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Risa Hontiveros cannot get away with it. Hontiveros, a former member of the negotiating panel of the Government of the Republic of the Philippines in talks with the National Democratic Front, and current Akbayan partylist representative, misportrays her liberal self as some "pro-Liberal Party Left" (read: Left in words but Right in deeds) and enjoys parroting Jovito Palparan baselessly and wildly attacking veteran leftists Satur Ocampo, Liza Maza and Jose Maria Sison.
Hontiveros is a senatorial candidate under the Liberal Party (LP), while Palparan is an independent (more like nuisance) candidate. But how they share their fiction-filled hatred of the Left makes them the senatorial tandem of choice to those who continue to massacre innocent civilians, assassinate activists and initiate all-out war against so-called insurgents. In one of her recent statements, Hontiveros said a mouthful of lies and black propaganda about Ocampo, Maza and Sison. Come to think of it, Hontiveros has apparently agreed to echo Palparan, or to out-Palparan him in terms of repeating ad nauseam claims that had long been disproven in courts. Or maybe not - because long before Palparan came into the picture, Akbayan had always and gleefully spread bad words against Bayan Muna and its allied partylists as well as the CPP. The chismosa (rumor-monger) Hontiveros claims Sison has supposedly endorsed the NP's Manny Villar. Of course, Sison didn't and Hontiveros knows it: What Sison told a Bulatlat.com interview was that Villar could be better than LP's Noynoy Aquino. It is public knowledge that the CPP has its own people's government to tend to and would have nothing to do with the political intramurals of senior traditional politicians (like the Aquinos) and junior ones (like Hontiveros). One of my friends tried replacing Hontiveros' name in that rabidly anti-Left statement with Palparan's name and it sounded so naturally Palparan. For the benefit of Hontiveros and Palparan, and their fans, allow me to remind them of the following: 1. The state has repeatedly accused, tried and jailed Ocampo on supposed acts of rebellion or conspiracy to commit rebellion. First was during the time of Marcos, then under Aquino and then under Arroyo. In each of these cases where the state accused him of being a member or leader of the CPP, Ocampo walked away free. The state has absolutely nothing to prove its oft-repeated claims. 2. In 2007, in the middle of the last election campaign, President Arroyo's inter-agency legal action group headed by Norberto Gonzales, initiated murder raps against Ocampo in connection with alleged mass killings of communist infiltrators in Leyte. They had Ocampo arrested and threatened with being whisked away at night time to far-flung and militarized Leyte. To cut the story short, the Supreme Court granted bail to Ocampo -- proof that the evidence was weak. 3. Also in 2007, the Supreme Court dismissed the fabricated rebellion case against Ocampo, Maza and four other partylist representatives. The state accused them of being CPP leaders (just like what Hontiveros and Palparan both claim) and of being in cahoots with rightist elements to topple the Arroyo regime in a Left-Right conspiracy. Hontiveros cannot get away with being the faint, bedroom voice echo of Palparan. They are perfect as a tandem: Tambalang Hontiveros at Palparan: Pareho ang Laban. (Hontiveros and Palparan Tandem: One Same Fight).
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come on... crazy logic
mga bobo talaga kyong mga kumunista...wla ginawa kundi lokohin ang mga pinoy para lang sa pansariling interest
why didn't you approve my comment? Is fair discourse not allowed in your post? to follow your logic, you are censoring free information, just like the human rights abusers in the military! SHAME SHAME! ahahaha.
This article is the one full of lies and distorted information. Risa Hontiveros can never be a Palparan ally. How can she be when Palparan burned an effigy of hers. Mukhang sour-graping lang kayo kasi ang baba ng puntos niyo sa HARAPAN debate. Huwag naman sana kayong ganyan. Madami sa kampo ni Risa ang patuloy na naniniwala sa kakayahan ni Ka Satur at Liza Maza upang ipagtanggol ang karapatan ng mga Pilipino pero kailangan ding sagutin ng diretsahan ni Ka Satur and Liza at kondenahin ang revolutionary tax at permit to campaign na ginagawa ng NPA. Malinaw na ito ay pangingikil. Pakibasa: Hontiveros: Condemning HR violations not red-baiting Thursday, April 22, 2010 2:29 PM "I condemn all extrajudicial killings perpetrated both by the state and non-state actors, " said Liberal Party Senatorial bet and Akbayan Representative Risa Hontiveros, as she laughed off the allegation of the Makabayan bloc that she is engaged in red-baiting and that there is a tactical alliance between her and Palparan. "Palparan burned an effigy of me. We filed a disqualification case against his party-list in 2007. We pushed for several inquiries on extrajudicial killings. Inside and outside Congress, Akbayan has consistently condemned the human rights abuses committed by Palparan. Kaya kagaya ng fake mental record na inilabas nila laban kay Noynoy, ang ganitong akusasyon ay black propaganda," she said. "It is actually their refusal to condemn the atrocities and abuses of the CPP-NPA that indirectly helps human rights violators like Palparan to commit further abuses. It compromises the establishment of a human rights culture where the human rights of all Filipinos are protected, and all abusers, regardless of creed and ideology, are penalized," she said. Hontiveros flatly denied that she is engaging in red-baiting. "Nowhere in my press statement did I call them communist. To dare them to denounce the human rights abuses of the NPA, including the imposition of the permit-to-campaign, and to challenge them to reject Villaroyo is to demand from them to stand up for what is right and what is decent," Rep. Hontiveros said. She said that the PTC, the NPA's human rights violations, and allegations of corruption committed by Villar are valid electoral and political issues that all candidates, regardless of party affiliations, should address. "These are legitimate issues. In short, raising them doesn’t make one pro-Palparan. Saying so is rather ridiculous." "How can I be a supporter of a human rights violator, when Mr. Palparan burned my effigy a few years ago? When I filed a case for the disqualification of his party-list? When I authored a lot of resolutions investigating incidents of human rights violations? When I have bills penalizing torture, enforced disappearance, and strengthening the Commission on Human Rights?" asked the LP senatoriable. "What is tragic is when you stand up against all forms of human rights abuses, you get criticized by both the military and the NPA. You speak against Palparan and against extrajudicial killings, you get tagged as communist and you face harassment. You take to task the NPA for its human rights abuses, and suddenly for the Makabayan bloc you are pro-Palparan," Rep. Hontiveros said. The peace advocate Hontiveros fortified her stance that all forms of violence whether it is state- sponsored or ideologically peddled, is worthy of scorn. The CHR has records of the number of innocent civilians killed both by the CPP-NPA and the military. "They simply have to explain why they condemn only the military that is the only thing I ask of them," ended Hontiveros.
Ang bobo naman ata ng sumulat nito. Ni katiting na logic, walang masilip.
^sinagot na yan noon pa, tanga ka lang...minsan nga lalayo ka sa mga tropa mo sa akbayan o sa military para makapagsala ng balita...
vote for paparan, bantay party list and anad partylist!!!
iboto ang mga taong malinaw na lumalaban sa komunismo, palaparan and bantay party list...
Dude, Risa is a fake! If she needs you then she'll pretend to be so sweet. In the beginning, she'll oversell herself to you like she has photographic memory daw, maganda daw sya, pang masa daw sya, matalino daw sya..kuff..kuff...kung talagang matalino & magaling sya at pangmasa then she should've studied to be a doctor then can she can invent drugs to give to the poor people or practice medicine for poor people...instead she just complains this and that...all talk and no actual contribution. what a hypocrite!
"Dude, Risa is a fake! If she needs you then she'll pretend to be so sweet. In the beginning, she'll oversell herself to you like she has photographic memory daw, maganda daw sya, pang masa daw sya, matalino daw sya..kuff..kuff...kung talagang matalino & magaling sya at pangmasa then she should've studied to be a doctor then can she can invent drugs to give to the poor people or practice medicine for poor people...instead she just complains this and that...all talk and no actual contribution. what a hypocrite!" - Puro ad hominems naman ito.
bakit kaya walang miyembro ng AKBAYAN ang nabiktima ng kamay na bakal ng administrasyong ARROYO?bakit kaya, HINDI kailanman inakusahan si Risa Hontiveros o kahit sinong miyembro ng AKBAYAN ng rebelyon o inciting to rebellion noong 2006?"kinukundena" din naman nya si gma di ba? SIMPLE......kasi kasabwat sya ni GMA, Palparan atbp. sa gubyerno...kasi isa syang oportunistang TRAPO gaya ng marami....PLASTIKADA!!! |
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