They had their chance when their leader was in power.
National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed
Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) spokesperson for sectoral concerns and Presidential
Communications Undersecretary Lorraine Badoy fired back at de Lima, who has
been detained in Camp Crame since 2017 for illegal drug trading.
“She has panicked and let loose a volley of words
insulting the honest work of faithful public servants of the NTF-ELCAC that’s
been clocking amazing gains for our country, among them the surrender of 24,000
rebels, the unprecedented dismantling of whole guerrilla fronts, and the
landfall of real public service in areas of the country that, before President
Duterte sat in office, never felt the presence of government,” Badoy said in a
statement.
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In her dispatch dated April 1, de Lima called out
Badoy for “red-tagging” and labeling human rights defenders, student activists,
and progressive organizations as communist sympathizers.
“Badoy must be so desperate because she is being
sued for abusing her office, red-tagging people left and right without any
basis that in spite of her years in office, no legitimate case was filed, much
less a conviction resulted, from her accusations,” de Lima said.
Badoy maintained that no one is “red-tagging.”
“Jail time has made her lag behind and we need to
update her on the latest Supreme Court ruling. Let me then educate you, de
Lima. The Supreme Court has already ruled that there is no danger to life,
liberty, and security when one is identified as a member of the CPP-NPA-NDF
(Communist Party of the Philippines-New People's Army-National Democratic
Front),” Badoy said.
Badoy said de Lima's incarceration “must have
gotten her confused about a lot of things like the term red-tagging”.
“Speak that ludicrous term one more time, Leila,
and the Filipino people will see even clearer how you mouth the propaganda
lines of the terrorist organization you are closely linked with,” Badoy said.
Badoy said the senator must realize that she enjoys
civil liberties while she remains locked up for involvement in illegal drug
activities.
“Neither am I the corrupt Justice Secretary who
will go down in history as the one who’s been alleged to have fueled her
political ambitions with blood money she got by partying with convicted drug
felons and under her watch, effectively strengthened the perversity of a penal
system that ditched reforms and made Muntinlupa the manufacturing and distribution
hub of drugs in the country,” Badoy said.
A FRIEND's niece — studying at UP Diliman — asked incredulously
why I wasn't voting for the university's choice, Leonor Robredo. I didn't want to ruin my
friendship with her uncle by insulting her intelligence. So, I restrained
myself and later Vibered to her the link to my column entitled "Robredo:
Our worst and most useless vice president ever," written
in October 2019. Actually, she's gotten much, much worse than my portrayal of
her in that piece:
To very clearly see why Leonor Robredo — the Yellow cult's last
pathetic attempt to create a false idol — has been the republic's worst vice
president, one just has to remember our past vice presidents.
In comparison to these, she is an intellectual and political
pygmy.
Let's start with the most recent one. Jejomar Binay had been
Makati mayor for six terms and, despite the Yellows' intense campaign to paint
him as corrupt in the last presidential elections, his role in Makati's growth
as the country's premier financial district is incontestable.
Even as he won the vice-presidential post in 2010 against the
Yellows, he helped President Benigno "Noynoy"
Aquino 3rd as chairman of the Housing Urban Development Coordinating
Council (HUDCC). He was also presidential adviser for OFWs (overseas
Filipino workers) concerns and head of the Task Force OFW, which assisted OFWs
who were maltreated by their employers to return to the Philippines with the
assistance of the government.
Did he spend his time criticizing his president, to
the extent of sending messages to the United Nations and other bodies abroad
full of lies about the current administration? No.
His predecessor was Noli de Castro, one of the
country's most successful broadcast journalists, who helped President Gloria
Macapagal Arroyo's often beleaguered administration survive the intense Yellow
propaganda against her. For six years, he ably managed the country's housing
program as HUDCC chairman.
Opposition
Teofisto Guingona had been a veteran senator for 12
years, an executive secretary and justice secretary. In the first year of the
Arroyo administration, he was a voice of wisdom in the Cabinet and was its
foreign secretary. He resigned in 2002, as he was often at odds with Arroyo's
foreign affairs policy. He did support the Yellow opposition, especially after
the so-called "Hello Garci" scandal broke out.
But did he go around the country and the world spreading lies
about the president then, as Robredo has been doing? No.
A university economics professor and trade industry assistant
secretary, President Joseph
Estrada's vice president, Arroyo, was a three-term representative of
Congress and took on the job as Social Welfare and Development secretary,
giving that department a boost in prestige and influence. She did go against
her president, when she resigned her post, in October 2000, since Estrada's
clinging to the presidency had become untenable and damaging to the country's
stability.
Even as she let the wheels of justice run to prosecute Estrada,
did she ever go around the country and the world spreading lies to paint her
former president evil? No.
Even
as he ran against Fidel Ramos' party,
Estrada, the mayor of San Juan for 17 years and a senator, was extremely
cooperative with his president and took on the job as head of the Presidential
Anti-Crime Commission, which effectively terminated
— figuratively or not — the kidnapping gangs that had plagued the country
during that time.
Even as Ramos' propaganda machine started to do him in in 1997,
as he was emerging as the strongest candidate for the 1998 elections, did he
ever badmouth his president, even as that administration's alleged corruption
had started to smell? No.
Pre-martial
law
We can go to vice presidents in the pre-martial law era and what
stands out is the fact that all of them were both men of stature in the
political firmament and supportive of their presidents, even if one, Diosdado
Macapagal, would later run against his president and another, Fernando
Lopez, would throw the full weight of his clan's media empire against his
president, Ferdinand Marcos.
Given such veritable political, intellectual or
economic titans as our past vice presidents, it is indeed astonishing that such
a lightweight as Robredo became vice president. It is explicable only if the
allegations of massive cheating — such as cases of zero votes in Moro towns or
districts where the Iglesia ni Cristo has proven in many elections to have
solid command in elections — are true.
Robredo was the Yellows' pathetic attempt at
repeating history — which therefore as the aphorism says it would result in —
is a farce. She couldn't have won election as barangay (village) chairman if
her husband Jesse had not died in an accident for the Yellow to use their old
"necro-politics" playbook and if the Yellows did not have such a
formidable electoral cheating machine in the last elections.
A more thinking vice president would do what Binay or Arroyo
did, which was to fully support the incumbent president, to prove she could be
a leader of the nation. But what has she done in the past three or so years?
Demonize her president, not only to the country, but to the world.
Treason
This verged on treason in 2017, when she sent a video message to
the 60th meeting of the UN Commission on Narcotics Drugs, which was
full of lies, among them that under the Duterte government "more than
7,000* people have been killed in summary executions." Every chance she
gets, she puts out some inane statement that criticizes the President for every
policy, every move he makes.
Assume that there were indeed extrajudicial killings (EJKs)
during Duterte's watch — and I myself believe there have been given that there
are undeniably psychopaths in the police, in any police force anywhere in the
world — what should a responsible vice president have done?
She should have organized a task force of researchers,
paralegals and lawyers to investigate each instance of alleged EJK and with the
prestige of her office, prosecuted these police criminals.
Has she done this in even one case? No.
Do you know who represented the parents of the 17-year-old Kian
Loyd de los Santos, whose murder by Caloocan police became the poster for
the Yellows' claims of EJKs under Duterte's watch? Lawyers of the Public
Attorney's Office, an overworked, understaffed government office.
Damage
She doesn't even consult with the more mature and veteran
Liberal Party stalwarts like Sen. Franklin Drilon and former senator Manuel "Mar"
Roxas. The only two people she is said to listen to are her spokesman Ibarra
Gutierrez of the pinko party Akbayan and the Quezon City congressman Jorge
Banal, who seems to be always by her side, but whom she has said in a Facebook post
as merely her "political close-in."
We taxpayers gave Robredo's office P1.7 billion since July 2016
— and P700 million for next year — for her to spread lies around the world?
Robredo is Exhibit A of the damage to our political system
inflicted by the Yellows' in their 18-year-old rule under Corazon Aquino,
Ramos and Noynoy, so bad that it produced the worst vice president in our
history, who probably even prays she can be president.
And I always thought we were evolving toward a better kind of
politics.
Never again, I hope.
*
In October 2019 when this piece was written the police reported only 2,582
killed in operations related to the anti-drug. Other independent counts
approximated this figure.
Quoted
fully from Mr. Rigoberto Tiglao’s column
The
Manila Times
April
4, 2022
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