Come home and fight

From the Visayan Daily Star (Jul 28): Come home and fight

President Rodrigo Duterte yesterday told Communist Party of the Philippines founder Jose Maria Sison, “if you are truly a revolutionary leader, come home and fight here” instead of being a coward living the good life in a foreign country.

Duterte was in Negros Oriental yesterday to confer posthumous awards on six policemen killed in an ambush by the New People's Army in Guihulngan City, and wounded personnel medals on three injured cops confined at the Silliman University Medical Center in Dumaguete City.

“I came here to share in the sorrow of the families of the policemen and to criticize the Communist Party of the Philippines”, said Duterte, who also provided the bereaved financial assistance.

All these years, Sison has lived a good life in the Netherlands with the support of other governments and on the money extorted by the NPA, not only from the rich, but from the poor in the hinterlands, and he says he is pro-poor, Duterte said.

Meanwhile, members of the NPA fighting his cause in the Philippine have died without even seeing Sison, who directs his war from a foreign land, he added.

“If you are really brave, if you are really sincere, come home and fight, if you want a deliverance of this country and you think you know better,” the president told Sison.

“What is your contribution to nation building, nothing but death and destruction,” he told Sison.

“You ambush soldiers and policemen and you think you can earn the respect of the people,” he added.

Fighting and killing Filipinos is what the NPA really wants, the president said.

“What you leave behind are children without fathers, that is your joy…You feel you are god with the barrel of the gun pointed at defenseless people,” he said.

CALL TO NPA

Duterte called on NPA members on the ground to surrender and he will take care of them.

“Your leader is a coward who is just lying around in Utrecht,” he told them.

The president called on the NPA members to just surrender to their barangay captains and they will accompany them to the police or the military.

Duterte said he will then give them jobs, which would include being a soldier after undergoing training, land, a house, and they can keep their guns as souvenirs.

SECURITY CODE

Duterte directed the police and the Armed Forces not to use the word revolutionary tax in reference to the money collected by the NPA. Revolutionary tax is not the proper word, only the Philippine government can impose tax, what the rebels are committing are extortion, holdups and kidnapping, and I will charge them for violation of the Revised Penal Code, he said.

The president also said he will ask Congress to pass a National Security Code, and will increase the number of soldiers.

He said the call of the rebels for peace talks is bullshit, because in the same vein, they stage ambushes and kill soldiers and policemen.

DON'T BE ‘PIKON'

Meanwhile, he said one should not enter the police force or go to war against the communist rebels out of hatred.

If you are “pikon (hot-headed)”, you lose because you become reckless when you want revenge, he said.

“Do not go to war with hatred, use your brain,” he said.

http://www.visayandailystar.com/2017/July/28/topstory1.htm