The past two columns of Lt. Gen. Antonio Parlade Jr. (“The Never Ending Story of Red-tagging, Courtesy of CPP,” The Manila Times April 26 and 27) have been personally alarming to me. While the article clearly delineated what he termed, “strange-bedfellows” relationship among those composing the 1Sambayan coalition, i.e., former senior associate justice Antonio Carpio and former Foreign Affairs secretary Alberto del Rosario, for instance, who are unabashed United States mouthpieces, and former Bayan Muna Rep. Neri Colmenares, for another instance, who is said to be a card-bearing member of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CCP), together with Yellow Senators Kiko Pangilinan and Franklin Drilon with retired Philippine Navy Admiral Rommel Ong to boot, I can’t help the feeling that the exposé actually raised the specter of such awful a phenomenon as a genocide that uniformly attend anticommunist campaigns.
Indeed, it is true that the coalition has been evidently formed to advance US geopolitical concerns over the South China Sea, and if it counts for its membership staunch CPP adherents-apologists such as Colmenares, then the “strange- bedfellows” grouping perceived by General Parlade can only betray the ogre to which the Jose Maria Sison communist terrorist insurgency has grown into over the past 52 years.
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