“In my very humble view, the HSA is enough to deter terrorism. What is really lacking is good police work and good intelligence work,” Cadiz said in response to a question from Zalameda.
He said the old law was “better” than the new antiterror law since it listed predicate crimes, or criminal offenses committed in carrying out terror acts such as murder, piracy and rebellion.Zalameda noted that many countries, including the United States, New Zealand and Australia, had actually enacted stricter statutes against terrorism, which were upheld by their judicial courts.
“This lack of a comprehensive and universal definition [and] the [politicization] and misuse of terrorism have been abused by states to curb nonterrorists and even noncriminal activities,” Zalameda said.
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