Ousted
Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno is in the media again but now she is against
the passage of the Anti-Terrorism bill which is meant to put more teeth to the
2007 Human Securities Act.
Sereno
reasons out that the provisions in question in the Human Securities Act can be
resolved “if agency agreements between the Executive Department and the
Judiciary could be crafted, that take into account the agencies’ implementation
difficulties vis-a-vis the required careful culture of courts whose primary
function is to defend human dignity and the rights of every Filipino.”
“In my former
capacity as Chief Justice, I had listened carefully to the articulated
difficulties that the defense and military establishment had in dealing with
terrorism under the Human Security Act of 2007 or RA 9372,” she recounted.
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| Ousted Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno (photo credit to owner) |
“I had expressed the
judiciary’s intention to ensure that operationally, courts were not going to
stand in the way of the successful implementation of the nation’s
anti-terrorism programs,” she added.
She urges
lawmakers that the proposed bill “satisfies the standards of justice and human
compassion.”
The ousted chief
justice said “Filipinos vent their frustration in the only way they can through
social media” and “government should be careful not to repress the human spirit
that must always find a way to express itself.”
“This is the key
principle of our constitutional rights – that we are called by God to freedom,
to pursue human flourishing, and we owe the human family respect for divergent
views,” she explains.
“This is the reason
why the government exists in the first place, to act as agents with delegated
power from the sovereign Filipino people, to enable the people to build a ‘just
and humane society’,” she adds.
Sereno explains and
warns that if the government leads the people to injustice and to inhumanity “the
whole basis for that authority morally erodes.”
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