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Bayan calls on Philippine,
Dutch and US
governments to stop
persecuting Prof. Sison
News
Release
September 14, 2007
After 17 days, 29 protest actions worldwide in four
geographical regions, thousands of protest emails and online
signatures, Prof. Jose Ma. Sison has been finally released from
detention.
“This is an important victory in the continuing fight against
political persecution by the Dutch, Philippine and United
States governments. The three governments have conspired to
have Sison listed as a terrorist and then later have him
detained on trumped up charges of incitement to murder. This is
a major setback in three governments’ dastardly plans to
criminalize Sison and the cause he has fought for,” said Bayan
secertary general Renato M. Reyes, Jr.
“We attribute Prof. Sison’s release to the insufficiency of
evidence against him as well as the unrelenting protests staged
by people worldwide. This is a legal as well as a political
fight where Prof. Sison and the progressive movement won the
early rounds. The fight is not yet over though,” Reyes said.
Bayan held a mass action today with a “march for Joma” from the
University of Sto. Tomas going to Liwasang Bonifacio at 1:00
pm. As part of the celebratory mood of the action, the groups
read poems and sang songs that Sison composed. They carried a
streamer with the call, “Tuloy ang Laban! Justice for Joma!”
Stop persecution
In a press conference in Quezon City, Bayan chair Dr. Carol
Araullo called on the Philippine, Dutch and US governments to
stop the political persecution of Prof. Sison.
“The three governments may be at work again to counter this
latest victory of Prof. Sison. The three are intent on
criminalizing Prof. Sison and the movement he stands for. This
is all being done in the name of the so-called ‘war on terror’.
The three governments have been discredited. They should stop
the persecution,” she said.
“We suspect that the Arroyo government will again cook up
something against Joma and other progressives in Europe just so
it can justify its all out war policy against the Left in the
Philippines. The recent amnesty proclamation is also a
calculated maneuver to do away with the peace talks and
escalate the military offensives against the revolutionary
movements in the Philippines,” she said.
Araullo stressed the need to resume the peace process to seek a
just and lasting peace as opposed to the all-out war policy of
the Arroyo regime. ###
14 Sep 2007 - 14:22 by bayan |
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Post-mortem on Jose Maria
Sison's arrest,
detention and release
From Tonyo's
blog:
http://tonyo.blogspot.com/2007/09/post-mortem-on-jose-
maria-sisons-arrest.html
As I
write this, scores of supporters of
Jose Maria Sison are assembling in Manila for a
"victory march and rally" to celebrate the leftist leader's release from
prison after Dutch judges found the evidence him "insufficient" to cause
his continued detention.
There it is -- (1)
after all the exaltation and credit-grabbing over Sison's arrest,
(2)
after speaking as if they gave the goods,
(3) after proclaiming for the nth time the impending doom of the movement
Sison founded in 1964, (4) after spreading
rumors of New People's Army regulars supposedly fleeing camps nationwide
due to demoralization, and (5) after foisting
war or fake amnesty on NPA -- the plot to pin down Sison failed.
Norberto Manero, er, Gonzales was surprised to receive the news last
night. Actually, he was shamed by the news. His "kuryente" stories -- all
the fake, manufactured, concocted cases against the Left -- starting with
the
"killing fields" in Bukidnon,
the
omnibus rebellion case,
the
arrest and detention of Satur Ocampo, and the
ongoing legal campaign to file cases across the country against both legal
and underground leftists -- have all miserably failed. The Sison case is
his latest and hopefully the last "kuryente" story.
This time, Gonzales' kuryente reached the Dutch courts who yesterday
discovered the lie about "compelling and strong evidence" of Sison's
"crimes against humanity", and caused the most decent and just thing to
happen -- to release Sison.
Gonzales, the military and police and President Arroyo have gone around
town proclaiming the guilt of Sison -- only to be rebuffed big time by the
Dutch court they thought will play footsie with them. Sa likod ng
sobrang kayabangan, wala naman pala silang ebidensya.
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The pundits and
bloggers who worship these demigods are of course silent. Pahiya eh. They
won't even acknowledge the fact that they were wrong. Their brains are too
fucked up with irrational and mindless anti-communism to understand
fairplay and due process even for communists, socialists and national
democrats.
The
liberal papers which played up Sison's arrest with banner stories did not
even bother to give Sison a commensurate treatment on his release. Talk
about fairness. Ok lang i-headline ang komunista basta inaaresto o
kinukulong sila.
And so movements inspired by Sison are set to march moments later in
Manila, proclaiming the good news of Sison's release and the major setback
given to the Philippine government which persecutes him no end.
Sison remains a suspect and the "case" has not been dismissed -- and so we
must
And so we continue to defend Sison not because we are part of a cult, but
because the intolerance of the state for the likes of Sison -- to the
extent that the state invents false charges against him and charges him on
foreign soil -- is a danger to free expression, free speech, free thought
and free assembly. If they can do this to Sison and to other leftists,
they can do it to anyone.
And so we continue to champion Sison's cause because despite the ongoing,
triumphalist march of world capitalism and local semifeudalism, there
remains a glimmer of hope offered in the movement for national democracy
and socialism which Sison started some four decades ago in the face of its
slanderers' failure to provide the Filipino people prosperity and peace.
Video link courtesy of GMANews.tv
posted by Tonyo @
9/14/2007 12:13:00 PM,
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