A bunch of
hypocrites!.
This was the reaction
of Senator Panfilo Lacson as to the 45 US legislator’s call for the Philippine
Congress to repeal the just signed controversial law Ant-Terrorism Act of 2020.
Lacson would like to know of the 45 lawmakers who voted of the US
Anti-Terrorism Act of 2001, which he noted is cruel to some extent due to its
emphasis on “security.”
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| Senator Panfilo Lacson (photo credit to owner) |
“While our Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020 is replete
with safeguards to ensure that human rights of suspected terrorists are
observed and protected, what the US Congress passed as their version of an
Anti-Terrorism law is much stronger, even cruel to some extent because their
policy makers and citizenry give the highest premium to the security of their
country and the protection of US citizens stationed anywhere in the world,”
Lacson, who is a co-sponsor of Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020.
“That said, these US Congress members should
shut up unless they admit to being a bunch of hypocrites,” he added.
The senator Lacson noted
that that Republic Act 11479, the Anti-Terrorism Law signed by President
Rodrigo Duterte last July 3, contains he necessary safeguards against possible
abuse most specially to the treatment of possible terrorists.
Lacson said the US anti-terror law of 2001 has
a provision for a Guantánamo Bay-like detention facility “where indefinite
detention without trial of suspected terrorists, on top of torture and breach
of human rights, suicides and suicide attempts have been reported by Amnesty
International – all in violation of the Due Process Clause of the US
Constitution.”
“And unlike their Anti-Terrorism Act of 2001,
our law does not allow one-party consent in the conduct of electronic or
technical surveillance,” he added.
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