Second of 5 parts

ON the first day of the Supreme Court hearing on the petition against the Anti-Terrorism Law, we saw several interest groups trying their best to contest the constitutionality of the law. To be clear and unless we still don’t know it, this is the beauty of our democratic system. We are free to argue the merits of our case, and that is something that we cannot do in a fascist government. Still, critics accuse the current government as being the same as Marcos’ martial law. The Left has never left that narrative more than three decades after the strongman was deposed. On that point, I would like to continue my piece from where I left off last time.

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