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'At a time when people are sick, dying, hungry, and anxious because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Duterte’s focus isn’t on mobilizing government to combat the virus and aid the poor. Rather, his priority is how to continue wielding power.'
At a time when people are sick, dying, hungry, and anxious because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Duterte’s focus isn’t on mobilizing government to combat the virus and aid the poor. Rather, his priority is how to continue wielding power. He coddles the military and police, from which his power eventually emanates.
The Anti-Terrorism Act drops the bar even lower. It allows police to make arrests based on the written order of executive officials alone, dispensing with need for warrants of arrest from judges. The bill allows police, not having any warrant of arrest, to detain a suspect for up to 14 days without filing any charges against that person . We haven’t yet seen Congress authorizing police to exercise such an immense power over ordinary people under normal circumstances.
Arroyo also extended the rhetoric of the War on Terror by rendering as “terrorism” the armed struggle of the Communist Party of the Philippine-New People’s Army previously regarded as “insurgency.” In practice, counterterrorism was just another name for counterinsurgency, with the added benefit that it now had the backing of Western governments.
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