[Newspoint] A little walk-back

is the weapon most widely deployed in suppressing political dissent; it is used in fact to trigger draconian policies and laws into operation against its targets. And the most arbitrary among those laws happens to be one affirmed by the Supreme Court over a huge righteous furor not too long ago – the. Declaring red-tagging now as a threat to “one’s right to life, liberty, or security” would seem for the court a sort of walk-back.

. He even built an army of trolls in order to take advantage as well of the new technology, which made red-tagging more efficient and red-taggers operating from cyberspace harder to track. The most ridiculous of recent cases involved four targets. They were arrested on the word of a soldier supposedly so keen-eyed, so keen-memoried, and so brave-hearted as to manage to get a photographic look at the faces of the enemies while shooting it out with them.

Still, with Duterte out of official power and his camp dropped from the ruling coalition, the courts are looking less pressured, as seems the case with the Supreme Court. But even if it could reverse itself on the Anti-Terrorism Act, that would be going against its grain, an embarrassing and agonizing case of withdrawal, I imagine. And, for the same reason, neither would Congress be up to a repeal.

Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)

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