PROWLING about in our college and university campuses are lackeys of JoMa Sison and his ilk, ever on the lookout for gullible youngsters to abduct for their bankrupt cause. Hieing their victims off to their mountain lairs, they wreck their future and shatter the dreams of their families, making of each of their recruits hardly anything more than brigands like themselves sought and wanted by law enforcers and agents of the state.
Every young person whose vision has not been impaired by the nearsightedness that keeps her interested only in matters relating to the family's estate and fortunes has, at some time, been afire with the desire to right the wrong, to redress the suffering of the disadvantaged in society and to scorn the high-born and the well-placed as social leeches engorging themselves at the expense of the masses. That has been the picture painted by the denizens of the Philippine ideological and political underworld for a very long time now. And while at one time the colors were alive and livid, they have meanwhile faded, like the pathetic rouge worn by some woman of the night well past her prime.
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