MANILA, Philippines — National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon has introduced to the Supreme Court a person he called the “master red-tagger.”
Esperon for the first time spoke before the Supreme Court on the 8th day of oral arguments on petitions against the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020. He denied that the government has been red-tagging organizations.
As proof, Esperon played a 2-minute video of Communist Party of the Philippines founder Jose Maria Sison where the communist leader can be heard mentioning the names of 18 organizations whom he called “allied organizations.”
He also played a 1987 video of Sison supposedly naming the legal organizations in the supposed Nati…
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