BATANGAS CITY – Independent senatorial candidate Panfilo “Ping” M. Lacson wants harsher penalties for Filipinos caught helping foreigners spy on the Philippines.
Lacson also said that should he earn a Senate seat in May, he would move to augment the budget for the intelligence community to upgrade their technical equipment to counter espionage activities.
“It is the height of being a traitor if a Filipino were to help a foreigner spy on our own country,” he said in Filipino at the press conference of the Alyansa para sa Bagong Pilipinas senatorial slate here.
“Filipinos who help foreigners spy on their own country deserve double the punishment. Can you imagine a Filipino helping a foreigner harm his or her own fellow Filipinos?” he added.
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He said this is aside from revisiting, updating and strengthening our current anti-espionage law, which was passed 84 years ago.
Lacson said updating the anti-espionage law should not be directed against China in particular, “but any other foreigner or even citizens of this country.”
Meanwhile, Lacson said he plans to push for a budget hike for technical equipment for the intelligence community, so they can detect and take counter-measures against equipment used in espionage.
“We have to strengthen our laws on top of strengthening our intelligence community by equipping them with updated equipment,” he said.
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Ping Lacson, Itinulak ang Mas Mabigat na Parusa para sa Pinoy na Naniniktik sa Sariling Bansa
BATANGAS CITY – Itinulak nitong Sabado ni independent senatorial candidate Panfilo “Ping” M. Lacson ang mas mabigat na parusa para sa mga Pilipino na mahuhuling tumutulong sa dayuhan sa pag-espiya sa Pilipinas.
Dagdag ni Lacson, kung manalo siya sa pagka-senador sa Mayo, palalakihin niya ang budget para sa intelligence community para ma-upgrade ang kanilang technical equipment para makontra ang pag-eespiya.
“It is the height of being a traitor kung sarili pa nating kababayan tutulong pa sa foreigner para maniktik sa ating bansa,” aniya sa pulong pangbalitaan ng Alyansa para sa Bagong Pilipinas senatorial slate dito.
“Dapat doble pa nga ang parusa doon. Isipin mo kababayan natin tutulong sa di mo kababayan para ipahamak ang sarili mong kababayan?” dagdag niya.
Ani Lacson, ito ay bukod pa sa pag-update at pagpapalakas sa Commonwealth Act 616, ang kasalukuyang anti-espionage law, na pinasa noon pang 1941.
Giit ni Lacson, ang pag-update sa anti-espionage law ay hindi tuma-target sa China kundi para sa kahit sinong dayuhan o pati ang mamamayan ng Pilipinas.
Samantala, itutulak ni Lacson ang pagtaas ng budget para sa technical equipment para sa intelligence community, upang makapag-countermeasures sila laban sa technical equipment ng mga espiya.
“Kailangan palakasin ang batas on top of strengthening our intelligence community by equipping them with updated equipment,” aniya.
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