The Kampilan of the one Majority

THE KAMPILAN is a famous Moro long sword still in use by many Filipino-Muslims today. It was also the sword used by Lapu-lapu in his fight with Ferdinand Magellan in the Battle of Mactan 500 years ago. It is single edged and about 35 to 40 inches long, it has a handle that is made up of hardwood and the end is designed to look like the open mouth of a crocodile. It has a spikelet at the tip and is wide at the end and narrows down gradually to the hilt. It is comparable in strength and resilience in battle to the Japanese katana.
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The Kampilan is to be adapted as the honorary sword of the one Majority.

It symbolizes the exacting sharpness of the truth; truth that sunders the chains that bind our shared humanity to the lie that makes desolate our nations; truth that makes whole and sets free.

For the Kampilan that is wielded by the one Majority symbolizes peace; the one, ascendant peace that absolutely withstands war. It does not, shall not and will never symbolize war and the descendant gravity of war's ambition.

This honorary sword is to be awarded to honorary Filipino citizens, and natural-born or naturalized Filipino citizens who serve with nobility and distinction the cause of the one, indivisible peace.

Honorary citizenship unlike natural and naturalized citizenship can be stripped should the sacred honor that bind together the person and the particular distinction bestowed in good will by the one Majority be irreversibly violated.

I do not like identifying particulars but I shall make an exception here for the sake of good example. Let us take a certain R. M. who was correctly stripped of his knighthood by H. R. M. Elizabeth II, in the context of how we consider citizenship in this meditation, the dignity of that man has plummeted as astronomically as the inflation that he has helped cause in his own Country (not to mention all the deaths, past, present and future, to which he and his accomplices shall, as a leader of a nation, be held fully accountable for by the Justice of God in heaven with or without the help of the courts of the nations of mankind; death itself shall be the equation that shall square with all those who think that either the dust of the earth or the void of time can hide them from the Justice of God in heaven) and at present - in the context of our meditation on citizenship - is not worth the dignity of one, true Zimbabwean citizen, let alone any honorary title worth it's salt as British knighthood or the Kampilan of the one Majority.

In contrast, natural and naturalized citizenship can never be stripped, but it's distinction and therefore, the actual value of it's dignity as it is significantly recognized by the national community as a whole is completely dependent on how and how much the call of citizenship is answered by that particular individual.

Natural and naturalized Filipino citizenship is lifelong but it's true merit is directly reliant on active and lifelong participation in our common endeavor of Country.
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Prosper the Peace. Prosper the People.

Sancta Sanctis!

Glory to God in the highest
Adoration to Jesus Christ
Peace to men of good will.

Please refer to entry: On Further Understanding the Kampilan of the one Majority
Please refer to entry: On the Call to Citizenship