Posted on 12/28/2016 4:28:07 PM PST by sunrise_sunset
In his latest controversial statement, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, known for his bloody anti-drug war that has killed thousands, threatened to throw corrupt officials out of a helicopter, saying he has done it before, to a kidnapper, and won't hesitate to do so again.
“I will pick you up in a helicopter to Manila, and I will throw you out on the way,” Duterte said in Tagalog in front of a crowd in the Camarines Sur province Tuesday, according to GMA News. “I've done it before. Why would I not do it again?”
Yeah, he’s making his country great again. So insane.
Your concern is duly noted.
Scary...
He’s buddying up to China but Chinese are the ones with meth factories in the Philippines. Can he be even about this?
So, I find some of his statements as unacceptable; if he didn’t say some of these things, he’d be a lot better in my eyes.
But as someone here said, parts of the Philippines are in very bad shape.
SF source?
Double check, are we being lied to?
It is war, they cheat
China funded his campaign to drive a wedge between the US and the Philippines as part of their effort to annex parts of the south china sea into their territorial waters.
> Does this dude watch Scarface 24/7? Like Howard Hughes and Ice Station Zebra?
He’s doing typical big man politics. Stuff like this usually doesn’t get published in US media, but the state department trying very hard to destroy him right now so the media is going after him 24/7.
Sometimes you need a crazy SOB, willing to break the law, to bring law and order to a place of chaos.
That’s like the plot to 99% of our action movies, and for good reason.
I keep trying to hate this guy..... but he makes for some good news stories.
I believe you are correct sir. My wife is from Davao City, where Duterte was mayor. She, and her whole family, voted for him. They are sick to death of drugs. So far, they like what he is doing. I don't know if they will continue to like him, but at least for now, they do.
someone just leaked a US embassy memo on their plans, which pre dated the drug war.
As for fentanyl, low grade patches relieve pain without making you high. Rush was on a long acting narcotic after his back surgery, and could function ok until the libs went after him and he stopped them
there is a difference between use, which lets you function normally, and abuse, which makes you high.
I know he’s almost done but I wonder if Trump could find a place in his administration for this guy. I like his style. Maybe call him the official “Black Lives Matter” investigator.
It’s from Business Insider, the article in the link.
But it has been in the news about the finding of a meth factory in the Philippines and arresting Chinese.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-philippines-drugs-china-specialreport-idUSKBN1451UL
Special Report: Meth gangs of China star in Philippines drug crisis
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/philippines-publisher-killed-after-article-on-island-drugs-lab.aspx?pageID=238&nID=107633&NewsCatID=358
(Reuters story again)
Thank you LD, for your expertise. I have heard the Manila media are about as bad as the US media, and can’t be trusted. I heard he had a little better relationship with the Davao media. Do you have any ideas on that?
It’s propaganda because his exact words are reported? Or are we saying he didn’t say that? What do we want? A censored press? And I’ll bet most of this stuff is first reported in the Philippines and then, picked up by our media.
Yeah, sure, blame the media for printing his exact words. We got it.
As for fentanyl, low grade patches relieve pain without making you high.
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I don’t remember what grade patches my wife had for her extreme pain but they never made her high at all.
By the end of 24 hours, she was starting to get a little pain relief, after second day, she was hallucinating and paranoid. Third day she was even worse, thought people were trying to kill her. She even wanted a gun on her night stand, “just in case”, instead, I hid every gun we owned.
I called a close family member, who is an M.D, she came over and immediately took the patch off my wife’s arm. Next day, my wife’s mind started to return to normal, pain was still there but we managed it with Hydrocodone 10 Mg. for about 2 weeks.
It’s a strange time.
Things seem to be so bad there that many people don’t care, dead scumbags are fine with them. Previous leaders did nothing so a psychopath (or pretend psychopath?) seems like a viable solution to desperate people.
In India, the PM banned the most common denominations of paper currency due to mass counterfeiting, crazy. There would be blood in the streets if that happened here.
Due process anyone?
throwing people out of helicopters is insane. There’s just no way to put a happy face on that.
I would throw the hijackers who took down the Twin Towers in a heartbeat.
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