New politics

AT a time when the political landscape is becoming too depressing in the face of a pandemic, we witnessed how with one signature, our country is once again being silenced by fear not from the terrorists bred by political Islam, but by that which is cultured by the State.

And they cannot deny it, National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon Jr. in particular, whose Freudian slip revealed the real driving force behind the Anti-Terrorism Law. If you are silent, then you have nothing to worry about, he said, practically telling us how to behave to avoid being labeled a terrorist. No sugarcoating can now undo what has been said. The cat is out of the bag and the fat lady has already sung. This law wants to silence us.