Former and losing
Otso deretso senatorial candidate and current chairman of the Free Legal
Assistance Group (FLAG)
“In one sense at least, this terror
bill is aptly titled: not yet even a law, it has already terrorized an entire
nation,” the FLAG said in a statement.
“Still reeling the midst of a
horrible pandemic, the people now worry also about their enslavement,” it
added.
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| Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG) chairman (photo credit to owner) |
FLAG warns that, “the
terror bill diminishes the constitutional rights of the people to life and
liberty protected by due process, to be secure in their persons, houses,
papers, and effects, to the privacy of communication and correspondence, to
free speech, assembly, and association, to be held answerable for a criminal
offense only with due process of law.”
FLAG is also of the
opinion that as regards to the proposed law excludes acts like advocacy,
protest, dissent and exercises of civil and political rights, government
authorities will still e the ones to decide if the said acts have been
committed with terrorism in mind.
“While
international terrorism is real enough, there is absolutely no showing that it
could not be adequately addressed by competent governance even without this
terror bill,” it declared.
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