Philippine President's Solution to Drug Dealers

[longknife]

“Shoot and kill them.”

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine president-elect has encouraged the public to help him in his war against crime, urging citizens with guns to shoot and kill drug dealers who resist arrest and fight back in their neighborhoods.

In a nationally televised speech late Saturday, Rodrigo Duterte told a huge crowd in the southern city of Davao that Filipinos who help him battle crime will be rewarded.

"Please feel free to call us, the police, or do it yourself if you have the gun — you have my support," Duterte said, warning of an extensive illegal drug trade that involves even the country's police.

If a drug dealer resists arrest or refuses to be brought to a police station and threatens a citizen with a gun or a knife, "you can kill him," Duterte said. "Shoot him and I'll give you a medal."

Ever think we'd give our police and citizens the same encouragement?

Story @ Philippine president-elect urges public to kill drug dealers

 

[Moonglow]

You need another civil war?

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Or maybe just legalize them and stop wasting human lives and financial resources.

Why are the same conservatives who scream about limited government and personal freedom the same people who support an abusive, authoritarian state?

 

[Moonglow]

Or maybe just legalize them and stop wasting human lives and financial resources.

Why are the same conservatives who scream about limited government and personal freedom the same people who support an abusive, authoritarian state?

Two faced liars..

 

[Agit8r]

Good news for anyone there with a beef to settle. Now they may be the judge of their own cause, and just plant drugs on the victim afterward.

 

[charwin95]

Most cops in the Philippines are corrupt like Mexico. Making them judge and executioner is very bad idea. They will no longer a cop but a executioner or member of deaths squad. I never heard of Duterte death squad till he got elected.

Davao Death Squad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Davao Death Squads or DDS, is a vigilante group active in Davao City in the Philippines. The group is allegedly responsible for summary executions of individuals suspected of petty crimes and dealing in drugs in Davao. It has been estimated that the group is responsible for the murder or disappearance of between 1,020 and 1,040 people between 1998 and 2008.[1][2]

A team from Families of Victims of Involuntary Disappearance (FIND), a human rights group, and investigators from the Commission on Human Rights discovered killing fields where skeletal remains of victims of the death squads were dumped.[3] Human Rights Commissioner Dominador Calamba II has indicated that local executives and the police knew the militants but were "seemingly tolerating" them.[4] Human rights groups said the killings have become an unwritten government policy to deal with crime due to an ill-functioning criminal justice system and lack of due process in the way authorities administered justice.[5]

 

[Syriusly]

Ever think we'd give our police and citizens the same encouragement?

Story @ Philippine president-elect urges public to kill drug dealers

Would you want our police and citizens to kill those they suspect of being drug dealers?

 

[Hossfly]

“Shoot and kill them.”

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine president-elect has encouraged the public to help him in his war against crime, urging citizens with guns to shoot and kill drug dealers who resist arrest and fight back in their neighborhoods.

In a nationally televised speech late Saturday, Rodrigo Duterte told a huge crowd in the southern city of Davao that Filipinos who help him battle crime will be rewarded.

"Please feel free to call us, the police, or do it yourself if you have the gun — you have my support," Duterte said, warning of an extensive illegal drug trade that involves even the country's police.

If a drug dealer resists arrest or refuses to be brought to a police station and threatens a citizen with a gun or a knife, "you can kill him," Duterte said. "Shoot him and I'll give you a medal."

Ever think we'd give our police and citizens the same encouragement?

Story @ Philippine president-elect urges public to kill drug dealers

I saw a news ribbon on Fox News this morning that Duterte has issued an apology to the Phillipine people. I knew the Liberals would force this.

 

[longknife]

He's Doing More Than Wiping Out Drug Dealers



Philippine president gives order to free up information



This is truly interesting. In a land where bribery is expected, to be ordering officials to pen up the files is so far beyond the norm it's impossible to believe. What does this guy think he's doing?



Duterte signed an executive order on Saturday to allow public access to official documents and records, two days before he delivers a much-anticipated state of the nation address. He is expected to reiterate a pledge to weed out corrupt officials and tackle crime.



Full story @ Philippine president gives order to free up information - One America News Network

 

[waltky]

More emphasis to be put into arresting prominent people tied to the drug trade...

Philippines police plan new phase in drugs war - sources
Mon Oct 24, 2016 | Signaling a shift in strategy in its blood-soaked war against drugs, Philippines police aim to reduce the killing of suspects and put more resources into arresting prominent people tied to the trade, two sources with knowledge of the matter said.

Project Double Barrel Alpha will put a stronger focus on arresting politicians, military, police, government officials and celebrities allegedly involved in narcotics, the sources said. The new approach will be outlined on Tuesday at a meeting of police chiefs from each of the Philippines' 18 regions at Camp Crame, the police headquarters north of the capital Manila, Philippines National Police spokesman Dionardo Carlos confirmed to Reuters. The operation will be launched within days, Carlos said, adding he did not have further details of the new operation. The meeting comes after what one of the sources familiar with details of the plan described as "intense" discussions among law enforcement officials about the wave of killings of drug suspects. "We will give emphasis [to] arrests rather than neutralization," said one of the sources.

Asked why the new approach is being taken now, he said: "It is related to the EJK issue. We are doing our best to address that ... It was a collective decision after an intense discussion of the implications of the EJK issue." He did not elaborate on who was involved in the decision-making. "Neutralization" is a euphemism for the killings that have characterized the anti-drugs drive. EJK refers to extrajudicial killings. A recent poll showed public unease over the deadly anti-drug campaign, with 94 percent of the respondents saying it was important for the police to take suspects alive. Another component of Project Double Barrel Alpha will see police working with community leaders to clear neighborhoods of drugs and set up local rehabilitation programs.

'NARCO STATE'

Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte had given police six months to suppress drugs and crime, warning the country was on the verge of becoming a "narco state". He then extended the campaign, called "Project Double Barrel" another six months to make it a year. In less than four months since taking office, almost 2,300 people have been slain in the crackdown, according to official figures, revised down from earlier estimates of 3,600. The majority of the deaths - more than 1,600 - were during police operations, drawing sharp criticism from Western governments, the United Nations, human rights groups and some Catholic priests. "If you know any addicts, go ahead and kill them yourself as getting their parents to do it would be too painful," Duterte told supporters the day after he took office on June 30 this year.

Duterte's comments were condemned by the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary executions Agnes Callamard. "It is effectively a license to kill," she said. At other times, however, Duterte has said he doesn't endorse extrajudicial killings or vigilante murders of drug suspects. "Who killed them? I don't know but why are they pointing at me, blaming me for those deaths," Duterte said earlier this month. Presidential spokesman Ernesto Abella told Reuters: "Everything that the president said was always in the context of sticking within the law."

WAR ON POOR]

 

[Bleipriester]

Or maybe just legalize them and stop wasting human lives and financial resources.

Why are the same conservatives who scream about limited government and personal freedom the same people who support an abusive, authoritarian state?

Bad day?

 

[waltky]

Drug dealin' Philippine mayor shot dead in jail cell...

Philippines mayor linked to drugs trade shot dead in cell
Sat, 05 Nov 2016 - A mayor linked to the drugs trade in the Philippines is shot dead in his prison cell by police.

Rolando Espinosa, mayor of the central town of Albuera, had fired at officers searching for weapons, police said. The death comes after President Rodrigo Duterte vowed to step up his policy of killing suspected drug dealers. A new stage in the crackdown was announced last week to include mayors and senior drug lords. The "war on drugs" has killed up to 4,000 people. Mr Duterte, 71, was elected in May on a platform of preventing the Philippines becoming a "narco state" by sanctioning the extra-judicial killing of drug criminals who fail to turn themselves in.

Mayor Ronaldo Espinosa (L) who was shot dead by Philippines police in his jail cell​

The policy has faced strong criticism from human rights groups and put Mr Duterte at odds with the United States - a staunch ally of the Philippines. But he won the election by a landslide and the controversial policy remains popular with many Filipinos. There have been calls for Mr Espinosa's death to be investigated to determine in particular how weapons ended up in his cell and how the exchange of fire broke out.

He is the second mayor to be killed within two weeks. Samsudin Dimaukom died, reportedly in a gun battle, in the southern Philippines. Both men were among officials named by Mr Duterte in August as having links to the drug trade. Mr Espinosa gave himself up to police in August, was then released but was later re-arrested on drugs and firearms charges.

Philippines mayor linked to drugs trade shot dead in cell - BBC News

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Another Philippine Mayor Accused of Drug Crimes by Duterte Is Killed
NOV. 5, 2016 — A Philippine mayor who had been accused of drug trafficking by President Rodrigo Duterte was shot and killed by police officers in his jail cell on Saturday, the police said.

The mayor, Rolando Espinosa Sr. of Albuera, a town in Leyte Province in the central Philippines, had been arrested in October, several weeks after Mr. Duterte included him in a list of about 150 Philippine officials who he said were involved in narcotics. Mr. Espinosa, who had denied any wrongdoing, is the second politician on the list to have been killed by police officers in a little more than a week. The Leyte provincial police said Saturday that Mr. Espinosa and his cellmate, identified as Raul Yap, had been killed in a “firefight” with police officers, who woke them at dawn while searching their cell. The provincial police chief, Juvy Espinido, told a Manila radio station that both men had “resisted” the police but said he could not provide further details. Later, the police said they had recovered two handguns from the jail cell. Bags containing what was believed to be methamphetamine, marijuana and drug paraphernalia were also found inside the cell, the police said. Calls to spokesmen for the national police in Manila were not returned.

Gwendolyn Pimentel-Gana, a member of the Philippine Commission on Human Rights, an independent government body, said the deaths “raise serious questions on the responsibility of the state to protect persons deprived of liberty, especially in relation to the primordial right to live of every human being.” Ms. Pimentel-Gana called on the police to “hold the people responsible for the deaths accountable.” Mr. Espinosa died just eight days after Samsudin Dimaukom, another mayor accused of drug crimes by Mr. Duterte, was killed by police officers in the southern Philippines. Mr. Dimaukom, who also denied being involved in narcotics, was gunned down at a police checkpoint along with nine men traveling with him; the police said people in Mr. Dimaukom’s party had fired on officers.

Since taking office in June, Mr. Duterte has embarked on a bloody campaign against drugs — particularly shabu, a cheap form of methamphetamine — that has left about 2,000 people dead, some killed by police officers and others by vigilantes. Human rights groups and Western governments have criticized the campaign, but it has been popular in the Philippines. In August, Mr. Duterte read on television his list of officials allegedly involved in drugs, warning them to surrender to the authorities. He offered no evidence of their guilt and later said some names might have been put on the list by mistake.

Mr. Espinosa, who was accused by Mr. Duterte along with his son, Kerwin Espinosa, turned himself in to the police in Manila, while his son went into hiding. The son has since been detained in Abu Dhabi, and Philippine officials said they were seeking to have him returned. While Rolando Espinosa was in detention, the police raided his home and killed six of his bodyguards. They said they had found about 24 pounds of shabu on the property. Nevertheless, he was later freed, only to be arrested again in October and charged with illegal possession of drugs and firearms. A statement on Saturday from the office of Mr. Duterte’s communications secretary, Martin Andanar, called Mr. Espinosa’s death “unfortunate.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/06/w...ayor-rolando-espinosa-drugs-duterte.html?_r=0