US Silent as Major Ally Begins Campaign of Murdering Drug Users — Executing 11 People a Day

[Judi Lynn]

US Silent as Major Ally Begins Campaign of Murdering Drug Users — Executing 11 People a Day

Published: July 27, 2016

Source: Justin Gardner with The Free Thought Project

One of the strongest American allies in Southeast Asia has embarked on a campaign of mass murder on its own citizens, at the behest of its president.

President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines—designated a “Major Non-NATO Ally” by the U.S. State Department—is pushing an anti-drug campaign that includes encouraging law enforcement and even civilians to kill drug users and dealers on the spot. And he will pardon anyone who takes part in the killings.

In Duterte’s July 25 State of the Nation address he said, “If you know of any addicts, go ahead and kill them yourself as getting their parents to do it would be too painful.”

During the election campaign earlier this year, Duterte estimated 100,000 people would be murdered during his campaign, and fish would grow fat from feeding on bodies dumped in Manila Bay.

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[R. Daneel Olivaw]

1. Why should it surprise anybody how the USA acts

or what it condones off shore?

[marble falls]

2. A working link:

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/campaign-mass-murder-drug-users/

[Ford_Prefect]

3. So much for the rule of law, apparently.

[Igel]

4. Hey, you disrespecting a democratic vote?

That's the problem. He was elected, largely on an anti-crime platform because, well, it was a problem. He was making sounds like this during the campaign. Elections have consequences.

And the rest is mostly just prosecutorial discretion. There are lots of ways to circumvent the law's intent when you elevate your views above the law, to let the executive seek and gain as much power as possible to make sure that the majority is a dictatorship. Interpret this law that way, don't enforce this law, make the constitution say something new. Easy to make what looks like rule of law into something much less.

"Democracy" can be another name for dictatorship and thugocracy, if finessed just right.

[Ford_Prefect]

6. Last time I looked murder is murder, whether by majority rule or individual action.

Doesn't matter to me if you're the king, the president, a policeman or a thug, Genocide or individual acts of murder are still the same crime to me.

W and Cheney have a lot to answer for. So it seems to me do the drone warriors and their advocates. For a President to advocate and authorize public mass murder of citizens ranks with the recent genocides by ISIS or Assad. It may well lead to a wider civil war of reprisals for those murders much as we have seen in Mexico.

[riversedge]

5. OMG!

[awoke_in_2003]

7. Jesus Christ. nt

[Fast Walker 52]

8. Holy fuck, Dutarte is a monster