Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte tells people to 'go ahead and kill' drug addicts
Newly inaugurated Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has urged communist rebels to start killing drug traffickers and people to kill addicts, adding another layer to a controversial war on crime in which he has warned thousands will die.
Key points:
The communists' armed wing, the 4,000-strong New People's Army, is known for assassinating civilians deemed to have committed so-called crimes against the people — however its courts and summary executions are illegal.
"Drugs have reached the hinterlands ... what if you use your kangaroo courts to kill them to speed up the solution to our problem," Mr Duterte, a lawyer and former city prosecutor, said in a speech before the military's top brass in Manila.
In a late-night speech on Thursday to a slum community in the capital attended by only a few journalists, Mr Duterte also called on ordinary Filipinos to kill drug addicts, which is also illegal.
"If you know of any addicts, go ahead and kill them yourself," he told a crowd of about 500 people.
Mr Duterte also vowed to kill drug traffickers, using foul language he promised in recent weeks to "tone down" as president.
"These sons of whores are destroying our children," the 71-year-old said.
"I warn you, don't go into that, even if you're a policeman, because I will really kill you."
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On the other hand, drugs are actually bad for people (even if they are from the Phillipines)
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it's funny to me that duterte was a liberal media gimmick darling for a couple months, while he was a dark horse joke candidate, and now that he is actually in power (in part due to western media obsessing over him!) he's a dreadful nightmare in the eyes of weepy white liberals. all is dust.
more stuff on this dude's politics:
http://pinoyweekly.org/new/2016/02/misunderstanding-duterte-and-the-philippine-left/
HenryKrinkle posted:executing drug offenders is generally bad imho but this type of sentiment needs to be understood as a popular reaction to centuries of the West using the drug trade as a weapon against the populations of East Asia.
That's because drugs are a bad thing -- why use something as a weapon if it doesn't do harm?
swirlsofhistory posted:That's because drugs are a bad thing -- why use something as a weapon if it doesn't do harm?
HenryKrinkle posted:http://pinoyweekly.org/new/2016/02/misunderstanding-duterte-and-the-philippine-left/
Chanco himself admits that the CPP leads “the longest-running communist insurgency in Asia” and “remains the largest organized force on the Left” in the Philippines....
To cite only examples pertinent to Chanco’s topic, the Philippine Left has been assiduously courted by all political groups running in the 2016 elections, whether in the form of statements favoring peace talks with the CPP or in actual initiatives for meetings. Duterte himself made various pro-worker, pro-farmer and pro-people statements in an effort to court the Left’s support....
Even if we use Chanco’s standard of a movement’s weaknesses and defeats, therefore, there is no basis to his startling conclusion that the CPP “is a barrier to a new socialist politics in the Philippines.” Rather, it continues to be the only beacon of socialist politics in the Philippines.
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le_nelson_mandela_face posted:I had the supreme pleasure just new of watching a dude so blasted on heroin he was slurring his words arguing loudly with the gas station guy in front of my daughter about how he's not a junkie because he has a credit card and he WASN'T in the bathroom for half an hour, it was seven minutes thirty six seconds he timed it. Say what you want about Saudi Arabia at least they flog these fucking people
maybe he was just constipated, probably from all the heroin
goat, tell your kids the truth about christmas.
EmanuelaBrolandi posted:santa claus isn't an elf goatstein you IDIOT
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22jolly+old+elf%22&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8