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David vs. Arroyo [CONCURRING OPINION, J. YNARES-SANTIAGO ]

PROFESSOR RANDOLF S. DAVID, LORENZO TA?ADA III, RONALD LLAMAS, H. HARRY L. ROQUE, JR., JOEL RUIZ BUTUYAN, ROGER R. RAYEL, GARY S. MALLARI, ROMEL REGALADO BAGARES, CHRISTOPHER F.C. BOLASTIG, Petitioners, versus GLORIA MACAPAGAL-ARROYO, AS PRESIDENT AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, EXECUTIVE SECRETARY EDUARDO ERMITA, HON. AVELINO CRUZ II, SECRETARY OF NATIONAL DEFENSE, GENERAL GENEROSO SENGA, CHIEF OF STAFF, ARMED FORCES OF THE PHILIPPINES, DIRECTOR GENERAL ARTURO LOMIBAO, CHIEF, PHILIPPINE NATIONAL POLICE, Respondents. [CONCURRING OPINION, J. YNARES-SANTIAGO ]

G.R. No. 171396 | 2006-05-03

CONCURRING OPINION 


YNARES-SANTIAGO, J.

The only real security for social well-being is the free exercise of men's minds. 

-Harold J. Laski, Professor of Government and Member of the British Labor Party, in his book, Authority in the Modern State (1919). 

The ideals of liberty and equality, the eminent U.S. Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Cardozo once wrote, are preserved against the assaults of opportunism, the expediency of the passing hour, the erosion of small encroachments, the scorn and derision of those who have no patience with general principles. [1] In an open and democratic society, freedom of thought and...