Sison to Albayalde: You're a big liar

Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founder Jose Maria Sison slammed on Tuesday Philippine National Police chief Director General Oscar Albayalde for saying that the former had identified some organizations such as Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) as fronts of communist groups.

"I say categorically that Albayalde is a big liar. He is capitalizing on a distorted spy report on a 30-year old video of a speech of mine in Brussels in which I actually differentiated the legal democratic forces and the forces of the armed revolution," Sison said in a statement.

"I have never identified or enumerated any legal organization as a 'front' or facade of the CPP. The language is entirely that of the un-intelligent or stupid witch-hunting police dog Albayalde," he added.

In a press briefing on Monday, the PNP chief said he would check the issue on the alleged profiling of ACT members, adding that three police intelligence officers were already relieved after they had supposedly leaked information on the alleged surveillance activity.

Albayalde further stated that the supposed profiling could be a way for authorities to check if organizations are in any way linked to communist groups, claiming that Sison had identified ACT as front organization of communists.

"This does not come from us or the military... pronouncement ni Joma Sison 'yan. Inindentify niya 'yung organizations na ito," Albayalde said.

The communist leader said he has shown respect to legal organizations, "adhering to the line of national independence and democracy as legal democratic formations independent of the CPP."

Meanwhile, Sison also hit President Rodrigo Duterte for being the "most responsible for the current anti-communist witch hunt against teachers, lawyers, journalists, social activists, human rights advocates, religious and other people."

"He is a malicious rascal who has nothing to offer to the people but mass murder and mass intimidation in addition to his brazen acts of puppetry and treason, corruption and plunder, machismo and misogyny, foul language and mendacity," Sison said.

Malacanang, for its part, denied that it was a policy of the government to conduct a surveillance on teachers unless they are involved in illegal activities. —LDF, GMA News