INTEGRATED BAR OF THE PHILIPPINES
PASAY PARANAQUE LAS PINAS MUNTINLUPA CHAPTER
2ND FLOOR, PASAY CITY HALL, F.B. HARRISON ST., PASAY CITY
TEL/FAX 831-1477, 831-9344
February 24, 2006
URGENT PRESS STATEMENT
RE : LAWYERS CONDEMN STATE OF NATIONAL EMERGENCY
Ref. : Atty. Manuel J. Laserna Jr.
Chairman, Las Pinas City Bar Association
Vice President, IBP Pasay Paranaque Las Pinas
Muntinlupa Chapter
Professor of Law, FEU Inst. Of Law
Tel. Nos. 8742539, 87825443
The proclamation of a state of national emergency issued today by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo reflects her mental state of panic and her government’s state of political insanity and instability.
Pres. Arroyo is the greatest threat to the Philippine Constitution and democracy.
To perpetuate herself, her family and her cronies in power, Pres. Arroyo is prepared to gamble with the political and economic stability of the country and the future of our youth and to destroy the basic human rights of the Filipinos that Edsa I stands for.
Pres. Arroyo has superseded Pres. Ferdinand Marcos in political greed and delusion.
We urge the Filipino lawyers, law professors, law deans, law students, and the representatives of the pillars of the Philippine Justice System to unite in condemning the illegitimacy of the presidency of Pres. Arroyo and her undeclared martial law regime, for the sake of our democracy, the rule of law and the precious principles of constitutionalism.
Atty. MANUEL J. LASERNA JR.
Vice Pres., IBP PPLM Chapter, 2005-2007
Chairman, Las Pinas City Bar Assn Inc., 2005-2006
Professor of Law, FEU Inst. of Law