COMMENTARY: Defining Red-Tagging, the Importance of What Is and Isn’t

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COMMENTARY: Defining Red-Tagging, the Importance of What Is and Isn’t
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NAGA CITY (MindaNews / 02 December) – The two recent Supreme Court (SC) decisions in Deduro vs. Vinoya and in two consolidated Badoy-Partosa cases have broken

) as well as in refining the relevant discourse on freedom of expression and its cognate rights of free speech and press -NDFP or its “front organizations”is the authoritative definition or characterization of red-tagging in the Philippines, particularly in the current historical period especially under the Duterte and Marcos Jr. presidential administrations and in the context of the government’s efforts to end the local communist armed conflict.

Not all “labelling” or naming of persons or organizations as connected with, or as “front organizations” of, the CPP-NPA-NDFP necessarily constitutes red-tagging.

Joining and even leading these aboveground open and legal organizations were voluntary acts of the petitioners. It is not mere membership therein that equates to actual threats. Nor even merely the naming of persons or organizations as connected with, or as “front organizations” of, the CPP-NPA-NDFP.

Media and Literacy Forum on February 17, 2023 as having “laid down the basis for truth-telling as both right and duty.” She also further spoke of freedom of expression, speech and the press as the foundations of truth-telling, and said “there is no education if it is not founded on truth.”, to perform. In this regard, we need to take a good second look at the much disparaged “truth-tagging” counter-argument of the vis-à-vis red-tagging issues against it, as in “This is not red-tagging.

At the same time, the Judge Magdoza-Malagar Resolution in pp. 129-30 warns of “the danger of red-tagging” lying in the “automatic lump activists, mostly members of the above ground organizations as members of the CPP-NPA.” Corollarily, we might say the right for these matters of public concern not to be hidden contrary to the public accountability principle of transparency, and more so the right not to be deceived.

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