In a video, Jeffrey “Ka Eric” Celiz of SAMBAYANAN responded to BAYAN’s ‘play of words’ and schemes of circumventing our laws and democratic processes, as well as attempts at rendering our law enforcement capabilities ineffective against the cpp-npa-ndf urban operations and infiltration.
He said that this must be pointed out to cpp-npa-ndf urban operatives like Renato Reyes of BAYAN or Bagong Alyansang Makabayan which is the umbrella front alliance of cpp-npa-ndf in their urban operations: Ang Kalayaan at Karapatan ay Dapat Nakabatay sa Pag-iral ng Batas!
Furthermore, Ka Eric said that “when rights, freedom and liberty are abused in order to advance a political agenda that aims to disrupt and weaken the democratically established state and system of governance, the most reasonable adjudicator and balancer is the rule of law. It should be always emphasized as a means to protect and preserve the state, and our society against all threats to our security, including those coming from the local communist terrorism.”
Below are Ka Eric’s thoughts regarding rallies.
- Rallies, protest actions and peaceful assemblies are guaranteed fundamental rights in the Philippine Constitution, along every other fundamental civil and political rights that are enshrined in the Bill Of Rights; but the exercise of these rights must be peaceful and within the bounds of law.
These rights can not be used as absolute justification to violate the rule of law and circumvent the intent of peaceful assemblies for the redress of grievances in order to petition the government. The exercise of these rights, through holding of rallies and protest mobilizations needs to abide as well with other existing laws and rules of civilized conduct of citizens with respect to the maintenance and protection of public order and security.
Intentionally and inherently, more often, rallies and protest mobilizations which are being orchestrated by known cpp-npa-ndf urban operators and front organizations — under the umbrella of cpp-npa-ndf open alliance center known as Bagong Alyansang Makabayan or BAYAN, have been designed with premeditated and deliberate objectives of testing and stretching the limits of the so called legal boundaries of these ‘constitutional rights’ in order to create confrontational, agitational and radical elements in the conduct of these rallies and ‘protest activities’ including their deliberate intent to circumvent the lawful requirements on regulatory aspect of holding rally activities under the rule of “No Permit-No Rally”. This is where the intentional ‘kiskisan and komprontasyon’ come in, as purposive actions coming from the ranks of the cpp-npa-ndf, especially their underground operators and agitators who are also members of their UNDERGROUND MASS ORGANIZATIONS or UGMOS that are embedded inside every open/front organization. UGMOs also include CPP cadres and urban operatives.
- The so called policy and rules of engagement being adopted by the PNP as our primary law enforcement agency, for a long period of time, such policy and rule of engagement during conduct of rally and protest activities need to be reviewed and clarified: that said concept of ‘Maximum Tolerance’ is only applicable in instances and conditions of peaceful, and lawfully staged rally and protest activities, all in the spirit of peaceful assemblies for the redress of grievances in order to petition the government.
Maximum tolerance is not applicable to violent and physically assaulting instances of cpp-npa-ndf instigated ‘protest rallies’ where “kiskisan and confrontation’ with premeditated violent conduct of assault against law enforcement officers and personnel; and more often such assault and defamation are being committed by these cpp-npa-ndf instigated rally operators, In Flagrante Delicto.
- In such instances of lawful and wilfull violations of law, where such abusive, violent acts are being committed IN FLAGRANTE DELICTO, LAW ENFORCEMENT IS THE PROPER AND APPROPRIATE RESPONSE, instead of Maximum Tolerance. The PNP and its Commanders/Officers can not be tentative about this legal option, or else, “lalamunin at sasakmalin tayo” ng cpp-npa-ndf urban operatives who are trying to pass themselves as “rallyists and protesters”. Leaders and agitators must be decisively put to arrests through law enforcement, and subsequent criminal prosecution must be consistently initiated against known cpp-npa-ndf urban instigators.
We have to remember always, that doctrinally, the orientation and conduct of the cpp-npa-ndf urban infiltration operations can be summed up in these terms: (a) They use the so called duplicitous character of “revolutionary dual tactics” in their urban infiltration where they effectively utilize front organizations and alliances in order to hide their underground components of cpp-npa-ndf that discreetly support and promote their armed terrorism objectives of overthrowing the government, mainly through armed rebellion and supported by their parliamentary and legal component operations;
(b) they utilize, maximize and circumvent our laws and legal processes (ginagamit ang batas, iniikutan ang batas at binubutas ang batas), in order to weaken the state and its law enforcement capabilities, to the advantage of advancing the armed rebellion against the state itself.
Based on these cpp-npa-ndf doctrines and operational conduct, the PNP’s or government’s so called ‘maximum tolerance policy’ is apparently a self-defeating policy, if this will not be clarified, properly contextualized and appropriately enhanced with decisive law enforcement component actions; and our failure to ajust such policy can only result instead in reinforcing the advantages of the cpp-npa-ndf in their urban infiltration operations.
- While the exercise of holding rallies and peaceful assemblies can not be regulated or prohibited as these are fundamental rights guaranteed by our Constitution, yet, venues and areas of rallies and peaceful assemblies require regulations, rules and policies, especially for the intent of preventing public order disruption, such as preventing the impeding of traffic flow, and other public safety related grounds and bases, as well as to include guarantee of economic and government functions and activities.
So, venues of rallies and peaceful assemblies need rally permits and coordination with local government authorities and law enforcement agencies so that anarchism and confrontation and other corollary public order disruptions can be prevented. These messages must be categorically communicated to all groups and partisan sectors who try to hold rallies and peaceful assemblies– with emphasis to PEACEFUL ASSEMBLIES.
FAILURE TO ACKNOWLEDGE AND COMPLY WITH these lawful grounds of the state authority on the part of rally and protest organizers and leaders make them accountable under related laws and rules.
These are the four-point analysis of Ka Eric regarding BAYAN instigated rallies. He the pointed out that the cpp-npa-ndf urban operatives will always insist not to recognize or abide with regulatory authority of the state in as far as the venues and areas of holding their rallies and assemblies are concerned; because the aim of cpp-npa-ndf instigated rallies is to test and stretch the limits of legal and democratic boundaries of our own laws and legal processes.
He emphasized that this is where our legal and law enforcement capabilities must come in decisively and not tentatively.
Jeffrey “Ka Eric” Celiz is a former national leader of the CPP-NPA-NDF who returned to the folds of the law and now actively exposing and countering the lies and evils of his former group.
The CPP-NPA is listed as a terrorist organization by the United States, European Union, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the Philippines.
The Anti-Terrorism Council of the Philippines also formally designated the NDF as a terrorist organization on June 23, 2021, citing it as “an integral and separate part” of the CPP-NPA that was created in April 1973.###