Express Bill of Rights on internet necessary First case -- Lack of being express, silence in the law, or that the only available means is to infer or deduce from established laws is dangerous in terms of protecting rights. Second case -- In some occasions, if a system or government or a person is desirous of persecuting is arrogant and unforgivable, even the presence of express protection by laws is not enough. This is a situation where there is no difference between clarity on one hand and chaos or silence on the other. In the second case, I can give my own experience as an example. My answer to a radio interview was clear to be not libel. But the Office of the City Prosecutor of Puerto Princesa ruled that I must be charged in court for libel. For sure, this action of the prosecuting agency violated my right not to be prosecuted if there is no well-founded belief that I committed the crime of libel. And it is for sure that the fiscals there knew it. But why they still proceeded in filing libel case in court against me? Well-founded belief means there is an amount of evidence sufficient to have a strong case to have a good chance against scrutiny in court; otherwise an innocent man is made to suffer by spending for paying for bail for temporary liberty, attending prejudicial trial, spending for transportation, which, in my case, I have to buy two round-trip tickets (costing P20,000) for me and my bodyguard just to fly from Manila to attend hearings at Puerto Princesa. The prosecuting office ruled that I committed the crime of libel in the answer I gave to the question asking what would happen if former mayor Edward Hagedorn can explain why he failed to state his wealth in his SALN. I was interviewed by a Puerto Princesa broadcaster after I filed before the Office of the Ombudsman criminal cases of perjury and others after I gathered documents showing he had 59 parcels of land, five corporations, and more than 30 vehicles yet he did not disclose it in his SALN for 2004, SALN for 2005 up to 2012 that he served as mayor. The answer I gave was from logic. I said: E di, masi-save sya (He will be saved.) I followed this up with a statement that it is required of all public officials to disclose all their wealth for the public to see. For sure, even these Puerto Princesa prosecutors agreed with me when I insisted it was not libel. But why they decided to charge me in court for libel with that statement alone? Then here came the court approving the charge. It then issued a warrant for my arrest. Is the court stupid to agree with the prosecutors? I believe so and I am asking sorry for this to the judge concerned. Nevertheless, what is important here is that I use this example to stress my point that it is necessary to have express laws giving rights to individuals on their use and enjoyment of the Internet and protecting them against the abuses of the State and conspiring individuals. The inventor of the world wide web, British Tim Berners-Lee, issued a warning that the freedom of the internet is under threat by governments and corporations interested in controlling the web. READ MORE: totocausing.blogspot/2014/09/express-bill-of-rights-on-internet.html
Posted on: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 06:46:00 +0000
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