A government within our government?

There's so much fuss about Central Visayas being the most dangerous region in this country. Truth to tell, the entire Philippines is a very dangerous place, not just for the ordinary citizen, but to many groups. We in the media are considered a very high-risk, thanks to years of having a culture of death! The majority of Filipinos are Catholics, but this majority doesn't practice Catholic teaching, where forgiveness is the key to a better society.

Pres. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (GMA) has been tagged as responsible for the hundreds of unsolved killings under her administration and the same tag has been pointed to the Cebu City administration under Mayor Tomas Osmeña. So the big question swirling in our minds is... who's really doing all these killings? This is the million pesos question no one can answer with a straight face complete with evidence!

Left-leaning groups are eager to pin the blame on the Arroyo Administration, yet there is no outcry from them when our soldiers get killed! Come now, don't soldiers also deserve some kind of honorable mention from these groups? This problem gets magnified when the so-called "Front Organizations" sympathetic to the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) pins the blame on the government without any evidence because the government is their enemy!

In fact, a few days ago, they chastised Gov. Gwen Garcia for not only coming out with her "all-out war" campaign against the Communists, but for calling them what they really are - front organizations that support the Communists. I find it ludicrous that these allies of Communism get so furious when the Governor tells them the truth of who they really are.

But long ago, we already knew who were at the "other side" of the fence for the simple test which former Defense Secretary Juan Ponce Enrile made a decade ago when he said, "if you walk like a duck, look like a duck and of course quack like a duck... then you gotta be a duck!"

If you ask, me now is the time to choose sides in this all-out war against the Communists and I dare say that each one of us must stand up for our principles. Are we for the Philippine government or not? If we are for the government, then we are against the Communists! The most important thing to do today is to stand up and be counted, as there is no room for fence sitters here. It's either you're with us or you're against us!

As for those leftists groups, why don't they be man enough to admit in public who they really represent? Of course, they would never do that. One of the major tactics of the Communist is to confuse and misinform by peddling all sorts of lies about them. Their group seeks to protect Human Rights, but only of the NPAs, not the soldiers who also get killed!

We encourage the Philippine government to once and for all, stamp out the evils of Communism because this has only stifled the economic growth of this country. For me, the Communists and their left-leaning allies are no different from the Hamas that now controls the Palestinian Parliament (God forbid that the politicians in Bayan would someday control the Philippine legislature) or the Hizzbola who is well-entrenched in the Lebanese government and the principal cause of the renewed war in the Mideast.

Let me say it here that the Communists are like a government within the government and clear proof of this is the New People's Army (NPA) collection of that so-called "Revolutionary Taxes". Something that their Leftist allies never chastised. So, should we continue tolerating this government within our own government? No sir, that's why let's end this once and for all.

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A couple of weeks ago, I read in some back issues of The Freeman that the lawyers of Philippine Benevolent Missionaries Association (PBMA) Supreme Master Ruben Ecleo Jr. wanted to get rid of Regional Trial Court (RTC) Judge Geraldine Faith Econg, asking her to inhibit herself from trying this case because she was the classmate of the martyred lady lawyer Arbet St. Ana-Yongco.

So what if Judge Econg is a classmate of the slain Yongco? Has it already been established that her murder was done at the behest of Ruben Ecleo? Sure, Ecleo may be a suspect (I doubt if the police has any other suspects at all) in that killing, but since the police haven't directly found any evidence to link him to that case, then for all intents and purposes he is not yet accused of that murder. So logic has it that Ecleo's lawyers has no reason to have Judge Econg inhibit herself in his parricide case. Meanwhile, we have grown tired and weary that this case has dragged on for so many years and so many deaths later. Justice is delayed here and I hope it won't be denied!

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