INDEED, the CPP/NPA/NDF is not only baduy, obsolete and irrelevant but the epitome of hypocrisy as well.
Your clue: there are the slogans that they’ve been shouting and written on their placards since the 1970s everytime they conduct their “white operation” in the urban areas; passé, obsolete, totally out-of-sync with reality.
Here’s their favorite rhetoric (an oxymoron): the insurgency is a “people’s democratic revolution”. Since when is communism a democracy?
And speaking of hypocrisy…
The CPP/NPA/NDF accuses the government of being anti-poor, and the “useful idiots” rally on the streets calling for the government to genuinely address the root causes of poverty to resolve the armed insurgency.
In response, the government decides to do a holistic approach, creating the NTF- ELCAC as a “whole-of-government” approach which uses all the government bureaucracy to address the communist insurgency through barangay-based projects and improvement of social services to conflict-affected areas instead of a military-centric approach which the government had been using for decades.
As expected, the CPP/NPA/NDF through their party-list fronts in Congress screams for the NTF-ELCAC to be defunded. Why? Because this holistic approach through the barangay development programs works.
Due to the whole-of-nation approach of bringing development to far-flung areas and offering benefits to surrenderees and supported by sustained military operations, the military believes the New People’s Army (NPA) now has only 2,112 fighters left.
After 54 years of existence, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) said the communist rebel group, a local terrorist organization, suffered significant strategic losses. It lost a great number of guerrilla units, leaders and members.
The figures released by the AFP showed the NPA reduced to 2,112 members with 1,876 firearms, from 89 to 22 guerrilla fronts with 19 already classified as weakened.
There’s more. During the Dinagyang, playing the “victim card” the pseudo communists made noises about the presence of military vehicles and soldiers in Iloilo City claiming that they violated Mayor Jerry Treñas’ executive order prohibiting the conduct of “political activities” and militarization of the festival.
The military presence in Iloilo City is a deterrence and a last resort should there be a terror-related incident or breakdown in law and order. As usual the pseudo communists were arguing from a point of ignorance. It was really a non-issue.
This 54-year-old insurgency started by Joma Sison died with him in The Netherlands and the remnants are now into extortion and terrorism when ideology could no longer sustain their rebellion.
What is left stroking the dying embers of this so-called rebellion are the aging pseudo communist professors in the University of the Philippines that romanticized their fantasies into gullible students, turning them into “useful idiots” or “cannon fodder” for the CPP/NPA/NDF.
Meanwhile, I’ve always thought that the Philippine Collegian is a publication of the University of the Philippines, you know, campus journalism. I never realized that it’s the official newsletter of the CPP/NPA/NDF, another edition of “useful idiots” using government resources to undermine the government.
Finally, while having my usual caffeine fix in Starbucks, a young lady claiming to be an iskolar ng bayan said to me that she reads my columns in Panay News regularly and appreciates the sarcasm, but completely disagree with my comments on the leftists and the “wokes”.
She told me that she supports the CPP/NPA/NDF and would be happy if they, indeed, by some remote chance bring the government down.
I was curious but not entirely surprised at that statement, so I asked why she supports the CPP/NPA/NDF and wants them to bring this present government down, and if she’s aware that if the communists take over, we will lose this democratic space and way of life that we’re enjoying.
She replied, “When the CPP/NPA/NDF win they will not take over but instead immediately facilitate to install Leni Robredo as the rightful president of the Philippines.”
Critical thinking, my ass! But then again, some people believe in Santa Claus and the tooth fairy. The only drawback there is that our taxes are being spent to “educate” people like her./PN
