The CBCP noted that the lawmakers did not seem to care that many of the people they are representing are against it. | CGonzalesINQ
The CBCP added it is “still in disbelief” on how the law was fast-tracked and approved in Congress while the country’s attention was focused on the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.
“The dissenting voices were strong but they remained unheeded. None of the serious concerns that they expressed about this legislative measure seemed to be of any consequence to them,” said the CBCP. The CBCP further sounded the alarm on the anti-terror law, citing those involved in social advocacies who had been accused of being communists, as well as bishops and priests who were “falsely charged” by the Philippine National Police with sedition and inciting to sedition, Senator Leila De Lima who remains in jail for what she calls “trumped-up charges,” media personalities harassed with criminal charges, and the shutdown of ABS-CBN.
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