From Four Nodes of History: The Human Rights Challenge in the Philippine Security Sector neo Company had offered Rizal an unusual generous aid consisting of the lease or sale of the property for 999 years, of 100,000 hectares in Borneo where he can relocate his family and the 250 displaced families of Calamba, with an autonomous local government. Reformist or revolutionary? Rizal was never considered a reformist and Bonifacio as the revolutionary during the entire length of the revolution. Those who propositioned Rizal as a reformist omit the fact that after the Katipunan was organized, Arellano, Bonifacio and Mabini tried to revive La Liga Filipina. But squabbles between Bonifacio and Mabini on the issue of where the collected funds would be centralized (i.e., Katipunan or the center, which was MH del Pilar) led to its organizational demise. La Liga was part of a comprehensive plan in the conduct of the revolution. It was necessary to have an organization directed by free masons that could operate legally to organize the people on a nationwide scale, enabling Katipunan to have a reliable stable recruitment base. 36 • Rizal’s organization of a legal self-help organization, La Liga Filipina, in 1892, was another classic methodology used by liberal Free Masons prior to launching a revolution. However, friars already knew about this libertarian tactic and had Rizal arrested 4 days after he organized La Liga Filipina. c) Del Pilar, in coordination with Rizal’s La Liga efforts, developed the concept of organizing the Katipunan as an illegal organization that would work to overthrow the Spanish colonial regime. 2. How was Andres Bonifacio enlightened and introduced to revolution? Andres Bonifacio was the product of the initiatives of MH del Pilar and his associates that included Arellano and Mabini. Bonifacio became organizationally involved in the radical struggles of the liberals when he was initiated into the Ma-