The brain simply shuts down
I’m resolving to plaster my laptop with stickers calling for the release of Anakpawis Rep. Crispin Beltran , and end to the political killings, and a stop to the harassment against progressive party-lists and legislators led by Bayan Muna Rep. Satur Ocampo.
I haven’t joined an OP-OD (operasyon pinta, operasyon dikit) since my days in KMU and started work in congress. I suppose I should start learning how to do OP-OD again and start with pasting stickers on every available stickers and to hell with what Comelec Benjamin Abalos and MMDA chairman Bayani Fernando have to say about it.
I feel a little guilty about Ka Raffy these last few days since the warrant for his arrest was released. I’ve been such a brat at work (don’t even ask). Tapos ngayon, shet, he stands to be arrested and it’s…insane. It was only last week when he was asking for help on how to use the fax machine and everyone was ignoring him and telling him to LEARN IT’S JUST A FAX MACHINE FER CRYIN’ OUT LOUD NOT A SPACE SHUTTLE (and this is one of the guys the PNP and the AFP say ordered the murder of 19 people).
Anyways. Work is bizarre as usual.
If the progressive party-lists are not linked with the CPP-NPA-NDF, then how come they haven’t eschewed and denounced armed struggle.
Ano daw? Kelan ba sinuportahan ng Bayan Muna, Anakpawis at Gabriela ang armadong pakikibaka?! Support for armed struggle is not in any the respective constitutions of our party-lists, and except for a few members of the security team, our supporters, members and leaders do not carry fire-arms or weapons.
At bakit naman kailangang idenounce ang armadong pakikibaka? It’s a social reality. There’s an ongoing civil war; there are Filipinos defending themselves against the abuses of the military and the attacks of the national government against their welfare and rights. Sino naman ang mga progressive party-lists para tuligsain sila? Armas laban sa armas, pero ang magtatakda ng kung sino ang tama at mali ay kung nakanino ang suporta ng masa at para saan ginagamit ang armas. Para ba magtanggol sa mga inaapi, o protektahan ang mga nang-aapi.
It is so politically immature that the Philippine government would insist that the progressive party-lists categorically state they are against armed struggle. Ang pagsuporta ba ay nangangahulugan ng aktwal na paglahok? Intellectually, can’t one acknowledge the existence of an armed revolutionary movement that continues to fight the government because of its failure to do good and bring peace and justice to the country?
Kung galit ang AFP at ang gobyerno ni Gloria sa CPP-NPA-NDF, then they go do battle with the CPP-NPA-NDF and not attack the progressive party-lists and their civilian members and leaders. Lahat ng pinaslang na aktibista at masa, walang armas na dala nang sila’y patayin. Sa pagkakaalam ko, ang mga NPA ay may mga armas kaya nga sila tinatawag na sundalo ng rebolusyon.
Ang mga sundalo naman ng gobyerno, mga kampon ng kadiliman at kasamaan.
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Lieutenant colonel and AFP spokesperson Bartolome Bacarro says that the latest victim of extra-judicial killings Siche Bustamante-Gandinao, 56, a Bayan Muna member in Misamis Oriental was killed by the NPA.
Right. Gandinao testified during UN Special Rapporteur Philip Alston’s investigations into the killings last month and said in her testimony that the AFP was behind the murder of her father-in-law Dalmacio ‘Tatay Daki’ Gadinao. Now the NPA’s have killed her?!
I have noticed that I have resorted to name-calling in my blog in my last few entries instead of laying down arguments and explanations. Pero kasi anim na taon na ang mga pagpaslang na ito sa mga aktibista. Hindi pa ba sapat ang mga nauna nang paliwanag? Hindi pa ba sapat ang dumanak na dugo ng mga sibilyang walang kasalanang kundi ang magsalita laban sa pang-aabuso at kriminalidad ng gobyerno?
Kulang pa ba ang mga patunay na tanging ang militar at ang militar lamang ang may motibo na pumatay sa mga hindi sa kanila takot at umaatras? 
This afternoon I spent two hours talking to Ka Bel in his hospital room at the Philippine Heart Center. It is simply beyond me how the government could accuse him of plotting with the military. It’s simply unfathomable. My brain shuts down trying to figure out the logic behind the accusation.
One year and 16 days have passed since Ka Bel was arrested.
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