WITH a score of lawmakers trying their utmost to withdraw their signatures from the bill, with leading educators issuing manifestos against the legislation and with many civil society groups denouncing its alleged motives, it is, we think, time for Congress and the nation as a whole to take a long hard look at the proposed Anti-Terrorism law, which plainly has divided the nation.

It is time surely for Senate President Vicente Sotto 3rd to stop boasting that he can put the Anti-Terrorism bill on President Rodrigo Duterte’s desk as early as today, ready for his signature.

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