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Filipino President Duterte threatens to throw corrupt officials off a helicopter
“If you are corrupt, I will fetch you using a helicopter to Manila and I will throw you out. I have done this before. Why would I not do it again?,” said Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte during a speech to victims of a typhoon on Tuesday, a clip of which was posted later on a video feed. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesAnother lunatic that bat-shit crazy ChrisR supports.
Dec 29th, 2016 - 07:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Tossing people from helicopters? Is Duterte argentine?
Dec 29th, 2016 - 08:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Wonder what will be left of the Philippines by the time this whackjob “leaves” office.
Dec 29th, 2016 - 10:06 pm - Link - Report abuse -2Forget that he may have done that, (he might be BS-ing) - To actually say that? What a fool.
Dec 29th, 2016 - 10:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I wonder if he learned public speaking from Donald Trump
Dec 29th, 2016 - 10:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Trump? Anybody wonder why Trump has never said a single negative comment regarding Vladimir Putin?
Dec 30th, 2016 - 12:46 am - Link - Report abuse -1Not one.
Because of his holdings in Russia. And, Puttie is going to teach Trump the secrets of his success.
Dec 30th, 2016 - 11:16 am - Link - Report abuse -1Pathological Liar EB
Dec 30th, 2016 - 01:09 pm - Link - Report abuse -1So please explain to us on here why the vast majority voted for the president on exactly this ticket and why they continue this support now?
Could it be the fact that their lives are made intolerable by the actions of these thousands of drug dealers and users with all the murders the drug lords caused, etc.?
Only somebody as stupid as you could defend the drug barons.
@ ChrisR Bat-shit mad and impotent.
Dec 30th, 2016 - 02:41 pm - Link - Report abuse -1Are you stating that you support this murdering lunatic still?
Drug dealers are murderers. So, only murderers are being murdered.
Dec 30th, 2016 - 03:59 pm - Link - Report abuse -1In your religious quest to crush Chris R, you are inadvertently defending drug barons, as he accuses you of.
Chris,
Duterte is murdering the poor, low rung, drug dealers. But the upper crust, wealthy drug lords you mentioned, the bigger murderers, Duterte is doing very little about.
If he tried murdering the more powerful drug lords, many of whom are linked to the powerful neighbor of China, Duterte would soon be murdered himself. Duterte knows how murder works.
Without removing that power, that of the drug lords, the removed lower level drug dealers are only replaced by other poor people. So, Duterte, while seeming to take strong measures against his country's drug problem, quite deceptively, isn't even denting it.
So the drug problem will go on, and conveniently, this perpetually provides the support of the majority to Duterte.
He is a leftist thug, that is the way the trickery of the left works.
Therefore, Duterte is actually doing very little for the majority whose lives have been made intolerable by the drug problem in the Phillipines.
But he is selling out the very soul of his country to China. He's just a really dirty traitor to his country and his country's poor.
imoyaro, that place has always been a zoo, even back in the 70s under the tight junta of Marcos. It's only getting more spotlight because the Pacific rim is in a state of flux.
Dec 30th, 2016 - 04:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@ Bushpilot
Dec 30th, 2016 - 05:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I don't think Elaine is defending drug barons; Duterte is a murdering lunatic by his own admission. And supporting someone who thinks throwing people out of helicopters is a suitable punishment is not a right or sane thing to do.
The police and vigilantes are also murdering drug users, who are not murderers, and of course, we don't know for a fact what any of the victims have done, since they had no trial. I am not interested in defending drug barons, but I am interested in defending the rule of law. Vigilante justice is not just and usually just leads to more killing and a more violent and dangerous society. Plus as you said, they are only going after the little guys, who are replaceable as long as the demand is still there.
But Duterte will be under even less pressure soon, as according to him, Trump said he's doing great and should go ahead, and that “Maybe you can give me a suggestion, one or two, how to solve this goddamn bulls--- ... son of a b---- ...”
I know what you mean Cap, it reminds me of a “defense formation” I heard about in the 70's that the army would use in dense brush, where a platoon would form a circle, and run around firing wildly into the surrounding area. Insane...
Dec 30th, 2016 - 05:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Pathological Liar EB
Dec 30th, 2016 - 06:30 pm - Link - Report abuse -1Ah, the old 'answer a question with a question dodge' eh?
Do you ever get your thoughts onto the same plane as the rest of us? Tip, I am NOT referring to an aircraft with the word 'plane'.
@ Bush Pilot
Dec 30th, 2016 - 07:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Nope. I am not defending drug dealers. DT puts it rather well so read that post.
@ Bat Shit Crazy ChrisR
You didn't answer the question. Only a complete knob would think I was defending drug dealers. Duterte is insane. He rode around on a motorcycle shooting people HE decided looked a bit dodgy. (That sounds like your wet dream). No one who values the rule of law could support such actions, especially by the President. A President who boasts about throwing people out of planes. I recall you constantly mocking the Argentines for doing the same so why are you suddenly in favour of it?
Do you still support Duterte?
@EB
Dec 30th, 2016 - 09:47 pm - Link - Report abuse +1I think we've already established that ChrisR does not value the rule of law.
Which makes it rather ironic that over here:
http://en.mercopress.com/2016/12/29/uruguay-indifferent-to-the-death-of-the-country-s-last-military-dictator#comments
he is busy lamenting the fact that Uruguay is currently ruled by a bunch of murderers. So if he really believes that having a murderer as President is perfectly fine, at least he is in good company (although the FA are really not as bad since they are not busy killing people now they are office).
@ DT
Dec 30th, 2016 - 10:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I think ChrisR believes in HIS rule of law. He thinks it is fine to shoot people he disagrees with, or are poor, or *insert random prejudice* but he wants to live under the protection of the law. He really is a daft old ignorant fool. Fortunately he has no power to do anything but spit venom over a message board.
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