Our office takes note of an April 12 post on Facebook by former spokesperson for the 8th Infantry Division and retired Lt. Col. Emjay Chico. In full display, he demonstrated that military officials apparently have very poor reading skills and can only resort to illogical arguments to regurgitate false narratives against the revolutionary movement. Recall that last December, the commanding officer of the 19th Infantry Battalion (also a lieutenant colonel) wrongly called out the New People’s Army (NPA) in Northern Samar for allegedly violating the holiday ceasefire, even though it had not taken effect yet.

Lt. Col. Chico’s post was in reaction to an interview with Ka Handum, a veteran Party cadre in Eastern Visayas, recently published in Ang Bayan Ngayon. By his asinine understanding of the article, because the Party is waging a rectification movement it means that it is “confused” as to how it will seize political power. The article never mentioned anything about the revolutionary movement being “confused;” it clearly stated that in the present rectification movement, the Party and the revolutionary movement fully grasps the basic principles of waging people’s war, in contrast to the errors addressed by the first and second rectification movements. It did acknowledge the Party and the movement need to address errors in implementation, in particular, how it can advance the people’s war from a lower level to a higher one, all while frustrating the increasingly brutal counter-revolutionary war by the fascist state. These are nuances that are very in over his head.

Obviously, Lt. Col. Chico never bothered to understand the article. He just picked out some parts and then twisted them to serve his malicious narrative.

What else can we expect? He does not have a shred of credibility. As an agent of the National Task Force-Elcac, he tried to convince environmental advocates Jonila Castro and Jhed Tamano to disprove their abduction on a press conference. He presents himself as a child advocate while he and his ilk are notorious child killers, their most recent victims including Mark Angelo Laboc, an 8-year old strafed by a helicopter of the 87th IB in Motiong, Samar and Jason Padullo, a 15-year old killed by the 63rd IB in Borongan, Eastern Samar. He should heed the advice of his group’s name, Hands Off Our Children, and get their hands off the hostaged children of peasant residents in Palapag and Las Navas, Northern Samar, whom they have been pressuring to surrender.

Like his fascist superiors, Lt. Col. Chico is struggling to be relevant to the youth. That’s why he is often seen in universities, creeping around students to dissuade them from activism and participating in social issues. He wants them to be just like him: a blind yes-man with no critical thinking or reading comprehension.

But the Filipino youth know far better. That is why their ranks are swelling in the NPA, because they know that there is no hope under the current ruling system. They know that the Armed Forces of the Philippines is a reactionary and mercenary armed force that defends this system and which the NPA aims to bring down to seize political power for the people.

Lt. Col. Chico need not worry. The Party, the revolutionary movement, and the youth know exactly how to seize political power. He should instead worry about the increasing number of youth who will follow in the footsteps of Ka Handum, the more that he spews his stupid rhetoric.

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