> First of all, Duterte was elected overwhelmingly with a clear mandate of using brute violence to clear out drug dealers. And journalists too! Kill everyone y

> First of all, Duterte was elected overwhelmingly with a clear mandate of using brute violence to clear out drug dealers. And journalists too! Kill everyone you don't like! > “Just because you’re a journalist you are not exempted from assassination, if you’re a son of a bitch,” Duterte said when asked how he would address the problem of media killings in the Philippines, after a reporter was shot dead in Manila last week. > “Most of those killed, to be frank, have done something. You won’t be killed if you don’t do anything wrong,” Duterte said, adding that many journalists in the Philippines were corrupt. > “That can’t be just freedom of speech. The constitution can no longer help you if you disrespect a person,” > Duterte raised the case of Jun Pala, a journalist and politician who was murdered in Davao in 2003. Gunmen on a motorcycle shot dead Pala, who was a vocal critic of Duterte. His murder has never been solved. “If you are an upright journalist, nothing will happen to you,” said Duterte https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/31/philippine-president-elect-says-corrupt-journalists-will-be-killed https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/31/philippine-pre...