What are the commies snorting these days?

AS the nation’s rage is yet to subside over the brutal murder by the communist New People’s Army (NPA) of the Absalon cousins, Kieth and Nolven last June 6, 2021 in Masbate City, their legal fronts in Congress, along with the National Democratic Front (NDF) and the central committee of the Communist Party (CPP) have clearly synchronized their effort to channel the people’s anger away from their culpability by resorting to legal chicanery.

And by this, we refer to the insistence of the group of Rep. Carlos Zarate (Bayan Muna) and the NDFP to refer the investigation of the entire incident to the ‘Joint Monitoring Committee’ (JMC), which was created in 1998 by the GRP (Philippine government) and the NDFP to address any violation of the CAHRIHL (Comprehensive Agreement on Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law) by any of the parties and which was also signed that year, at the tail-end of the Ramos administration.

Over this, people, admittedly, cannot wonder but ask the question, ‘what are commies snorting these days, by the way?’

For Zarate, Sarah Elago and our good friend, Ferdie Gaite and the rest of those in the NDF must have been still high on something to think that the matter can be settled using a mechanism that is NO LONGER in existence!

As they are not stupid to start with, they should know that when Pres. Duterte, on March 13, 2019, formally ended the peace talk between the GRP and the NDFP, the effectivity of all previously signed agreements between the two parties also ended officially. In short, all of them are now mere scraps of paper.

“Basura” in our own language and probably useful only in addressing one’s vowel movement after a trip to the toilet, in the absence of water or tissue paper.

As it is, the invalidation covers both the CAHRIHL, the JMC and the much abuse ‘JASIG’ (Joint Agreement on Safety and Immunity Guarantee), the agreement that has been used by the CPP to spring from prison any of its captured leaders in the guise of being a ‘peace talk consultant’ and therefore arrested illegally by state forces.

Such legal chicanery by the communists only helps in deluding themselves—and no one else– that they can get out of the tight fix they are now in over the murder of the Absalons whom they not only bombed without mercy but worse, whom the NPA even shot at close range while the victims are probably already on their death throes and completely helpless.

And aware of the facts, it is no wonder that most Filipinos, the Absalon family especially, are angered by the CPP response and would not hear any of their apology no matter how sincere sounding it is.

For while admitting and owning to the crime and offering “sincerest apology” for the carnage and even “indemnification,” the CPP would not agree to the surrender to the authorities of the NPAs behind the incident. It’s as if to say, ‘yes, we made a mistake, we say sorry and that should be the end of it. Besides, the murderers, are one of our own.’

Thus, this offer of using the JMC as the mechanism to settle the Absalon murders should be seen for what it is: just another attempt by the commies to skirt the blame away from them eventually; an attempt to create the fiction that that they are true-blooded “revolutionists” who know how to abide by the rule of law. It is all for show.

So again, we ask, what are the commies snorting these days?