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By Rene Saguisag
, Mabini chair
I await with bated breath what
Bono Adaza will file this afternoon against President Erap. If it
has to do with the Tallano Estate, I repeat my offer to donate to
his clients part of the 450,000 hectares I am supposed to get from
the Estate. I am not the only beneficiary as may be seen from the
attached excerpts of a supposed RTC decision in 1974.
Anyway, President Erap is ready
to go to jail for the poor (teka, teka, nakakulong na nga po pala).
Bono is someone I will always
admire but this timing here is off, if not rotten.
Even more rotten is the Human
Security Act which had to enter into force virtually on the day the
world marked the Fall of Bastille.
Now I can understand better why
Bismarck said two things people should not see being made, sausages
and laws. Ka Satur Ocampo said the law was entirely the work of the
Senate.
It has a funny effectivity clause
which even suspends the good law during election time, when one can
terrorize without fear of being branded a terrorist and without
being made to suffer qua terrorist.
The right most cherished by
modern man is privacy, the right to be let or left alone, in the
words of Cooley, Brandeis, Warren and Garbo. The fascistic
excrescence is in a class by itself, the most intrusive law I have
ever seen. The law is vague and overbroad and denies due process and
equal protection. The provisions on house and city or municipal
arrests where the evidence is week are absurd. There is more, so
much more.
The legislature should
immediately pass a law suspending the effectivity of the HSA. I
doubt however that any court will nullify a law of this length and
magnitude as unconstitutional on its face, without anyone directly
affected complaining yet. Mabini is not inclined to file a case at
this time. 
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