Kaban ni D_BystandeR: SINUKLIAY SA HUNAHUNA

AFP Chief of Staff Gen. Emmanuel Bautista called the arrest of high-ranking CPP-NPA leaders Benito Tiamzon and Wilma Austria as "justice served." No way. We want plunderers, corrupt politicians, and human rights violators punished, not the  people who are part of the peace negotiations with the government. The arrest of Tiamzon and Austria and five others showed the disinterest of the government in pursuing the peace talks. If the government is for the peace negotiations, why do they arrest and detain the other party to the negotiations? For the families of victims of human rights violations justice is served when perpetrators of extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearance, illegal arrests and detention, and other human rights violations are arrested and punished. The Aquino government supposes it could get away from the human rights violations it has committed against the people. The government wishes to be vindicated from its crimes against the people and the people will be cowed in their clamor for justice. The military calls the arrests a way to justice, peace and development. But there can be no justice as the government continues to violate people's rights. There is no justice when thousands of our people struck by calamities are denied of much-needed relief and rehabilitation. There is no justice when millions of Filipinos wallow in poverty while billions of the people's money is pocketed by a few. The government continues to use full military might against the people. The people, in defense of their rights,

continue to exercise their right to protest and rebel because they believe that peace through silencing dissent is not justice. Peace talks must resume now. Genuine justice should be served. – By Erman Baldomero, Vice Chairperson, Hustisya

SC Kang: (to Erman Baldomero)

By arresting those two old commies, they can be charged as the commanders for ordering their executions. This writer doesn't remember the purges that was done with ruthless efficiency or have convenient amnesia. Why aren't you demanding justice for those swept up in those purges. But as always that's inconvenient truth. You and your left wing buddies in the UCCP and other left leaning organizations will not fight for them to regain their humanity. Now this commie writer has seen their organization in a box. Now they scream for negotiations. The last negotiations were 3 years ago. Now, it's  time to destroy this evil and pernicious organization. Per Dei gratiam. Nox et super victoriam!

D_BystandeR: (to SC Kang)

No "peace talk" will ever succeed as long as there are people with the same mentality that you possess will continue to reign and influence the thinking of the present administration. Reading the piece articulated by Erman Baldomero will surely rekindle the kind of longing for real justice that only exists in the far horizon of distant possibilities where people in high echelon of the government continue to disregard the cries and pleas from the poor and the downtrodden for the long overdue peace initiative missing in our midst.