Talking about the insurgency, I just loved the Philippine Star's editorial last Tuesday. If you missed it, allow me to reprint it in here as our Star editors took the words out of my mouth about the Communist insurgency. Here's the editorial entitled, "A Bankrupt Movement".
"A Bankrupt Movement: This is how communist rebels intend to help the poor; they blow up an international airport under construction in Silay City that could boost trade, tourism and economic development in Western Visayas. They scare away badly needed foreign assistance by attacking a P5-billion project that is funded by the Japan Bank for International Cooperation and subcontracted to a Korean company.
A report yesterday said suspected members of the New People's Army also torched another communications tower of their favorite target, cell phone service provider Globe, in Mati, Davao Oriental. Never mind if every telecommunications tower blown up means the disruption of mobile phone services in the affected areas.
The NPA likes to attack soft targets owned by those who refuse to give in to the rebel's favorite fund-raising activity: Extortion. Apart from punishing those who refuse to pay protection money, what is the reason for such attacks? Are they supposed to be in furtherance of the Communist ideology? Surely NPA members are not fighting for the creation of a communist state. Around the world communist states have imploded, self-destructing from the bankruptcy of their cause. Only Communist states under the stranglehold of megalomaniac dictators, such as North Korea, have managed to survive.
If NPA rebels relocated to China and blew up an airport or a cell phone tower, they would be executed, with the same fate likely to await anyone who even whimpers in protest. The Communist movement in this country is not an insurgency but the largest armed criminal organization, supported by duplicitous politicians who are using taxpayers' money to hold back development and prevent security forces from doing their job. This crime organization is led by people who are begging the worlds' most liberal country for lifetime welfare privileges and asylum. They cannot be expected to care if the country they no longer call their own is destroyed by their hooligans."
Now did I say that I couldn't have written this article any better? Indeed, this editorial sums it all, that the once romantic Communist insurgency has gone down the drain and ended up with nothing but just another organized criminal syndicate whose only purpose is to extort money from those who fear them. It is for this very reason why Filipinos all over should follow our call and the cry of Gov. Gwen Garcia for all-out war against the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) who have resorted not only to mere banditry, but continues to kill civilians who refuse to join their cause and continues to kill our soldiers denying them of their human rights.
The only option left for the UN is to put an arms embargo to North Korea but then what good will this do when they already possess enough war materiel where they can wage another conventional war against its southern neighbor? However, while we are not yet faced with an imminent nuclear threat, the least that the UN Security Council can do is tell Kim Jong-Il that they would respond "tit-for-tat" if they use their nuclear bomb against South Korea. This is known as the MAD stalemate or Mutually Assured Destruction whereby the first nuke nation that pushes the nuke button should realize that he is also pushing it against his own country.