Showing posts with label martial law. Show all posts
Showing posts with label martial law. Show all posts

1.23.2011

“GOOD VERSUS EVIL”: SAAN PATUTUNGO?

Naala-ala n’yo ba yong yugto na ikinakasa pa lamang ang kandidatura ni Noynoy Aquino para Pangulo? Iba’t-ibang mga grupo noon ang nananawagan ng pagbabago. Naging sandalan pa ang pagpanaw ni dating-Pangulong Cory Aquino para mabuo ang nagkakaisang pwersa laban sa pangkat ng Lakas-NUCD-KAMPI ng Administrasyong Arroyo.
Kanya-kanya sila sa pag-agaw ng pampublikong atensyon. Maniobrahan sa poll survey at mga opinyon, higit sa lahat pagandahan sa pormulasyon ng mga islogan para makahatak ng malawak na suporta.

Naging paborable sa oposisyon ang klema ng kampanya hanggang pumasok na sa 90 days official campaign period. Pumatok ang taktika na “this is a fight between good and evil”. Ang kampo ng pagbabago ay “good” at ang sinumang haharang ay kampon ng “evil”. Kinakailangang tahakin ang “tuwid na landas”.

Hindi kampo ni Noynoy ang nauna sa kampanyang “good and evil tactics”. Una itong ginamit ni George Bush para maipinta ang sarili “as the only moralist alternative with broad ethical personality to solve the crucial crisis plaguing the American people”. Pero natapos lang ang Administrasyong Bush, hindi naibsan bagkus mas tumindi ang economic crisis sa Estados Unidos. Ang patakarang “good versus evil” ay walang nagawa para magkaroon ng matatag na estabilidad sa Afghanistan at Iraq.

Dalubhasang sinakyan lamang ng kampo ni Bush (noong ito ay nangangampanya) ang “emosyon” ng mga Amerikanong sensitibo para sa pagbabago at manalo sa eleksyon. At ‘yan din ang nangyari dito sa ating bansa!

Parang tele-serye, pero taal sa kaugaliang Pilipino ang pagka-emosyunal. Kung ihalintulad sa isang piging –napanis ang inihain na “galling at talino”, “ibalik ang pwersa ng masa”, “sipag at tyaga” at mas nangulelat ang “pagbabago, ngayon na - batay sa pananampalataya”.

Sa masinop na kumbinasyon ng mga pulpito (ng Simbahang Katoliko) at media, tumimo sa emosyon at damdamin ng nakakarami ang panawagan para sa “tuwid na landas”. At kahit walang klarong direksyon kung saan susuong ang paglalakbay, nanalo si Noynoy Aquino bilang Pangulo ng Republika.

Poko-mas o menus walong buwan matapos ang May 10, 2010 national and local elections, umiba na naman ngayon ang pihit-ng-hangin. Muli ang target: emosyon at damdamin ng sambayanang Pilipino para makabuo ng malawak na pwersang pam-presyur upang maisaktuparan ang mga pangakong napaloob sa panawagang “tuwid na landas”.

Sabi ng isang Arsobisbo kay Pres. Noynoy, “…wag patakbuhin ang bansang ito sa pamamagitan ng Gabinete na parang Student Council”. Tumbok din ng mga pambabatikos ng tri-media ang mga personalidad na pumasok sa bagong Administrasyon, lalo na ‘yong mayayabang-na-tirador na sa maiksing panahon ay nagmamay-ari na ng mga magagarang sasakyan at sa mamahaling condominium na lumipat.

Sa isang tabloid minsan, tono ng kanilang headline na “playboy” ang Pangulo. At ngayon maanghang na pulutan ang pagbili ni P-Noy ng porche.

Ang nakikita ko dito ay isang sistematikong smokescreen. Sekondaryong mga usapin ang pinagkakaguluhan sa media. Mga paraan ito para hindi mapapansin ang unti-unting pagposisyon ng mga makakaliwang-pwersa sa loob ng Administrasyon at gobyerno.
Nakaligtaan na, ng mga kinauukulan ang batayang ugali ng mga komunistang-terorista. Ayon kay Lenin “use democracy to destroy democracy, join the government to destroy the government”. At ‘yan ang maniobra nila sa ngayon.

Resulta, maraming kaganapan na naging dehado ang gobyerno at lalong nagpa-igting ng mga pampulitikang bangayan.

Pinalaya ang “Morong 43” kahit ang mga ito ay kumpirmado ng military “na mga aktibong kasapi at kadre sa National Health Staff ng NPA”. Papasok sa peacetalk ang Administrasyong Aquino kahit na napatunayan na, batay sa 22 taon nang pakikipag-usap sa maoistang CPP-NPA-NDF na wala itong patutunguhan. Ayon kay Cong. Jun Alcover (ANAD Partylist) “…dehado ang gobyerno sa sitwasyong ito kasi binibigyan lamang ng pagkakataon ang CPP-NPA-NDF na makapag-konsolida ng kanilang hanay at malawak na entablado sa propaganda….” Nakapagtataka din na isang masugid na galling sa kaliwa ang ginawang political affairs adviser ng Pangulo.

Bahagi pa rin ba ito lahat ng “good and evil” tactics? Baka darating ang oras na paglalaruan na lamang tayo ng mga “evil” dahil ito ay “good” strategy!

1.11.2010

ANAD strongly warn candidates and voters against Maoist terrorists “PTW”

From their dismal “Permit to Campaign” (PTC) scheme in the past, the Maoist terrorist are now into hard-selling their newly “Permit to Win” (PTW) commodity on candidates, especially in local government units, throughout the country.

The ALLIANCE FOR NATIONALISM AND DEMOCRACY (ANAD) Partylist strongly warns the Filipino electorate and those seeking elective positions, in the 2010 national elections, that the Maoist terrorists have shifted their devious methods from merely extorting Permit to Campaign money towards demanding political aspirants to shell out sizeable amount of money, from Php 200 to 500 thousand for those aspiring for local elective positions; and higher for those seeking congressional and gubernatorial positions.

“Our sources in the countryside told us that the Maoist terrorist are hard-selling this to lure candidates into giving out money in exchange for an insurance of winning which the terrorists are not capable of,” said ANAD Rep. Jun Alcover as he pointed to the new mode of extortion in the run-up towards the 2010 polls.

Records showed that in past political exercises, there never was a sizeable bloc number of vote’s equivalent to 3 million votes that Satur Ocampo and company has been boasting and brandishing in the past months. “The people, especially in the countryside, are now wary and have altogether repudiated Maoist terrorist presence and influence in their areas,” said Alcover. Reliable sources told ANAD that Maoist terrorist organizations have bought there way into the House of Representatives using coercion and the “color of money.”

Rep. Alcover describes the PTW scheme as simple yet blatant blackmailing by Maoist terrorist groups and personalities. “Their only motive is to secure the victory for Satur and Liza Maza for the Senate, and their own candidates in the local levels. In fact they have no intention, whatsoever, to comply with their end of the deal, if there is any, as they surely knew that they don’t have the capability and capacity of ensuring victory for those who may have given money to them,” said Rep. Alcover.

“They simply coerce, harass, and intimidate our people to vote for their chosen candidates. In this glaring anti-people scheme, our people must respond by putting up a bastion of defense to protect their sacred votes,” said Rep. Alcover as he called on all candidates, in all levels not to give even a penny to the Maoist terrorist as they will only use the same money against our people and government.
Alcover’s warning is explicitly defined when he said, “A vote for any of the candidates pushed and supported by identified Maoist terrorist personalities is a vote for the NPA and the Maoist terrorist organization itself.”

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Reference: Rey A. Salas
National Spokesman
Tel No. (02) 489-7662

12.14.2009

ANAD hails lifting of martial law in Maguindanao

“THE LIFTING of Presidential Proclamation 1959 is a manifestation of government’s sensitivities and full reliance on factual developments on the ground,” said ANAD Partylist Rep. Jun Alcover in reaction to the lifting of martial law in the province of Maguindanao, in the evening of Saturday (December 12, 2009).

The ALLIANCE FOR NATIONALISM AND DEMOCRACY (ANAD) Partylist supports PP 1959’s imposition in the face of the so-called looming rebellion brought about by the total collapse in the delivery of basic and judicial services by the local government of that province, and the continued resistance by thousands of armed supporters of the Ampatuan family, a known political warlord in the area.

“We, in ANAD, were all out in support of government’s initiative to restore public order, return of the delivery of basic services by government, and the justiciable resolution of the Nov. 22 massacre of 57 hapless civilians, including 30 media personalities, in Masalay, Maguindanao,” Rep. Alcover pointed out.

“The lifting of PP 1959 or its imposition was a prerogative solely vested by the constitution on the country’s Chief Executive,” said Rep. Alcover even as he describes the petitioners against PP 1959 before the Supreme Court and the number of mass protest actions as grandstanding and hallowed noise.

Rep. Alcover cited the fact that the short-lived martial rule, in Maguindanao, “clearly shows President Macapagal-Arroyo’s adeptness to the rule of law and resiliency towards factual happenings in the field. Here, the President has made an unequivocal statement of her commitment towards justice and truth which is directly in contrast to what her detractors had been saying, time and again,” Alcover added.

On the continued tirades by Maoist terrorist sectoral front and pseudo partylist personalities even with the lifting of martial law, with a shrug of a shoulder, Alcover said, “What can we expect from these people? They always take up and make use of any issue against government to advance their lost cause. Maka-libre sila ng exposure, di ba?” Alcover quipped.

“With the lifting of martial law, Congress should now focus on a number of vital bills, like the 2010 national budget and other pro-people measures, which our people needs,” he stressed.

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Reference: Rey A. Salas
National Spokesman
Tel No. (02) 489-7662

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