Just recently, the American Government has declared an all-out war against terrorism. It was unfortunate that having so declared they still haven’t vanquished the primal source of terror in this world, themselves.
Pres. George Bush and PM Tony Blair has already "liberated" the days of Iraq, although the UN does not approve any military offenses to be brought on Iraq. The Bush-Administration defied Sec. Gen. Koffi Anam by deliberately stating the fact that they would bring down Saddam Hussein with or without the support of the United Nation. Such scenario just makes one wonder who the real terrorists in the group are?
In the Philippines, the Arroyo Administration was effective enough in tracking down “Terrorists”. They’ve been already crashing the Abu Sayyaf, the very bandits whom was said to be created during the Ramos Administration. Let the Abu Sayyaf dies, let them die together with the very military people who have created the group.
The absurd reality of the Manila Government is the hunting down of Communist “rebels”. Yes, they have already been successful enough in destroying these “rebels”. Indeed, too successful that even the people who show compassion for them are harassed and worst killed.
Lately I found myself, crying. I cried after seeing a very beautiful face. I cried after knowing that Bheng Hernandez, an Ateneo student spending her time to report on the abuses on human rights was brutally killed by the CAFGU in Mindoro. For God’s sake, why Bheng?
I am not against the military. I am just astounded with the grave fact that the military who are supposed to be protecting the Filipino people are the very ones oppressing them. I don’t know for sure whether Bheng was an NPA. But NPA or no NPA she hadn’t than any terror. But maybe she has the potential of doing such. Like US, CAFGU might thought of this, does firing Bheng at a closed range, even the latter was said to be begging for her life.
They say, that the heartrending scenario for those who are abused, is not when they are actually abused, but when they realized that people who could have helped them just shrugged shoulder as if nothing went wrong. This transpires because we are anxious that we’ll be target of another abuse if we lend our hands to others. What we fail to recognize is the fact that such abuses will cease if someone will have the guts to stand up. Who’ll stand up? We now point our finger to the very person who was abused.
Knowing what is amiss is the first step for ensuing change. We should figure out what has been fed lately by the “Invisible Forces” in our minds. Most of the misconstrued facts are those pertaining to Communism. Communism is Terrorism
When we thought that NDF is in the full offense, Jose Ma. Sison in an interview with Jay Sonza said otherwise. He remarked that the CIA’s are the only one spreading this news to confuse the public. In this case, is Sison saying that the bombings of police stations and ambush of police officers are not committed by the same group? Well, it is either the death of these people were nothing but a strategical move of the “Invisible Forces” as a leeway for the justification of the extermination of NPA (pests according to GMA) or Sison is lying.
Why is it that when the United States called for War and denied by the UN, more incident of bombings incidentally mushroomed in different countries such as Indonesia.
Ronalyn Olea (a friend of Bheng Hernandez) in the recent Lunduyan Seminar of CEGP held in Ateneo relates her experience when she was opportune to ask a young girl the reason for joining the NPA, according to Olea the girl said “wala naman hong mawawala sa akin. Pinatay na po nila(?) ang tatang ko. Inagaw ang aming lupa.” The question now is, are the NPA’s merely depending themselves or are they calling for massive terrorist activity? Now, let us think, does the girl have even the slightest idea that at her early age she is already a ‘terrorist’?
It is quite ironic that when we think about communism, we usually thought of evil. Horacio dela Costa once said, “If we cannot produce leaders as intelligent, as devoted, as selfless, as heroic as communism has been able to produce in Asia, we shall fail.” Indeed, we are all failures, aren’t we? How many of our politicians are willing to give their life for the nation. Isn’t it that at the very sight of trouble they are the ones who first leave the nation. Leaders who abandon their people, that is the true evil.
Communism causes Economic Instability
Economy as defined in Webster dictionary, is management or an organization. Are we to say that Economy belongs only to the 2% upper class. That’s bull! That’s the real Instability, don’t you agree?
What causes economic instability and what causes peso devaluation is not ideological struggle but the lack of it. Traditional corruption is unstoppable, some economist would agree to that. A decrease in the real interest rate, which causes an economic bust, is caused by an increase in government spending and decrease in taxes. Though people remit more and more taxes each year there is still a huge amount of government deficit. The big question now is where our taxes go? I’m sure the answer is already evident.
Communism is Sison
It’s comical when we refer to the middle class as the petty bourgeois. It sounds more like a pretty burger than what it means. The middle class or the petty bourgeois believe that Communism is Sison. This is why many had a bad impression on Communism because they had bad impressions on Sison. What we fail to recognize is the fact that Communism is not about Marx nor Mao, neither Sison. Communism is all about People. After all, it is the people’s general will that always matters in the end.
Proffers employment
Fr.Sonny Ramirez on a Sunday TV Mass last Sept. 22 talks about his aghast reaction whenever Businessmen tell the public that they are concern to give people employment. Fr.Ramirez accused these Businessmen as only going for the profit and not for the welfare of the people. Which is quite true. In Macroeconomics, there is what we call the Marginal Productivity of Labor, Businessmen acquire an additional Labor only for the reason that it makes the company more productive. Even In a simple Economic Model, it will tell you that the rate of people finding jobs is equal to the rate of people losing jobs, so much for the publicity of the Arroyo Administration of “Mas maraming trabaho sa pamilyang Pilipino”.
Communism works the other way around. Everyone has an equal part in the production. One good example is the so called Shenfang Village in China where there is a collective Agricultural setting. One of the agenda of CPP of the Guerrero period is the establishment of “Mutual aid teams and mutual labor exchange systems shall be created as the initial step towards higher forms of agricultural cooperation”.
Communism in Students
Students play an active part in Communism. Students could be Communists primarily by their exemplary virtues. As Alfredo Saulo puts it “A less glamorous but nonetheless effective form of student activism is involvement not in a bloody demonstrations but in social and community development.” Most students distinctively from the state university play an active part in the development of our community. Atenista’s, nonetheless have their immersion to rural areas to know more of rural folks’ lives and help them with the institutionalization of simple livelihood projects.
Communism is Love
As the more romantic Luis Taruc expounded the idea that “It is love that prompts a man to lay down his life for the sake of his loves ones- and those must include even the most unlovable of his fellowmen. Such love, emanating from God, is the most powerful driving force guiding man to moral behavior. True love is selfless; it is capable of surviving the limits of suffering and self-sacrifice.”
I now find myself in awe, wondering what reality is and what is not. It’s consoling knowing that not all that is branded evil is absolutely evil. As Arthur Schopenhouer puts it “All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”
What we perceived to be reality now may be absurdity later. Who knows, someday we might just have a Communist for a President.
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