The disinformation as
against the Anti-Terrorism Bill is on a different gear as it has already been ain
staple for these past days in the different social media platforms.
One of the principal
author Sen. Panfilo "Ping" Lacson said the disinformation has
created this sense of fear to the public at large when it has been enacted to
replace a 2017 that has been considered archaic already.
A deluge of criticisms
is flooding the different social media platforms against the House Bill No.
6875, or the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020, which was primarily enacted to amend the
country's current but "ineffectual" Human Security Act of 2007,
Lacson said in an exclusive interview with ABS-CBN's TeleRadyo.
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| Sen. Panfilo "Ping" Lacson (photo credit to owner) |
The senator said the Commission
of Human Rights and other academic and legal experts, were invited in the
deliberations of the bill but all of them did not show up.
"Imbita kami
nang imbita sa kanila, iniindiyan naman kami, dinedma ang aming invitation. So
ngayon na ipinasa na sa House, saka naman sila ingay nang ingay at
katakot-takot na disinformation," he said.
(We have been
inviting them, but they were declining our invitation. Now that it has been
passed in the House, they are making noise and spreading disinformation.)
He explains that since the enactment of the Human
Security Act
"Noong 2018
nangyari 'yung conviction. So after 11 years ng pagpasa nito (Human Security
Act), iisa pa lang 'yung conviction. At iisa pa lamang ang terrorist
organization na napo-proscribe, 'yung Abu Sayyaf Group. Ito'y nangyari naman
nu'ng 2015," said Lacson, chairman of the Senate Committee on National
Defense.
(The conviction was
in 2018. So after 11 years of implementation, we've only had one conviction.
And only one terrorist organization has been proscribed, the Abu Sayyaf Group.
This was in 2015.)
Lacson also took note of the 66 Abu Sayyaf
members detained by security forces were not charged for violating the
country's anti-terrorism law but for kidnapping.
"Ang
epekto kasi, kapag sila'y nakulong sa pangkaraniwang crime tulad ng murder [at]
kidnapping, at hindi sa terrorism o violation ng anti-terror law, nawawala
'yung pagkakataon ng pamahalaan na magsagawa ng programa ng
de-radicalization," he said.
(What
happens is, if terrorists are imprisoned for murder or kidnapping and not for
breaking the anti-terror law, the government can't make them go through the
de-radicalization program.)
Because the very low convictions as regards against
the terrorism officials from allied countries such as Australia and the United
States of America and even the United Nations Security Council called for tough
measures against terrorists in the Philippines.
"Ito'y
naging challenge sa'kin bilang head ng defense and security committee ng
Senado," said Lacson, who had sponsored the Senate's approved version of
the Anti-Terrorism Act.
(This
was a challenge for me as head of the defense and security committee of the
Senate.)
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