AMENDING
PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NUMBERED EIGHT HUNDRED EIGHTY-FIVE, OTHERWISE KNOWN
AS THE REVISED ANTI-SUBVERSION LAW, AS AMENDED.
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WHEREAS,
reports of law enforcement agencies reveal that the activities of the
criminal
elements in the country engaged in subversive acts, have been deriving
and receiving support not necessarily from foreign governments, but
from
foreign private sources;
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WHEREAS,
it is imperative to redefine the scope of subversive associations in
order
to outlaw organizations which are supported by any foreign source,
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NOW,
THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS. President of the Philippines, by
virtue
of the powers in me vested by the Constitution, do hereby order and
decree
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Section
1. Section two of Presidential
Decreenumbered eight hundred eighty-five
otherwise known as the Revised Anti-Subversive Law, is hereby amended toread
as follows:
"Sec.
2. Subversive Associations and
Organizations. — Any association organization, political party, or
group
of persons organized for the purpose of overthrowing the Government of
the Republic of the Philippines or for the purpose of removing from the
allegiance to said government or its laws, the territory of the
Philippines
or any part thereof, with the open or covert assistance or support of a
foreign power or the open or covert support from a foreign source any
association,
group or person whether public or private, by force, violence,
terrorism,
arson, assassination, deceit or other illegal means shall be considered
and is hereby declared a subversive organization.".chan
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Sec.
2. This Act shall take effect
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Done
in the City of Manila this 12th day of September
in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty..chan
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