Who wants to support a party with blood in its hands?
LAST June 12, on the occasion of the country’s 123rd Independence Day, ‘1Sambayan’ (pronounced as ‘Isang Bayan’), release the names of its ‘nominees’ for president and vice president for next year’s 2022 elections that they want Filipinos to choose from, namely:
Vice President Leni Robredo, former senator Antonio Trillanes IV, Batangas congresswoman and actress, Vilma Santos-Recto, Sen. Grace Poe, CIBAC partylist Rep. ‘Bro. Eddie Villanueva and 2019 senatorial loser, Jose Manuel ‘Chel’ Diokno.
Embarrassingly for 1Sambayan however, four of them—Poe, Villanueva, Diokno and Santos-Recto—issued statements, not about any them being “greatly honored” after they were chosen but rather, of being disinterested with it, citing their own personal reasons.
And from what we are hearing, Manila mayor Isko Moreno, who is high in the presidential survey, would also thumb down the 1Sambayan invitation should it be offered to him.
If the 1Sambayan “fundadores” like former Supreme Court Associate Antonio Carpio are embarrassed and shocked over the result, he should not be.
For how can people support and embrace an opposition group that has “blood in its hands,” so to speak.
And we are referring to the 1Sambayan’s full embrace of CPP founder Jose Maria Sison and his confederates in the Makabayan Bloc in Congress as part of their “grand coalition” to field an “opposition” slate to do battle against the administration ticket in next year’s polls.
By “blood in their hands,” we are also referring to the many terrorist bombings of the CPP’s armed wing, the New People’s Army (NPA), the latest of which was the bombing in Masbate province last June 6, 2021, that snuffed out the life of the very promising athlete, Kieth Absalon, and that of his uncle, union leader, Novel Absalon.
Is Carpio not aware that in all these bombings that killed and targeted civilians, the Makabayan Bloc has always been there to downplay these atrocities committed against Filipinos by the CPP-NPA? Indeed, the Makabayan Bloc”s main task is to “protect” the terrorist campaign of the CPP-NPA, on this most Filipinos now agree.
And in the Masbate incident, was Carpio not also aware—or did he simply ignore—that instead of just maiming the Absalons, the NPA even rushed at them and shot them at close range? It would be good for him to read the news sometimes as some of them are brutally true.
Now, who would want to trust and support a political coalition willingly in bed with terrorists and criminals?
Over the past 30 years, under the rule of the Liberal Party and the other “Dilawans”—the main pillar of 1Sambayan– the country has been on a steep decline, made worse by their continuing political alliance with the CPP and its front organizations since Sen. Ninoy Aquino was alive.
That is the reality and that is the reality that Filipinos wanted to end when they elected the foul-mouthed Rodrigo Duterte to the presidency in 2016.
And if Carpio cannot see that all these times because of his blind obedience to the will of US Imperialism and the local oligarchs and because of his elitist company and upbringing, then he should not be surprised that come 2022, they faced another embarrassment that they cannot possibly recover from: a landslide defeat at the polls.
