NOT NEEDED

by Bayawanon

The ANTI TERROR BILL is not needed as of this time due to the following grounds: 1) The Philippine legislature has already passed the Human Security Act, a law which aims to defend any Filipino citizen from any danger like terrorism, thus the passage of the ANTI TERROR BILL into law would somehow become a redundancy with regard to the former 2) Martial Law has reigned in Mindanao for quite a long time which I believe had somehow suppressed/quelled terrorism in that part of the country and 3) With the penchant on the part of the authorities to plant evidence against their dissenters and detractors, that proposed law poses a threat to every citizen's freedom to air his or her grievance/s to the government, since the law endorsers may silence the government's critics by planting evidence against the latter for the same to keep their mouths shut.

With the way, evidence was invented against Senator Delima, former Chief Justice Ma. Lourdes Sereno and RAPPLER CEO Maria Ressa, it is possible that such reprehensible developments may happen again by letting the government use the ANTI TERROR BILL/ACT against its oppositors.

One can simply think of a mere habal-habal driver or a simple farmer worker who is a dissenter of the government, be planted with evidence that would tantamount to terrorism, and be charged with terrorism in court. If that would happen to the simple ones that I have discussed above, it will certainly happen against the political adversaries of the ones leading the administration of the government.

Preventing the passage of the ANTI TERROR BILL is actually a move that would stifle a probable dictatorship and an act against an IMPLIED MARTIAL RULE.