Philippine President-Elect Urges Citizens to Shoot and Kill Drug Dealers

[WhiteTara]

Source: Time

"Shoot him and I'll give you a medal"

Philippine President-elect Rodrigo Duterte on Saturday urged citizens to shoot and kill drug dealers who resist arrest, saying he’d reward those who take matters into their own hands.

The newly-elected leader encouraged residents to help in the government’s fight against crime and the illegal drug trade during a nationally-televised speech, CBS News reports. “Please feel free to call us, the police, or do it yourself if you have the gun—you have my support,” said Duterte, 71.

“You can kill him,” he said of drug dealers who show violent resistance. “Shoot him and I’ll give you a medal.”

Duterte won the presidential election last month. He has previously said he intends to bring back capital punishment and may give police shoot-to-kill powers.

Read more: http://time.com/4357763/rodrigo-duterte-reward-kill-drug-dealers/

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[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. He has admitted to at least 3 extra-judicial killings himself. . . . nt

[WhiteTara]

3. expect a President Trump to imitate

this behavior.

[hobbit709]

2. That will work out well.

Pretty soon the Philipines will resemble parts of Mexico and Colombia.

[billhicks76]

4. He's Probably The Top Drug Dealer

[ck4829]

5. Should just rename it to Mega City One

[Judi Lynn]

6. US Government: “Duterte is clearly behind the Davao Death Squad”

US Government: “Duterte is clearly behind the Davao Death Squad”

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Rodrigo Duterte, one of the presidential candidates in the Philippines elections, is likely to be arrested if he travels to the United States. According to the State Department documents released by Wikileaks, the US Government has “solid evidence” that Duterte is responsible for the extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances in Davao City.

Duterte is considered a criminal

On 14 April 2016, Philippine presidential candidate Grace Poe revealed that she will appoint her rival, Rodrigo Duterte, as crime czar if she wins the Presidency: “I want to offer to him the position as crime czar because of what he said that he will finish the problems of criminality in six months”.

Grace Poe’s “crime tzar” is considered a criminal by the US Government. Based on “solid evidence”, the State Department established that “Mayor Duterte of Davao City is clearly behind a group called the Davao Death Squad“. The State Department is convinced that Rodrigo Duterte “supports” and “encourages” the extra-judicial killings. He is the one who decides “to green light” the Davao Death Squad (DDS).

. . .

The State Department has “documented evidence of hundreds of vigilante-style killings of civilians in Davao city” since the late 90s. The Davao Death Squad, a vigilante group “formed by the mayor”, carried out many of the killings. DDS is an underground network made up of former criminals and militants, perpetrating killings in exchange for payment. Victims are “usually street children and petty criminals”.

More:
http://www.opensourceinvestigations.com/philippines/us-government-duterte-clearly-behind-davao-death-squad/

[Person 2713]

7. He also said he would kill journalists "who are assholes"

Many journalist have already been murdered there

[Judi Lynn]

8. I wonder how he would view Fox "News" "journalists" and other US corporate "news" people.

Clearly, they would all be on his side, of course.

[Person 2713]

9. Most killed were investigating govmnt corruption . If you agree everything is good there you live!

http://time.com/4353279/duterte-philippines-journalists-assassination/

[Judi Lynn]

11. Attempted to draw a connection between corporate "news," always RIGHT-WING, and a happy relationship

with this clown.

He would LOVE the US corporate stenographers, as they would give him all the affection they lavish on racist, sexist, vicious, stupid, self-centered Donald Trump.

It would be a marriage born in heaven.

Journalists whom he would murder, men and women who are serious about their calling would also have a hellacious time avoiding deeply terrifying lives here. Good journalists have been scarce as hen's teeth here for decades, as Democrats are aware. Probably as far back as the Watergate burglary, after which time the dirty right-wing started screeching "commie news, commie news," and never did shut the #### up, howling every time a reporter turned in a story which faulted a Republican for his/her crimes, until the time we stopped getting them altogether, in general, and our "news" industry became "infotainment."

[brooklynite]

10. The interesting thing is: this was probably one of the most Democratic elections in the Philippines