The Empire Strikes Back—PGMA Revival of Anti Subversion Law

The Empire Strikes Back—PGMA Revival of Anti Subversion Law

Los Angeles-- The Philippine Peasant Support Network (Pesante)-USA vehemently condemned the recent pronouncements of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to revive the evil anti subversion law or R.A. 1700 of the 1960’s .

For Pesante-USA, Mrs.Arroyo’s declaration only highlights the height of her callousness and political insensitivity. The Malacanang press office backtracked and denied the presidential statement. But the matter only highlights her much vaunted doublespeak.

For Pesante, these means the Human Security Act which she personally created in 2006 is not enough for her. Now, she wants to revive the old law to give her regime more teeth.

It is a contradiction by itself. While she pretends to abolish death penalty for criminals. Now she wanted to impose death penalty in R.A. 1700 by association or by being a communist. Worse, it declared guilt by association a criminal act.

Former President Fidel V. Ramos has more political sense when he abolished the useless law in 1992. The Anti-Subversion law created in the late 1950’s outlawed the old communist party in the idea that once it is outlawed it will cease to exist. They were dead wrong.

Despotic rulers have tried to kill ideas by edicts . All of them failed. Like the much hated Dictator Marcos, the aspiring dictator Mrs. Arroyo eventually will fail.

For more information contact Arturo P. Garcia