>Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte acknowledged abuses have occurred in his war on illegal drugs, which has left more than 400 people dead in a month and alarmed rights activists, but refused to back down from a shoot-to-kill order for drug suspects.
>Duterte said in a speech late Thursday that most drug dealers and addicts slain in gun battles with police had put up a fight, but added that he was sure some were "salvaged," a local slang for extrajudicial killings usually by law enforcers.
>In the case of illegal killings, Duterte said the government will investigate.
>"They really fight back, I know that," Duterte said in a speech in southern Davao city, where he built a name as a mayor for his extra tough approach to crime before becoming president. "I'm sure there are some who were salvaged, I am also sure of that."
>Early Friday, he told reporters that he gave "shoot-to-kill" orders against drug dealers, including politicians involved in the illicit trade.
>"I'll really have you killed. Look at what you're doing to the Philippines and I'll forgive you?" Duterte told reporters, apparently enraged after visiting a town police chief who was shot in the chest by a suspected drug dealer and rushed to a Davao hospital.
>"My order is shoot to kill you. I don't care about human rights, you better believe me," he said.
Nicholas Roberts
>Duterte's centerpiece anti-crime drive, focused on an ambitious campaign promise to end the widespread drug problem in six months, has left more than 400 drug suspects dead, many of them either in firefights with police or under suspect circumstances. More than 4,400 have been arrested, police said.
>The unprecedented killings have scared more than half a million drug users and dealers who gave themselves up to police, officials said. An overwhelmed Duterte has said he was considering setting aside areas in military camps nationwide to build rehabilitation centers for those who surrender.
>A legal expert, Jose Manuel Diokno, said Duterte's latest shoot-to-kill order is, at the least, legally questionable.
>Adequate safeguards exist in the legal system, including requirements for court warrants for arrests, to protect the public and ensure law enforcers are not given "unbridled discretion" that can lead to abuses, Diokno said.
>The government's Commission on Human Rights could seek to stop the anti-crime drive through a court petition, said Diokno, who heads the Free Legal Assistance Group, which provides legal help to the poor.
>Sen. Leila de Lima, who led the commission previously, has sought a Senate investigation of the killings but has faced opposition from Duterte's political allies.
Nathaniel Gray
>"There must be a way other than this method that brings us to our collective descent into impunity, fear, and ultimately, utter and complete inhumanity. We cannot wage the war against drugs with blood," De Lima said in a Senate speech this week.
>She said the dead included those who were innocent and "the proportion is rising."
>In recent days, eight suspected drug dealers were gunned down in separate clashes with police in the provinces of Bulacan and Rizal and in southern Dipolog city, police said, adding that most of the suspects drew firearms and opened fire when they sensed men who were buying drugs from them were policemen in disguise.
>Three town mayors and a former mayor linked to drug syndicates surrendered Friday to national police chief Director General Ronald de la Rosa, fearing they may be gunned down by authorities.
>The mayors, mostly from the southern province of Maguindanao, would be investigated, De la Rosa said.
>"I will not hesitate to kill you ... don't think that you're a governor or a mayor," Duterte said, repeating the warning he made in Davao. "You'll be the first to go before the civilians."
IS THERE ANYONE ON EARTH MORE BASED?!?!?
Kevin Watson
thats badass hes actually taking a stand on the issue and getting results. He seems like the sort of guy who doesn't fuck around and really wants whats best for his country
Robert Green
I wonder if that island nigger who ripped me off when I wanted to buy some weed while I was vacationing in Boracay has been killed.
Luke Roberts
>"My order is shoot to kill you. I don't care about human rights, you better believe me"
What did he mean by this?
Carter Morgan
Sounds good they should kill our sex tourists too
Wyatt Perry
>Duterte's centerpiece anti-crime drive, focused on an ambitious campaign promise to end the widespread drug problem in six months, has left more than 400 drug suspects dead
Gotta love a politician that keeps his promises
That all being said the Philippines has gone fucking mental and a lot of "drug dealers" are going to get murdered.
Lincoln Rogers
hes taking the path of least resistance. you cant stop drug dealers unless you kill the drug addicts. supply and demand.
its something that america begrudgingly admitted a few times without realizing it. human trafficking a few years back was a big story but as much as the feminist wanted it to stop they admitted it wont because as long as there is a market for a 13 year old girl sex slave some ones going to kidnap them
zero tolerance may be the best solution for everything
Caleb Nelson
Hopefully.
Wyatt Ross
Of course, he is our God Emperor And his brutal solution seems to work very well
Isaiah Lopez
Wonder where the "prohibition never works" crowd is.
Jordan Ortiz
I suppose you'd also support killing alcoholics then? By alcoholic I mean anyone who drinks more than once a week.
Chase King
>autistic Sup Forums weebs still think people need to be protected from themselves because "degeneracy"
only sandnigger/niggier and chink countries need to ban drugs to function
Angel Rogers
He doesn't seem to have much against prostitution But I am pretty sure there will be plenty of pedo sex tourists that will get lynched
Charles Davis
Yea because some sad fuck who sits in his room drinking is the same as a heroin addict who punches an old woman in the face for the 10 dollars in her purse to get a fix.
Sebastian Turner
We should have done this in the 70s and we'd be in a much better place.
Jace Roberts
Drugs are terrible and bring nothing but crime, death and destruction everywhere they are present. They hobble and destroy the common man, embolden the common criminal and empower the top gangster. They're a blight in every society and it's time something is done other than faggy "needle sharing" and other garbage where the taxpayer is forced to subsidize the habits of junkies who will never truly get clean, bring riches to the thugs that would use them for a quick buck and destroy lives and neighborhoods from all races and walks of life.
Jaxson Johnson
yet crime went up AFTER prohibition
Charles Scott
This is hilarious. the fucking mad man.
Though this thing wouldn't be possible in the US. Too many lawyers. Too many human rights activists.
Prohibition didn't work because we werent killing rum runners
Austin Barnes
This. Either you permit an action and the behavior it brings, or you cut that shit out quite literally.
Samuel Barnes
Wair so you can't even smoke weed? Wtf is he retarded it can treat cancer and doesn't harm anyone.
Christian Barnes
I don't think this will fix anything.
Andrew Martin
He's living my dream, i want to do the same in my city and get rid of the lower class scum
Benjamin Diaz
>thousands of years of alcohol >equal to at most 200 years of opium and 60-80 years of other drugs
Eli Bailey
>it can treat cancer kek
Zachary Walker
>dude weed
Caleb Roberts
It would have seen some greater success had the prohibition been brutal about it.
You either go big or go home. You can't be soft on these sorts of issues to get to this sort of result. After all, it worked with Opium and China.
Carter Young
>britcucks so cucked and deluded they think only state approved heroin pills are good at reducing the suffering of cancer patients, nevermind the constipation and nausea that potentially worsens their condition
Dominic Scott
This nigga is out of control but at least he cares about his country
Jackson Torres
>we have a history with alcohol so it's special and it's the only one that should be legal
>oh nevermind how tobacco was only around to most of the world since about only a couple centuries ago and people still can't stop killing themselves in the millions for a minor 5 minute buzz
You autistic faggots
Jose Jones
>muh cannabis cures cancer >look at this video on you-tube it proves it >look at this link from western samoa it proves it >it's a government cover up
Brandon Richardson
Absolutely based
Jack Johnson
>we shouldn't be allowed the best treatment to reduce suffering because of irrelevant my straw man argument about how it isn't a cure like a few idiots believe which has nothing to do with treatments because I'm pretending to be ignorant about the difference between a cure and a treatment to be a statist cuck
Holy fuck kill yourself
Cooper Lopez
alcohol cant be illegal.
imagine a drug that only takes a bucket of sugar or carbohydrates to create
now realize that this exact drug exists and we have been consuming it since before we could count
theres no way prohibition can work
Jace Green
Imagine there's a drug that feels as good as alcohol but doesn't kill you and it grows just because you throw some seeds in your back yard
>We can and should ban that
Adrian Gomez
>dude man dude bro man dude
Fuck off nigger
Brody Green
It has no effect whatsoever on cancer you dumb nigger. Appetite and digestive benefits can be had from green tea. Please stop using this as an excuse for you to sit on your fat ass and eat pizza bites on your couch instead of doing something with your life.
Caleb Phillips
>"There must be a way other than this method that brings us to our collective descent into impunity, fear, and ultimately, utter and complete inhumanity. We cannot wage the war against drugs with blood," De Lima said in a Senate speech this week.
Jesus Christ are you kidding me? there must be another way....err well why haven't you DONE it or did you try it and it didn't work and that's why the country became a shithole?
you can't wage a war in blood..... err yes you can and ARE! it's already happening and it's already working.
seriously man, fucking apologists crawl out of every hole as soon as anyone makes a tough decision. why are these faggots trying to protect and cover their own backs? if this policy backfires it will all be on the president it will be him who gets lynched.
fucking whining whingeing apologists talking about the due process and legal system....obviously that hasn't worked you fucking morons.
this is why the west will be raped by Islam.
Julian Miller
people will be scared to do drugs, thereby decreasing degeneracy in the country
Luis Richardson
>pot isn't addictive >I've been smoking for 20 years >I can give up anytime I want . . . honest. >[insert another stupid statement here] Said every stoner ever.
Justin Wood
>Appetite and digestive benefits can be had from green tea
that won't magically undo all the nausea and constipation of opiates dumb fuck
Holy fuck you people are some pathetic sheltered autistic losers
Jack Hernandez
>another irrelevant straw man
Jesus Christ you people really hate freedom
Can't wait till you dumb fucks ban alcohol because it's against sharia and degenerate
Zachary Ramirez
That's false tho I smoke like once every 2-3 months
James Wood
Do you also poo in the loo once every 2-3 months?
Oliver James
>reverts to meme flagLARP
>I smoke like once every 2-3 months It probably cured cancer in the early stages too eh?
Kevin Howard
>WHY DO PEOPLE LIKE THINGS I DONT LIKE
-Sup Forumss autismal christfags
Juan Turner
this is retarded bait but what the hell ... it is none of your business whether someone fries his brain or overdoses on drugs. the real problem is this: >the taxpayer is forced to subsidize the habits of junkies exactly. do away with commie institutions like public healthcare and let people destroy their lives as they please.
Thomas Hall
Only because you were making fallacies from the beginning and still refuse to do anything but that, dumbass
Jack Lewis
Yeah, until someone decides they don't like you and use violence using the same logic against you. I mean, look how shitty our culture became after zero tolerance policies in scbools and public places. Even saying or writing something negative gets you blacklisted or suspended.
Carter Cooper
That's why regulating marajuana is so ineffective. When it's that easy, it's better to tax/regulate it.
The government really needs to do a better job of figuring out what people can r can't get their hands on easily.
Oliver Diaz
>Though this thing wouldn't be possible in the US. Too many lawyers. Too many human rights activists.
Tell that to black people
Jason Bailey
What does religion have to do with this?
Christopher Cook
... and millennia of weed, whose use far predates alcohol.
Aaron Barnes
People can become addicted to weed just like they can become addicted to alcohol, it's only a matter of time before you become addicted. Depending on your genetics of course.
Jordan King
You're the one making fallacy statements my pothead friend.
Cannabis distorts perception and that is evident in your posts.
Bentley Roberts
Drugs among other things objectively ruin a person, and negatively impact those around him
Brody Smith
I smoke up because it's enjoyable. I don't care what other people think about it
>pooing in loo even once
Hudson Foster
>Be American. >Run eCommerce business. >Have to deal with Philippine subhumans frequently for support on marketplace. >They always refuse to help, even if I'm clearly being scammed by my customer. >Always make up some stupid excuse, never deviating from their shitty script. >Have wasted so many hours with these fucks. >Never do their goddamn job >American reps always help.
Can I report these motherfuckers as drug users and have them rekt?
pls
Thomas Peterson
I think his point is that Duterte's approach doesn't really differentiate.
That's the problem when you throw due process out the window - police suspect that you've had anything to do with drugs = you're fucking dead no argument.
Oh shit you sold your mate less than $50 worth of weed? Bullet to the head same as this meth dealer.
Oh well...
Oliver Walker
Imagine if BLM turned up in the Philippines lol.
Colton Jackson
That's rubbish. I've been smoking for years and years. Nicotine is the only thing that is addictive to me
Samuel Diaz
Big deal. Less druggies, better country.
You gotta crack down hard now if you wanna have freedom later.
Gavin Cox
What a surprise. Dudeweeds think they are exempt from the law.
Thomas Morris
no u
>call dutdut cops >tell them no u are the dudeweed >they kill u without due process
lol fuck off
Samuel Ward
Thank god there's no EA countries and Aussies don't have Sweden tier mentality or we'll be seeing Pilipino 'refugees' flooding into the gates en masse.
Chase James
>people defending killing suspected drug users and dealers because sunday school propaganda on drugs Just use alcohol goyim, it's safe.
Tyler Ortiz
>Oh shit you sold your mate less than $50 worth of weed? Bullet to the head same as this meth dealer.
Nothing wrong with that
Gotta stop you weed addicted faggots somehow
Brandon Powell
>smoked weed in school a few times with bros >get lynched by police
Glad I'm not living in Flipland. Why does Sup Forums have a hard-on for politicians in shit tier countries? These countries are shit tier precisely because of stuff like this.
Adrian Adams
>the philippines are bad because people can't smoke dope this is your brain on drugs
Evan Hernandez
indiabro you get all of our skank weed. just do heroin like the rest of your country's degenerates.
Sebastian Watson
He's a fucking Communist.
Asher Lewis
People can become addicted to weed; I know some addicts myself. A 5 second google is all it takes to figure this out.
I never said you were addicted (likely because you don't do it very much), but this doesn't change the fact that you can become addicted. It can happen at any time. However, your risks would likely increase if you did it to help with some medical or psychological problems or maybe you just lost the genetic lottery for it. But I really can't say for sure what would actually cause addiction as it is still a bit of mystery to medfags.
Dominic Wilson
A bullet is cheaper than prison.
Fuck human rights, life doesn't have inherent value, especially the life of someone undermining your society.
Austin Green
They finally found a leader. And in November, we will find one too.
We will take back our country from the liberals and thugs.
Hunter Hughes
Duterte is evil, but he's a necessary evil.
This is what happens when you let society rot too much.
Sooner or later a revolution happens. And all revolutions are, pretty much, a Purge-like free-for-all killfest.
The 'elites' of the West should learn of this. But they won't, because they're retards, and in the end they'll undergo the same fate.
Adam Barnes
The most addictive drug in the world is coffee
Though that's mostly probably because it's mostly just a benefit to people's lives and doesn't do much or any harm
Which is why weed is also so popular now, too, it doesn't kill you like alcohol
Chase Gonzalez
>The most addictive drug in the world is coffee You pot-heads make me laugh.
Evan White
>Says the country that arrests you if you talk bad about a politician.
Christian Hall
THANK YOU BASED RODRIGO
Jonathan Diaz
cant thud the dud
Bentley Roberts
I can quit eating and sleeping and shitting and brushing my teeth and going outside because I fear I might be addicted to it.
Grow up.
Connor Rogers
That's pretty based. If you're going to have a war on drugs you have to treat it like a war, and in that war the dealers are enemy combatants. If they do not surrender to the police they should be shot.
Kevin Long
Unfucking believable.
The sad thing is you truly believe that drugs have no negative influence on society.
Take a look at Mexico and tell me drugs don't cause violence.
William Ramirez
Why do Filipinos look like turbo-Spics?
Evan Brooks
>incoherent rambling typical.
Wyatt Rodriguez
It literally is by the same measure you dumb fucks
For the amount of people who tried it vs the amount who still use it every day it's higher than any other.
Period. Fuck you people are dumb
Benjamin Morgan
Based. All drug traffickers should definately be executed on sight.
Drug users IMO should be just thrown into mental institutions for therapy, but just straight up executing them is good too.
Degeneracy must be stamped out from society at all costs.
Brayden Turner
>"My order is shoot to kill you. I don't care about human rights, you better believe me," he said. TRUMP/DUTERTE 2016
Grayson Sanchez
>You will never vote for an Ecuadorian Rodrigo Duterte >You are forced to vote for either Venezuela level Communist or Corrupt to the bone politician.
Caleb Robinson
>take a look at Mexico
The country who's government is completely owned by cartels who want nothing more for the drugs to remain illegal because otherwise they would be out of business?
Lmao
Austin Butler
I'd imagine that the people who abused these orders would suffer the same fate
Liam Sanders
>half a million drug users and dealers who gave themselves up to police lmao so they just turned themselves in? why not just quit selling and go about your life? i call bullshit
Hudson Brooks
clearly the hood is not big enough for two chem dealers
Dominic Allen
You're killing me here - cannabis has really fucked you up and you just can't see it.
it's just one lame excuse after another.
Nolan Foster
>WAHH WAHH WE LIVE IN A POLICE STATE
If we really lived in a police state, do you think there's be such a thing as the Bloods or the Crips? Those nigs would be gunned down overnight. So you really think there'd be such a thing as the Mafia? In 20's Italy the Mafia nearly went extinct because the police were unleashes on those greasy wops.
Policing stops crime. Politely asking criminals to stop being arseholes is not police work.
Christian Sullivan
How can he expect to carry on relations with other countries with this shit going on?
Still, I guess we have relations with countries that do worse
Cameron Rogers
Remove Drugs Remove Prostitution What's left to make the country at peace? Holy war against Muslims? Philipines got enough on the plate with China bulling them. This not to say that the money will lack to make anything good. If he actually enact a law that make abortion and contraceptive legal, he will have done one thing good.
Gabriel Nguyen
you can become addicted to shopping or mcdonalds or biting your nails too
Leo Sullivan
Just legalize weed and I'm all for this way of handling the other drug dealers