The Philippine's Human Security Act, Should we fear it?

there's nothing to fear about the human security act if your record is clean and if you always will be a responsible and good citizen of the philippines.

It is doubtful if this Bill will come to any good. Even without it we have already been made to witness the level of illegal measures the military and the Arroyo administration can and will go through just to decimate, strike fear among their militant and political opponents. The military still lacks the necessary discipline and internalization of their limitations, as well as awareness of their political and moral responsibilities to the citizens they are supposed to protect. As for your questions, I agree that the entire affair had been hushed up with little media information. It is not really surprising, given that the senate had always lacked the transparency. I don't really remember any recent proposal save the ChaCha in which information (or propaganda, if you prefer) has been diffused for public consumption. As for the last question, I think the focus should not be on where or who the law acts TO, but rather who it acts FOR. It is the Arroyo administration who will benefit, not the Filipino people.

That's really true there are many questions than answers to that law that will be implemented. I am just as curious how Executive department was able to convince the oppositionist Senate to just approved the law? I do hope that Government will use that sparingly and properly identified terrorist will truly be apprehended and willnot be used by Admin to stay in power.

The implementation of the Human Security Act of 2007 or Republic Act 9372 or simply called the Anti-Terror Law will just put the Filipinos at the mercy of the State and its military, which, through the Anti-Terror Council, has the sole authority to determine who among us can be called “terrorists”. This law will justify the continued militarization of our communitiesand virtual martial rule will be imposed over the civilian populace, as the military will be given wide powers of “fighting” so-called terrorists. The extrajudicial killings, disappearances, bombing of communities and forced evacuations as well as torture and harassments of civilians just suspected or labeled as members of “fronts organizations” or suspected to be outright members of “communist groups or the NPA’s,” have already victimized thousands of our countrymen under the Arroyo regime, even without this dreaded draconian measure. We fear the worsening of this already horrible state of human rights if the Anti-Terror law will be allowed to take effect on July 15 or 16. Link : http://davaotoday.com/2007/06/20/philippines-human-security-act-to-lead-to-more-military-presence-in-urban-and-rural-communities-emjp/