It's been five days since Filipino revolutionary Jose Maria Sison was arrested in the Netherlands. People in the progressive movement and those concerned with the worsening civil and human rights worldwide are certainly outraged by this abusive act of the Dutch government. Certainly, we observe the workings of the Arroyo administration (with Norberto Gonzales too happy that we want him to have a heart attack) and the U.S. imperialists in this development. And they are shaking one another's hands well.
This is what the fascists have been trying to do do: turn the target of condemnation from the regime to the people's movement. That Sison was arrested in accordance with the same subject of human rights - the alleged murder of former comrades - transfigures the human rights issue in a field where a "non-aligned" ground, as may be inferred from their attacks, has to be sought. In excess of the charge that "they (the Left) too, have crimes against humanity," the butchers of our time create conditions wherein the settling of scores, the punishment of crimes, the impartial adjudicator, and the quest for justice are all only possible with the status quo. For surely the Inquirer claim (Try Him, 31 Aug 2007) that Kintanar's widow's brand of justice is the "neutral" (because coming from the aggrieved of the aggrieved?) serves the design to criminalize the revolutionary movement's leadership. There can be no neutral trial for Sison because under the hands of the Arroyo, U.S. and Dutch governments that strive to image for us a revolutionary movement that is a "totalitarian" and "cannibalistic" troop.
Who will save us from the law? (Carol Hau)
12:23 am
3 september 2007
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Halu, if the dutch government arrested sison it is because of the evidence against him...as a person in exile he is always monitored by the host government and for sure they got him for something...you talk about being killed by the government...yet you never talked about the left killing their own..planting mines which is against an international accord...if you are really pro Filipino...you denounce not just the government but also the left for the wronged they've done...unless you're one of them...trying to justify something in the name of the country...well the government too can justify for the same reason...so on and on...we battle...and on and on you complain and whine...you don't even want joma to have trial in the dutch government or even anywhere for the matter for ordering a murder because of the conspiracy of governments as an excuse, are you crazy? then what country can he be tried with? with all the murder....ah i get it...there is still conspiracy right ergo you just want him free...no man in your dreams...the wives of the murdered ones are elated...aren't you happy they're given justice?
Thank you for your comments, anonymous blogger. Please don't put words into my own opinion.
I and I think those who oppose the Nazi-like arrest of Joma are not against his trial. For sure, this is the only legal way in the international arena where he can at least defend himself, similar to a delisting from the terrorist list made by a Luxembourg court. The point is: Joma's arrest is a project of the Philippine and U.S. governments in collaboration with those who have become counter-revolutionaries of the underground Left. To me, this is the only proper context in which one can analyze the issue. No claim of neutrality and certainly, a hideous objectivity. In fact your accusation has already pre-judged Sison.
On the issue of the Left killing their own, the NPA has long ago admitted the crimes committed against comrades and made all ways possible to atone for their sins, a fact recognized by international investigators like Alston. The killings of Tabara and Kintanar, traitors of the revolutionary movement according to your enemies [anti-Filipinos (what is this contentious term, anyway?) such as me], are the rebel movement's punishments. There is no apolitical ground where we can make them pay for what they have done to the counterrevolutionaries, this super-state suddenly becoming benevolently serious in investigating political killings. Further, missing in the reportage is the all-important fact that sometime in 2000, Kintanar went to the Netherlands to assassinate Joma, an Erap-administration oplan to terrorize the various left groups in order to divide the people-yes, the Filipinos!-and have the ousted president remain in power. Tabara has his own crimes too. By the way, is a crime transposable into a legal modus operandi once it is executed against the government's most enduring enemies?
10:41 pm
6 september 2007
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