This case, involving as it does the perennial clash between fundamental individual freedoms and

state power, confronts the Court with a delicate and difficult balancing task.

With all due respect with a little more forbearance, the petition could have been conduced to a
denouement of congruity but without diminishing the level of scrutiny that the crucial stakes demand.
I trust though that future iterations of this Court, more divorced from some irrational aspects of the
passions of these times, will further refine the important doctrines laid down today.

Several considerations guide my vote to grant the petition - to issue the quested writ against
the respondent Department of Justice Secretary Raul M. Gonzalez (DOJ Secretary), but not as
to respondent National Telecommunications Commission (NTC)