{"id":273576,"date":"2020-10-31T05:11:03","date_gmt":"2020-10-31T09:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=273576"},"modified":"2020-10-31T05:11:03","modified_gmt":"2020-10-31T09:11:03","slug":"we-are-also-entitled-to-freedom-of-speech-anti-left-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/10\/31\/we-are-also-entitled-to-freedom-of-speech-anti-left-group\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We are also entitled to freedom of speech&#8217;: anti-left group"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_273577\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-273577\" style=\"width: 5531px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/45584.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-273577\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/45584.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"5531\" height=\"3790\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/45584.jpg 5531w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/45584-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/45584-768x526.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/45584-1024x702.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 5531px) 100vw, 5531px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-273577\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Lit candles are placed on the steps of the Boys Scout Circle Monument on Timog Avenue, Quezon City during a candle-lighting vigil on Thursday (Oct. 29, 2020). (PNA photo by Robert Oswald P. Alfiler)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 A group of parents fighting to claim their children from leftist organizations said they have the same amount of freedom including entitlement to freedom of speech.<\/p>\n<p>The League of Parents of the Philippines (LPP), a group composed of parents whose children fled home upon becoming full-time activists, emphasized on Friday that everything they say is true.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe only talk facts.\u00a0<em>Totoo naman po na yung mga batang nasa<\/em>\u00a0tarpaulins<em>\u00a0namin na namatay sa<\/em>\u00a0encounter with the military\u00a0<em>ay unang kumilos sa mga organisasyong hayag or<\/em>\u00a0open [openly left] organizations\u00a0<em>gaya ng<\/em>\u00a0Anakbayan (Those children in tarpaulins who died during armed encounters with the military started out as activists for these open organizations like Anakbayan),\u201d Remy Rosadio, the group\u2019s spokesperson, said.<\/p>\n<p>Rosadio said that leftist groups such as the League of Filipino Students (LFS) recruit their children to become activists who \u201call of a sudden are impossible to reach\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>She said parents would just hear from others that their children were seen in the countryside and are \u201calready a part of the armed struggle\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow do you still brand that as red-tagging when our children already declare that they are proud members of the communist party?\u00a0<em>Nakaka-bahala sa panig naming mga magulang na biglang makikita namin na nagkakaroon ng<\/em>\u00a0turn around<em>\u00a0sa pananaw ang aming anak pati na ang pag-yakap nila sa mga<\/em>\u00a0extreme solutions like armed struggle (It worries us as parents seeing our children have a total turnaround with their views and opinions. Especially them embracing extreme solutions like the armed struggle),\u201d Rosadio added.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, University of Philippines Diliman (UPD) Student Council chairperson Froilan Cariaga, in a statement, opposed the LPP&#8217;s plan to stage an informative rally inside the campus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey would never be allowed inside the university\u2019s premises, as they only mean to endanger the progressive youth and community members,\u201d Cariaga said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 A group of parents fighting to claim their children from leftist organizations said they have the same amount of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":273577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-christine-cudis","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273578,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273576\/revisions\/273578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}