Anti-terrorism law
Published Jun 10, 2020 12:00 am
METRO CORNER
By ERIK ESPINA
Erik Espina
“What is more precious than gold? The state. The power a state wields is meaningless without order. Its future survival is dependent on such human order, maintaining democratic and societal balance. A status which extremists and acolytes violently reject, which the complicit and dumb dare not see. There is something better than propagating a lie. It is when the liar is feared.” -- Anonymous
The question on passing a stronger Philippine anti-terror law, considering that our republic has long been besieged by armed domestic territorial threats, in the nature of ideological, religious, and geo-political schisms, noting ethnic intolerance and brutality (bombings, beheadings and rape), becomes the answer itself to such a question.
The unsolved 1971 Plaza Miranda bombing, remains the poster of a successful 50-year insurgency, applying Communist- inspired violence with terroristic means, to subjugate the Philippine state, with nine dead, 95 wounded. No person or group has been brought to court on the mass assassination attempt on the Liberal Party Senate slate. Autobiographical books of Senators Jovito Salonga and Eva Estrada Kalaw, and TV interviews by Eddie Ilarde point to the living mastermind, and his “army’s” involvement. The 1957 RA 1700, Anti-Subversion Law defined the exact objective and nature of this “progressive movement.”
Twin grenades were lobbed by Maoist insurgents at an Easter congregation in Davao City on April 1981, with 17 deaths and 150 wounded. Relatively recent were the Rizal Day bombings in December, 2000, at the Blumentritt LRT Station, Makati Gas Station, and NAIA Cargo Handling area -- 22 killed and 120 wounded; the supper ferry Bombing near Corregidor Island, February, 2004, with 116 casualties, considered the world’s deadliest attack at sea, with 53 unrecovered bodies; the September, 2016 Davao City night market bombing -- 15 dead, including a pregnant woman, and 70 wounded; and the January 2019, Jolo Cathedral twin explosions -- 20 dead, 102 wounded.
Need I say more?
Erik Espina
“What is more precious than gold? The state. The power a state wields is meaningless without order. Its future survival is dependent on such human order, maintaining democratic and societal balance. A status which extremists and acolytes violently reject, which the complicit and dumb dare not see. There is something better than propagating a lie. It is when the liar is feared.” -- Anonymous
The question on passing a stronger Philippine anti-terror law, considering that our republic has long been besieged by armed domestic territorial threats, in the nature of ideological, religious, and geo-political schisms, noting ethnic intolerance and brutality (bombings, beheadings and rape), becomes the answer itself to such a question.
The unsolved 1971 Plaza Miranda bombing, remains the poster of a successful 50-year insurgency, applying Communist- inspired violence with terroristic means, to subjugate the Philippine state, with nine dead, 95 wounded. No person or group has been brought to court on the mass assassination attempt on the Liberal Party Senate slate. Autobiographical books of Senators Jovito Salonga and Eva Estrada Kalaw, and TV interviews by Eddie Ilarde point to the living mastermind, and his “army’s” involvement. The 1957 RA 1700, Anti-Subversion Law defined the exact objective and nature of this “progressive movement.”
Twin grenades were lobbed by Maoist insurgents at an Easter congregation in Davao City on April 1981, with 17 deaths and 150 wounded. Relatively recent were the Rizal Day bombings in December, 2000, at the Blumentritt LRT Station, Makati Gas Station, and NAIA Cargo Handling area -- 22 killed and 120 wounded; the supper ferry Bombing near Corregidor Island, February, 2004, with 116 casualties, considered the world’s deadliest attack at sea, with 53 unrecovered bodies; the September, 2016 Davao City night market bombing -- 15 dead, including a pregnant woman, and 70 wounded; and the January 2019, Jolo Cathedral twin explosions -- 20 dead, 102 wounded.
Need I say more?