There can be no sense of security in an environment where security forces can arbitrarily search one’s person, domicile and work place, effect one’s arrest, or worse, put an end to one’s life, without having to establish, through duly established processes, the just basis for such. Worse, when members of armed state security forces can flagrantly violate one’s person, as in cases of rape, and rights to life, as in summary killings, are guaranteed immunity from suit and reprisal.
Wala itong pag-aalinlangang baluktutin ang iba’t-ibang sangay ng gubyerno (AFP, PNP, hudikatura at mga batas) maitawid lamang ang makitid na interes nito. Dito nagmula ang pinakamatitinding paglabag sa karapatang pantao tulad ng state-sponsored killings (extra-judicial killings), enforced disappearances at abductions; calibrated preemptive response o CPR upang supilin ang demokratikong karapatan ng mamamayan at ang executive privilege para makaiwas sa imbestigasyon ng mga anomalyang kinasasangkutan nya at ng kanyang mga kaanib.