According to the Citizen National Guard, a group backed by Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II and Public Attorney’s Office chief Persida Acosta, Philippine citizens who dissent from the current administrations policies are enemies of the state.
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| http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2017/10/11/1747726/dissent-destabilization-are-same-citizen-national-guard |
The newly-formed group Citizen National Guard claimed that the country is under siege from the “enemies of the state” who are out to destabilize the government and oust President Rodrigo Duterte.
As far as the CNG is concerned, their so-called “enemies of the state” do not differ from legitimate political dissenters.
“If you are a political opponent, why don’t you stand up categorically and say we are not pushing for regime change? Don’t say that we’re not destabilizers. You say it is our interest and the interest of the country that Mr. Duterte continues as the president for the rest of his term,” CNG founder Antonio Valdes said on ANC’s “Headstart.”
Valdes said it is not enough that people say they are not out to oust the president.
“A denial of being a destabilizer and somebody who’s working for a regime change, it’s like admitting you’re already seditious,” he said.
The former Department of Education undersecretary added: “They should be president if they think they can handle it differently.”
Former Department of National Defense director Horacio Gonzalez said chaos is the objective of the so-called “enemies of the state.”
“Once there’s no strong leader, all of these other sectors will be able to achieve what they want to achieve. The terrorists will be able to forcibly take positions, areas. The same thing with the CPP-NPA, the same thing with the drugs, the same thing with everybody,” Gonzalez said.
“Conspiracy to oust the president [is something that] you can see that on the papers, you can see that on the television, you can hear that on radio. It’s everywhere,” Valdes said.
Although he welcomes criticisms targeted at the president, Gonzalez said critics should let Duterte do his job then file charges after his term.
This right here is how a nation goes from a free state to a totalitarian dictatorship. Quashing dissent and labelling your opponents enemies of the state trying to destabilise the government are the tactics of those who wish to grab the reigns of power and rule as they please.
This group is a private organisation. It is not a government organisation but the backing of government officials Aguirre and Acosta gives it legitimacy. This group is akin to Hitler's Brownshirts, the Sturmabteilung.
It played a significant role in Adolf Hitler's rise to power in the 1920s and 1930s. Its primary purposes were providing protection for Nazi rallies and assemblies, disrupting the meetings of opposing parties, fighting against the paramilitary units of the opposing parties, especially the Red Front Fighters League (Rotfrontkämpferbund) of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), and intimidating Slavic and Romani people, unionists, and Jews – for instance, during the Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmabteilung
Here are the enemies of the state. What will the Citizens National Guard do to them?
http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2017/09/21/1741336/photos-thousands-protest-martial-law-killings-under-duterte
https://www.rappler.com/nation/politics/elections/2016/122366-in-photos-roxas-robredo-lp-albay
It's not as if Duterte did not warn the people what he would do if he actually became president.
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| https://www.rappler.com/nation/politics/elections/2016/110679-duterte-contradictions-dictatorship |
“It’s going to be a dictatorship,” he added. “It’s the police and the military who will be the backbone. If they agree with you – if the right-thinking policemen and military men agree with you – then after 6 years, there will be a new set-up: maybe a federal type, less corruption, and a fresh air for the next generation.”
“I’m telling the Filipino people, huwag ako. It’s going to be bloody,” he said. “Because I will not sit there as President and just like any other regime, sabihin ko, iyan lang ang kaya ko … pero pag nilagay ninyo ako, do not fuck with me.”
How much longer until Duterte, like The Sun King Louis XIV, declares: "I am the State!"
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