Posted on 09/20/2016 5:32:59 PM PDT by LadyDoc
President Rodrigo Duterte is, so far, a man of his word and that has a lot of powerful Filipinos, neighbors and allies worried. Duterte got elected president by promising to use unusual methods that had worked during the 22 years he was the mayor of Davao City in the southeast. He was not expected to win because he did not have the support of one of the wealthy parties or wealthy political donors. He was an outsider who promised change, had a convincing track record in local politics and ran a highly effective and inexpensive campaign...
As president Duterte’s aggressive anti-crime approach has had immediate results for most Filipinos. Crime is down and it’s the criminals, not the average Filipino, who are now living in fear. That is enormously popular with most voters. Some local and many foreign critics consider these vigilante methods illegal, immoral and ineffective. That remains to be proven. In the meantime these methods have, since July 1st, left over 3,500 known or suspected drug gang members and addicts dead. Most were low level dealers but these are criminals the people see daily and hate the most. As a result a recent opinion poll found 91 percent of Filipinos approved of this new “shoot on sight” approach...
Interesting read...looks like this President is his own man and doing more than taking control of things...he’s cracking a whip!.....Sometimes a heavy hand has to work when things are so corrupt and out of control......he also seems to understand he only has a window of time to do this.
The number of guns legally in people’s hands is low ever since Marcos cracked down on them.
but illegal guns are common.
As for legal guns, most politicians have private armies...And security guards with rifles are all over the place.
Sounds like the kind of gun control that Hillary and the Left would like to have here.
In the same breath, that will mean martial law. President Lincoln did it.
No, everyone has guns here. They just don’t register them.
Which makes them criminals under Philippine law.
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