Tuesday, October 16, 2007 Editorial: No position to demand
THE National Government, specifically the Arroyo administration, is right for once in rejecting the obvious safety ploy of the National Democratic Front (NDF), one third of the unholy trinity that is the Communist Party of the Philippines-NDF-New People's Army (CPP-NDF-NPA) to resume the peace talks just when the communist NPA rebels have again demonstrated their brazen and shame-faced attitude by raiding a couple of police precincts among their other despicable acts.
Their latest brazen escapade had to do with torching the heavy equipment of a wood and paper firm in some Mindanao province and following it up with a press statement denouncing the company for its alleged malpractices and corruption.
They stretched their forked tongues further by extending their denouncement to the US-Arroyo regime or whatever administration is in power at the moment and inviting the people to a revolution, blah, blah, blah and so on monkey crap ad nauseum.
People are getting tired with the local communist movement's duplicity to attack first and ask for breaks later, though one observes there is a pattern to their homicidal madness. Usually they pressure talks whenever something big is happening, then they withdraw for self-proclaimed reasons of righteousness, thereby portraying themselves as (false) saviors of the people.
National Security Adviser Norberto Gonzales was right when he said it is the communists and not the national government that should prove themselves worthy or deserving of being invited to the peace talks.
Their cowardice and duplicity in pushing for peace talks while waging war on the government could only be described as nothing less than sheer sanctimonious hypocrisy.
And they even have the gall to manipulate and demand the Filipino people to support them in their insidious agenda to take over the country by any means necessary, even if it means selling their souls to their master in Amsterdam who hides behind the skirts of the Dutch legal system while firing off potshots at the National Government like the coward that he is.
Unless and until they stop their acts of terrorism, these communist maggots don't deserve to be given the light of day for peace talks with the national government and everytime their armed component goes to war with soldiers of the Republic, they should be meted the full might and measure of the law under this country's Constitution.
Otherwise they simply invited themselves into a world of pain and trouble by waging a fruitless war against the national government, wasting the lives and efforts of their underlings while sourcing their funds from hapless donors and groups they managed to fool into doing their bidding.
