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By: A Bloody Chamber - PinoyBlogoSphere.com - Pinoy Bloggers Society (PBS)

A Bloody Chamber - PinoyBlogoSphere.com - Pinoy Bloggers Society (PBS) — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:15:21 +0000

[...] Haven’t read local and national dailies since the start of the week, but the last thing I picked up falls under the category of good news: Arroyo backpedals on subversion law. Scriptorium discusses why the Anti-Subversion Law should NOT be revived. [...]

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A Bloody Chamber by The Philippines According to Blogs — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:10:12 +0000

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By: indignus

indignus — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 08:37:34 +0000

To karlo: I’m honestly not sure, but I think the Law was enacted as part of an attempt to completely eliminate the “threat” of Marxist ideology and to prevent any revival of Philippine Communism. In any case, I think they had more reason to impose it then than now, considering the “hot” direction the Cold War was taking in the late ’50’s (as witness Hungary and Nasser’s powerplay), notwithstanding Krushchev’s attempt at detente.

Now, the Administration has only a ghost of a reason for re-imposing the Law; and as you pointed out regarding the 1957 statute, it would also be bound to fail. I only hope GMA won’t try to impose it when our eyes are turned.

By: History Of Violence

History Of Violence — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 00:30:16 +0000

[...] Why the Anti-Subversion Law should NOT be revived [...]

By: karlo mikhail

karlo mikhail — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 08:05:10 +0000

To those unfamiliar with the Anti-Subversion Law, it was originally enacted as Republic Act No. 1700 (1957) or the Anti-Subversion Act, and was intended to counter the Hukbalahap, a Communist partisan group that was especially active in Central Luzon (which later became the birthplace of the present Communist Party).

Interestingly enough, R.A. 1700 was enacted after the Magsaysay administration successfully handled the old-Partido Komunista Pilipinas led communist insurgency centered mainly in Central Luzon.

In 1957, the Huks have become nothing more than roving bandits without any sound ideological and political leadership as the old PKP hierarchy were either killed, in jail or lying low.

Did the government back then think of it then as a preventive measure?

The passing of the law did not at all prevent the founding of a new Communist Party of the Philippines in 1968 and its succeeding meteoric growth as the only real opposition under the Marcos dictatorship.