How to get away with the terror bill, Batasan edition. JunkTerrorBill
Lawmakers’ inboxes piled up with emails from constituents convincing them to change their yes votes. Some heeded the people’s plea and wrote to House Secretary-General Luis Montales that they were switching to abstention. Others realized their abstention was recorded as a yes vote and moved to have it corrected in the records.Many legislators voted on the measure without even parsing its controversial provisos line by line.
The House panels started their hearings in mid-February. Progressives who wanted to repeal the HSA altogether were given a chance to make their case before lawmakers. They were already raising the alarm then that the“And if you witnessed it, the two committees started with the provisions that everyone can agree on and then leaving the debate for the more contentious provisions towards the end just to get [things done].…. We gave opportunities to a lot of stakeholders,” Nograles told Rappler.
STANDING BY THE SPEAKER. Ranking members of the House pose for a photo while Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano defends the anti-terror bill via Zoom on June 5, 2020. Photo courtesy of PPAB Biazon said this was supposedly not the intent of the bill, but the way it was written by senators allows for this interpretation.
"With this killer provision the law enforcer, the executive agencies can just allege the contrary and ensnare innocent persons and derogate human rights and civil liberties,” Lagman said“There was some sort of maliciousness on the part of the sponsors when they did not quote in full the provision which includes this killer colatilla.”
CONDEMNATION. ACT Teachers Representative France Castro join various sectors in staging a protest caravan and noise barrage outside the gates of the House on June 3, 2020, demanding the scrapping of the anti-terrorism bill. Photo by Jire Carreon/Rappler Apart from Biazon, 20 legislators had their names stricken off as principal authors of the anti-terror bill, as they were erroneously included in the committee report that had been endorsed in the plenary.
Atienza himself said he is withdrawing his yes vote precisely because his constituents informed him of their"violent objections" to the anti-terror bill. “Members who indicated that they want to change their vote clearly knows that it's only for public consumption but no longer has bearing based on House rules,” he added.
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