At1 CLJ4
At1 CLJ4
At1 CLJ4
1. What are the crimes against national security and the law of nations?
Crimes are classified into crimes against national security such as treason, espionage and piracy, crimes
against the fundamental laws of the state rebellion, coup d'état, sedition and public disorders, crimes
against public interest counterfeiting of currency, falsification of public documents.
2. Are crimes against national security can be committed in times of war? Are there exceptions?
Treason - against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to
their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.
Allegiance - is the obligation to fidelity and obedience which the individual owes to the government
under which he lives, or to his sovereign, in return for the protection which he receives.
Temporary - Allegiance which a foreigner owes to the government or sovereign of the territory whre he
resides so long as remain there, in return for protection he receive and consists of the obedience to the
law of government and sovereig.
Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their
enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony
of two witnesses to the same overt act or on confession in open court.
Although appellant’s treasonous activities were seen by several witnesses on different occasions,
conviction will not lie where no single or particular act or activity was testified to by two witnesses as
having been performed by the appellant on the same occasion.
conspiracy occurs when two or more people agree to commit an illegal act and take some step toward
its completion. Conspiracy is an inchoate crime because it does not require that the illegal act actually
have been completed. For instance, a group of individuals can be convicted of conspiracy to commit
burglary even if the actual burglary never happens.
The conspiracy or proposal to commit the crime of treason shall be punished respectively, by prision
mayor and a fine not exceeding P10,000 pesos, and prision correccional and a fine not exceeding P5,000
pesos.
Every person owing allegiance to the United States the Government of the Philippine Islands, without
being a foreigner, and having knowledge of any conspiracy against them, who conceals or does not
disclose and make known the same, as soon as possible to the governor or fiscal of the province, or the
mayor or fiscal of the city in which he resides, as the case may be, shall be punished as an accessory to
the crime of treason.
1. Without authority therefor, enters a warship, fort, or naval or military establishment or reservation to
obtain any information, plans, photographs, or other data of a confidential nature relative to the
defense of the Philippine Archipelago; or
2. Being in possession, by reason of the public office he holds, of the articles, data, or information
referred to in the preceding paragraph, discloses their contents to a representative of a foreign nation.
Espionage - The practice or employment of spies; the practice of watching the words and conduct of
others, to make discoveries, as spies or secret emissaries; secret watching.
Treason - is the crime of attacking a state authority to which one owes allegiance. This typically includes
acts such as participating in a war against one's native country, attempting to overthrow its government,
spying on its military, its diplomats, or its secret services for a hostile and foreign power, or attempting
to kill its head of state.
15. What are the elements of inciting to war or giving motives for reprisals?
The penalty of reclusion temporal shall be imposed upon any public officer or employee, and that of
prision mayor upon any private individual, who, by unlawful or unauthorized acts provokes or gives
occasion for a war involving or liable to involve the Philippine Islands or exposes Filipino citizens to
reprisals on their persons or property.
The penalty of reclusion temporal to death shall be imposed upon those who commit any of the crimes
referred to in the preceding article, under any of the following circumstances:
• any illegal acts of violence or detention, or any act of depredation, committed for private ends by the
crew or the passengers of a private boat, ship or a private aircraft, and directed
• any act of voluntary participation in the operation of a boat, ship or of an aircraft with knowledge of
facts making it a pirate boat, ship or aircraft;
• Whenever they have seized a vessel by boarding or firing upon the same;
• Whenever the pirates have abandoned their victims without means of saving themselves; or
Mutiny is like what the jews did to América ;relentlessly infiltrating into government and dictating policy
favorable to their ilk.
Piracy is when poorer countries copy shit by reverse engineering to avoid paying royalties for
intellectual property and I don't blame them cos the rich, with their battery of lawyers seek to bloodsuck
them thus preventing them to ever reach parity. Intellectual property was meant to be free unto all as
education but perverse fucks decided they could make bucks by selling or trading and whole business of
grift is built around that.