The Ever Innocent Murderers

Dean Jorge Bocobo at Philippine Commentary says the Left will never admit to committing atrocities it has been accused of even though a public interview with the Filipino Communist leader describes himself as the "brain" to its assassination arm's "brawn" with its allies in the press acting as the "shield".

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The party list groups are not fooling anybody. Until they categorically and publicly renounce the violence of the CPP NPA, they can hardly expect sympathy from a disbelieving public who cannot accept their sophisticated and convoluted refusal to take such a simple and forthright stand. They can only expect more public apathy towards their alleged plight at the hands of the Military, which is after all, fighting a deadly communist insurgency that is also involved in all kinds of organized criminal activities like extortion, collection of revolutionary taxes, kidnapping, assassination and blackmail.