“Before the ‘Red
October’ scheme was
concocted by the military, the military
and the police already had much time to practice their script–writing and story-telling
stint through the filing of trumped-up charges against activists and critics.
The formation of the Inter-Agency Committee on Legal Action (IACLA) is an
extension of these imagined and supposed “crimes,”
used to legitimize the criminalization of dissent. Ultimately, IACLA is
an instrument of political repression,”
said Karapatan Deputy Secretary General Roneo Clamor at a protest rally
in front of Camp Crame in
Quezon City on October 9, 2018.