There's no sense in keeping that stupid truce!

Call this a warning to Pres. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III that his handling or should I say his “coddling” of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), the National Democratic Front (NDF) and the New People’s Army (NPA) could end up costing him his political life. We already warned PNoy about the treachery of the NPA when last Dec.14th, just two days before the official truce would have begun, the NPA’s ambushed and killed 10 soldiers, including a 9-year old boy. But instead of suspending the truce with the communists at least in Samar, in order to hunt the treacherous NPA, PNoy opted to keep the truce.

Well the headline of The Philippine STAR says it all when it blared, “Truce Broken in Mindoro”. Let me say that this piece of news was expected especially coming from the heels of that Dec.14th ambush by NPA rebels in Samar that killed 10 soldiers and a 9-year old boy. But instead of canceling the truce at least in Samar so the military could do hot pursuit operations, Pres. PNoy vowed to keep the truce. In fairness to him, he kept his word, but at the expense of our poor soldiers! So why are we still keeping this truce?

Meanwhile PDI came up with a colored photo in their headline of NPA cadres marching in Surigao del Sur in celebration for the 42nd Founding Anniversary of the CPP. For us civilians, it is an ominous sign that the Aquino administration has been conned into going on a truce that the NPA’s never cared to keep anyway. With the Communists having so many friends in mainstream media, I’m sure they would blame the military for breaking the truce… after all, the communist have a well-oiled propaganda machinery, which is supported by the mainstream media.

Pres. PNoy is a gun buff just like me. But if you looked at the bureaucracy in getting firearms licenses that almost the cost an arm and a leg, it is the poor law-abiding firearm holders that have to suffer and pay. But to criminals (In my book, this is where the NPAs, MILF and MNLF belong), they couldn’t care any less in getting any permits to possess, much less carry firearms (and they bring high-powered weaponry) and that PDI photo gives us an idea of the double standard we still have in this country.

One would think that by now, six months into the Aquino administration that they have already completed one of their campaign promises… to get rid this nation of private armies. Well, we just saw those marching NPA’s in a mainstream newspaper. If they do not belong to the AFP… what are they then? Surely they must fall under the definition of “Private Army” under Joma Sison or Luis Jalandoni, or are they exempted from this prohibition? Again, the work for PNoy is cut out for him and now is the time that he should exercise his leadership!

Come now, the communist insurgency did not last for 42 long years by telling the truth or following the terms of any truce. This insurgency stayed as long as it could because the communists were clever enough to call or cajole for a truce when they needed one in order for them to gain strength and above all, pretend to the world that they wanted to sit down and talk peace with the Philippine government. It’s called good propaganda!

But the truth is: the Communists have no common ground for us to sit down and talk with. They just want to establish a communist form of government and if you disagreed with their objective, they will kill you. This is why the NPAs would never lay down their arms, even to show sincerity for the coming peace talks, because they really have no sincerity in their hearts. What they want is to establish a communist state in the Philippines!

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Too much controversy has erupted with the new peso bills that the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) ended up coming with a panel to explain these alleged errors. Even Pres. Benigno “PNoy” Aquino III has come out defending the BSP on those so-called errors. But so far, no one has asked the question, “If they couldn’t put the parrot’s true colors because of certain limitation, who then in the BSP insisted to put that parrot in the bill?” I’m sure that the Wildlife organizations wouldn’t march to the streets because that parrot was excluded.

This is the first time that the BSP had to explain anything on the new bills that they released. Could it be that the Aquino administration is cursed that anything they do in their administration, they end up spending a lot of time explaining it to the Filipino people? If anyone missed anything about the new peso bills… it depicts what we really have in this country…a political family dynasty. Imagine the BSP’s new bill depicts Sen. Ninoy, Pres. Cory and PNoy’s signature in that bill. It has been told that politicians have kept our nation from moving forward thanks to political dynasties.

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