DECLARATION OF SUPPORT FOR THE ENACTMENT OF THE ANTI-TERROR BILL

DECLARATION OF SUPPORT FOR

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 immediately 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 (TAN DEM), INC.

SEC Reg. No. CN201205942

LUMAD MINDANAW PEOPLES FEDERATION (LMPF)