All-Out War (Blog war, that is)

For the benefit of some readers, a united front is an alliance of many organizations or sectors whose interests or orientations are not fully compatible, yet finds many common points of agreements. An example of this would be the united front presented by the Soviet Union and the West, lead by the US, during World War 2 against Fascism. Another example would be the united front against Marcos where the politician Lorenzo Tanada chaired the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan, Joker Arroyo defended Joma Sison during the latter’s military trial, and priests and nuns marched along with members of the League of Filipino Students, KADENA and Kilusang Mayo Uno. A united front against Arroyo is definitely not a far-fetched idea. There are your opposition politicians who see a chance to capitalize on popular opinion against Arroyo for their re-election chances (and a chance for us to put into power politicians who may ultimately be like Gloria, but in the meantime, will be forced to act more decently than her). There are the religious who are gradually becoming united and gradually becoming bolder in their condemnation of Gloria due to the fact that even priests and nuns have not been spared by AFP murderers (with the exception of course of Iglesia ni Cristo, Opus Dei, Born-Again and other "Christian" extremists). The gap between so-called student intellectuals and student activists along with youth activists from the basic masses is slowly being bridged. Patricia Evangelista’s latest column sounds more like an impassioned speech of a member of the Student Christian Movement than from someone who used to parrot globalization’s benefits. And of course, the peasants, workers, fisherfolk, national minorities, Moros, and urban poor have always been solidly disgusted against Gloria, which is why the vast majority of victims of the blood-thirsty AFP comes from their sectors. Some lines however, were never meant to be crossed. The an idea of a united front actually first entered my mind when I read in the papers a few days ago that leaders of other Leftist partylist groups such as Sanlakas and PM actually visited Satur Ocampo in the WPD station to give their support. In fact, now that I mention it, I think the term "united Left" came from one of them. In fact, Sanlakas released a statement through their e-groups that condemned as "propaganda" and "rumor-mongering" their claims that the likes of Akbayan were against Bayan Muna and Company. However, I can still see a major discrepancy between the pronouncements of their leaders and the actions of their rank and file. A few days before Satur Ocampo was arrested, a professor in UP Diliman posted in her blog that Akbayan organizers denoucned KABATAAN Partylist as "NPAs lang mga yan". And Akbayan partisans in online forums continue to denounce KABATAAN and other progressive partylist groups as "communist fronts". And even on the day UN Special Envoy Philip Alston released his findings on Pinoy extra-judicial killings, Etta Rosales was caught in a statement that still tried to insist that the victims of extra-judicial killings were actually communists. I can give Sanlakas and PM the benefit of the doubt because they are relatively silent when it comes to condemning nationalists from KABATAAN Partylist and ANAKBAYAN (or maybe the silence simply comes from the fact that they are nearing membership extinction?). But Akbayan, whether its leadership or its members, have continued to be anti-Left fanatics. They continue to march to the beat of the AFP’s genocidal drum. As such, I can only view their pronouncments as a desperate measure to cash in on the sympathy votes for Bayan Muna and added airtime for Bayan Muna to discuss its platform and programs. I would like to thank the AFP for continuing to campaign for Akbayan and other dummy partylist groups of Gloria, such as the 3 straight times losers ANAD and Aksa, and the 11 exposed extensions of the DILG (hahaha! morons!). Campaigning for them is the kiss of death for the people will certainly not elect anyone you gun-crazy retards support.

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