SOLCOM: The Battle Lines are Drawn

Posted to the Southern Luzon Command (SOLCOM) Facebook Page (Nov 21, 2020): The Battle Lines are Drawn

The NTF ELCAC will push to its legal limits the exposure of the duplicitous nature of the CPP NPA NDF, which through half a century, has kept our country and people divided, aided mainly by the equally exploitive oligarchs and politicians who kowtow with them for the vote of the CPP's perceived "masses".

In the light of the current administration's drive to finally end this communist armed conflict, the AFP, the PNP, as well as the other agencies have finally converged to unrobe these monsters who have been killing our children, peasants, women, and other vulnerable sectors. For the first time in history, we are seeing a very strong resolve from the national leadership to really put an end to this communist malaise.

Legal fronts? That's passe, an argument that would no longer stand in the court of public opinion. The battle lines have been drawn in the line & KAMATAYAN BLOC can no longer claim to be a legal organization. They operate both above ground and underground, as revealed by hundreds of former rebels and former cadres of the CPP NPA. The people have been enlightened with the revolutionary tactics of the CPP to deceive the people and exploit their naivete and enjoin them to support an illegal organization pretending to be legal.

Case in point is the exploitation of the celebrities, who only have the heart to defend the cause of abused women and children, or of impoverished people who have so little in life. The KAMATAYAN BLOC are quick to seize these opportunities and piggyback on the popularity of kind hearted celebrities, in the hope of swaying their million fans into supporting these underground organizations.

Such is the case of those poor nuns of the Rural Missionaries of the Philippines (RMP). Just like our celebrities, church workers and lay people command respect from our communities because of the strong influence of religion to our society. It is not surprising therefore, that these sectors are also targeted by the CPP, in order to provide them a perfect cover for their criminal and terroristic acts. Through a systematic process following their classic Arouse-Organize-Mobilize (AOM), some members of the religious groups are individually targeted until they are subverted into fighting a cause they don't fully understand. Is this ever possible, given the religiousity of these lay people? Of course.

Lets start with Fr Luis Jalandoni, who was recruited in Spain in 1960's through a radical Spanish priest classmate Fr Jose Ma Diez Alegria, at the Gregorian University in Rome. Fr Alegria eventually left the Roman Catholic Church and became a member of the Spanish Communist Party, and so did Jalandoni who joined the Communist Party of the Philippines. From those ties, the influence of Liberation Theology in Latin America spread with the creeping strategy of the communists around the world, and reaching the shores of Kampuchea, Vietnam, North Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and many more. Have we forgotten the violence and the millions that the Communist governments killed in Kampuchea, Indonesia, and Vietnam? We almost did, even as our own CPP NPA terrorists continue to kill thousands of our people, civilians, with the aim of intimidating and terrorizing them to muster some support by force. That's what happened to our society.

The NPA goons threatened the DepEd as they recruited, ACT members amongst our teachers. They threatened our industrial sector, as they recruited radicals through the KMU. They threatened faculty and students of UP, as they continue to recruit intelligent students into the ranks of the LFS, NUSP, CEGP, Anakbayan, Kabataan and eventually the underground KM.

They threatened many more sectors into silence, including government officials, as they recruited government workers to COURAGE. They intimidated fiscals, judges and their families, as they infiltrated the judiciary through the NUPL, and eventually the underground LUMABAN.

Going back to the church, let us look back at how Fr Conrado Balweg revealed its tactic of attacking a community near an ambush area, in order to agitate the people and eventually recruit them into the NPA to avenge the death of relatives, killed by their NPA recruiters led by Balweg.

Let us refresh our minds with the recruitment of IP children in North Cotabato, by Fr Pops Tentorio, an Italian priest who were later killed, for sending to the NPA ranks 700 of his 800 'scholars'. The same Fr Pops would be declared by Ibon Foundation books as "National Hero" to the IP students of Salugpungan schools which the government finally closed down.

What about Fr Frank Fernandez and Fr Frank Navarro? They all have stories of deception and brutality to tell. What about Sister Fox, the Australian radical who was eventually expelled by the government.

These members of the clergy were exploited by the CPP for one simple reason "use them to advance the cause of the revolution, capitalizing on the influence and respect that they normally are accorded by our fellow faithful Filipinos.

So now we have this case of the RMP. The NUPL is again invoking "argumentum ad misericordiam" because the subjects involved are old nuns. But are they above the law? How can these NUPL lawyers disregard the following facts: 1. RMP by above nun along with 10 others was charged before the MeTC of QC for Perjury ( this had passed the crucible of Probable Cause before the Prosecutor’s Office - DOJ) 2. Trial is on going as we presented the SEC Representative who testified that RMP’s SEC Registration had been revoked or cancelled 13 years ago (from 2019- when this case was filed) 3. In an attempt to derail the on going trial, NUPL lawyers led by Atty Ephraim Cortez filed before the RTC of Quezon City, a Petition for Review on Certiorari ,under Rule 65 with a prayer for the issuance of a TRO. OSG lawyers appeared yesterday OPPOSING the TRO and the dismissal of the Petition for Review for utter lack of legal basis. TRO denied as Atty. Cortez of NUPL was confronted by my 4 lawyers of a certificate of arraignment of all the 11 accused ,including the nun above shown. Hence the TRO had been mooted, parties were given 15 days from yesterday to file their Position Paper on the main Petition 4. Meantime, RTC Manila , by Petition of the AMLC issued a Provisional Asset Preservation Orders (PAPO), provisionally freezing of RMPI BPI account worth Php 15,000,000.00 The above factual milieu and antecedent proceedings clearly negate RAPPLER’s writer Lian Buan’s malicious and totally distorted piece.

The lines are drawn. The NTF ELCAC will be firm about it. We can either support our legal system, the rule of law, the morality & propriety of ending this communist insurgency or we don't. The other only option is to join the underground and face the wrath of all the people victimized for 52 years by the CPP NPA NDF, backed by the government's constitutional might.

LTGEN ANTONIO G PARLADE JR PA
Commander, SOLCOM/NTF ELCAC

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