after surviving assassination attempt, Duterte threatens to throw corrupt official off helicopter

[basquebromance]

the Asian Trump!

Philippines' Duterte Threatens to Throw Corrupt Officials Out of Helicopter - Breitbart

 

[PurpleOwl]

so do you like trump?

 

[gipper]

the Asian Trump!

Philippines' Duterte Threatens to Throw Corrupt Officials Out of Helicopter - Breitbart

More likely the CIA will do that to him then lie about it...and millions of Americans will believe the CIA.

 

[waltky]

Background on Duterte...

Becoming Duterte: The Making of a Philippine Strongman
MARCH 21, 2017 - He is a child of privilege turned populist politician, an antidrug crusader who has struggled with drug abuse. Obsessed with death, he has turned his violent vision into national policy.

President Rodrigo Duterte relishes the image of killer-savior. He boasts of killing criminals with his own hand. On occasion, he calls for mass murder. Speaking of the drug addicts he says are destroying the Philippines, he said, “I would be happy to slaughter them.” Mr. Duterte and his friends have long cultivated legends of his sadistic exploits, like throwing a drug lord from a helicopter and forcing a tourist who violated a smoking ban to eat his cigarette butt at gunpoint. It is a thuggish image that Mr. Duterte embraces.

Rodrigo Duterte posing with an Uzi submachine gun in 1994, when he was mayor of Davao City in the Philippines.​

Whether Mr. Duterte has done what he says — the killings he claims to have carried out are impossible to verify — he has realized his gory vision in national policy. First as a mayor, now as president of the Philippines, he has encouraged the police and vigilantes to kill thousands of people with impunity. While his draconian justice and coarse manner have earned him widespread condemnation outside the Philippines, an in-depth look at his rise to power and interviews with many people close to him reveal a man of multiple contradictions. He has alienated many with outrageous comments and irrational behavior, yet remains wildly popular. He is an antidrug crusader, yet has struggled with drug abuse himself. And he grew up a child of privilege, the son of a provincial governor, yet was subjected to regular beatings.

His mother whipped him so often for his misbehavior that she wore out her horsewhip, according to his brother, Emmanuel Duterte. At parochial school, he was caned by Jesuit priests and, the president says, molested by one. By his teenage years, he was known as a street brawler. “Violence in the house, violence in the school and violence in the neighborhood,” Emmanuel Duterte said. “That is why he is always angry. Because if you have pain when you are young, you are angry all the time.” Years later, a psychological assessment of Mr. Duterte, prepared in 1998 for the annulment of his marriage, concluded that he had “narcissistic personality disorder” and a “pervasive tendency to demean, humiliate others and violate their rights.” Nonetheless, his ailing ex-wife campaigned for his presidential bid last year.

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President Duterte at an armed forces celebration in Quezon City[/center]

That act of devotion only begins to unravel the paradox that is Mr. Duterte. Behind his brutish caricature, according to interviews with dozens of Mr. Duterte’s friends, family members, allies and critics, is a man who can be charming and engaging. He has many loyal friends and a soft spot for sick children. As mayor of Davao City, he was known to help people in need by digging into his pocket and handing them a wad of cash. To many, his vulgar jokes only burnish his bona fides as a man of the people. When he appears in public, he is swarmed by adoring fans. Still, the bodies have been piling up. Since Mr. Duterte took office last June and declared a “war” on drugs, the police and unknown assassins have killed more than 3,600 people, the police say, mostly in the slums of Philippine cities. Some put the toll at more than 7,000.

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[waltky]

Hey, ain't dat what dey did in Venezuela too?...

Philippines throws out impeachment complaint against Duterte
May 15, 2017 -- Philippines legislators on Monday unanimously threw out an impeachment complaint against President Rodrigo Duterte that accused him of leading the mass murder of several thousand people in his crackdown on drug use.

The Justice Committee of the House of Representatives reviewed the complaint and declared it lacked it insuccient. The decision bars any new impeachment case, including by the complaintant, Congressman Gary Alejano, until March. All 42 members of the committee voted against the complaint and will recommend its dismissal by the 292-seat Congress, where Duterte has a super-majority.

The majority leader, Rudy Fariñas, said that Alejano had no "personal knowledge" of the allegations, which he said came mainly from news reports of the killings. "Let this proceeding and this impeachment complaint be a lesson to everybody not only now but in the future that you cannot make a joke by utilizing falsities as well as hearsay evidence in trying to remove someone especially one that is occupying the highest position of the land," Deputy House Speaker Fredenil Castro said in moving for dismissal of the complaint.

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte poses Monday for a group photo during the Belt and Road Forum at the International Conference Center in Yanqi Lake, north of Beijing, China. In Manila on Monday, lawmakers threw out an impeachment complaint that accused Duterte of leading the mass murder of thousands of people in his crackdown on drug use​

Since June when Duterte became president, more than 4,000 people have been killed by the police in antidrug operations or by vigilantes in drug-related cases, according to police statistics. "Institutions are just unwilling and are unable to prosecute the president," Alejano said to The New York Times. "What is the people's recourse? Where will you complain? We will look for other ways to seek justice." Alejano filed the complaint in March, accusing Duterte of bribery, murder and crimes against humanity. Also, Duterte had also encouraged police officers to kill during his antidrug campaign, Alejano alleged. Alejano said he and his advisers are weighing whether to join a case filed at the International Criminal Court in The Hague. In that case, a Filipino lawyer alleges Duterte and 11 other Philippine officials committed mass murder and crimes against humanity. His clients are two men who say they were paid assassins for Duterte when he was mayor of Davao City.

Duterte was attending the Belt and Road Forum near Beijing, China. "We maintained that it was from rehashed, trumped-up charges aimed at undermining the duly constituted government," Duterte's spokesman Ernesto Abella said in a statement. "The president respects a coequal branch of government and does not interfere in the political exercise."

Philippines throws out impeachment complaint against Duterte