Posted on 08/21/2016 6:26:22 AM PDT by JDMEJIA
"PRESIDENT Duterte on Sunday lashed out at the U.S. police killings of black men in his latest outburst against critics of his anti-drug campaign, which has left hundreds of suspects dead.
The Philippines’ brash-talking President also threatened Sunday to withdraw the country from the United Nations after its human rights experts criticized the extra-judicial killings committed under his anti-crime drive.
Reacting to U.S. criticisms, Duterte cited the string of shootings involving police and black men that have sparked protests in the U.S.
“Why are you Americans killing the black people there, shooting them down when they are already on the ground?” he asked. “Answer that question, because even if it’s just one or two or three, it is still human rights violations.”
Criticisms against Duterte’s crusade against a problem that he says has become a pandemic provoked an angry outburst from Duterte, who held a news conference after midnight Saturday that dragged on for more than two hours.
The U.S. State Department and two U.N. human rights experts have urged Duterte and Filipino authorities to stop extrajudicial killings in the fight against illegal drugs and ensure law enforcement compliance with international human rights obligations. Philippine police say more than 500 drug suspects have been killed in gunbattles with police since Duterte was sworn in eight weeks ago.
Agnes Callamard, the new U.N. Special Rapporteur on summary executions, suggested that Philippine officials could be held liable, saying in a recent statement that “claims to fight illicit drug trade do not absolve the government from its international legal obligations and do not shield state actors or others from responsibility for illegal killings.”
Responding to the criticisms, Duterte pointed to the haunting image of a bloodied child being pulled from the rubble of a missile-struck building in the Syrian city of Aleppo to note the inability of the U.S. and the U.N. to stop such deadly conflicts, complaining that he comes under fire for the killings of criminals.
“Maybe we’ll just have to decide to separate from the United Nations. If you’re that rude, son of a bitch, we’ll just leave you,” Duterte told reporters in Davao, where he first built a reputation for his tough crime-busting style while serving as the southern city’s longtime mayor.
Duterte also belittled U.N. work in the Philippines without providing facts, raising questions, for example, about the performance of the world body’s agency that fights hunger.
If the Philippines breaks off from the U.N. — which Duterte called “inutile” and “stupid” — he said he would invite other countries like China and African nations to form a new international body. The U.N., he said, should return Manila’s financial contributions.
“Look at the iconic boy that was taken out from the rubble and he was made to sit in the ambulance and we saw it,” Duterte said, referring to the photo of a 5-year-old Syrian boy, Omran Daqneesh, that has gone viral online.
“Why is it that United States is not doing anything? I do not read you,” Duterte said. “Anybody in that stupid body complaining about the stench there of death?”
When asked about the possible repercussions of his remarks, Duterte replied: “I don’t give a shit about them. They are the ones interfering.”
Duterte wondered whether U.N. officials were threatening to put him in prison and repeated that he was ready to sacrifice his life and presidency for his country.
Duterte’s drug crackdown has left more than 500 suspected dealers dead and more than 4,400 arrested since he took office on June 30. Nearly 600,000 people have surrendered to authorities, hoping to avoid getting killed. The arrests have further overwhelmed the Philippines’ overcrowded jails. AP/ac/rga
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Propaganda is right... they’ve all sold out - the MSM is whoring for Clinton and Democrats
http://nypost.com/2016/08/21/american-journalism-is-collapsing-before-our-eyes/
Donald Trump may or may not fix his campaign, and Hillary Clinton may or may not become the first female president. But something else happening before our eyes is almost as important: the complete collapse of American journalism as we know it.
The frenzy to bury Trump is not limited to the Clinton campaign and the Obama White House. They are working hand-in-hand with what was considered the cream of the nation’s news organizations.
The shameful display of naked partisanship by the elite media is unlike anything seen in modern America.
The largest broadcast networks — CBS, NBC and ABC — and major newspapers like The New York Times and Washington Post have jettisoned all pretense of fair play. Their fierce determination to keep Trump out of the Oval Office has no precedent.
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Indeed, no foreign enemy, no terror group, no native criminal gang, suffers the daily beating that Trump does. The mad mullahs of Iran, who call America the Great Satan and vow to wipe Israel off the map, are treated gently by comparison.
More at link...
you need glasses
He's not dumb nor un-educated.
It’s the typical defensive reaction when somebody in the US criticizes a foreign leader...”Yeah, but....but.....America is Racist, who are they to criticize me?”
Thats correct, thats his point.
He is very Trump-like in his public communication, or rather considerably more extreme. This is a man with no filter.
Amen
True, this line has been taken by every nasty government since 1945 - and in some cases, Mexico, Spain, Cuba, Philippines, misc places in Latin America - long before. Duterte has said about the same re the US that Porfirio Diaz did (for one).
By golly it's the truth !
yep
yup
It does seem like there are less blacks in the US, lately (last 10-20 years)....but A LoT more Hispanics and Muslims..?
Oh, and sissy men, and butch women, of all races....?
“Who are his political opponents? Maybe they need shooting too, if they’re communists or muslin.”
No. He also has ended the fight against communist insurgents.
He sides with China over his own country and the rest of the world regarding territorial issues.
I can match headstone for headstone, and outnumber yours by over 20:1, and all of mine died for the US.
No, you cant change the past.
On the other hand, you can understand it, or try.
The truth is the Philippines was inadvertently in the way, between Japanese and US interests. It most definitely didnt want to be a battlefield and its government did everything in its power to avoid its fate. It was dragged unwillingly into the Pacific war by Roosevelt, and it paid a price it shouldnt have been called on to pay.
And, moreover, whatever the US did (a great deal of course) to recover it from the Japanese was simply the least the US could do, having been so terribly negligent about defending it. It is still an outrage, 75 years on, that the US dangled 17 million people as geopolitical bait in the China sea. The US deliberately made a terrible enemy, risked the Filipinos by keeping their country as a base against Japan, and then failed at defending them from Japanese ferocity.
Dinette is a whack job.
Indeed, that alone is already cause for concern at the very least, considering that these people have already killed multiple American servicemen on separate occasions in the 1980’s and 1990’s and have never yet paid for their crimes.
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/808080/duterte-restores-truce
That list is slightly incorrect.
Detroit officially last elected a GOP Mayor, Albert Cobo, in 1953 (his successor was a non-partisan and all Democrats since after 1961).
Buffalo had a Mayor who switched parties back and forth and won as a Republican in 1985.
Miami never having a Republican Mayor is a falsehood. It has had several and the present Mayor since 2009 is a Republican, Tomas Regalado.
El Paso has had a few GOP Mayors and one Dem who endorsed Dubya in recent years.
Newark last elected a GOP Mayor in 1949 (not that that’s much better than 1907).
That’s a good one, Bfl.
It wouldn’t have mattered if the Phillipines weren’t a US territory, the Japanese stupidly would have rolled over them. The PI were far too strategic to the Japanese for them to not occupy them.
All the U.S. having been there meant, is that we kicked out the Japanese earlier than we might have otherwise, due to MacArthur’s insistence. They could have been bypassed until after the surrender in Tokyo.
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