The anti-terrorism bill is worth the wait.
Perhaps this time the people will wake up from its stupor and eventually kick out this illegitimate government.
This bill is being passed surreptitiously under the nose of the upcoming elections where the media might focus its eyes on Manny Pacquiao, Richard Gomez and Cesar Montano doing the rounds.
This bill if passed into law would literally step on our civil liberties but we don’t know it.
The left being proliferated and divided could never have a single voice.
Being killed indiscriminately left and right they have no other choice but to go up the mountains and rage their wars over there…
While the others who are not armed and working on the legal struggle will themselves be subject to the states’ harassments.
So what could one expect over this Anti-Terrorism Bill?
1. Military Adventurism
2. People Power
3. Rise of the Armed Left
4. Rise of the Legitimate Left
5. Real and Authentic Terrorism
6. Innocent Deaths
By the action of the government in espousing this bill it invites dissenters to take more pro-active actions not far from the experience the Philippines had at the time of Marcos.
And it is wrong to compare this to martial law because in this scenario we are using the rule of law to be used against us.
We have failed to work against those congressmen who perpetrated charter-change in congress and now we have no reason to not oppose them again with this bill.
The situation is tricky.
Who’s to determine who’s a terrorist and who isn’t? And what if the filipino is not a terrorist? could he get over the “identity rape” he just suffered? And if indeed the filipino is a terrorist, how could such bill stop it when it already admitted incompetence by forcing such bill because it cannot do its job properly with regards to intelligence reports and the upholding of the law.
It is in the filipino experience that most human rights violation came from the police and the military and yet by the passing of this bill we will give them more opportunity and power to legitimize their claim over our freedom and rights?
If this bill will be passed it would be worse than Mc-Carthyism It would be worse than martial law. In fact it would be worse than the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus indeed this bill is inviting civil war.
And if civil war it will be then civil war it is, besides aren’t great nations created from its own ashes?
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Written last February 19, 2007
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