By Teddy Casiño

In Lorraine Badoy’s world, I am a communist terrorist.

Badoy is the undersecretary of the Presidential Communications Coordination Office (PCOO), member of the National Task Force to End the Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC), and President Duterte’s rah-rah girl and self-appointed anti-communist witch hunter.

In a recent op-ed piece in the Manila Times, Badoy accused Manila Bulletin columnist Tonyo Cruz, multi-awarded and well-respected journalist Inday Espina-Varona, and activists Dr Carol Araullo, Renato Reyes, and myself as being high-ranking officers of the CPP-NPA-NDFP.

As proof, well, she had none. On the contrary, she even admitted that I never ever went to the hills to take up arms because I am a “burgis na ayaw madungisan ang kutis.”

Lorraine insists that I am a communist terrorist because I represented Bayan Muna in previous Congresses even if Bayan Muna’s program and platform never mentions anything about communism, socialism, or the violent overthrow of the state. In fact, its platform adheres more to the Philippine Constitution than the Communist Manifesto.

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