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(The myth and the reality: Determined freedom fighter, left; living it up in the Netherlands, right)
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"The NPA in 17 regions has ... the capacity of knocking out at least one AFP soldier every day per region. That eliminates at least 510 enemy troops or some five companies every month nationwide. That translates to the elimination of some 60 companies or 20 basic battalions every year."
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For Sison, the lives of Filipinos, soldiers sworn to defend the Republic from its enemies, are mere numbers, to be body-counted so he could estimate that killing just one soldier a day would mean wiping out 20 Philippine Army battalions.
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In Sison's 78-year old deranged mind, at that kill-rate and with the Army having 120 battalions, it would just take about five to six years for him to be put in power as head of a one-party state, the "People's Republic of the Philippines."
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Sison's calculation, with his one-soldier-a-day-killed assumption, reminded me of Nazi SS and Gestapo generals, dramatized in the film "Conspiracy," calculating how many bodies its gas chambers could "accommodate" in 24 hours so the 3 million Jews in the countries it occupied could be "processed" in a year.
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Sison is clueless that even if just one soldier were killed every week, that would mean a terrible war in our countrysides. The military won't just sit on their asses, and would retaliate, and as all wars have proven, this war will result in thousands, even hundreds of innocents being killed.
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Megalomaniac
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Sison is a complete megalomaniac, believing in his mind he is the Mao Zedong or Ho Chi Minh of the Philippines, that if only the New People's Army does what he orders, the Communist Party - and he - would easily capture power. (Indeed, even his nom de guerre Amado Guerrero, which means "Beloved Warrior," says so much about this man.)
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Megalomania has been the disease of all leaders who have fooled people that they are out to create a better world, the likes of Stalin, Pol Pot, and even religious leaders.
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The reality is that Sison and such demagogues see themselves as gods creating a world, and having power over life and death.
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A widespread view is that the youth are susceptible to communist recruitment, and easily believe the lies of the likes of Sison because they are idealistic. This is true only to a very limited extent.
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Teenagers' egos are still mostly unformed, thus their usual awkward self-consciousness. Thus they are so easily attracted by the prospect of being ‘heroes (or heroines)" in a glorious revolution, and of being members of a "secret society," as the Communist Party.
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The only difference between a teenager recruited into a religious cult (so he will see himself as a "servant of God," with a reserved seat in Heaven) to one recruited into the NPA (so he will see himself as the hero of the Revolution, with his name engraved in some future monument) is that the latter would be called on to kill someone.
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Jose Ma. Sison reveals real self in his order to NPA: "Kill one soldier a day"