Arangkada for June 14, 2005

 

 

                TUGBANG KINUWANGGOL

 

Kon wa pa lang unta did-i sa National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) ang mga estasyon sa radyo ug telebisyon sa pagsibya sa giingong audio recording sa istorya sa telepono nilang Presidente Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo ug Comelec Commissioner Virgilio Garcillano, ambot pila ray mosakripisyo sa ilang naandang mga programa aron paghatag og agianan sa kontrobersiyal nga recording.

Di ni tungod kay hadlok o sipsip ang media organizations sa administrasyon, kon dili tungod sa kabungol, kahinay ug ka-way klaro sa pipila ka bahin sa tulo ka oras ug tulo ka CDs nga recording. Ang mga bahin sa recording nga gipili ni Atty. Allan Paguia, nga gitoohang mao say gibasehan sa bersiyon nga gipagawas sa Malakanyang, gawas nga maoy naghisgot sa maniobra sa eleksiyon, mao say labing klaro.

Ang labing dakong problema sa media organizations mao ang pagdapit sa atensiyon sa publiko sa recording nga dunay pipila ka bahin nga, bisag unsaon nimog papilit sa imong dunggan sa speaker, lisod kaayong masabtan.

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Pero salamat sa pagdili sa NTC, nagkadaghan ang mga tawo nga determinadong makapaminaw sa audio recording sa bisan unsang paagi. Na-triple ang trapiko sa web log sa DYAB Abante Bisaya human namo ipahibawo nga ma-download ang tulo ka oras nga recording gikan sa

http://dyab-cebu.blogspot.com ug sa indibiduwal nga web logs sa among mga programa.

Mahimong mahudlat ang mga estasyon sa radyo ug telebisyon (kay sigehan man mig pahinumdom sa mga torotot sa gobyerno nga ang among pagsibya di katungod kon dili usa lang ka pribilehiyo) ug ang mga pamantalaan (wa nay nasudnon ug lokal nga pamantalaan nga nipublikar sa kinatibuk-ang transcript human sa pasidaan nga ikiha sila sa gobyerno), pero di kapugngan sa NTC ang pagkatap sa audio recording, gawas lang kon may makit-an silang kahimanan nga mopahunong sa Internet.

Samtang mahimong nakaiban sa epekto sa recording ang una-unang pagpagawas ni Press Secretary Ignacio Bunye, ang iyang desperadong lakang ug ang pagdili sa NTC maoy garantiya nga toohan sa mas daghang tawo ang eskandalusong recording.

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Si Thads Bentulan, akong paboritong kolumnista sa BusinessWorld, niinsistir nga makahimo ang mga estasyon sa radyo ug telebisyon pagsibya sa audio recording nga di makalapas sa pagdili sa NTC pinaagi sa pagbutang og waiver nga, "Wa mi motoo nga silang Presidente Arroyo ug Garcillano kining nag-istorya. Kon kinsa man gani tinuod nga tag-iya ning mosunod nga mga tingog, palihug pahibaw-a dayon mi nga gi-record ni nga way pagtugot gikan ninyo, aron amo dayong hunungon ang pagsibya ning audio recording."

Lain niyang sugyot nga ipabasa og drama talents ang tibuok transcript aron mabatian sa publiko ang kinatibuk-ang detalye sa audio recording nga di sila pul-an ni malapas ang pagdili sa gobyerno.

Reductio ad absurdum. Paundayonan ang kinuwanggol. [30]  leo_lastimosa@abs-cbn.com

Wiretapping: 40-Year Old Law

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 4200

AN ACT TO PROHIBIT AND PENALIZE WIRE TAPPING AND OTHER RELATED VIOLATIONS OF THE PRIVACY OF COMMUNICATION, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any person, not being authorized by all the parties to any private communication or spoken word, to tap any wire or cable, or by using any other device or arrangement, to secretly overhear, intercept, or record such communication or spoken word by using a device commonly known as a dictaphone or dictagraph or detectaphone or walkie-talkie or tape recorder, or however otherwise described:

It shall also be unlawful for any person, be he a participant or not in the act or acts penalized in the next preceding sentence, to knowingly possess any tape record, wire record, disc record, or any other such record, or copies thereof, of any communication or spoken word secured either before or after the effective date of this Act in the manner prohibited by this law; or to replay the same for any other person or persons; or to communicate the contents thereof, either verbally or in writing, or to furnish transcriptions thereof, whether complete or partial, to any other person: Provided, That the use of such record or any copies thereof as evidence in any civil, criminal investigation or trial of offenses mentioned in Section 3 hereof, shall not be covered by this prohibition.

SECTION 2. Any person who wilfully or knowingly does or who shall aid, permit, or cause to be done any of the acts declared to be unlawful in the preceding section or who violates the provisions of the following section or of any order issued thereunder, or aids, permits, or causes such violation shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by imprisonment for not less than six months or more than six years and with the accessory penalty of perpetual absolute disqualification from public office if the offender be a public official at the time of the commission of the offense, and, if the offender is an alien he shall be subject to deportation proceedings.

SECTION 3. Nothing contained in this Act, however, shall render it unlawful or punishable for any peace officer, who is authorized by a written order of the Court, to execute any of the acts declared to be unlawful in the two preceding sections in cases involving the crimes of treason, espionage, provoking war and disloyalty in case of war, piracy, mutiny in the high seas, rebellion, conspiracy and proposal to commit rebellion, inciting to rebellion, sedition, conspiracy to commit sedition, inciting to sedition, kidnapping as defined by the Revised Penal Code, and violations of Commonwealth Act No. 616, punishing espionage and other offenses against national security: Provided, That such written order shall only be issued or granted upon written application and the examination under oath or affirmation of the applicant and the witnesses he may produce and a showing: (1) that there are reasonable grounds to believe that any of the crimes enumerated hereinabove has been committed or is being committed or is about to be committed: Provided, however, That in cases involving the offenses of rebellion, conspiracy and proposal to commit rebellion, inciting to rebellion, sedition, conspiracy to commit sedition, and inciting to sedition, such authority shall be granted only upon prior proof that a rebellion or acts of sedition, as the case may be, have actually been or are being committed; (2) that there are reasonable grounds to believe that evidence will be obtained essential to the conviction of any person for, or to the solution of, or to the prevention of, any such crimes; and (3) that there are no other means readily available for obtaining such evidence. 

The order granted or issued shall specify: (1) the identity of the person or persons whose communications, conversations, discussions, or spoken words are to be overheard, intercepted, or recorded and, in the case of telegraphic or telephonic communications, the telegraph line or the telephone number involved and its location; (2) the identity of the peace officer authorized to overhear, intercept, or record the communications, conversations, discussions, or spoken words; (3) the offense or offenses committed or sought to be prevented; and (4) the period of the authorization. The authorization shall be effective for the period specified in the order which shall not exceed sixty (60) days from the date of issuance of the order, unless extended or renewed by the court upon being satisfied that such extension or renewal is in the public interest.

All recordings made under court authorization shall, within forty-eight hours after the expiration of the period fixed in the order, be deposited with the court in a sealed envelope or sealed package, and shall be accompanied by an affidavit of the peace officer granted such authority stating the number of recordings made, the dates and times covered by each recording, the number of tapes, discs, or records included in the deposit, and certifying that no duplicates or copies of the whole or any part thereof have been made, or if made, that all such duplicates or copies are included in the envelope or package deposited with the court. The envelope or package so deposited shall not be opened, or the recordings replayed, or used in evidence, or their contents revealed, except upon order of the court, which shall not be granted except upon motion, with due notice and opportunity to be heard to the person or persons whose conversation or communications have been recorded.

The court referred to in this section shall be understood to mean the Court of First Instance within whose territorial jurisdiction the acts for which authority is applied for are to be executed.

SECTION 4. Any communication or spoken word, or the existence, contents, substance, purport, effect, or meaning of the same or any part thereof, or any information therein contained obtained or secured by any person in violation of the preceding sections of this Act shall not be admissible in evidence in any judicial, quasi-judicial, legislative or administrative hearing or investigation.

SECTION 5. All laws inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed or accordingly amended.

SECTION 6. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved: June 19, 1965

NTC's Mum Order

Press release of the National Telecommunications Commission issued after Atty. Samuel Ong announced in a press conference last Friday that he had in his possession the "mother of all tapes":   

"In view of the unusual situation the country is in today, the National Telecommunications Commission calls for sobriety among the operators and management of all radio and television stations in the country and reminds them, especially all broadcasters, to be careful and circumspect in the handling of news reportage, coverages of current affairs and discussion of public issues, by strictly adhering to the pertinent laws of the country, the current program standards embodied in radio and television codes and the existing circulars of the NTC.

"It has come to the attention of the commission that certain personalities are in possession of alleged taped conversations, which they claim involve the President of the Philippines and a commissioner of the Comelec regarding their supposed violation of election laws. These personalities have admitted that the taped conversations are product of illegal wiretapping operations.

"Considering that these taped conversations have not been duly authenticated nor could it be said at this time that the tapes contain an accurate or truthful representation of what was recorded therein, it is the position of the commission that the continuous airing or broadcast of the said taped conversations by radio and television stations is a continuing violation of the anti-wiretapping law and the conditions of the provisional authority and/or certificate of authority issued to these radio and television stations.

"If it has been subsequently established that the said tapes are false and/or fraudulent after a prosecution or appropriate investigation, the concerned radio and television companies are hereby warned that their broadcast/airing of such false information and/or willful misrepresentation shall be just cause for the suspension, revocation and/or cancellation of the licenses or authorizations issued to the said companies.

"All radio broadcasting and television stations shall, during any broadcast or telecast, cut off from the air the speech, play, act or scene or other matters being broadcast and/or telecast if the tendency thereof is to disseminate false information or such other willful misrepresentation, or inciting, encouraging or assisting in subversive or treasonable acts."

Gloria Votes

Presidential vote tally

Vinia Datinguinoo, PCIJ 

WE are posting here the final tally of votes for President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and the strongest contender, Fernando Poe, Jr., in the May 2004 elections. The table, showing the votes by province, was prepared by the nongovernment Institute for Popular Democracy using data from the Comelec.

Pulso sa DYAB Abante Bisaya ug TV Patrol Central Visayas

Angay bang pa-resignon ni Pres. Arroyo silang Mikey ug Iggy Arroyo human sa paglambigit nila sa jueteng scandal?

Please text your answer to DYAB REACT (opinion) and send to 2366.

Gloria's Alleged Conversations

You can download the three-hour-three-CDs audio recording of the alleged telephone conversation between Pres. Arroyo and Comelec Commissioner Virgilio Garcillano through these 33 separate MP3 files provided by PCIJ:

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33

 

For first-timers:  You can download by right-clicking on the links above and save each one to your hard disk.