Seeks to provoke deeper U.$. intervention

According to the February 3 Philippine Star, the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) has denied the Philippines military's charges that New People's Army (NPA) rebels fired at a U.$. Air Force cargo plane taking part in the ongoing "Balikatan 2002" military exercises. "First of all, we are not really sure that such a plane had been shot at," CPP spokespersyn Gregorio "Ka Roger" Rosal said. "Our comrades will not do that." "Rosal hinted that Thursday's shooting incident may be part of a ploy to justify US involvement in combat operations against communist insurgents after US troops were allowed to assist in operations against the Abu Sayyaf Islamist group in Mindanao." Satur Ocampo, a representative with Bayan Muna in the Philippine legislature and a former National Democratic Front spokespersyn, echoed Rosal.

"'It is not beyond imagination for the US, the Central Intelligence Agency, in collusion with the Armed Forces of the Philippines, to devise imagined or actual scenarios that may later justify American involvement,' Ocampo said." There is precedent for this view. In an earlier article on the Amerikan government's ill-conceived "war on terrorism," MIM cited terrorist incidents which were apparently fabricated by tight U.$. friend Israel in order to provoke war.(1) The first Foreign Minister of Israeli imperialism and its prime minister from 1954-1955 Moshe Sharett said in his diary: "'I have been meditating on the long chain of false incidents and hostilities we have invented, and on the many clashes we have provoked which cost us so much blood, and on the violations of the law by our men--all of which brought grave disasters and determined the whole course of events and contributed to the security crisis.'"(2)

State agencies do carry out terrorist incidents and the ordinary public cannot usually know who is to blame. The solution for this can only be the abolition of governments in the distant future of communism, when people cooperate economically, culturally and politically, so that no nation has secret services like the CIA. These secret services are themselves an irritant in relations amongst nations and must be eradicated for a completely secure world. The bourgeois media's provocative misinformation campaign is not limited to charges of firing on U.$. planes. "[CPP- spokespersyn Rosal] also denied reports that the rebels issued a statement saying they will kidnap US troops participating in military exercises in the Philippines. "'What we are saying is we will resist US intervention in urban and rural areas,' he said. 'If there is direct intervention, we will fight them but we will not take these actions that are being blamed on us to justify US intervention in the Philippines.'" Ridiculous anti-Communist propaganda -- such as charges of widespread cannibalism during the Cultural Revolution -- is nothing new. According to Satur Ocampo, "In the campaign against the Huks (the peasant rebellion [in the Philippines] from the 1930s to the 1950s), [the reactionary armed forces] used vampire stories and other devices to generate more support for their activities." The truth is overwhelmingly on the side of the proletariat; in their desperation, reactionaries are forced to depend on the lie. Independent, proletarian news sources like MIM Notes are indispensable in the struggle to expose their lies.

Notes: 1. www.prisoncensorship.info/archive/etext/mn/sept112001/text.php? mimfile=solving.TXT. 2. Livia Rokach, Israel's Sacred Terrorism (Belmont, MA: Association of Arab- American University Graduates, 1986), p. 4.