Former Supreme Court Justice Antonio Carpio will go down in our history as one of the biggest liars ever, over a public discourse affecting our national interest. Only Communist Party of the Philippines founder Jose Maria Sison overshadows Carpio as the country’s biggest fabricator in his lie that Philippine democracy is entirely an exploiter’s tool and in his Manichean mindset US imperialism is the devil incarnate. For Carpio, the devil is China. Sison’s lies had traction because he exploited the emotions boiling out of people’s misery. Carpio is exploiting humankind’s ancient tribalism in its modern form of xenophobia. Both also stoke the infantile sense of victimhood; in Sison's worldview, by the US as the opressor; in Carpio's, by the slant-eyed "bully" in the region.

Tiglao, R. D. (2021, May 3). Carpio and Sison are PH's biggest liars: First of 3 parts. The Manila Times, pp. A1, A5.