From: durianpost
Apollo Quiboloy’s tirade against the New People’s Army (NPA) has all the more exposed his true color. In his desperate bid to muddle legitimate issues leveled against him and his Task Force Davao/73rd Infantry Battalion-AFP protectors as an offshoot of the Barangay Guianga attempted massacre and killing, the truth is gradually but clearly emerging.
As he tries to divert public attention from real issues that has put him in a very bad light, he further invites attention to the injustice that prevails and incites people to let out sentiments that range from ridicule to denunciation.
First, he berates media people for supporting the cries of the Diarog family and threatens them with eternal damnation. Then, fashioned after Pontius Pilate, he makes a blanket, albeit, baseless denial of any involvement in the cold-blooded massacre. But bereft of any courage to face the lumad victims, he hides behind the legalistic mantra of his lawyer. Now he warns of a 20,000-strong armed offensive against the NPA.
Freedom of worship is a right upheld by the revolutionary movement. This is enshrined in the 12-Point Program of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP). But to exercise such freedom as an instrument to oppress and exploit the people is an altogether different matter. Apollo Quiboloy is free to bask in illusions of grandeur, live the royal lifestyle of the rich and famous while preaching his religious beliefs. But to utilize his religious, economic, political and military influence to establish and expand his estate, cause the evacuation of lumads from their ancestral lands and add misery to poor peasants constitute sinister acts that justly deserve condemnation.
If he desires to be a warlord, aside from being a tree plantation owner, real estate developer, eco-tourism advocate, media mogul and padrino-traditional politicians while moonlighting as a luxury car collector, practical shooting enthusiast and aspiring helicopter pilot, then let him be. If he dreams of fortifying his vast mountainous estate in Calinan by organizing a Quiboloy Brigade, shuttling from the pulpit to the machinegun post, then let him be. Marcos’s martial law, the past regime’s total war and Arroyo’s Oplan Bantay Laya 1 failed. Despite being hard-pressed by Gloria Arroyo to fulfill her pipe dream of eliminating the NPA by 2010, Oplan Bantay Laya II is fast turning to be one big and expensive frustration for the AFP. Thus, Apollo Quiboloy’s verbal antics is of no consequence to the people’s army.
