Enemy of the State

SINCE as far as I can remember, the Philippines has been fighting several fronts: we have the New People’s Army and the so-called leftist organizations in an armed struggle against the state, espousing their quaint but really obsolete ideology. These people are led by leaders mostly in their 70s who still dream of turning the Philippines into a communist state despite the fact that it is already an obsolete and irrelevant ideology. The top communist countries in the world, i.e. Russia and China, are now the world’s top capitalist countries. Maybe Joma Sison and his band of geriatric communists are the last of their kind.

And then we have the Moro Islamic Liberation Front or the MILF (you know every time I hear or read MILF, it always brings a chuckle). In case you’re wondering why, to the rest of the world MILF is a porn term; it means “mothers I love to f#*k.”

Of course, we have the Moro National Liberation Front or MNFL. Are these guys still around?

Anyway both groups have sort of hibernated ever since Rodrigo Duterte was elected President.

The only group that seems to be making a lot of mischief in Mindanao these days are the Abu Sayyaf, a bunch of kidnap for ransom bandits in the disguise of another Muslim separatist movement.

In the cities and urban areas we have the ongoing “war against illegal drugs” of President Rodrigo Duterte.

All of the above are keeping our Armed Forces and police busy protecting the natives from these traditional enemies of the state.

What about Leni Robredo and her motley crew all hell bent to bring President Duterte down? What are they, the “voice of dissent” or destabilization?

Since day one when the “Barefoot Lady of Naga” Leni Robredo managed to become Vice President due to overwhelming votes from her constituents inside the Precinct Count Optical Scanners or PCOS Machines, she has been badmouthing anything and everything about President Rodrigo Duterte.

Personally I find nothing wrong with dissent as we are a democratic country with freedom of speech guaranteed by the Constitution. She and her motley crew of nuns and priests and the remnants of Noynoy Aquino’s “yellow cult” can criticize President Duterte all they want, of course, limited only by our laws on sedition and rebellion.

Antonio Trillanes IV, the sailor who specializes in taking over 5-star

hotels, has been throwing everything from Matobato to Lascañas including the kitchen sink and more against President Rodrigo Duterte to no avail. He just succeeded in making a fool of himself.

Never mind Leila “frailties of a woman” de Lima. Despite her “homily” she only succeeded in making the lowly “saba” into a sex object. I’m pretty sure that’s her favorite snack saging in jail.na

But what about if the sitting Vice President makes a video for an international audience completely badmouthing the national police and destroying the image of the country she has sworn to protect when she took her oath as Vice President? What even makes it worse is that what Leni Robredo read in that video are all lies and manufactured figures.

Does that make Leni Robredo an enemy of the state and the people?

Here are some excerpts from an article by columnist Tony Lopez:

“The video Manila is Standard damaging to the Philippines. The uninitiated gets the impression that the Philippines is a country which violates UN treaties and international human rights norms, where there is no rule of law, where basic human rights are not respected and are instead abused, where people are gripped by fear and whose daily struggles are escalating, where the leader allows lies to distort the truth, and does not evoke in our people hope and inspiration.

“It is as if the one in the video speaking was not the Vice President of the Philippines, nor a Filipino. Because no Filipino in his right mind and who truly loves his country should do those things: Shame the country before the world and before seven billion other people.

“How can a country that allows a vice presidential candidate elected by computer manipulation and then masquerade as a human rights fighter before the world be considered a failed state and a failed democracy? It seems that in the Philippines to lie and to be an impostor are also human rights.

“Rob re do is alia ran dan impostor. She is an enemy of the people.” With that folks I rest my case. com/ (brother louie16@ gmail.PN)