Philippines' Duterte urges communists to kill criminals

AP ^ | 6/30/2016 | Cecil Morella

[sunrise_sunset]

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday urged communist rebels to start killing drug traffickers, adding another layer to a controversial war on crime in which he has warned thousands will die.

[sunrise_sunset]

The New People's Army/Communist Party of Philippines is on the U.S. international terrorist list.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Ping!

[sunrise_sunset]

“what if you use your kangaroo courts to kill them to speed up the solution to our problem ?”

Duterte asks of the Communist rebels

[HiTech RedNeck]

Something tells me that the fire won’t stay contained.

[George Washington Axe]

Isn’t that kind of an oxymoron?

[2ndDivisionVet]

Huh?

[BenLurkin]

Bad idea.

Criminals are cockroaches — but Communists are termites.

[SpaceBar]

When a head of state advocates extrajudicial murder, things won’t end well, regardless of the reason.

[ThomasPaine2000]

The “Huks”, The “Huks”, Call up the “Huks”
That’s al the need to do..... “PamRat”

[JennysCool]

His people may just be fed up enough that “Wild West” justice seems like a viable option.

[Frank_2001]

How about Communists vs. drug traffickers vs. Muslims? ;)

[HiTech RedNeck]

A solution that looks like the U.S. 2nd amendment would make a lot more sense. There will be a spate of gun battles but ultimately the more honest people will win out.

[HiTech RedNeck]

I.e. it really WOULD have the Wild West virtues... this is not Wild West, this is licensing Criminals A to go after Criminals B. What do you do for a sequel?

[2ndDivisionVet]

“Civilize ‘em with a Krag.”

[JennysCool]

There’s a problem with criminals killing criminals?

[HiTech RedNeck]

Well, yes. Because the survivors are criminals, and how do you remove the imprimatur of the state once issued?

[RedWulf]

>When a head of state advocates extrajudicial murder, things won’t end well, regardless of the reason.

Civilization is largely a process of killing people who can’t act in a civilized manner.

[SunkenCiv]

I really, really like this guy -- he's actually calling attention to the fact that there is a large amount of overlap between those two groups, just like in Columbia and Cuba. Thanks sunrise_sunset.

[SteveinSATX]

cast Samuel Jackson or Johnny Depp?

[HiTech RedNeck]

NOT enough.

There also has to be an authority of what is accepted as honesty.

Sometimes the Mafia came close to this, but do these Commies have an honor code that approaches even the Mafia’s?