Sense of urgency, not stupidity, is the antidote to insurgency

JOSE Ma Sison, the founder of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) has always referred to the government as a “reactionary government.” In many aspects, it is true because for the past 50 years that’s what the government has been doing. It reacts to every action the CPP does to its armed attacks, systematic radicalization of our children, infiltration of all sectors of the society, including the government and the legislative, to its legal mass actions. He has been very successful in blinding our society to the dangers of what the CPP and its alliances are posing, for each action they make right under our noses. Most of us are clueless that we end up even supporting them. Joma does this through duplicity and its “revolutionary dual tactics.”

This deception went on until the creation of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-Elcac), which virtually addresses all the different CTG (communist terrorist group) programs, particularly its propaganda machinery. Incidentally, this task falls on the lap of the NTF stratcom cluster and this is the reason why the NTF spokespersons have always been in the limelight for every issue that crops up, the community pantry being just one of them. The government, through its NTF-Elcac, is now at the forefront, proactively addressing possible crisis scenarios instigated by the CTG, even before the situation develops to a serious disaster. But what is the basis of our actions at the NTF-Elcac? Experience and foreknowledge.