Duterte Killing It (literally)

[Colonel Frank Grimes]

People in this thread don't seem to understand the Philippines is not a first world country where drug users are teenagers selling a joint to their friends. These are organized criminal gangs that threaten people's lives and destroy neighborhoods. They are more similar to the Mexican cartels and a toxic part of Philippine society. Taxing drugs would not solve the problem but getting rid of the drugs would. That said, I don't fully support this but can see the reasoning behind it.

If these drug gangs are so well organized why are they getting smoked so easily? 2,000 people are dead. Those numbers alone are high enough to put up a fight and an organized criminal gang would put up a fight than allow themselves to be slaughtered. This isn't Mexico where you do have well organized cartels with a great deal of power. If the Mexican government tried the same method as Duterte there would be dead politicians and police chiefs. They will and have pushed back when they feel threatened. There is none of that going on in the Philippines.

[Grab the Gauge]

Duterte is doing a necessary job, which is to rid his country of idle and deleterious people. He's a hero and a brave man. What he is doing is revolutionary and it will give the Filipinos the upper hand in the endeavor to achieve a 1st world standard of living and a sustainable population.

We need somebody to cleanse our country, as well. I don't have to tell you about the rampant drug and alcohol abuse that's going on in this country. You see it everywhere, every day. Every day there's some drug abuser coming up to you and shamelessly begging for cash. Every day you see idle human beings laying around at the park, just talking for hours, and accomplishing nothing. For the first time since the AIDS epoch, the average life expectancy has dropped -- largely due to drug an alcohol abuse. Over 94,000,000 people aren't working. Baby boomers are dropping dead like flies because of their lax attitude toward drugs and alcohol. Our hospitals are burdened by a surplus of 50-65 year old liver disease patients. Our jails are full of idle human beings with no hope of a future, just like in the Philippines.


Well I'm sorry, but you don't have the right to be an idle piece of human shit anymore. The 60's revolution has proven itself a failure. Anybody who is caught selling or using drugs or drinking alcohol needs to be terminated. We can't afford the drug and alcohol problem anymore. It's crippling our healthcare, welfare, and criminal-judicial systems. It's time to take the next step in human evolution and compassionately euthanize all of these idle, evolutionary dead-end human organisms. All Trump has to do is give me the order. This will be a mission of patriotic duty, not hatred.

[Antimage]

Duterte is doing a necessary job, which is to rid his country of idle and deleterious people. He's a hero and a brave man.

We need somebody to cleanse our country, as well. I don't have to tell you about the rampant drug and alcohol abuse that's going on in this country. You see it everywhere, every day. Every day there's some drug abuser coming up to you and shamelessly begging for cash. Every day you see idle human beings laying around at the park, just talking for hours, and accomplishing nothing. For the first time in American history, the average life expectancy has dropped -- largely due to drug an alcohol abuse. Over 94,000,000 people aren't working. Baby boomers are dropping dead like flies because of their lax attitude toward drugs and alcohol. Our hospitals are burdened by a surplus of 50-65 year old liver disease patients. Our jails are full of idle human beings with no hope of a future, just like in the Philippines.


Well I'm sorry, but you don't have the right to be an idle piece of human shit anymore. The 60's revolution has proven itself a failure. Anybody who is caught selling or using drugs or drinking alcohol needs to be terminated. We can't afford the drug and alcohol problem anymore. It's crippling our healthcare, welfare, and criminal-judicial systems. It's time to take the next step in human evolution and compassionately euthanize all of these idle, evolutionary dead-end human organisms. All Trump has to do is give me the order. This will be a mission of patriotic duty, not hatred.

Alcohol is a drug too though

[Sarmatian]

Why not focus on drug rehabilitation for those that couldn't handle it rather than killing drug dealers who are merely sellers?

Firstly before killings even started government offered anyone wanting to get out a full pardon and rehabilitation. After first 1000 scum were killed clinics all over country were flooded by hundreds of thousands of people willing to surrender.

Secondly he isn't only killing sellers. He executed top business figures of country for their association with drug criminals. There was video in July where he personally addressed one of richest businessman as being suspected drug lord and openly said if he find any proof he will kill the guy. He literally said that and posted it on Youtube. The guy claimed full innocence, gave himself up to authorities and cooperated with them to clean his name. The last I heard he was still alive means no proof of association with drugs was found. But you could be sure Duterte won't hesitate to shoot the guy if needed.

[Gold-Shekel]

Why? Why shouldn't people be allowed to do what they want as long as it doesn't affect others? Why not focus on drug rehabilitation for those that couldn't handle it rather than killing drug dealers who are merely sellers? Who is a government to decide what you can and can't use, especially when it comes to something like drugs which can enhance many sensations and even give people new outlooks on life at times.

It's not so much the substance in drugs, it's the fact that from the maker to the user there's a lot of people who die for it plus it's a matter of national health. I don't really see how heroin addicts or dealers are beneficial for society.

[StormBringer]

I've probably posted it already, but this reminds me of that line from Naked Lunch.
'If we wish to annihilate the junk pyramid, we must start with the bottom of the pyramid: the Addict in the Street, and stop tilting quixotically for the 'higher ups' so called, all of whom are immediately replaceable'

Don't know what to think of it, not really a fan of witch hunts.
It may sound intriguing, even amusing, to us outsiders reading from the safety of our homes, that something so fictitious sounding is happening somewhere in the world, but, just imagine the paranoia and the amount of people getting killed on wrong accusations.

[zhaoyun]

Duterte and Trump. Making the Philippines and America great again. LOL

I actually really like that Trump is reversing this idiotic Western habit of constantly judging others by its own standards.

[knowledge is king]

Duterte stated recently, that he personally kills people.

I never saw a politicians like him personally in any democratic country ever.
This is something new.

[MissMischief]

First, you can reduce crime by murdering criminals, but crime isn't something that can be "defeated". You can minimize it by reducing the incentives and improving the base conditions to make it less viable, but it can never be eliminated.

Second, when you let the government break the law to murder criminals you also erode the mechanisms that prevent the government from breaking the law in other ways. If someone is critical of Duterte, what's to stop a vigilante from murdering them and claiming it was drug related? If Duterte decides there are no more elections, who is going to oppose that when the police have been given extra legal authority?

Dictators don't arise accidentally. They're almost always preceded by some crisis that's complicated to fix with which the dictator offers a simple solution. This solution invariably involves eroding some critical element of the existing system of law and order. And, once broken, that system is unable to prevent the dictator from doing as he or she pleases.