and that the country’s investigative, prosecutorial, and judicial system is functioning as it should, the OSG may not be able to effectively represent Respondents in these cases and is constrained to recuse itself from participating therein …”

The Philippine government, the OSG explained, made the “sovereign decision” to withdraw from the Rome Statute in 2018 that took effect on March 17, 2019, and consistently adhered to the policy to reject any engagement with the ICC nor recognize any process involving the ICC after the country’s withdrawal from the pact.

It would be a blatant contradiction to accept the ICC’s and the Interpol’s interference now in the abduction of President Duterte.

This principled position taken by SolGen Guevarra is to be lauded no end, as it shows the consistency of the office and its leadership as it is today to be impervious to the politization of the office and strict avoidance of partisanship in a case so highly charged with public interest and legal consequences for the nation, particularly for the life and liberty of subject 79-years old former president, Rodrigo R. Duterte, and the 9 others reportedly included in the ICC case.

The BBM government is now saddled with an irresolvable dilemma created by the SolGen’s correct position.

Now, the government itself is insinuating to the SolGen that it’s time for him to remove himself, but the SolGen very wisely argued that the recusal was not a personal act but an institutional one. Hence, the SolGen lays the responsibility for his continuance in the service at the door of the President.

It is now being revealed that the government did not even have a ‘Red Notice’ from the Interpol neither a ‘Diffusion Order’ from the ICC as it initially claimed.

It turned out this “diffusion notice” came from the BBM government itself!

The noose around BBM and his gang is getting tighter and tighter. Why did Bongbong do this to himself, creating such a mess for himself by allowing the kidnapping of Duterte, as claimed by Vice President Sara Duterte and which appeared to have been given credibility from the details that came out from the Senate hearing chaired by Sen. Imee Marcos last March 20.

One ‘theory’ is that this tragic chain of events is part of the U.S. Deep State diktat to Marcos coursed through US chihuahuas Ed Año and Gibo Teodoro to Marcos and Jonvic Remulla.

It is like everything Marcos been doing the past two-years since February 2023 when he turned his back on the country’s ‘independent foreign policy,’ embraced the U.S., allowed the proxy war preparations, provoking China, creating the anti-Chinese hate mania, decoupling from China economically, manufactured instability, and internecine conflict.

We have seen this done to Ukraine stretching over two decades until war finally started, the same in Georgia, and now we are also seeing the destabilization of Romania, all using U.S. local proxies and chihuahuas.

I hope Filipinos can save themselves from such a fate.