FOR the Communist Party of the Philippines/New People’s Army (CPP/NPA) insurgency, the commentary of Lt. Gen. Antonio Parlade Jr. on Friday, October 23 in The Manila Times must have been a double-bladed whammy.

On the one hand, it did a lot by way of clarifying matters for the beleaguered Liza Soberano, who was widely blasted by netizens for speaking her mind against women and children in a webinar conducted by the Gabriela party-list. It would appear that public outrage over this party’s recruitment of innocent young girls for eventual integration into the NPA has grown so far and wide so that Liza’s mere participation in a Gabriela virtual forum was reason enough for her to be tagged a communist already.

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