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"Are you/your ways superior to the people that voted him to do EXACTLY what he is doing?" Yes, people might have supported him to get results in a serious matt

"Are you/your ways superior to the people that voted him to do EXACTLY what he is doing?" Yes, people might have supported him to get results in a serious matter, but people did not (and neither they had the competence to) specify the details. Could he instead tell the masses to rattle out the drug dealers and the junkies so the law enforcement could apprehended them for future trials? No, here was a call for mass murder, plain and simple! Do the killers have to prove that the killed were drug dealers? Are the killers known at all? (You know, to be hold accountable if it happens that their victims had nothing to do with drugs?) We're talking about the difference in the means to the same desired end of drug problem. An important difference!

OoTheNigerian 10y ago
He was clear with his methods BEFORE electios https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/09/philippines-election-2016-polls-open-amid-death-threats-from-presidential-hopeful https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/09/philippines-el... Not the usual bait and switch. Like was pointed out, drug dealers are free to surrender. And some have done so. http://news.abs-cbn.com/news/07/09/16/thousands-of-drug-pushers-users-in-biggest-surrender-under-duterte http://news.abs-cbn.com/news/07/09/16/thousands-of-drug-push... My own gripe is pontification of the west when it comes to the business of other countries.
- cornholio 10y ago
  West has all the right to "pontification" since only the West has thus far delivered a high standard of living coupled with respect for human rights. There are no shortcuts, there is no magic authoritarian fairy dus you can apply and leapfrog the West, we have tried it all and it always ended in disaster. We have seen time and time again, both in our societies and in the developing world, that authoritarianism is self-sustaining and despite initial success will always lead to reduced political competition and an economic and social standstill. You can do whatever you like in your countries and vote madmen, but we will always condemn such moves, we will always refuse to abed them and we will were always proved right. The cry of colonialism is exactly what these mad men need to stay in power and you are uneducated enough to fall for it.
  - OoTheNigerian 10y ago
    >West has all the right to "pontification" since only the West has thus far delivered a high standard of living coupled with respect for human rights. I'm not sure if you are being sarcastic. But I am sorry to inform you that "development" of the west was borne out or slave labour. It is just that simple. The was did not get developed in the past 50 years. I know, it sounds so shocking, but it is true. In 40 years when countries are going to be invaded for industrial pollution (that's if the concept o countries still exist) the "west" and people like you would be stating, " you can be developed industrially without polluting the environment". The facts may be unpleasant, but they remain fact.
    - malinens 10y ago
      I am from Latvia. We did not own any colonies and we were slaves ourselves. But we are democracy and we are for rule of law. We have quite high standard of living. And this standard of living was not created by slave labour or oil. Don't fall for politicians who blame everything on West. You have been independent for some time already. Killing of people without a trial will not make Your country any better. It will make it worse.
      - danielrmay 10y ago
        Didn't think I'd have to scroll this far to see some sense. Thanks
  - yardie 10y ago
    In the last century The west has not only engaged in 1 but 2 global wars. Then topped that by holding the world hostage with nuclear annihilation. In addition to engaging in a variety of proxy wars in developing countries where they liked to install puppet dictators. All of this in the name of democracy. And let's not even get started with the bullshit in the Middle East. The west has no grounds to state they respect human rights when history clearly shows they do not.
    - malinens 10y ago
- restalis 10y ago
  "Like was pointed out, drug dealers are free to surrender. And some have done so." How is this an answer to preventing the worse of what currently is? The extrajudicial killings in the name of wiping out the drug problem can (and I presume that it also will) be abused to whatever means. If murder was present before, this president just made it a whole lot easier! "Killed? Oh, well! Probably just another bunch of drug dealers who didn't surrendered when they had the chance." Is this what you're supporting?
  - tim333 10y ago
    Also some of the drug dealers have surrendered and been killed anyway http://news.abs-cbn.com/news/07/09/16/oplan-tokhang-surrenderees-shot-dead-in-cdo http://news.abs-cbn.com/news/07/09/16/oplan-tokhang-surrende...

OoTheNigerian 10y ago

He was clear with his methods BEFORE electios https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/09/philippines-election-2016-polls-open-amid-death-threats-from-presidential-hopeful https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/09/philippines-el... Not the usual bait and switch. Like was pointed out, drug dealers are free to surrender. And some have done so. http://news.abs-cbn.com/news/07/09/16/thousands-of-drug-pushers-users-in-biggest-surrender-under-duterte http://news.abs-cbn.com/news/07/09/16/thousands-of-drug-push... My own gripe is pontification of the west when it comes to the business of other countries.

cornholio 10y ago
West has all the right to "pontification" since only the West has thus far delivered a high standard of living coupled with respect for human rights. There are no shortcuts, there is no magic authoritarian fairy dus you can apply and leapfrog the West, we have tried it all and it always ended in disaster. We have seen time and time again, both in our societies and in the developing world, that authoritarianism is self-sustaining and despite initial success will always lead to reduced political competition and an economic and social standstill. You can do whatever you like in your countries and vote madmen, but we will always condemn such moves, we will always refuse to abed them and we will were always proved right. The cry of colonialism is exactly what these mad men need to stay in power and you are uneducated enough to fall for it.
- OoTheNigerian 10y ago
  >West has all the right to "pontification" since only the West has thus far delivered a high standard of living coupled with respect for human rights. I'm not sure if you are being sarcastic. But I am sorry to inform you that "development" of the west was borne out or slave labour. It is just that simple. The was did not get developed in the past 50 years. I know, it sounds so shocking, but it is true. In 40 years when countries are going to be invaded for industrial pollution (that's if the concept o countries still exist) the "west" and people like you would be stating, " you can be developed industrially without polluting the environment". The facts may be unpleasant, but they remain fact.
  - malinens 10y ago
    I am from Latvia. We did not own any colonies and we were slaves ourselves. But we are democracy and we are for rule of law. We have quite high standard of living. And this standard of living was not created by slave labour or oil. Don't fall for politicians who blame everything on West. You have been independent for some time already. Killing of people without a trial will not make Your country any better. It will make it worse.
    - danielrmay 10y ago
      Didn't think I'd have to scroll this far to see some sense. Thanks
- yardie 10y ago
  In the last century The west has not only engaged in 1 but 2 global wars. Then topped that by holding the world hostage with nuclear annihilation. In addition to engaging in a variety of proxy wars in developing countries where they liked to install puppet dictators. All of this in the name of democracy. And let's not even get started with the bullshit in the Middle East. The west has no grounds to state they respect human rights when history clearly shows they do not.
  - malinens 10y ago
restalis 10y ago
"Like was pointed out, drug dealers are free to surrender. And some have done so." How is this an answer to preventing the worse of what currently is? The extrajudicial killings in the name of wiping out the drug problem can (and I presume that it also will) be abused to whatever means. If murder was present before, this president just made it a whole lot easier! "Killed? Oh, well! Probably just another bunch of drug dealers who didn't surrendered when they had the chance." Is this what you're supporting?
- tim333 10y ago
  Also some of the drug dealers have surrendered and been killed anyway http://news.abs-cbn.com/news/07/09/16/oplan-tokhang-surrenderees-shot-dead-in-cdo http://news.abs-cbn.com/news/07/09/16/oplan-tokhang-surrende...