Posted on 11/14/2017 10:30:35 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Excellent point. If the US can take out “alleged” terrorists in an undeclared war against a non-nation group of islamic thugs, then how is this any different from what Duterte is doing? Some of those being targeted by the US and other coalition forces are in fact American, so you can’t even claim that it’s only foreigners and not US citizens who are being targeted for execution without trial.
“The previous administration had neglected the armed forces and police to the point that it did not have the money or equipment to do its job”
The previous five administrations. The rot of insufficient investment started in Marcos’ day.
Some FReepers have researched this situation enough to understand what is actually happening. The commie press does not know and does not care to know.
He was bad guy in the Philippines among the upper class from day 1. Its a mixed bag.
They dislike him for good civic reasons (all the non-judicial killing in Davao), partly due to playing footsie with the Marcoses (non-grata for excellent reasons; thats a tribe of vampires), partly because he favors the provinces (such as the Visayas/Mindanao) vs Imperial Manila, partly straight class reasons - he speaks like, and to, the tao, the common man, in spite of being impressively capable in English and Tagalog.
He is his own thing, a unique figure, difficult to classify, difficult to pigeonhole, mercurial, unpredictable, often embarrassing and often brilliant. He’s a disruptor of the status quo, whether for good or ill is still hard to say.
The common people love him. He’s the suppressed Id of that polite communal society (and Filipinos are polite, self controlled regardless of their class), permitted release. Whats in the back of their minds, he releases and embodies.
The commie press does not understand that country.
And they don’t care to, or are incapable of doing so.
It is a foreign place, not a bit easy to explain in an American context.
My best example is (required reading) “In Our Image”, Stanley Karnow. Karnow put in a huge amount of work to explain the country and its relationship with the US, interviewed everyone who mattered in the 1980’s (who all spoke perfect English), and still was left unable to “get” the place. He couldn’t get his mind around a slew of Filipino cultural concepts that to Filipinos seem entirely natural.
or, you know, someone denounced as a drug dealer by somebody else. when denouncements can lead to extrajudicial killing you create a lot of perverse incentives for people to get rid of their enemies. This happens every time there is unrestrained terror - salem witch trials, revolutionary france, stalin’s purges, the way east germans denounced each other to the stasi post-ww2.
As an “old Stock” Canadian I , and others, have looked for a source or a reference to quote. It’s been around awhile.
The picture is real, the quote is nonsense.
I should hope so!
Trudeau is a pussy.
I don’t care, I would choose to live in the Philippines over Trudeau’s Canada any day - if my wife would let me.
Because Trudeau is sad sack of shit with no more experience than a part time drama teacher, and his Canada will be far worse than the Philippines will ever be.
Damn right. Trudeau is turning Canada into Somalia with the tens of thousands of Syrians he is letting in. I rather keep my daughters safe from roving rape gangs.
Trudeau is a moonbat. No argument there. But if you think he is worse than a mass murderer then all I can say is that your moral compass needs recalibraring.
I don’t like him either but that’s a bit over the top. Unless you think prison is a retirement home.
The world would be a better place without the Trudeau family in it.
Trudeau and the Liberal establishment have NOTHING to say about China’s prison labor, or political persecutions but can focus on this?
“He’s the suppressed Id of that polite communal society” = You nailed it!!!!
I just returned from a 2 week mission trip to the Philippines where I had the privilage of preaching in some prisons and also in a few treatment centers to “surrenderees”.
I still don’t have a strong opinion on Duterte, but wou;d like to share a few observations:
1. I hadn’t been to the PI in 30 years.I’m amazed at the growth of a bustling middle class, which was not existent when I was there.
2. The prisons are WAY overfull of people arrested in the war on drugs. The penal infrastructure was not prepared for this at all.
3. Addicts were offered an opportunity to surrender” and are provided with treatment. There is a huge waiting list of surrenderees waiting their turn to go to treatment.
4. There is very little treatment infrastructure in place as well. The government is scrambling to get programs set up from scratch.
5. Duterte is extremely popular with the people.
My final observation is that a Duterte is a natural consequence of decades of softness on crime and corruption. Good or bad, as perceived from our relatively comfortable world, he is providing a necessary correction.
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