From Asian Correspondent:
Body count rises as new Philippines president calls for drug addicts to be killed
Newly-installed Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has reiterated his tough stance on crime by urging the public to not only kill drug dealers, but addicts as well.
His remarks came barely a day after he was sworn in as the country’s 16th president in Manila on Thursday, Vice reported.
Speaking to a crowd of 500 in a Manila slum, Duterte said: “If you know of any addicts, go ahead and kill them yourself as getting their parents to do it would be too painful.”
He added that, “These sons of whores are destroying our children.”
But it seems to be working:
According to PhilStar, 18 suspected drug pushers were killed in separate incidents over the weekend, while another 952 confessed drug users and pushers, fearing for their safety, surrendered themselves to authorities in the past two days.
Draconian but effective. But of course, there is some backlash - from this article at Asian Correspondent:
Filipino drug lords pitch in to raise $21 million for ‘Kill Duterte’ fund
The Philippines’ most notorious drug and crime lords are pooling their wealth to raise P1 billion (US$21 million) for a bounty on incoming President Rodrigo Duterte and several others.
According to the INQUIRER.net, the crime bosses were mostly drug lords currently inside the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) who are making a bid to have the Davao city mayor, his anointed Philippine National Police (PNP) chief, a senator and another government official killed.
A source told the news site that the high-profile inmates decided to start the ‘Kill Duterte fund’ after no one took up the 50 million peso (US$1.084 million) reward for the ‘hit’ on Duterte and the Chief Supt. Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa. That bounty was increased from P10 million (US$216,980) to P50 million as there were no takers.
“Not only one person will pay, but people from different organizations,” the source said. “There are probably 20 main players.”
Since they are in prison already, isolate them totally - no communications with the outside world. Then, re-try them and put them away for life (or hang them). Pot is one thing, heroin is something much much worse and the money from the sale of heroin is funding terrorism. These people are a scourge on our planet.
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