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(JANSEN ROMERO / MANILA BULLETIN) This was what lawyer Mai Taqueban of the Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center (LRC) said during her talk at the “LIVING UNDER THREAT: Responding to the Collective Impacts of Increasing Violence Against and Criminalization of Indigenous Peoples” event held on Monday evening. Taqueban called her talk “Weaponizing the Law,” and said that the administration has used “war framing” to further its security agenda, such as the war on drugs. However, Taqueban said that the government’s act of weaponizing the law is confusing because it puts in a bad light freedom of speech and assertion of rights. “It is in many ways criminalizing dissent,” she said. ....