Mr. President, I vote no for martial law extension.
Mr. President, I vote NO for the extension of martial law even if your party mates may vote otherwise. I joined with the rest of my Muslim friends who stand against the extension of Martial Law. I join with the rest of those who resist the opinion of lawyer Salvador Panelo that this country needs constitutional dictatorship. Like any authoritarian rule, constitutional dictatorship bestows to an individual or institution to formulate binding rules, directives, and decisions over circumstances unhindered by legal checks and balance -- including the potential excesses in the exercise of authority. Normally, in times of crisis, the executive merely announces the emergence of a crisis and congress bestows statutory grants of power. But this legislative process has been willfully sidelined by our lawmakers, thus, affording the executive such transcendence over the law. Ergo, in the absence of public deliberation, congress indirectly granted practically unreviewed discretion of the e