The Mike Arroyo-NAD conspiracy
No less than Miguel �Mike� Arroyo, the president�s husband, is behind the series of anti-communist advertisements by the National Alliance for Democracy (NAD) that have been coming out in the papers since July.
NAD is an anti-communist vigilante group established during the US-Aquino regime. It is led by Pastor �Jun� Alcover Jr., a Cebu-based anti-communist radio commentator.
NAD sources its funds directly from Bigkis-Pinoy, a party list group formed by Mike Arroyo for his wife. In turn, Bigkis-Pinoy gets its funds from PAGCOR through its chair and Mike Arroyo minion Ephraim Genuino.
The advertisements strain to depict the revolutionary forces as terrorists. They also link the revolutionary forces to legal democratic organizations like BAYAN, Bayan Muna and KARAPATAN. They smear the name of Comrade Jose Ma. Sison much like the military does.
Neither has NAD spared others who have been criticizing Macapagal-Arroyo, such as Linda Montayre of the People�s Consultative Assembly and Crispin Remulla of the Partido ng Masang Pilipino. These two are known to be close to potential Macapagal-Arroyo rivals in 2004.
The Macapagal-Arroyo regime�s anti-communist campaign has noticeably picked up since the president�s talk with US President Bush in November 2001.
For this campaign, Mike Arroyo revived NAD, which was last sponsored by Joseph Estrada.
By July, the organization obviously had a lot of money since it could afford to come out with P200,000 advertisements against the revolutionary movement in national newspapers. It is Jaime Policarpio, a former Estrada man and now a partner of Mike Arroyo, who directly takes charge of NAD�s black propaganda.
NAD was also directed to launch pro-US rallies during US Secretary of State Colin Powell�s visit to the country. It also rallied against Fr. Robert Reyes when he criticized the fact that landholdings of big landlords like Mike Arroyo and Danding Cojuangco were not being subjected to agrarian reform.
During Macapagal-Arroyo�s state of the nation address last July, she said that not all those who were holding rallies outside the Batasang Pambansa were against her. She approached the pro-Macapagal-Arroyo rally being launched by Bigkis-Pinoy and NAD.
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