Duterte IS doing the right thing. We should emulate his actions. He deserves nothing but praise.
He is murdering people without due process. Typical Trump supporter, the stupider he gets, the more you back him.
If they are tested and have drugs in their system or if they are searched and have drugs on them, due process is satisfied.
They are just going out and killing supposed drug dealers. Your reply was still stupid.
Well I just listened to a BBC documentary on this. Both of you, are a little off, and a little correct.
The official policy is that the police find drug dealers and have them tried and executed. To this end, the BBC could not (at least not in the documentary I was listening to) find any example where the official police force, or government agency, was simply finding people and killing them.
However, there vigilantes operating in the country now. And they don't answer to the police. They find drug dealers, and drug users, and they shoot them.
Where you question it, is that you say "supposedly". Meaning as the other person suggests they were drug dealers and users.
In the BBC documentary, nearly every single person shot and killed was either selling, or using drugs.
Moreover, what the BBC found was wide spread support for it. The public was overwhelmingly in favor of the action, and even more amazing, some of the families of the people shot and killed were in favor of it.
The BBC woman reporter, was on the site of a shooting, where a guy was on the ground, and his family came out, and some where sad, and she asked them about it.... They said this was sad but the best outcome.
She was shocked. Oh yeah, this guy was only doing drugs, he was useless, never worked, was neglecting his family, constantly broke, constantly being a jerk to everyone. Even his own brother said he was glad the guy was finally gone. Now he could help his widow wife, and help his kids, without him taking the money and buying drugs, and being a worthless bum.
The reporter was in the middle of a busy area of town, covering a drug dealer that was shot, and started interviewing the people standing around.
Are you not scared? Are you worried? Are you troubled by this?
No. They were happy about it. Crime was drastically down. Rape was down. Murder was down (excluding vigilantes cleaning the streets of druggies). Vandalism was down. Theft was down.
Even just pick pocketing was drastically lower. Tourism was coming back to areas that formerly tourists never went to being they would be pick pocketed and robbed constantly.
Drug using is the source of thousands of crimes. And ever drug users, and drug pusher killed, cuts the crime rate across the entire country.
Do you people even know where Duterte came from? He was elected mayor of Davao City that was considered "no mans land". (Again, as it was described by the BBC documentary) A town over run with drugs and crime, and dealers and users. Prostitution, including sex tourism, human trafficking, and even child prostitution.
This is a city, that at one point had a crime rate of 100 incidences of crime... per 1,000 people. That's insane.
Duterte cleaned up Davao City. He cleaned out the prostitutes. Ended the sex trade. Get rid of the human traffickers. Killed all the child prostitute people. Cleaned out the drugs. Killed the dealers, and most of the users. Dropped the murder rate to a fraction of what it was.
Davao City today is now considered the safest city in the entire country. That's all there is too it.
Do we like his methods? No. Are there some people taking advantage of it? Sure.
But the bottom line is, he's cleaning up the country. You don't like it, because unless American changes direction, that's our future, and life will get very dangerous for druggies here.
I doubt it will happen under Trump. Highly doubt it. But, if we end up with all the problems the
Philippines has had due to drugs... which is the direction we're going.... yeah.... someone just like Duterte will end up here in the US, and a bunch of you pot head will find out what poetic justice is all about.