{"id":240863,"date":"2019-12-27T00:19:31","date_gmt":"2019-12-27T05:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=240863"},"modified":"2019-12-27T00:19:31","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T05:19:31","slug":"sison-needs-to-disengage-self-from-fantasy-palace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/12\/27\/sison-needs-to-disengage-self-from-fantasy-palace\/","title":{"rendered":"Sison needs to \u2018disengage self from fantasy\u2019: Palace"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RALLY VS. CPP-NPA. Southern Police District (SPD) Director Nolasco Bathan puts a spray paint on the caricature of Jose Ma. Sison, founder of the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army (CPP-NPA), during a rally against the communist group participated in by almost 300 civilians including former rebels in Baclaran, Para\u00f1aque City on Thursday (December 26, 2019). The group condemned the atrocities of the CPP-NPA, which is marking its 51st anniversary today. (PNA photo Avito C. Dalan)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 Malaca\u00f1ang on Friday expressed dismay that Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founder Jose Maria Sison\u2019s \u201challucination\u201d continues when he claimed that President Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s administration is \u201cgoing downhill to hell.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sison\u2019s latest claim against the Duterte government merely demonstrates that he is \u201creally living in an illusory world he has created for himself,\u201d Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis remarks to his cadres on the occasion of the CPP anniversary entitled, \u2018Duterte regime goes downhill as revolutionary movement rises,\u2019 is proof of his hallucination,\u201d Panelo said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is his movement that is on downhill while the Duterte presidency keeps on rising and the surge in his popularity and trust rating is a resounding proof,\u201d the Palace official added.<\/p>\n

As the CPP marked its 51st year of insurgency on December 26, Sison claimed that the \u201ctraitorous, tyrannical, murderous, corrupt and deceptive\u201d Duterte regime has \u201caggravated the chronic crisis of the ruling system.\u201d<\/p>\n

The communist founder also alleged that the current administration is escalating oppression and exploitation of people, prompting them to wage people\u2019s war and all forms of resistance.<\/p>\n

He, nevertheless, believed that Duterte\u2019s administration is \u201cgoing downhill to hell and cannot find enough relief from its imperialist masters to overcome the rising revolutionary movement of the Filipino people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sison\u2019s remarks came even as he expressed openness to Duterte\u2019s call for the resumption of peace talks between the national government and the CPP\u2019s political wing, the National Democratic Front (NDF) in a bid to end the decades-long insurgency of its armed component, the New People\u2019s Army (NPA).<\/p>\n

Sison should stop living in a fantasy, as it was likely for him to cause harm to others, Panelo said.<\/p>\n

\u201cMr. Sison must disengage himself from his fantasy before his illusions develop into something medically perilous,\u201d the Palace official said.<\/p>\n

Sison blinded by his \u2018comfortable, luxurious\u2019 self-exile<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sison, who has been in self-exile in the Netherlands since 1987, apparently failed to see the progress in the Philippines under Duterte\u2019s watch because he was already blinded by his \u201ccomfortable and luxurious\u201d life in Amsterdam.<\/p>\n

Panelo added that Sison seemed to be unaware that many of the communist rebels are realizing that their past struggles and sacrifices \u201chave led to nothing except the shedding of bloodshed among and between Filipinos, family members being separated from each other, productive lives of young, ideal and even brilliant minds wasted on the hills, and always on the run fighting a lost cause abandoned even by those who advanced it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHis decade-long comfortable and luxurious self-exile in Europe has placed blinders in his eyes hence he could not see the transformation of society initiated and propelled by the strong-willed leadership of the former Mayor of Davao City,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fact is, a growing number of their members are turning a new leaf in their lives as they begin to go back to the mainstream of society,\u201d Panelo added.<\/p>\n

Panelo also belied Sison\u2019s claim of \u201cworsening\u201d conditions of underdevelopment, high unemployment, low income, soaring prices of basic commodities and mass poverty in the Philippines.<\/p>\n

To dispute Sison\u2019s remarks, Panelo noted that foreign financial organizations foresee the Philippines as the \u201cfastest growing economy in the Asia-Pacific in 2020.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Palace official also cited that employment hits a 14-year high, high inflation is \u201cnow a thing of the past,” and nearly six million Filipinos have already been lifted out of poverty.<\/p>\n

Panelo also reacted to Sison\u2019s demand from the government to suspend the military and police operations against the communist rebels.<\/p>\n

The holiday ceasefire between the state forces and the communists, which took effect on Dec. 23, will expire at 11:59 p.m. on January 7, 2020.<\/p>\n

The Palace official found it satirical for Sison to issue a threat to lift the holiday truce with the government troops, considering that it was the NPA insurgents who are violating the temporary ceasefire deal.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe threatens to cancel the ceasefire if these orders are not shown to the NDF panel. These orders are not forthcoming, Sison and his comrades can proceed with the cancellation of the ceasefire and the President will oblige them,\u201d Panelo said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the first place, they have violated their own declared unilateral ceasefire. So there is not even logic in their threat,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Accept one-on-one talk with Duterte<\/strong><\/p>\n

Following Sison\u2019s remarks, it was not surprising that Duterte, who was his \u201cserious student of political history,\u201d slammed the former\u2019s \u201cpontifications of the ageing and ailing revolutionary,\u201d Panelo said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSuch a pitiful and tragic ending of someone whose brilliance, used to be revered by the youth of the seventies, has since then been dulled, by failing to embrace the realities of world politics and to accept the comatose state of a dying ideology,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven their former allies are distancing themselves from them. The European Union which has been releasing funds to the local communist fronts has vowed to stop its financial aid after their money-making scams have been unmasked,\u201d Panelo added.<\/p>\n

Panelo said that instead of criticizing the government, Sison should accept the President\u2019s challenge for a one-on-one dialogue in the Philippines.<\/p>\n

Duterte\u2019s plan for a meeting with Sison came following the series of attacks by the NPA rebels against the government forces despite the implementation of holiday truce and amid intent to revive the peace negotiations.<\/p>\n

Should Sison refuse to hold a dialogue with Duterte, the communist founder only proves that he is insincere to revive the peace talks, Panelo stressed.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe dare Mr. Sison to come to the Philippines for a one-on-one meeting with the President to forge a lasting peace agreement. (President Duterte) guarantees that he will not be arrested upon his arrival and after the meeting he can freely leave for Netherlands when he so desires,\u201d the Palace official said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis refusal to have a personal dialogue with his former student in the Philippines betrays his insincerity,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Duterte, who used to have good relations with the communists, was forced to formally scrap the national government\u2019s peace talks with NDF consultants through Proclamation 360 signed on Nov. 23, 2017.<\/p>\n

The Chief Executive also signed Proclamation 375, tagging the CPP-NPA as a terrorist group.<\/p>\n

The CPP-NPA has also been branded as a terrorist organization by the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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