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Friday, August 18, 2006
Talk back: CIDG was wrong
By Hector L. Fernandez
Your report, “Not wrong” (Aug. 12, 2006), confirms that if there was anything wrong done in connection with the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) raid on Yuan Lian Marketing, it was committed by the CIDG team.
CIDG has no respect for existing laws, much less the dignity of the human person.
Lawmen should not behave as if they are above the law. They should not violate the fundamental law to enforce lesser laws.
The CIDG should have bought one item they suspected to be fake, submitted the same for laboratory examination, and applied for a search warrant with the local court once the item was found to be fake.
What the CIDG intended to do was to effect an arrest under the guise of
“invitation” but failed to carry it out because a lawyer came to assert the rights of his client.
What the lawyer did had nothing to do with his being a city councilor.
Cutting corners in the enforcement of the law, while ostensibly valid in time of war, is not so in time of peace.
Ostensible validity is not really valid in point of law but legal remedies in time of war are not easily available. What prevails is the law of force, not the rule of law.
Our gratitude goes to Cebu City Councilor Gerardo Carillo and the Integrated Bar of the Philippines, Cebu City Chapter, for helping the CIDG see the light and bring its acts together in obeisance of the law.
For Bisaya stories from Cebu. Click here. (August 18, 2006 issue)
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