Beltran: After political harassment of progressive solons, govt' setting the stage for media criminalization and suppression
From the Office of Anakpawis Representative Crispin B. Beltran
Lisa C. Ito, Public Information Officer (+63)927.796.7006
Tel. # (+632) 426-9442 Email: crispinbeltran@gmail.com
URL: http:// www.geocities.com/ap_news
NEWS RELEASE
March 16, 2006
"If helping the poor is a crime,
and fighting for freedom is rebellion,
then I plead guilty as charged."
--Crispin Beltran, August 1982 Supreme Court hearing
Beltran: After political harassment of progressive solons, govt' setting the stage for media criminalization and suppression
Even while in detention at the Philippine National Police (PNP) General Hospital in Camp Crame, Anakpawis Congressman Crispin B. Beltran lashed out at Press Secretary Ignacio Bunye's warning to media yesterday that they would not be accorded "special treatment" in the government's campaign against "destabilization".
"This administration is setting the stage for media criminalization and suppression through Bunye's warnings," the illegally-detained Congressman said.
"The Palace is maliciously conditioning the public to numbly condone any repressive actions against media practitioners who the government deems to "run afoul of the law", to just turn a blind eye whenever the state suppresses or worse, criminalizes, news reports or features that the Arroyo administration considers as being 'in aid of destabilization'," Beltran said.
"The Arroyo administration wants media practitioners to be like horses with blinders incapable of seeing anything beyond the parameters set by their masters," he said.
Beltran soundly condemned the intensifying harassments of media entities including the Daily Tribune, the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) and the radio program Ngayon Na! Bayan aired over DZRJ, calling the attempts at state intervention of media entities as a "subtle and malicious creeping of media harassment".
"The Arroyo administration's attempts to police the ranks of media smack of the same brand of political repression directed against me and the Batasan 5. Threatening media with retribution for publicity deemed threatening to the corrupt, illegitimate, and anti-people Arroyo administration is essentially no different from illegally arresting and detaining progressive parliamentarians," Beltran said.
"The Philippines is already on the international human rights watch list for the political killings of activists and journalists. Now, the Arroyo administration will be facing the world, pockmarked by the rising media suppression and harassment," Beltran ended. ###
FREEDOM FOR KA BEL,
FREEDOM FOR THE PHILIPPINE PRESS!
Lisa C. Ito, Public Information Officer (+63)927.796.7006
Tel. # (+632) 426-9442 Email: crispinbeltran@gmail.com
URL: http:// www.geocities.com/ap_news
NEWS RELEASE
March 16, 2006
"If helping the poor is a crime,
and fighting for freedom is rebellion,
then I plead guilty as charged."
--Crispin Beltran, August 1982 Supreme Court hearing
Beltran: After political harassment of progressive solons, govt' setting the stage for media criminalization and suppression
Even while in detention at the Philippine National Police (PNP) General Hospital in Camp Crame, Anakpawis Congressman Crispin B. Beltran lashed out at Press Secretary Ignacio Bunye's warning to media yesterday that they would not be accorded "special treatment" in the government's campaign against "destabilization".
"This administration is setting the stage for media criminalization and suppression through Bunye's warnings," the illegally-detained Congressman said.
"The Palace is maliciously conditioning the public to numbly condone any repressive actions against media practitioners who the government deems to "run afoul of the law", to just turn a blind eye whenever the state suppresses or worse, criminalizes, news reports or features that the Arroyo administration considers as being 'in aid of destabilization'," Beltran said.
"The Arroyo administration wants media practitioners to be like horses with blinders incapable of seeing anything beyond the parameters set by their masters," he said.
Beltran soundly condemned the intensifying harassments of media entities including the Daily Tribune, the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) and the radio program Ngayon Na! Bayan aired over DZRJ, calling the attempts at state intervention of media entities as a "subtle and malicious creeping of media harassment".
"The Arroyo administration's attempts to police the ranks of media smack of the same brand of political repression directed against me and the Batasan 5. Threatening media with retribution for publicity deemed threatening to the corrupt, illegitimate, and anti-people Arroyo administration is essentially no different from illegally arresting and detaining progressive parliamentarians," Beltran said.
"The Philippines is already on the international human rights watch list for the political killings of activists and journalists. Now, the Arroyo administration will be facing the world, pockmarked by the rising media suppression and harassment," Beltran ended. ###
FREEDOM FOR KA BEL,
FREEDOM FOR THE PHILIPPINE PRESS!
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