"My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom."
-- William Tecumseh Sherman
-- William Tecumseh Sherman
By Alex P. Vidal
FAIRFAX, Virginia -- Enemies of the state can score a moral victory even without killing a single police or army.
This was manifested by the brave New People's Army (NPA) cadres who raided the Maasin Police Station in Iloilo province in the Philippines on June 18.
The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) have been portraying NPA rebels as ruthless bandits who robbed and killed unarmed civilians in remote villages.
If the AFP could not stymie the leftist rebels in actual combat, they managed to clobber them in propaganda war what with their vast technological and media resources, let alone plant derogatory imputations against the outlawed armed guerillas in the people's minds.
But the rebels belied all the negative propaganda levelled against them when they didn't touch a single cop with a ten-foot pole during the June 18 blitzkrieg.
They could have annihilated all the nine cops caught flat-footed.
This was manifested by the brave New People's Army (NPA) cadres who raided the Maasin Police Station in Iloilo province in the Philippines on June 18.
The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) have been portraying NPA rebels as ruthless bandits who robbed and killed unarmed civilians in remote villages.
If the AFP could not stymie the leftist rebels in actual combat, they managed to clobber them in propaganda war what with their vast technological and media resources, let alone plant derogatory imputations against the outlawed armed guerillas in the people's minds.
But the rebels belied all the negative propaganda levelled against them when they didn't touch a single cop with a ten-foot pole during the June 18 blitzkrieg.
They could have annihilated all the nine cops caught flat-footed.
MONSTERS
The NPA showed to all and sundry that they were not monsters, after all, as portrayed by government forces.
That they, too, are merciful human beings who would not kill people without any justifiable reason.
And the government tagged them as "terrororists."
A terrorist, in the mind of an ordinary citizen, plants bombs, shoots at anyone in sight, and create mayhem in society.
A terrorist commits mass murders and kills including women and children.
A terrorist shoots a cop and any military officer at any given opportunity.
Instead, the NPA raiders just immobilized the uniformed policemen after neutralizing them as they seized several high-powered firearms that infuriated Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Reynaldo "Bato" Dela Rosa, who visited Massin recently.
BLOW
It was a major blow against the Duterte administration and a grand moral victory for the NPA.
Here's a case where an enemy raid became celebrated and became talk of the town nationwide, but not a single casualty was reported on the part of authorities.
Some people will now start to doubt if the NPA rebels are really merciless mass murderers and terrorists.
Joma Sison is really brilliant.
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