Did the Moros felt existentially threatened by American forces? Were these people ‚pushed‘ into fighting for so long because of existing American policies in the Phillippines?

I am watching an episode of The Rookie where there is a sovereign citizen. The citizen mentions 1871 which brought me to the Organic Act of 1871. This act brought us the District of Colombia.

With that, Sovereign’s believe that the US became an entity that year and thus everything is now invalid, yadda.

They believe this due to the mentioning of “municipal corporations.” I can not find the mention of it but know it is there within the 300+ page document. Could someone with more of a knowledge on the topic tell me what it means in this context? Obviously it doesn’t mean that the US Is a corporation of any sort.

Thank you!

I saw this similar post sa r/AskMen which was very timely because I'm kind of in a same situation, I just thought I'd post here para sa insights nyo.

Note: Women are also welcome to comment, pls help us understand why lol

Edit: Yes, this is a throwaway account to hide my identity.

What is the Philippines Data Privacy Act?

Republic Act No. 10173, otherwise known as the Philippines Data Privacy Act. This is a law that seeks to protect all forms of information, be it private, personal, or sensitive. It is meant to cover both natural and juridical persons involved in the processing of personal information.

What is Data Privacy?

Data privacy is the right of an individual not to have private information about himself disclosed. It is to live free from surveillance and intrusion.

All companies handle some form of personal information, from employee to client to end-user data. Thus, all companies are now responsible to protect confidentiality, preserve integrity, and promote the availability of data for authorized use.

How Do We Comply?

All personal data must be:

Collected with the customer’s proper consent.

Solely used for its intended purposes.

Have legitimate reasons for the collection that must be clear to both parties giving and receiving information. Be protected and secured from collection to proper disposal avoiding access from unauthorized parties.

Entering office lacking an iota of political experience, George Dewey has attempted to bring unity in the aftermath of the party splintering of 1900 and the Pacific War. Having appointed members of all four parties to his cabinet, Dewey has negotiated a plan for referendums in the Philippines, unsuccessfully worked to end prohibition, and called for an end to Chinese exclusion while taking a strong stance in defense of Venezuela during the Venezuealan Crisis, leading United States relations with Germany, Italy, Mexico, and the British Empire to decline. Meanwhile, a controversial statement by Justice John D. White in favor of "protecting temperance" in coming elections led him to become the fourth Supreme Court Justice in American history to be impeached, though President Dewey's opposition to the impeachment paved the way for a landslide acquittal in the Senate. With the economy seeing a period of historic growth, Dewey attempted to secure the passage of a lowering of tariff rates to no avail, eventually signing the compromise Beveridge Tariff, lowering tariff rates by 16% on average while maintaining a mildly protectionist approach. The boom nationally has not carried to all and Labor Secretary Terence V. Powderly was able to defuse what has become known as the Coal Strike of 1902, largest strike in American history up to this point, granting unions recognition by coal companies and workers a wage increase while obtaining only informal promises, rather than legal guarantees, of better working conditions.

In the aftermath of the coalition of Liberals and Federal Republicans that has captured congress and brought George Dewey to the presidency, the Federal Republican Party overall has shifted on the issue of prohibition, with anti-prohibition leaders such as Joseph G. Cannon returning to the political fore alongside rising star politicians such as Helen Taft. While the Federal Republican Party is nearly evenly split, the party's "wet" anti-prohibition faction seems poised to win primary contests with prohibitionist incumbents. Wet and dry Federal Republicans unite to campaign upon the party's longtime planks of moderation and opposition to railroad nationalization, maintaining both progressive and conservative factions, while the wet faction tends to include most of the party's anti-imperialists and the strongest supporters of President Dewey. The party as a whole remains protectionist, however, wet Federal Republicans include most of the party's supporte

INTRODUCTION

This post will attempt to explain the differences in how Filipinos and Indonesians see ethnicity and the nature of the two societies. A couple of years ago I did some posts on the Philippines and Indonesia like TL: DR Reasons for the failure of the Philippines’s foreign policy,

The post will be organized as follows

1. LATITUDINAL VS LONGITUDINAL ARCHIPELAGIC STATE
2. AUSTRONESIAN CORE
   1. ETHNICITY AS A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT
3. ETHNO-CULTURAL DIAGRAM
4. RELIGIOUS-CULTURAL LAYERS
5. MULTIPLE SOCIETIES VS MAINSTREAM FILIPINO SOCIETY
6. HIGHLAND AND LOWLAND SOCIETIES
7. BLOOD, LOCATION, AND CULTURE

Many, like Samuel Huntington's in his book Clash of Civilization (1996) label Indonesia as Islamic, and the Philippines as Western, but beyond these simple labels, people are left hanging. Little is done to describe the structure of the societies, how ethnic groups and religious minorities are organized. The four takeaways from this post are:

• Indonesia is a longitudinal archipelagic state-aligned by trade and a shared lingua franca. The Philippines is a latitudinal archipelagic state orientated loosely by trade with China, and later on, shared religion.
• In Maritime Southeast Asia, there are cultural layers, such as Sanskritization, Islam, and Christianity.
• The Indonesian state believes Indonesia consists of multiple societies. While most Filipinos and the Philippines state assume there is mainstream Filipino society.
• The Indonesian state defines ethnicity by blood and keeps detailed records of regions' ethnic composition. The Philippines' state doesn't keep such data.

This post will be the beginning of a series of posts I will do about Indonesia and the Philippines. The purpose of this particular post is to provide a very rough framework for looking at ethnicity, culture, and religion in Indonesia and the Philippines. I won't get into the "why", that will be for subsequent posts.

I decided to do this post, because Indonesia's importance to the Philippines is understated, and its importance will increase markedly after Indonesia moves its