Law and order Filipino Style.

[Rodney Mills]

When running for election for President of the Philippines last July Rodrigo Duterte promised he would turn the police loose on drug pushers and users and protect them from responsibility. "Do what ever is necessary , kill the barstewards".

So far the score stands by official police records at 2,555 with a further 3,603 killings connected with the drug trade unresolved. The victims had been often abducted, bound, and tortured prior to death. Officers usually ascribe such deaths as fighting between drug gangs or to mysterious vigilantes. But many Filipinos assume the police, the gangs and the mysterious vigilantes to be one and the same.

President Duterte had been quite proud of the results until last week. Policemen from the national drug squad, including senior officers, falsely arrested a South Korean businessman of involvements in narcotics. They hauled off to the national police headquarters in Manila, demanding ransom from his family, pocketed the money and then strangled him, burning his body and flushing the ashes down the toilet.

After the National Bureau of Investigation, a separate agency revealed all this Duterte ordered a pause in the campaign to give the police time to purge its ranks. The director general of the police said he was disbanding all its drug squads.

President Duterte held a press conference and gave a rambling monologue in which he revealed a vague plan punctuated with cries of "You sons of whores." He then offered a reward of a million pesos ($100.000.00) for the capture, preferable dead, of the S.O.W. drug squad officer, said to be the mastermind. Mr. Delarosa, the director general of the national bureau of investigations reminded Duterte that the officer was already in custody. Duterte's last comments were to his police audience, "You are supposed to use the power to enforce the law and end the shenanigans, all most forty percent of you guys are habituated to corruption." This is in stark contrast to his traditional mantra that only a few are rotten apples.

I think I like arrest, tried and if found guilty then punished, over arrest and punish and skipping that bothersome middle part.

[Doc Vernon]

We need men like this all over to stop the Drugs! This is New Zealand.s Glass Eye Hard Man Jamie Pink no nonsense Wonder! The way it should be and left alone , as long as he does not Kill anyone (mind you there again some may need just that) just bash them up a bit! LOL Police although doing a great job are really not getting all the results we need!
Cheers

New Zealand gang leader turns anti-drug vigilante - 9news.com.au

[Keith at Tregenna]

Should have left all to the Twin brothers Ronald "Ronnie" Kray here ?

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K.

[john walker]

I was in the Philippines last week and reading about that case they have arrested a total of 5 police officers for the murder. He has stopped the police from carrying out search warrants and arrests over drug offences and is passing those duties on to the army. The reason being that the planting of drugs on innocent victims and then making them pay huge bribes to the police was becoming common. President Duterte has been very heavily criticised by the Bishop of Manila over his actions His response was to accuse the (Catholic) Bishop of being a sinner with two wives ?? The Pope then spoke out about it, the president told the Pope he was a maker of Paedophiles when he dispatches priests around the world. All this was being reported in the local press over the last couple of weeks it was like reading a comic opera except it is a grave and serious matter.

[j.sabourn]

Never heard about the clash of differences between the Pope and Duterte. Shows the press only publish selected stories and don't like the hard targets. Trump must have been an easy one for them as no backlash there. If tried with Duterte he would just bar them from the country, call them by their correct title, and carry on with the job he was elected to do. Duterte may not be everyones wish as a president with the way he goes about things, but once again is a man of his word. The Philipines being mainly a catholic country shows how little religion means in todays lives. JS

[john walker]

#5 You are spot on with Duterte he is not a man to be messed with. On the ride into manila my taxi driver was speaking about what was going on, his thoughts were basically Duterte was doing a good job and the man in the street was starting to see the benefits of the changes in leadership. I kept my thoughts about the murders of about 6000 of his fellow citizens to get there to my self as I do not live there it is not in my nature to get involved in political comments (It can damage your health) The one thing that is very noticeable in Makati (The business district of Manila) Is that every small shop or hotel has at least one guard who is heavily armed patrolling the premises. All bars have a notice telling you that if you have a gun then you should leave it at the door with the guard. There was another story in the Manila Times headlined '10 dead' about the mayor of a provincial city down south who was about to be arrested for corruption so he and his henchmen had a shoot out with the police/army the result 1 mayor 5 henchmen and 4 police dead Duterte saying the sons of bitches deserved it I will use some of the mayors ill gotten gains to compensate the families of the brave security forces and confiscate the rest of the wealth and use it in the fight against all these corrupt politicians and police. It is difficult to argue against that statement. I was in Angeles city for about a week, the city has a huge expat population of mainly American and Aussies a lot of them seem to think that somebody had to do something as the police and corruption were getting out of control The police would just put up a stop sign on any road that they fancied whenever they wanted money and demand a bribe. The police are now to bloody scared to do that. So as that taxi driver in Manila said they are starting to see the benefits of the new regime even if the methods are ruthless.

[happy daze john in oz]

Drugs are one of the worlds biggest problems now causing death and destruction not for just the users but all of society in one way or another.
Any gov or leader who is prepared to tackle this issue without compunction has my vote.
The world has gone soft and we ae in desperate need of strong right wing govs who will take a tough stand on this issue.

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi All.
What a laugh, the Pope telling the President to stop what he is doing, this is the same Pope from the Catholic Church that is hiding the bishop from Australia so that he doesn't have to appear at the Royal commission into child abuse in the catholic Church here. Thousands of children in Australia were and still are abused by Catholic priests, protected by the Catholic Mafia in the police force, especially in Victoria. The same Pope that refuses to publish the report of the thousands of American children abused , the late Pope John told his staff to bury the report. I hope Duterte starts on them next.
We have yet to hear any sobbing from our political parties about an Australian who has been sentenced to death in Thailand for murder, another candle lit vigil coming up.
Meanwhile drugs continue to pour into Australia despite the efforts of the border patrols.
Cheers Des

[j.sabourn]

A number of years ago a story was circulating that the Gospel of Judas Iscariot was held in the Vatican. This was not being released for reasons not really known, but was suspected that the release would change the history of the course of Christianity. This story seemed to dwindle away, probably too hard for investigative reporters, or maybe bought off. I would imagine that the Vatican has many secrets among the thousands of books and scrolls kept locked away, and not for common eyes to witness. JS

[j.sabourn]

#8. 700 to 800 years ago he would of Des. He together with the king of France had nearly all the Knights of Jerusalem terminated on the grounds they were heretics, and was only the last century that the heretics title was dropped and conceded it was a mistake. The reason was that Phillipe wanted their money and the pope was afraid of their popularity and getting too big for their boots. The papal industry in those days was extremely powerful and many feared. Also the first popes were nearly all married, later that didn't stop them with their sexual encounters, This vow of celibacy don't know what year they publicly took up, but some well brought up catholic may know. They can be no different than ordinary men, the same as JC not our JC on here, he was 33 years when he died if the New Testament is to be believed. A 33 year old man in those days to have had no sexual experience is a bit strange, and attracts one to question his sexuality. Which one never does openly, maybe it is time for some of the ancient documents to be released by the Vatican. We all have broad minds these days forced on us sometimes without our wishes. As regards political movements in those days if you read his teachings in depth He must have been the very first communist. Cheers JS