tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14974164.post6983451532345726975..comments2023-10-20T21:46:49.945+08:00Comments on Philippine Commentary: How Ignacio Bunye Violated RA 4200, the Anti Wiretapping LawDeany Bocobohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01443168826029321831noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14974164.post-10936552881103820932007-10-04T20:54:00.000+08:002007-10-04T20:54:00.000+08:00Have you heard?Inquirer reports Arroyo wants law t...Have you heard?<BR/><BR/>Inquirer reports Arroyo wants law to protect military secrets <BR/><BR/>The Inquirer reports that Mrs Arroyo has just ordered the AFP and the DND to help craft laws that will safeguare “military secrets” just as the Senate probes were getting underway into allegations that the military wiretapped Arroyo’s phone and other personalities during the 2004 election period that has come to be known as the “Hello Garci” scandal.<BR/><BR/>Perhaps, this is the reason why the AFP has repeatedly snubbed Senate summons for top military brass to appear before the “Hello Garci” hearings. They have been crafting this plan all along!<BR/><BR/>Three things come to my mind right off the bat on why Arroyo wants a law crafted that will “protect military secret” — never mind if we don’t have a law yet to that effect as in other countries where certain military secrets are covered by secret service acts approved by Parliament in the case of European countries and Congress in the US, but what is strange is that Arroyo suddenly turns around after years at the helm just when the probes into the election cheatings in 2004 are going full blast today.MBWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15051130751172337198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14974164.post-45252859979439093852007-10-04T04:18:00.000+08:002007-10-04T04:18:00.000+08:00They are indeed victims if we go by the tenet that...They are indeed victims if we go by the tenet that non-authorized wiretapping is illegal.<BR/><BR/>So what now? <BR/><BR/>Morally speaking, do we just consider them victims ad vitam eternam because the law is written that way and ignore that they have themselves committed barbaric acts against Filipino humanity.<BR/><BR/>It's like a a thief that while robbing one of the rooms in a house discovers that a murder was being committed, leaves with his loot and not report what he saw for fear he'll go to jail coz on robbery. No other witness, no lead, etc. except that which could be provided by the robber - but then cops finally get robber.<BR/><BR/>Should we make a deal with the robber to not send him to prison but in exchange he testifies against murderer to convict murderer?<BR/><BR/>I say, make a deal with robber to convict murderer.MBWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15051130751172337198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14974164.post-27161362439619646362007-10-03T14:53:00.000+08:002007-10-03T14:53:00.000+08:00Yes of course, MB. But do you also agree that GMA...Yes of course, MB. But do you also agree that GMA, Garci and the rest of the voices, except for the soldier annotators, were "victims" of wiretapping?Deany Bocobohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01443168826029321831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14974164.post-48265340586412534862007-10-03T14:42:00.000+08:002007-10-03T14:42:00.000+08:00you're right DJ except that one is an original fak...you're right DJ except that one is an original fake and the other is a fake originalmanuelbuencaminohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07644763064403005323noreply@blogger.com