The ALLIANCE FOR NATIONALISM AND DEMOCRACY (ANAD) Partylist urged the PNoy administration to put to rest all efforts and call to revive the stalled peace negotiations with the Maoist terrorist CPP-NPA-NDF. The pro-democracy group issued this statement amidst LP senatorial bet Grace Poe’s call on the Maoist CPP leadership to return to the negotiating table with the government ‘to ensure the peaceful conduct of the May 13, 2013 elections.’ (Poe: Revive talks with the communists, 3/24/13, www.mb.com.ph)

ANAD describes Ms. Poe’s action as an empty call in the wilderness and a cheap propaganda stunt! “For the past 23 years, government bended too much for that elusive olive branch of peace. But it is the Maoist terrorist’s unrelenting violence and insincerity that are always at the core of the issue,” said ANAD Rep. Jun Alcover even as he pointed to GPH panel head Atty. Alex Padilla’s admission, in the same news report, that ‘the talks have bogged down as he expressed exasperation over the seeming lack of sincerity of the CPP-NPA to discuss peace at this time’.

Rep. Alcover also noted the GPH panel head’s belief saying, “I don’t think we should waste our time (negotiating with the CPP-NDF). They always find ways and means to look for an issue.”

”Not only was time wasted but the effort and resources of government too,” added the former NPA political and commanding officer in Eastern and Central Visayas turned pro-democracy leader referring to more pressing issues, e.g. Filipinos killed and detained in Sabah, widespread rotating brownouts in Mindanao, among the many that PNoy must give prior attention.

“ANAD’s position, ever since, is now reinforced and proven right! Our many calls to stop the senseless and useless peace negotiations with the Maoist CPP-NPA-NDF were dismissed as a bane effort to derail the government initiative to forge peace with enemies of state,” said Rep. Alcover.

“Any discussion for a truce or ceasefire shall only be exploited and abused by the Maoist terrorists to enhance their extortion and violent activities against our people. Any cessation of hostilities only extend more than enough window for Maoist terrorists to demand PTCs and PTWs from local candidates, extort money from businesses and industries, and to murder civilians that are in their hit list,” he warns.

However, Rep. Alcover stressed that government must now go-all out and apply the full force of the law against the Maoist communist terrorists. “Again, we believe that the late President Magsaysay’s ‘carrot and stick’ policy must be applied against Jose Ma. Sison’s violent wards,” the pro-democracy solon added as he simply cited Magsaysay’s doctrine: “Find them, fight them, and finish them . . . if they surrender, government shall give all out support to them” as the most effective weapon against terrorism.

http://www.anadpartylist.org/20130325/without-doubt-anad-is-proven-correct.html