A Roman Catholic bishop called the hosts of the program of Sonshine Media Network International (SMNI) to “a prayerful discernment and a peaceful dialogue for truth and love” amid the program hosts’ red-tagging accusations..
Even in his death, Jose Maria Sison, the founder and leader of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), one of the world’s most resilient and longest-running insurgencies, cannot be forgiven by the Department of National Defense (DND).
Red tagging thrives when power does not reside in the people.
“I am appealing to the (CPP), ‘yung pinaka-umbrella. I don’t consider ‘yung mga NDF-NDF pati NPA (New People’s Army). Iyong (CPP) must guarantee that the vaccines in the course of their being transported to areas where [there] are no city health officers or medical persons na huwag ninyong galawin ang medisina,” the president said in a televised briefing.
According to Duterte’s spokesman Harry Roque, Duterte’s push for changes in the Constitution did not mean the president wanted a term extension.