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BY LUIS BUENAFLOR JR.
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SO PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte finally terminated all talks with the Communist Party of the Philippines or the CPP and the NDF or the National Democratic Front which acted as their so-called “peace talks consultants”.
And in typical Duterte fashion:
“No more talk. Let us fight. And sabi ko sa komunista, talking during an event like martial law would…render the talks unnecessary. I believe you, Mr. Sison. You are right, we stop talking. We are wasting our time. This war that you are fighting, I was listening to you when I (was) a student. That was 50 years ago. Let us renew the fighting for another 50 years. This is what you want. Anyway, all of us will not see the light of day, of this revolution of yours. That is too far away, 50 years.”
And it’s just as well and would do the country a big favor in terms of savings from all the trips back and forth to Europe just to talk to Joma Sison who anyway has no control over the NPA or New People’s Army in the same manner as he has no control over his bowel movements.
Joma Sison is just a couple of years shy celebrating his 80th birthday and according to Duterte himself, Joma Sison is being treated for cancer of the colon and you get that from eating too much red meat.
As I have said in my previous column, Joma Sison has been having the time of his life in the Netherlands partying like Austin Powers and probably gorging on steaks, hence the colon cancer, while the poor “cadres” or comrades in the Philippine hinterlands are having the time of their lives gorging on camote.
The peace talks with the CPP/NPA and NDF are completely useless and will only favor them and leave the country out to dry.
Their demands are short of asking for the stars, the moon including the sun, in short, highly impossible demands. And you have to be an idiot to give in to them. Fortunately, our President is Rodrigo Duterte and not Noynoy Aquino, otherwise we’ll wake up with no country.
Here are some of the demands of the CPP/NDF; these demands are contained in the so-called Comprehensive Agreement on Social and Economic Reforms (Caser) that they had submitted to government negotiators:
• creation of a “new political authority” — a euphemism for the communists’ joint control of government — which will be empowered to implement the agreed-upon economic and social reforms;
• participation of the NPA and its front organizations in the rural areas in the implementation of land reform;
• total banning of all imports of agricultural and fish products;
• repeal of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law (CARL), Investors Lease Act, Agriculture and Fisheries Modernization Act (AFMA), Fisheries Code, Mining Act, Indigenous People’s Rights Act (IPRA);
• termination of all bilateral investment treaties and agreements, bilateral and regional free trade agreements (FTAs), and agreements under the multilateral World Trade Organization (WTO);
• “dismantling of import-dependent and export-oriented” companies — which assemble computer chips and other information-technology products that make up 40 percent of our exports;
• repeal of the Mining Act of 1995 and all bilateral and regional free trade agreements such as the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement and agreements under the World Trade Organization;
• for commercial banks to allot at least 50 percent of their loanable funds to “priority and key industrial projects” that will be identified by the communists;
• repeal of the law on the automatic appropriation for the public portion of the foreign debt service;
• prohibition on the ejectment of squatters until after they are provided “with housing and utilities, employment or livelihood, and social services in the area of resettlement”;
• scrapping of the Electric Power Industry Reform Act;
• ban on “advertisements and the airtime” that spread “colonial mentality, foreign worship, consumerism, and other similarly objectionable values”;
• takeover by government of the Philippine National Bank;
• restriction of foreign equity in all enterprises to 40 percent;
• abolition of value-added taxes and excise taxes on basic goods and services;
• institution of capital controls “to promote financial stability” and stabilize the peso’s international value; and
• cancellation of foreign debts that are “onerous or fraudulent”.
According to Rigoberto Tiglao of the Manila Times:
“In short, the communists are mainly demanding that government reverse nearly all of its economic reforms in the past several decades, as embodied in laws passed by more than a dozen Congresses. It is shocking to think that these communists, isolated from the country in Utrecht or in our godforsaken jungles, see themselves as expert economists who know how an economy should be developed.
“If the Duterte government agrees to undertake just one of these demands, the result would be a deadly blow to the country’s image of economic stability, which in turn would trigger such a total loss of confidence in our economy, resulting in massive capital flight.”
Still from Roberto Tiglao:
“If you’ve been a student of the communist movement (or a member as I had been), you will see that it is entirely based on the view that Communist Party founder Jose Sison presented in 1968 — plagiarized from the writings of Mao Zedong and Indonesian communist chief Aidit — that the Philippines is a “semi-colonial and semi-feudal” country.
In fact, the Caser openly claims that in entering into the agreement, the NDF is guided by the “Guide for Establishing the People’s Democratic Government and the Program for a People’s Democratic Revolution of the Communist Party of the Philippines.” Both documents were made in 1968 – or 40 years ago. For the communists, nothing at all has changed in the country’s economy, and Sison’s (or more accurately, Mao’s) godlike vision is still applicable to our country in this day and age.”
And moi completely agrees, so there. (brotherlouie16@gmail.com/PN)
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