In the light of Satur Ocampo’s new position at the lower house

ANAD warns against strong communist-terrorist influence in Congress

Press Release by
Alliance For Nationalism And Democracy
January 11, 2006

CEBU CITY – The Alliance For Nationalism And Democracy (ANAD) strongly denounce the appointment of Satur Ocampo as Deputy Minority Floorleader at the House of Representatives. With his newly acquired position, Ocampo, a true-blooded communist-terrorist, can now wield strong influence in our country’s legislature.

“While in the past, Satur Ocampo”, together with other communist-terrorist legislators in the partylist block succeeded to “terrorize” the Lower House, his new position could greatly lend support to the quest of the Maoist communist-terrorist CPP-NPA-NDF to take over the power of government,” said Jun Alcover, national president of the pro-democracy alliance ANAD.

“In conscience, I cannot understand why the current leadership of the Lower House, particularly in the opposition, has entrusted to Ocampo a powerful position considering the fact that his group has vowed, for the past 37 years, to overthrow our democratic government and in its stead put in place a communist governance,” said Alcover.

In the past ANAD issued several strong warnings and calls on government, particularly the leaders of Congress, to take the necessary steps and measures to prevent and eventual power grab by the communist-terrorists there. “Now, what we feared is imminent because with Ocampo’s recent climb up the ladder of leadership in the Lower House, they (Maoist communist-terrorists CPP-NPA-NDF) are now poised and capable to scuttle whatever programs and actions that our government would take particularly in reviving our ailing economy,” Alcover added.

On the other hand, ANAD challenges Ocampo, and his co-partylist representatives under BAYAN MUNA, ANAK PAWIS, GABRIELA, AKBYAN, and PARTIDO MANGGAGAWA to openly disclose how they spent their PDAF (pork-barrel). “Unless they do that, ANAD maintains that most of their pork-barrel funds were used to fuel the communist-terrorists insurgency in the country,” Alcover pointed out. Also, Alcover stressed, “There funds must be subject to auditing by the Commission on Audit and the COA report be published in at least 3 national circulated dailies,” he said.

ANAD calls on all of the freedom-loving Filipino people to oppose and reject this new set-up in the Lower House by joining forces and united in opposing the Moist communist-terrorists CPP-NPA-NDF to include the leadership of the opposition who had fallen into the trape webbed by the Godless communist terrorists.