Salute to Morong 43 and appreciation all concerned and optimism for the GRP-NDFP Peace Negotiations

Salute to Morong 43 and appreciation all concerned and optimism

for the GRP-NDFP Peace Negotiations*

Prof. JOSE MARIA SISON
Chief Political Consultant, NDFP Negotiating Panel
December 19, 2010

I wish to salute the Morong 43 health workers for their perseverance in fighting for their rights and for a just cause. I congratulate them for their successful struggle and release. I am confident that their unjust imprisonment has strengthened their resolve to serve the exploited and impoverished people and render health services to them. I wish them still greater success in their noble endeavor.

I appreciate the lawyers who ably and steadfastly defended them and the millions of people and all the organizations and personages in the Philippines and abroad who clamored for the release of the Morong 43. I congratulate all of them, including the Deputy Speaker Lorenzo Tanada III and the senior statesman former Senator Wigberto Tanada, who visited the NDFP Negotiating Panel sometime ago and pledged to work for the release of the Morong 43 and all political prisoners.

I wish to express appreciation to GRP President Benigno Aquino III for his order to withdraw the false charges against the Morong 43 health workers, thus paving the way for their release. He heeded the longrunning public clamor for their release and adhered to his own expressed conviction that any fruit of the poisoned tree cannot be tolerated in the case of the Morong 43.

The prospects are looking bright for the forthcoming preliminary talks between representatives of the GRP and NDFP negotiating panels from January 14 to 18, 2011 in view of the GRP's show of respect for the safety and immunity guarantees for NDFP negotiating panel chairperson Luis Jalandoni during his current Manila visit, the current ceasefire between the armed forces of the GRP and NDFP and the release of Morong 43.

The preliminary talks are meant to pave the way for the resumption of the formal talks in the GRP-NDFP peace negotiating on February 15 to 21, 2011 by setting the agenda, ensuring further compliance with the Joint Agreement on Safety and Immunity Guarantees and other existing agreements and agreeing on goodwill and confidence-building measures, including the long-expected release of political prisoners.

Millions of people and respected organizations and personages in the Philippines and abroad have called for the release of the political prisoners, especially in the aftermath of the release of close to 400 military prisoners and the Morong 43. The NDFP negotiating panel is hoping that the Aquino government is already preparing the way for the release of the political prisoners.

* Url:http://theprwcblogs.blogspot.com/2010/12/salute-to-morong-43-and-appreciation.html

Freedom without justice is useless!

Freedom without justice is useless!

Regarding the status of the Morong 43, the military, and Noynoy Aquino's trashing of accusations due to insufficient evidence

by Lualhati Madlangawa Guererro

Lat year, 43 health workers, including doctors, nurses and midwives, were arrested on a Saturday morning. These practitioners felt the agony as they endure the maltreatment, torture, and accusation made by the fascists simply because for the enemy, they are "Terrorists."

Yes, as Colleagues and relatives of the imprisoned said that the imprisoned 43 health workers were holding a health training and seminar, while the military insisted that they were NPA members and were caught in the act of making explosives and other related acts just to justify their capture and detainment in Camp Capinpin in Rizal.

These health workers are simply conducting trainings in regards to health in ensuring the well being of the people-they are also simply preferring to involve in a community health service program instead of the usual migrating to other countries in search of a better job like in US or in Canada. How come the military, for being hysterical same as its allies simply looked at them as Terrorists?

One right-wing group even created some statements justifying that they are Terrorists, members of the New Peoples Army or whatsoever just to justify their incarceration. From forced confessions and other related acts, they look upon to it as the truth-thanks for the torture and threat made by the soldiers, forcing them to tell that they are rebels!

But still,

Despite the pain endured, hope for their freedom remains as people sympathized with their plight- as these prisoners, accused for a crime not being committed, or rather say for being activists and wanting to practise their profession as community health service providers, wanted to pursue their professions wholehartedly in the communities wherein hospitals are far distant, or other medical providers seldom visited. They are even simply just progressives as they, wanting change in a community or even the nation itself, willing to contribute something that is closer to the people-like the barefoot doctors in China or the Peace Corps as examples.

They even resorted to hunger strikes as a means of protest in achieving justice as the military, being an oppressive being used to block their means to achieve their freedom. Some of the imprisoned are pregnant and gave birth in prisons or in heavily guarded hospitals yet, they are prohibited in taking care of their offspring off bars. Isn't it desperate for the enemy that they are denying their captives rights aside from torturing them, accusing them as rebels, anything that can be detrimental to their lives, their health.

There are even individuals, just like the military, even criticized, or rather say assailed the 43 subjectively like those of their armed counterparts-aside from accusing them as terrorists, as rebels or communists, wanting them to die as possible:

"I say, let them go on hunger strike, that's their choice. That should not be the means to their freedom. It would be foolish for the government to give-in to them because they are falling one after another like flies.

It's their choice. Let them die. Frustrated bombers!

Continue the hunger strike... and then what die? ... Fools! You are just making the job for the military a lot easier. The government should not give in, let them die. Its their choice after all."

Well...

Their foul-mouthed sentiments are as if like those of the Nazis or individuals loyal to Pinochet since those regimes created martyrs, affected, survivors chanting for justice against officials who tortured, maltreated, and even falsely accused them. After all, if one of them die, are they enjoying their statement if fulfilled? To them, these people are not political prisoners, but mere criminals who deserved to die regardless of their cause, innocence.

Speaking of the latter quote, he even said that "let the courts decide, to have a due process" but how come he wanted the courts to decide and to have a due process as he opposed attempts for amnesty? Due process to those who denied the right to due process when they were arrested and charged with illegal possession of firearms and explosives?

And as time goes by, some of them fell sick and thin until they broke their fasting on the day their cases being opened. The enemy again, and its allies created counterstatements, justifications in regards to their incarceration yet failed due to the statements coming from parents, relatives, friends who sought the results coming from their beloved's plight as accused, tortured, maltreated prisoners denied of justice.

As according to the news made last December 5, said:

"According to Rivera, some of the detainees now need medical attention, citing the case of Jane Balleta who suffered an epileptic seizure Saturday night. Dr. Merry Mia Clamor, one of the detainees, reported to Rivera that there were no available medical personnel from the jail management to attend to Balleta.

Rivera said other health workers on hunger strike are also experiencing dizziness and headache.

“Both male and female Morong detainees are determined to go on hunger strike and we respect that. We hope that Warden Clemente would be responsible enough and accept that we are willing enough to provide medical services we know their facility may not be able to provide," Rivera said.

These are the products of denying justice, of torture and maltreatment. Again, will those who continue accuse and assail kept on accusing them, remain aloof?

Well...

Last December 10, President Noynoy Aquino, in his speech during the Human Rights Day, said that his administration recognizes that the "Morong 43" were denied the right to due process when they were arrested and being charged with illegal possession of firearms and explosives according to the military. As he said:

"As a government that is committed to the rule of law and the rights of man, this cannot stand. Therefore, I have ordered the DOJ to withdraw the informations filed before the court. This will in effect, subject to court approval, free those among them who have no other standing warrants in other courts," he said at the celebration of the 62nd Anniversary of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights.

Let this be a concrete example of how our administration is working in the broad light of day to build a country where the law protects us equally. The culture of silence, injustice and impunity that once reigned is now a thing of the past."

If so, then good as the detained would be possibly be freed and embrace freely their families and continue their willingness to become community health service professionals in the every province, ghetto, or other communities without proper health care. That is freedom with justice to the accused individuals who are simply doing something just for the people since freedom without justice for the accused is useless-freedom that is, merely in the papers, propaganda fodder.

But then, despite the possible warm embraces and fresh air in their noses, there should be a higher degree of people's vigilance as the enemy would create something nastier than their "legitimate" action. We must remember the past wherein they did something extrajudicial like the killings of Olalia and Alay-ay, of Lean Alejandro and others who, being activists, progressives, especially once-imprisoned individuals then freed, end up killed, disappeared for their cause.

After all,

Freedom without justice for the political prisoners is useless!

CPP welcomes Aquino order for release of Morong 43

CPP welcomes Aquino order for release of Morong 43*

Communist Party of the Philippines

December 11, 2010

The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) today welcomed President Benigno Aquino’s order for the Department of Justice to withdraw charges against the Morong 43 as a boost of goodwill for the forthcoming resumption of peace negotiations.

Formal peace negotiations between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) are scheduled to resume in February 2011, in Oslo, Norway.

The withdrawal of charges against the Morong 43 is expected to be finalized by the DOJ on Monday and pave the way for the immediate release of the detained health workers. Aquino’s order came weeks after repeatedly insisting that he cannot do anything except to await the court’s action, despite recognizing defects in the arrest of detainees and despite the fact that they have yet to be brought to court.

“The CPP and the revolutionary forces congratulate the Morong 43, their families, colleagues and supporters for their tenacious struggle and outstanding victory. These serve as inspiration in the fight of thousands of other victims of military abuses to defend their rights and in the effort to seek redress for the grave injustices inflicted on them by the puppet reactionary state and its fascist forces.”

“The victory won by the Morong 43 demonstrates the power of the people’s vigorous struggle in defense of their human rights,” the CPP said further. “The detained health workers’ long and persistent struggle marked by their recent hunger strike combined with the overwhelming nationwide and worldwide support for their cause exerted intense pressure on the Aquino government to act on their release.”

CPP maintained that “there is still much to be done by the GRP in redressing the various injustices and cruelties committed against the Morong 43, and in seriously addressing the continuing widespread human rights abuses by its Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), police and paramilitary forces. There are a thousand more steps that the Aquino government needs to do to in the face of the worsening human rights conditions in the country.”

“There is first of all the need to repudiate the long-standing militarist and antipeople mindset and methods of the reactionary state and its military and security forces in confronting the people’s armed and non-armed resistance to prevailing anti-people policies,” said the CPP.

“It is not enough for Aquino to just mouth the rhetoric of ‘upholding human rights’ without carrying out decisive measures to check and punish the abuses. Otherwise, these rhetoric will only serve to mask the bloody and terrorist execution of the puppet state’s Oplan Bantay Laya which he extended to the end of the year, even as the AFP prepares for another campaign framed in US Counter-insurgency Guide.”

“The grave injustice against the Morong 43 must be corrected by punishing the officers and forces of the 2nd Infantry Division who carried out the illegal arrest, torture and intimidation of the detainees from the time of the raid of the latter’s health seminar in Morong, Rizal to their detention and sufferings in Camp Capinpin,” said the CPP.

“Aside from the Morong 43, some 400 more political detainees continue to languish in jails and military camps, including a number of NDFP consultants whose rights under the Joint Agreement for Security and Immunity Guarantees (JASIG) and the Comprehensive Agreement on Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law (CAHRIHL), as well as the puppet reactionary state’s own human rights laws, have been disregarded and violated,” the CPP added.

The CPP called for decisive steps to put an end to the continuing extrajudicial killings and climate of impunity that have already claimed at least 22 victims since Aquino took office.

The CPP pointed out that the recomendations of UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Kilings Philip Alston, which found the government and its military, security and paramilitary forces responsible for the widespread campaign of extrajudicial killings and terrorism in the past regime, “continue to apply under the current regime.”

* Url:http://beta.philippinerevolution.net/statements/cpp-welcomes-aquino-order-for-release-of-morong-43?sms_ss=facebook&at_xt=4d032cfb37cd7a71,0

AFP, stupid in saying NDFP support for Morong 43 proves the detainees' NPA membership--CPP (NDF)

AFP, stupid in saying NDFP support for Morong 43

proves the detainees' NPA membership--CPP*

December 07, 2010

The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) today denounced the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) for claiming that the very support of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) for the fight for freedom of the Morong 43 detainees proves that the latter are members of the New People’s Army (NPA).

“This claim voiced by the spokesperson of the Philippine Army is outrightly stupid and ludicrous,” said the CPP. “If we follow his idiotic logic, then Ninoy Aquino, the father of their current Commander-in-Chief, should also be called a communist because his demand for freedom under the Marcos dictatorship was supported by the NDFP and the revolutionary forces.”

“The Army spokesperson might as well tag Cory Aquino as well as innumerable others as communists because they cooperated with the CPP, the NDFP and the revolutionary forces in the struggle against the Marcos fascist dictatorship. Cory even freed hundreds of cadres and members of the CPP, NDFP and NPA right after the fascist dictatorship was finally overthrown,” pointed out the CPP.

The Morong 43 are health workers who were arrested in February 6 this year at a resort in Morong, Rizal by government soldiers belonging to the AFP’s 2nd Infantry Division. The health workers were undergoing training in community health work when they were arrested.

The AFP claimed, however, that the arrested health workers are NPA members who were then undergoing training in bomb-making, and even crudely planted “evidence” to substantiate the claim. “The AFP has now resorted to such stupid public statements knowing full well that their evidence will not stand in court.”

Philippine President Benigno Aquino III admitted a few weeks ago that the arrest warrant served by the soldiers was indeed defective and the legal basis for the arrest and detention was untenable, as pointed out by his Justice Secretary and many others. To date, however, he has not lifted a finger to cause the release of the detainees.

“The CPP and revolutionary forces support the democratic rights of the people against abuses and injustice committed by the AFP and other reactionaries, whether or not the victims are members of the CPP, NDFP, or NPA,” said the CPP. Many other organizations in the country and abroad have been openly supporting the call for the release of the Morong 43.

The CPP reiterated that the call to release the Morong 43 “is not at all a precondition for the resumption of formal peace talks. It is, however, an unconditional demand to put an end to continuing injustice, and in particular to the injustice being hoisted on the detainees.”

“The call for the release of the Morong 43 has been echoed the world over by those interested in the redress of injustice against the victims as well as by those who favor the forthcoming peace talks. By releasing the Morong 43, as well as the more than 400 other political detainees, the Aquino government is challenged to show that it upholds the Comprehensive Agreement on Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law (CAHRIHL),” said the CPP.

“On the other hand, if the Aquino government continues to detain the Morong 43, it will no doubt remain a thorn on the side of the peace process, and would cast doubts about the Aquino government’s determination to uphold past as well as any future agreement in the peace talks,” said the CPP.

“The Aquino goverment will further show itself to be hard-hearted and cruel if it ignores the ongoing hunger strike of the Morong 43 detainees and lets them suffer, get sick and risk their lives in their fight for justice and freedom,” added the CPP.

*http://beta.philippinerevolution.net/statements/afp-stupid-in-saying-ndfp-support-for-morong-43-proves-the-detainees-npa-membership-cpp

Bayan calls on Aquino admin to review cases of Morong 43 after mom and child brought to Bicutan jail

Bayan calls on Aquino admin to review cases of Morong 43
after mom and child brought to Bicutan jail

by Bagong Alyansang Makabayan

August 19, 2010

The umbrella group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) today denounced what it described as the "inhumane" transfer of political detainee Judilyn Oliveros and her three-week-old son from the Philippine General Hospital (PGH) to the police's Camp Bagong Diwa in Bicutan, Taguig City. Bayan also said Oliveros and her son's transfer underscores the need for the government to review the cases filed against the "Morong 43."

Oliveros was led out of the Philippine General Hospital on a wheelchair and in handcuffs. She was not able to carry her baby on the trip during the transfer.

Oliveros is one of the health workers collectively known as the “Morong 43,” who were arrested last Feb. 6 on the basis of a defective warrant while holding a Community First Responders’ Health Training in Morong, Rizal. They were detained at the military’s Camp Mateo Capinpin in Tanay, Rizal, where they were subjected to inquest proceedings without counsel. They face charges of illegal possession of firearms, illegal possession of explosives, and violation of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) gun ban. Several of them have told of having been tortured while at Camp Capinpin. They were transferred to Camp Bagong Diwa on May 1.

Oliveros, a first-time mother, gave birth by Caesarian section at the PGH on July 22. She had been nursing her son in a room there under guard. It is not known whether the Bureau of Jail management and Penology (BJMP) has set up facilities for Oliveros and her son at Camp Bagong Diwa.

The lawyers of the “Morong 43,” led by Romeo Capulong of the Public Interest law Center (PILC) and the National Union of People’s Lawyers (NUPL), have filed a petition for Oliveros’s release on recognizance to allow her to breastfeed her son for at least six months.

State Prosecutor II Romeo Senson, the same prosecutor who subjected the 43 health workers to “inquest,” had filed a motion to oppose the petition. But Justice Secretary Leila de Lima has expressed support for the non-separation of Oliveros from her son, and ordered the withdrawal of Senson's motion.

Morong Regional Trial Court Judge Gina Escoto, however, denied the petition of Oliveros's lawyers.

"What happened at the Philippine General Hospital was cruel," Bayan secretary-general Renato Reyes Jr. said. "Mother and child should not have been brought in an unsafe facility. The handcuffing of a mother on a wheelchair is also too much,"

"The transfer of Oliveros and her son to Bicutan highlights the urgent need for the government, through the Department of Justice (DoJ), to review the cases filed against the 43 health workers," Reyes said. "Another 'Morong 43' detainee, Mercy Castro, is scheduled to give birth in October. The longer the cases against the 43 are not reviewed, the more it becomes possible for the fate of Oliveros and her son to be repeated."

Bayan urged the Morong RTC to reconsider its decision of sending Oliveros and her ch ild back to jail. “Both should be released on humanitarian grounds. All 43 detainees should be released because the charges against them are false and the arrests made were illegal,” Reyes said.

Judilyn Oliveros of the Morong 43 is taken from the hospital and returned to the BJMP detention facility in Bicutan. She is handcuffed and brought out on a wheelchair. She is unable to hold her newborn baby. The Morong RTC denied her motion for release despite the DOJ's withdrawal of its opposition. Both mother and child are now inside the Bicutan facility. Photo by Dr. Geneve Rivera, HEAD

US nurses group ask: Free Morong 43

US nurses group ask: Free Morong 43*

MANILA, Philippines—National Nurses United (NNU), a 150,000-strong organization of registered nurses based in the United States, asked the Philippine government to release the 43 health workers who were arrested in Morong, Rizal.

NNU, through its co-presidents Deborah Burger, Karren Higgins, and Jean Ross, also wrote US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, making the same call and stressing that the arrest and continuing detention of the so-called Morong 43 are illegal and constitute human rights violations.

In a news release, the health organization also posed their deep concerns on how dedicated health workers are being treated in a country where a lot of medics are forced to leave because of the lack government support.

NNU commended the efforts of the 43 health workers and particularly mentioned Gary Liberal, a fellow nurse and an operating room nurse from Jose Reyes Memorial Hospital who is also the National Auditor of the Alliance of Health Workers (AHW), a recognized union of healthcare workers in the Philippines.

Earlier, the National Council of Churches also asked Clinton to investigate the case of the 43 health workers.

Dr. Eleanor Jara, one of the spokespersons of the Free the 43 Health Workers Now! Alliance, says their organizations are very pleased with the overwhelming support—from support letters, mobilizations, here and abroad, including fasting and other symbolic actions.

“This outpouring of support is a great source of inspiration to all the detainees, their relatives, and all their colleagues and everyone working for their release.”

Dr. Merry Mia-Clamor, one of the two physicians among the 43, writing from detention also expressed her gratitude on the support coming from around the world.

Among the organizations who have earlier expressed their support include Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights (WGNRR), Red Mundial de Mujeres por los Derechos Reproductivos Réseau Mondial de Femmes por les Droits Reproductifs (Netherlands), Organizing Centre for Social and Economic Justice (Canada), Health Care Without Harm-Southeast Asia, Kasammako (Korea), Peoples Health Movement, and other international human rights and religious organizations.

*Originally posted in Inquirer, Url:
http://globalnation.inquirer.net/news/breakingnews/view/20100401-261967/US-nurses-group-ask-Free-Morong-43

Open Letter to UP Mass Communication Students Administrative staff and Alumni

Open Letter to UP Mass Communication Students Administrative staff and Alumni

Jaqueline Gonzales is one of the 43 health workers arrested in Morong, Rizal and is now detained by the AFP. Fellow Masscom students, Jaq is a former Chairperson of the College of Mass Communication Student Council. We remember her as the student leader who constantly fought for our rights and against tuition fee hikes and other exorbitant fees. We saw her in the streets fighting against corruption and the tyranny of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. We were not surprised when she decided to become a fulltime community organizer in the countryside.

The AFP claims that the 43 arrested are hardcore members of the New People’s Army. We say Jaq’s only guilt is caring for the oppressed masses and being a staunch critic of the GMA administration. Whether they are members of the NPA or not is irrelevant. No one has a right to illegally arrest, physically nor emotionally abuse anybody for any reason at all.

Fellow MassComm students, this is a time when our solidarity is most needed. We must condemn the illegal arrest of Jaq and the 42 other health workers. We must call for their immediate release. We urge Journ students to write reports and articles on this issue. We call on Broadcast majors to talk about it in your organizations, classes and peers. We urge Communication Research students to conduct studies involving similar atrocities and injustices brought about by this regime. We urge film students to shoot documentaries or create short film clips calling for their release. We call on every MassComm Professors, lecturers, administration staff and alumni to be involved in calling for the immediate release of the 43 health workers.

Free Jacqueline Gonzales!
Free the 43 health workers!
Stop Gloria’s regime of fascism!




Armin Adina
Chairperson, UP College of Mass Communication Student Council
AY 1997-1998

Khei J. Sanchez
Chairperson, UP College of Mass Communication Student Council
AY 1998-1999

Kristine Clare Bugayong
Chairperson, UP College of Mass Communication Student Council
AY1999-2000

Emil James Mijares
Chairperson, College of Mass Communication Student Council
AY2001-2002 Archie Padalhin

Josser Alex Quilendrino
Chairperson, College of Mass Communication Student Council
AY2002 - 2003

Archie Padalhin
Chairperson, College of Mass Communication Student Council
AY2003-2004

ENOUGH THIS STUPIDITY! FREE THE MORONG 43!

ENOUGH THIS STUPIDITY! FREE THE MORONG 43!

Last February 6, 2010, 43 health practitioners and volunteers were abducted by the fascist military in the town of Morong in the province of Rizal. This desperate action made by the fascist military thugs is a part of a "counter-insurgency" action made to destroy the revolutionary forces in the Philippines.

According to the statement made by the Health Alliance for Democracy, a progressive leaning organization for health workers and practitioners:
"Around 300 soldiers and police of the Southern Luzon Command of the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Rizal Philippine National Police and headed by Colonel Aurelio Baladad and Police Superintendent Balonglong, respectively, forcibly entered the farmhouse of Dr. Melecia Velmonte around 6:15 this morning. The training participants were then lined up, frisked, blindfolded, and forcibly brought to Camp Capinpin, headquarters of the 202nd Infantry Brigade, AFP."

For sure this kind of action made by the fascist thugs are seemingly also creating fabricated reasons as a "proof" that they are terrorists. And according to theirs:
"...one of the arrested NPA, Valentino Paulino or "Ka Beloy" already confessed that he and the 42 others were members of guerilla movement that even his two (2) companions were amongst who hostage a police inspector sometime in 2009. This was published by Jocelyn Uy in the February 11 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer entitled, “Self-confessed NPA says he, 42 health workers are rebels."
And thus,
these shows how the fascist military thugs creating a fabricated action wherein calling them as rebels and in a pretext of "urging them to return to the fold of law", creating false "confessions" and forcing them to say to the abducted as a fact. This desperate action for sure may call it as a ploy and a means to underestimate and generalize the progressive leaning health practitioners as rebels. With some fabricated causes, justifying their illegal action, as what the fascists said:
"...Their charges includes three counts of illegal possession of firearms, three counts of violation of the Commission on Election gun ban and one count of illegal possession of explosives. Several firearms and explosives were also seized from the group during the arrest..."

Well...
Being a progressive or rather say a "left-leaning" individual won't make you a terrorist. And for sure living in a democratic country means to say that we need to respect each other's views and yet the fascists, in a pretext of "saving the republic and protecting democracy" do illegal means to conclude these progressive leaning persons as terrorists! And for sure we all remind of the case, Burgos vs. Chief of staff, wherein Burgos was imprisoned for a mere cause of having subversive documents and yet without any warrant of arrest (with a cause) to justify in capturing him! Same as the Morong 43 who are captured without any cause but of a mere allegation of "colliding with the enemy" and of "having firearms" which in fact not but of a fascist ploy! In short: these feeble minded fascists are as stupid as ever, if they want to be an emissaries of peace, of seriously undertaking peace and willing to enter a parley, then enough this stupidity!

Imagine, doing an illegal abduction in a pretext of arrest? Of doing fabricated reasons and ploys to call them as terrorists? Then who's the terrorist then? The ones who provide health or the ones who provide death?

And out of this kind of action the fascists being undertaken, the progressive peoples both Philippines and of the world are strongly condemned this desperate kind of action the military hath set. Of blaming these progressive health practitioners, who served the poor for free as terrorists, same as those who experienced these kind of actions that affected the rest of the people not only here but also around the world.

SEEING "RED" AGAIN?

SEEING "RED" AGAIN?

Years after the Manila Times writeup "Seeing Red", there comes another wave of red-baiting and witch hunting, of seeing "red" again after Martial Law and succeeding eras in the Philippines. This writeup also tackles how people, blinded too much by propaganda seemingly reviving another batch of McCarthyites trying to bring back the nation in a state of "national blame" towards the "Communist-Terrorists" (stressing as what they say so). And how are they trying much in creating fabricated truths.

I remember last time reading a comment from a policeman saying "If you don't vote for Palparan you are a pro-communist." And for sure we all know that former AFP general Jovito Palparan was known for being a rabid anti-communist, especially of his extra-judicial tactics all in the name of "democracy" as he and others may say, that all communists are murderers, killers, thieves, anything deregatory against them all for the sake of "democracy", "peace", or even "defending the system."

As what I expect,

It all reminds of the Manila Times writeup. Of blaming communists for anything else against the country, for sure they know how to blame towards without any reason at all and insisting on the "crimes" the left they've committed during the past and being rectified as errors like those of the purges and other actions that made the communist movement in a state of crisis! But then blaming the left in general seemed to be a paranoia for the right since they wanted to "cleanse the nation out of communists, or rather say all the left-including social democrats even like those of their allies like the Philippine Democratic Socialist Party! If that's the case, then they are like devouring their own too as they wanted no left, no red, no commie, no socialist in a democratic land!

Somehow in this kind of idea, it is as if they ought to blame and wanting to join the fray of "killing them" a la Indonesia during the Soeharto era. Since they, like Palparan, Alcover and their cohorts wanted that, of blaming them for lawlessness, poverty, high prices of food and commodities, of compartmentalized justice and of the likes of it, while at the same time bannering their populist rhetoric borrowed from the "left" like those of Norberto Gonzales and even the apologists who originally the ones who instigated the crimes while during their "left days!" So what's the use of blaming the left while at the same time coddling with their left-leaning allies? Isn't it questionable-like blaming the insurgency instead of the system they protecting for poverty?

According to ANAD, im its press statement issued in time for the 41st founding anniversary of the CPP, said:
"Insurgency breeds poverty and not the other way around, In provinces where CPP-instigated insurgency is pronounced, poverty incidence is also high. The stronger the communist insurgency, the higher is the poverty...The CPP is partly to be blamed if the Philippine economy is stagnating all these years.
The vicious cycle of ignorance and poverty, and vice versa, is the very situation that the CPP is feeding on since the inception of the communist insurgency movement on Dec. 26, 1968.
Many Filipinos are ignorant because they are poor. Conversely, they are poor because they are ignorant."

Well...
In their message, it shows how these right-wingers tend to be too McCarthyist in what they are saying otherwise they also tend to show proofs that they preferred defending a rotten, corrupt system they're benefiting which is also the ultimate root of poverty, which is also the root insurgency and not on the other way around as what they said so! If Filipinos are ignorant because they are poor and vice versa, then who is benefiting from their ignorance? The Communists? The Muslim separatists? Or the Corrupt officials? The Traditional Politicians? the Landlords and the Comprador Bourgeoisie?

How about the peasantry?

For years the peasant war has been a part of our society and for sure the government and the right-wingers who supported tried much to gain support from the peasantry by its variety of "land reform" programs while at the same time enjoying the benefit from the landlords who tend to oppress these people! Worst was that some right-wingers also joined the caravan of the "Left" through its extended agrarian reform with reforms as they may say, and I notice that how come these right-wingers who are supposed to be rabid anti-left joined in the "left"-sponsored caravan? Why not create their own agrarian reform bill like those of Taiwan instead to curry support from the peasantry before the peasantry-dominated left whom they hated much successfully put their agrarian reform concepts in action as the peasant war continues in the 21st century?

And secondly, I notice that as they denounce communism and defending their actions, how come they didn't also accuse their allies, especially those who are as if having the law in their hands as they create a caravan of death against their "enemies" and insisting on blaming towards the left very much? Well... just like what I have read, just like Marcos and their successors, as more and more of them continues to do so, of oppressing innocents end even those who are in the left, legal or illegal didn't notice that more and more of them will rise from those who have been fallen, especially to those who are deeply affected by the atrocities made by theirs and insisting that their enemies made it, using recycled reasons as possible!

And once I also read an article made by a right-winger about the massacres in Maguindanao, and as what I expect, he, like those of the rightists, insisting that the Communists and not the warlord Ampatuan made the genocide, and seems that due to that kind of writeup he've made, he was trying to divert the people from the warlord and instead blame it rather to the Communists or even the Muslim separatists in Mindanao? Worst was that he tends to revive much of the incidents in the past and trying to connect with the present as a means to blame it further. Well... that man, as what I have said, thinks much of the past events the left made and now conceived as errors and never to be repeated as he kept on watching the news about the massacres made last November 23.

Since they continue doing so, it seems that blaming is part of their lives, blaming without analyzing the society in which makes the Philippines and other nations languish in poverty and insisiting much on insurgency as its root cause instead of what makes the poor into insurgents. Anyway, that's their choice of doing so, and perhaps all the dead right-wingers like Hitler, of Mussolini, of McCarthy, of Chiang Kai Shek, of Pinochet and Franco are starting to roll in their graves as they notice that their die-hard followers are doing the same tactics as theirs! And to make the long story short, seeing red all the times even those who wear Che Guevarra, of wearing Mao Caps, and blaming it to them too much is the root cause of their paranoia. Seeing "red" is not the way for progress and for alleviating poverty, especially in this so-called hell-ran goddamned democracy.

And if they continue so in blaming, what's next? Blaming the left-wing for the acts of god calamities? For the eruption of volcanoes and typhoons? Flashfloods and landslides? Oh god! If that's the case, they are really in an eternal state of paranoia same as their "left" allies than ever-of blaming, of seeing and of thinking "red" too much as if like hell.

ESCALATING ANTI-FASCIST STRUGGLE WITH TOTAL RESISTANCE

ESCALATING ANTI-FASCIST STRUGGLE WITH TOTAL RESISTANCE

As the oppression laid by the totalitarian fascists continue to escalate, there lies the opportunity to resist through by any means necessarily, especially against the oppressive measures laid upon against the vast majority of people, particularly those who are against the system itself. Somehow it also shows that in every oppressive policy and action lies the opposition to increase its number to strengthen the anti-fascist struggle.

And upon the events continuing, from the disappearances to the extrajudicial killings, massacres laid against the innocent, reprisals rise forth by the ranks of the resisting people-avenging every fallen whether it is an activist or not, trying to accelerate total resistance through a series of offensives against the enemy. And somehow upon escalating resistance resulting damages to the enemy, safeguarding the innocents is strictly enforced in order to prevent casualties amongst them, during and after every offensives against the enemy.

We all know that the enemy has a variety of tactics in order to submit the entire population into their will, whether by hook or by crook, the enemy continues to do so; not noticing that their actions create total anger and tendency to escalate resistance as possible. Thus, as what I have both expect and said it intensifies the resistance as more and more people joined the ranks of the struggle as well as creating more and more reprisals that inflicts much of the enemy's strength and power.

In fact,

Upon writing this, the growing fascist oppression, laid by the government and its paramilitary cohorts courtesy of the warlords, tries to curb the popular resistance posing as threat to the rotten system in itself. For sure we heard about the oppression laid against political prisoners, of tortures, forced disappearances, and perhaps even massacres that, in a fascist perspective may curb the growing ranks of the opposition, despite violations that have made against the fundamental law of the land and its supporting laws, they insist in calling it as a means to curb the problems of "terrorism," "insurgency," "subversion," "treason," and even "disloyalty."

But despite all of these, oppression intensifies opposition, it intensifies both political and armed resistance as the anti-fascist opposition strengthens and grows its own bulwark courtesy of the people. As more and more victims hath drawn into the ranks and purging the ones who corrupt the struggle. And just like the former writeups I discussed through, more and more protests and armed conflicts may arise and continue though despite the enemy's attempts to curb-either by hook or by crook, by voice or by the gun!

Anyway,

This writeup states and shows the people's will to resist the monsters being laid in the days of oppression, for sure that there are countless mass strikes and armed ones rising against the fascist scum totally. And thus it is unbreakable, and stronger to endure the pain the enemy may give to them. And the absolute call of the people fighting?

FATHERLAND OR DEATH!

PEACE LAND AND BREAD!

DEATH TO THE FASCIST SCUM!