Threatening to kill rights activists is not a crime :: Barangay Captains’ elections sans drug money?

Will kill rights activists if war on drugs fails.

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Addressing the human rights activists directly from this platform, he accused them of encouraging the trade of illegal drugs to flourish in their homeland which he would never tolerate.

This habit of issuing such warnings have been a strategy of the President right from the time that he was appointed the mayor of Davao City which was the period during which the vigilante killings started and continued during his 22 years as Mayor; since he has been so vocal about killings the human rights groups are accusing him often of being responsible for inciting violence though even the United Nations could not muster up any evidence to prosecute him.

But, he continues to remain defiant and denies that his words are the reason for the killings. The title of the punisher was bestowed on him by someone when he was the Mayor of Davao; yet, people also remember that it was this period when the city of Davao was transformed from a haven of crime and drugs to one of the top fice safest cities in the world.

That has been the reason for his massive victory because, for sheer credentials, no other candidate could even come close to his record as an able and effective administrator; hence, the moment he declared that he would rid his nation of crime, drugs and corruption.

He keeps calling the problem of drug running in his country as the second stage of cancer that his country is afflicted with. And, he mused that if the wise man who were human rights activists could not decipher what he was saying, then it was not his problem.

He did not again spare the United States or the European Union for reacting unfavorably to his utterances against the people who were responsible for drug-running in his country; he also went on to say that if someone harmed his country or his family, he would be within his rights to threaten them with death.

It is not a crime anywhere to threaten to kill those who were harming your country or your people, he questioned. And, in his typical mocking style, he compared the brains of the European lawyers to peas; it would be beneficial to you if you listen to Filipino lawyers, not European ones since they were stupid.

The druggies’ list

It was at this point that he produced a list which was contained in a sheaf of papers that was about 4 inches in thickness; talking about the documents, he explained that it was a list of officials who were allegedly behind the illegal trade of drugs; the total number of people in that list was about 5000, he said.

He also mentioned that most of the people who were benefitting from the trade in illegal drugs were officials of the villages who were in the illicit trade due to the ease with which they could earn a fast buck.

That was the reason that the government had agreed to hold the elections to Barangay since the drug money was not likely to play a big part in these elections. These documents had also been seen by the former meeting that he had with Gloria Macpagal Arroyo who was now the representative of Pampanga; the meeting was one-to-one, he said.

He also blames both his predecessors to allow the drug trade to flourish during their regimes. He also clarified that this list was not for scaring anyone since it was a narco-list containing the complete details of the illegal drugs industry in the Philippines.

On a conciliatory note, he also stated that he did not know what he would do with that list; drugs were so rampant that he would not be able to find the time, the resources, or the means to kill 5000 people even if he was inclined to do it.

He stated that narco-politics was having s strangle hold on the very fiber of the nation since almost all the Mayors and policemen were part of the trade in illegal drugs.

Concluded.

Written for: Lars-Magnus Carlsson
www.thephilippinepride.com
Wednesday, 30 November 2016

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