The scales of justice: Philippine style

by **mrswdk** on Fri Aug 26, 2016 4:07 am

Maria and her husband come from an impoverished neighbourhood of Manila and had no regular income before agreeing to become contract killers. They earn up to 20,000 Philippines pesos ($430; £327) per hit, which is shared between three or four of them. That is a fortune for low-income Filipinos.

Contract killing is nothing new in the Philippines. But the hit squads have never been as busy as they are now. President Duterte has sent out an unambiguous message.

Ahead of his election, he promised to kill 100,000 criminals in his first six months in office.

And he has warned drug dealers in particular: "Do not destroy my country, because I will kill you."

Last weekend he reiterated that blunt view, as he defended the extrajudicial killings of suspected criminals.

"Do the lives of 10 of these criminals really matter? If I am the one facing all this grief, would 100 lives of these idiots mean anything to me?"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-37172002

by **Dukasaur** on Fri Aug 26, 2016 4:11 am

Right. The world according to Mr. Swickdick.

Searching homes of known terrorists without a warrant is absolutely criminal if it's done by a European country, but killing alleged criminals without a trial is great stuff when it's done by an Asian country.

by **mrswdk** on Fri Aug 26, 2016 4:15 am

Ignoring your declaration that thousands of ordinary French Muslims are all 'known terrorists', which is best saved for one of the dozens of OT threads about French Muslims, where exactly in the OP did I condone Duterte's assassination campaign?

by **Dukasaur** on Fri Aug 26, 2016 4:22 am

mrswdk wrote:Ignoring your declaration that thousands of ordinary French Muslims are all 'known terrorists', which is best saved for one of the dozens of OT threads about French Muslims, where exactly in the OP did I condone Duterte's assassination campaign?

You certainly didn't have a critical thing to say about it, and the cheery headline doesn't look like the depths of approbation, either.

by **mrswdk** on Fri Aug 26, 2016 4:30 am

Dukasaur wrote:
mrswdk wrote:Ignoring your declaration that thousands of ordinary French Muslims are all 'known terrorists', which is best saved for one of the dozens of OT threads about French Muslims, where exactly in the OP did I condone Duterte's assassination campaign?

You certainly didn't have a critical thing to say about it, and the cheery headline doesn't look like the depths of approbation, either.

Dukasaur wrote:depths

Ah, now I understand. Your whimsical, aquatic language exposes your sheer delight, making it apparent that your interpretation of this thread's title as 'cheery' is simply a projection of your own emotional state onto my words.

So there we have it. News that the Philippine president is carrying out an assassination campaign against his own citizens fills Duk with delight.

by **mrswdk** on Fri Aug 26, 2016 4:36 am

What do those not in the grips of advanced dementia think of recent developments in the Philippines? Decriminalize drugs by making them legal, or 'decriminalize' them by killing all the criminals involved with them?