The UN Commission on Drugs and Crime says that the Philippines's drug use rate is below the global average. Amnesty International has stated that there's no evidence that the Philippines has become any sort of drug or crime hotbed. It's largely a made-up crisis to allow a certain response.
And he's a hypocrit too, because he's a Fentanyl user, so there's that.
Duerte won an 8-way election in May with 38.5% of the vote.
And Trump is popular here, just won the election, therefore he's a good idea.
Hell, Hitler won his first election too.
Duerte is popular because he is charismatic and incredibly media-savvy. He builds up a personality cult around himself, so that he can go off-the-cuff and say whatever he wants and his supporters love it - as you see in my quotes above, denying he really means it whenever he says something obviously inappropriate, and allowing himself to openly contradict himself over and over. He was elected in May - he's only been president for 6 months now, and his basic accomplishment has been cursing out world leaders and killing some 5,500 people. He's not popular due to a particular accomplishment.
There are real issues with the previous leaders that set the stage too. The Philippines was under a dictatorship up until 1986, and have been ruled by a few wealthy families who didn't really give a shyt about the poor and the working class ever since. With lack of jobs for many people and leaders who the people felt didn't care, the public wanted an "outsider" in and was willing to welcome a hero who told them that he'd put his foot down and fix everything....hmmm, where have we heard that one before?
Seriously, breh, this guy has bragged about
shooting a guy in law school who teased him about his ethnicity.
When an Australian missionary was gang-raped and killed by a prison gang, he said he wished that he had gotten in on the action:
"When the bodies were brought out, they were wrapped. I looked at her face, son of a bytch, she looks like a beautiful American actress. Son of a bytch, what a waste. What came to mind was, they raped her, they lined up. I was angry because she was raped? Yes, that's one thing. But she was so beautiful, I think the mayor should have been first. What a waste."
During a press conference about journalists being killed, he said:
"Most of those killed, to be frank, have done something. You won't be killed if you don't do anything wrong.....Just because you're a journalist you are not exempted from assassination if you're a son of a bytch."
At another news conference he defended his comments and refused to apologize, telling the reporters, "I cannot protect you".
All of those statements, about shooting a dude in law school and wanting to rape an Australian girl and being okay with assassinating journalists, are from
this year.
Elect a gangster as president, brehs.
Telling the police that they can kill anyone they want, however they want, and be free from consequences is a horrific idea in any country, 1st world or 3rd.
And thinking that killing drug users will end drug problems is an ignorant idea wherever you are.
People use drugs because their lives suck and there's too much stress in them, so they turn to something else. There's a drug problem in the Philippines because there's a social problem in the Philippines. A police force that kills whoever it wants doesn't end the social problems, it compounds them. As long as you have millions of people living in ultra-crowded slums, the social problems will continue.
And if you think this shyt works....he had 22 years as mayor to prove himself, and the national police say that the murder rate in Davao City is the highest of any major city in the Phillippines. The rape rate is 2nd highest. It's a center for human trafficking and one of the hottest spots for child prostitution. Duerte himself declared a state of emergency earlier this year after a bombing there killed 14 people and claimed it was embedded in a state of lawless violence.
The only people who claim that crime has gone down due to Duerte are Duerte himself, who constantly pushes out his own made-up numbers declaring a decreased crime rate, and his personality cult who buys anything he says. And even his own statements contradict his claims.
If this approach works, why did was his city still the crime hotbed of the Philippines after 22 years of him as mayor there?
The stench of hypocrisy in here.... How many Arab weddings has Barry droned?? At least Duterte is man enough to hold the hammer himself and get some blood on his shirt
Rodrigo is the man...fukk what yall talmabout
