“If an actual war on drugs means bypassing our court system and making police judge, jury, and executioner”
The warrior mystique and the thug mystique have at least one thing in common: the willingness to face death. This is usually accompanied by a groundless certainty that it will be the other fellow who shuffles off this mortal coil, and not one’s self. The only thing that will deter thugs is actual death, never merely the threat of death.
For the sake of the constitution, we should have commenced our toothless “war on drugs” by enacting legislation requiring the legal execution of drug dealers within six months of their conviction, after one judicial review.
We should have specifically empowered law enforcement to fire on boats and aircraft that refused instructions to surrender.
Oh, and, as I understand it, Duterte did not limit the authority to kill drug dealers to the police.
“then constitutionalists want no part of it.”
The constitution is not a suicide pact. Good ends can always be accomplished within the limits thereof.
They execute each other with no conviction nor review - yet another one is always waiting in the wings to replace them.
Duterte did not limit the authority to kill drug dealers to the police.
I hope he'll forgive me for understating his thuggery.