Politically interesting is the cybercrime suit filed by Philippine National Police chief, Gen. Benjamin Acorda Jr., against a little-known retired army general who claimed that military and police generals were convincing President Marcos to resign.

In suing John Lacsamana Macanas Sr., Acorda said last Monday he found it “unforgivable” he was dragged into destabilization rumors against the Chief Executive.

“No less than my face, the face of the chief-of-staff, posted and viral, saying the AFP and the PNP were withdrawing support or asking for the resignation of the President… that not’s right,” he said.

In a banal reaction later in his YouTube vlog, “The General’s Opinion,” Macanas decried the suit as a form of harassment and curtailment of his freedom of expression, reported a newspaper.

Pitching a similar banal retort, Acorda dared Macanas to sue him if Macanas believed his right to freedom of expression was being curtailed.

At any rate, since the Acorda-Macanas fracas is now in the hands of the judicial system, prudence dictates that we forgo discussion on legalities in the meantime.

Nonetheless, what makes the fracas politically interesting is that it informs us about the factions of the Right, specifically about the ongoing boiling tensions roiling both the Marcos and Duterte camps.

In the case of Macanas, he hasn’t made explicit remarks on where he stands or his role in the current tension between the two rightist camps.

A cursory glance at his previous vlogs, however, shows he supported both President Marcos and Vice President Sara Duterte.

But in his 29 December vlog, which raised the hackles of Acorda, he had made a choice. He seemingly favored calls by some Duterte supporters for the police and military brass to withdraw their support to pressure Marcos to resign.

In a similar vein, a news website reported last week that another retired and little-known military officer in a YouTube vlog announced a move to withdraw support from the current administration, saying its advocates wanted Vice President Sara Duterte to “save the boat, save the country.”

Politically, a withdrawal of support by the police and military is nothing new. Former President Joseph Estrada was forced to resign after the police and military brass withdrew their support from him.

How a withdrawal of support became the favored political maneuver in the destabilization machinations of the anti-Marcos Right isn’t clear.

But a Mindanao-based informant told me last year that the call for a withdrawal of support had been going around Mindanao rightist circles since last year. It seems the call attracted notice as a viable alternative since it didn’t involve the usual violence once soldiers poured out of their barracks.

At any rate, Macanas and other pro-Duterte vlogs come at a time of marked boiling tensions between the Marcos and Duterte partisans following President Marcos’s perceived disengagement from the Dutertes.

As it happens, such marked tensions have led pro-Duterte vlogs to slap the Chief Executive with slanderous claims about his alleged personal proclivities — a disinformation campaign that obviously led Acorda to order a probe and a crackdown on such unfounded social media claims.

Meanwhile, too, on the formal political front, there’s no shortage of fuel to fire up the tension.

Just a few days ago, for example, Davao City Rep. Paolo Z. Duterte accused the House leadership of taking P2 billion from his district’s NEP budget, leaving “only a measly P500 million for Dabawenyos this year.”

The younger Duterte also claimed he “heard from reliable sources that even senators were explicitly requested to refrain from putting projects in my district.”

We can’t foretell when and how the tension between these two rightist factions will boil over as yet.

Rest assured, however, that Filipino rightists are on a wild roller-coaster ride, which at the same time has implications — entertaining or otherwise — for all political groups, even those with liberal or progressive credentials.