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DRESS REHEARSAL FOR URBAN MILITARIZATION
Weeklong PNP nationwide alert, overkill, says militant group

Leftwing activists on Sunday assailed the top leadership of Philippine National Police (PNP) for effecting a nationwide full alert beginning today until President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s return on July 2 from her trip to Italy, the Vatican City and Spain.

“ This is the grandmother of all overkill. The Arroyo administration under extreme state of political paranoia has virtually converted the entire country under a police state and this is extremely dangerous,” the leftwing fisherfolk alliance Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) said in a press statement.

The country’s 115,000-strong national police force would be on full alert for entire week in response to consistent intelligence reports that extremist groups were planning to spread terror in the metropolis. Last week, the police set up 15 checkpoints around the National Capital Region and deployed over 20,000 policemen to thwart any terrorist attacks on shopping malls and public transport systems.

But Pamalakaya national chair Fernando Hicap viewed that the nationwide alert of the PNP was a dress rehearsal for near future urban militarization of the main capital in vain attempt to stop massive anti-Arroyo mass actions beginning this last week of June until Mrs. Arroyo’s State of the Nation Address next month.

“ It appears to us that the nationwide alert being called by the PNP for the entire week was part of the grand plan of the administration to prepare the country under police state. It was meant to violently suppress the protest movement and fortify NCR as the police-military bastion of the illegal, corrupt, puppet and brutal regime,” Hicap said.

“ Definitely this PNP nationwide alert project is part of the game plan to save the political career of the unwanted presidency of Mrs. Arroyo,” he added.

The militant leader lamented that the PNP under the Macapagal-Arroyo regime had become an entire private army of the President. He said police generals identified with President Arroyo like PNP chief Director General Arturo Lomibao and NCRPO Chief Vidal Querol had been performing their roles to the hilt as ‘ political personal security officers of Mrs. Arroyo’ in mobilizing the entire police force as security people not for the Filipino people but for the ruling Arroyo clique in Malacañang.

“ They went to far by declaring a nationwide alert to protect the narrow interest of President Arroyo and her gang, while they are away for one week. The people are not paying them to serve as private army of Mrs. Arroyo,” Hicap said.

Hicap said militant groups led by Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) and activist party list groups Bayan Muna, Anakpawis and Gabriela are set to hold another rally in Mendiola Bridge on June 27 against political killings and widespread human rights violations in the country allegedly perpetrated by security forces identified with the Macapagal-Arroyo clique.

Pamalakaya’s Hicap initially pegged the number of protesters to join next week rally in Mendiola to 5,000 and would include human rights workers, church people and members of the academic community.

“ The power of militant assertion and extreme desire to uphold human rights and civil liberties would be ranged anew against the calibrated preemptive response and the no-rally zone policy of the detested regime. We believe this is one of the reasons, why the PNP had gone mad again by declaring a nationwide full alert in the absence of their principal currently in Europe for a political pleasure trip,” Hicap added. #

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