STATEMENT OF DEMOCRACY.NET.PH ON THE VETO OF THE SIM CARD REGISTRATION BILL BY PRESIDENT RODRIGO ROA DUTERTE
On APRIL 15, 2015 – The price of liberty is eternal vigilance, said Thomas Jefferson so long ago. Today, we are reminded of this truism. Today, we were this close to allowing an intrusion into our privacy for what was nothing more than security theater. Today, even in the face of such full-throated bipartisan support for the passage of the SIM Card Registration Bill into law, the President vetoed it not only because the constitutional defects were glaring, but because the passage of this law posed a real and serious threat to our national security.
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