THE ENACTMENT OF THE ANTI-TERROR BILL
We,
citizens of the Republic of the Philippines, hereby declare our full support
for the enactment of the Anti-Terror Bill to safeguard the lives, human rights
and democratic freedoms of the law-abiding people, against godless and inhumane
non-state actors who use “terror” to promote their false ideologies.
We
are tired of the 50-year armed struggle of the CPP-NPA-NDF that openly seeks to
grab power from a democratically elected government, impose a godless and
foreign ideology on peace loving people, and the killing of Filipinos by
Filipinos through a class war, using force, intimidation, deceit and terror.
We
are wary of the inroads of another foreign ideology under ISIS, that preaches
religious intolerance, and seeks to incite fratricidal conflict between
Christians and Lumads on one hand, and Muslims on the other hand, again using
“terror” to gain absolute power and promote their false ideologies.
In
this light, we reject and call for the immediate repeal of the Human Security
Act (R.A. 9732), as a pro-terrorist legislation, that unbelievably imposes a
P500k daily penalty on security forces that may otherwise commit even honest
mistakes in pursuing terrorists, totally disregarding the difficulties and
challenges in criminal prosecution under the rule of law.
Nonetheless,
we affirm our full support for the democratic freedoms guaranteed by our
Constitution, including the rights to freedom of speech, of expression, or of
the press, and to peaceably assemble and petition the government for redress of
grievances, and express our readiness to defend these rights against
“scalawags” who may abuse or misuse the otherwise legitimate police powers of
the State.
Adopted
in Metro Manila, Philippines, this 29th day of June A.D. 2020.
Tanggulang Demokrasya Lumad Mindanaw Peoples Federation
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