It is disheartening to see people who are most vociferous in denouncing human rights violation, extrajudicial killings, oppression and exploitation now in alliance with countries seeking to have our President tried before a Kangaroo Court.
The CPP, the NDF and its front organizations are working round the clock to deliver the country to a tribunal organized by countries that hold the unprecedented record in mass slaughter, genocide, oppression and exploitation. It is not human rights violation that is being raised against these moronic traitors, but their ignorance in understanding what they are fighting for.
The lawyer who once stood as party-list representative of Bayan Muna has completely lost track of his political paradigm upon which his ideology revolves.
We are saying this because this is basic to all cadres. Failure to apply one’s political paradigm is telling their party and its front organization have little prospects of winning their so-called struggle for national liberation. Ignorance on how to apply Mao’s “Correct Handling of Contradiction” is exposing that these nincompoops are in fact serving as accomplice in restoring European colonialism presented in a grand dimension of a new international legal order.
It is the most shameful that a leadership that was once the vanguard of the revolution has now been reduced to bunch of lunatics. Even if we give it to them that extrajudicial killings and human rights violations have taken place, no upright political party would recklessly initiate to bring to court a government it seeks to overthrow. Even the government that has accused them of mass slaughter of alleged deep penetration agent has not taken this kind of action of bringing them to court. Rather, Colmenares and his Bayan Muna are acting as warrant servers of the imperialists, coyly hiding behind the curtain of an international tribunal.
The conduct of the militant left in seeking an alliance with the oligarchs, the landlords and the Church is indicative they have completely lost their ideological perspective. They could no longer segregate the issues that could rightly identify them as a revolutionary party. They have aligned themselves on issues not rooted in ideology just to consummate their political survival. They could no longer dichotomize whether the human rights issue they carry has the same substance as that raised by the oligarchy disguising as belonging to the opposition. In fact, they have become ludicrous because the imperialist and the neoliberal are parroting the same line of human rights violation.
It is for this reason why some political observers see the tacit collaboration of the Left with the Liberal Party and their yellow animals as prurient. Our people could not believe that in their lifetime the corrupt politicians and the ideological zealots would be one in dreaming to overthrow the government under the guidance of their exiled leaders, now suspected to have been reduced to imperialist trolls.
Even most disgusting is the support extended by the Church which everybody knows is deeply committed to defending the interest of the oligarchy. Many of their young converts simply parrot nonsense, not realizing that history is full of instances where the oligarchs supported and bankrolled coups d’ etat, military juntas and caudillos that committed atrocities against civilians. They could not discern that the military are only acting to protect the interest of the oligarchy. The world saw how the imperialist transformed the whole of South America to states ruled by caudillos on behalf of the landlords and the US imperialist. In the fifties and sixties, we witnessed the same political landscape in Southeast Asia where military juntas, cliques and puppet governments ruled in South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Indonesia, South Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Burma.
The military’s exposure to progressive ideas prompted the oligarchy to refrain from putting too much trust in them. Progressive ideas seeped in because neoliberalism saw the privatization of state-owned enterprises, the deregulation in the prices of basic commodities and services, and the contractualization of labor to the withering of trade unions. The lunatics in the militant left even refuse to accept that revolution has never been their monopoly.
This underscores the reason why governments, even if besieged by civil war, avoid bringing the issue of human rights violation before an international forum because they give precious value to the sovereignty and political independence of their country. Such is consistent to Article 2 of the United Nations Charter, to quote: “Nothing contained in the present charter shall authorize the United Nations to intervene in matters which are essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of any state or shall require the members to submit to such matters to settlement under the present charter.”
Even assuming there is an issue in our membership that according to one Supreme Court justice, the decision by President Duterte to withdraw from the ICC is invalid, much that it cannot be done by the issuance of an executive order, alas, he should have known it that there is no law that could prevent us from withdrawing from the ICC which is not even treated as an international organization insofar as the UN Security Council is concerned. This stems from the universal principle that the exercise of our sovereign right is exclusive and indivisible to our independence.
Sensible and patriotic Filipinos could not even comprehend how the ICC acquired jurisdiction over those alleged five cases of extrajudicial killings when it has not even conducted any preliminary investigation to formally allow them to file their case before the prosecutors’ office. This so-called National Union of People’s Lawyer does not seem to understand that even if they filed it before ICC Prosecutor Fatuous Bensouda, that did not make sense because it remains the exclusive prerogative of the government to allow an investigation for the purpose of holding our President criminally liable.
How could the ICC prosecutor proceed to conduct a preliminary investigation which is mandatory when our timely withdrawal from that apartheid international court, technically disallowed Fatou from conducting a preliminary investigation?
The country is not even under any legal obligation to prove the operability of the “complementarity principle” because arguing that presupposes the country is still under its jurisdiction which is not. Whether or not our courts are functioning is beside the point. We just cannot allow such discussion because we have effectively withdrawn our membership that is meant to prosecute and try our own citizens for alleged crimes committed in our country and to be tried and possibly convicted and jailed in Europe. This alone already constitutes a gross violation of the territoriality principle in criminal law where people can only be tried in place where the crime was committed.
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