FILIPINOS SUPPORT THE WAR ON DRUGS, NOT THE HORRIBLE COMPONENTS
AS Lenin’s October Revolution marks its 100 years this month, students of violent upheavals look back at that epic event in human history, then try to illuminate modern society on its
Some have ventured into this the cost to human lives of that Marxist Revolution, from the last quarter of 1917 up to the time Joseph Stalin made an accounting of the impossible human toll to
anchored on the liberation of the oppressed and giving everyone a place in society the source of so much bloodletting and human idea of economic and social liberation that sounded like a the Sermon on the Mount cause
of the lofty-sounding state-spon the agenda is often scarred by the operational components that cause the loss of lives and spread anguish - in its place a “stateless society” end up eliminating a substantial part of
a country that has been purged of the addicts that more often the drug sellers and pushers that are the equivalent of the earlier
non-gated communities (meaning
- pronouncements and actions
- slaughter of the innocent, that is
and the overhaul must purge the hideous operational details of the war, as currently being implemented. What are these components?
Extra-judicial killings are against the law. And against all moral codes known to man. There is an established body of laws that deals with people found pushing and using drugs and they stand on solid legal footing. The judicial system is predisposed to implement – not pose as a hurdle – to the implementation of the law.
The view that the war on drugs has an accompanying “collateral damage” – no matter how limited old girl murdered by riding-intandems without remorse on the drug user/pusher.
No war on drugs targets the innocent, like what happened to Carl and Kian and many others. No one murders a kid who pleads for his life as he had an exam to take the next day. The last-minute pleas of Kian as policemen pumped bullets into his frail, subdued body still give nightmares to parents in poor, urban communities who worry endlessly about their kids.
No war on drugs rest on the principle of “betraying your neighbors” which is exactly the terrible idea behind the Masa Masid and the drop boxes. These are the Makapilis all over again.
No war on drugs leads to the jailing of an elected senator who may be guilty of one thing – her bad choices in men.
No war on drug misses the suppliers/smugglers of drugs. Right now, not one big-time supplier from either China or Taiwan has been dealt with. The lowly chemists and processors, also mostly Chinese and Taiwanese, are the ones being arrested.
Will Mr. Duterte do a pivot and, at the very least, moderate the reckless killing that has been the only constant of his war on drugs? The change, from the PNP to PDEA, has not stopped the killings.
We do not know what is going on at the policy- making level. But if the recent survey were to be used as guide, the leadership would do a pivot.
While 80 percent of those surveyed expressed support, 73 of those surveyed believed EJKs are taking place. It was an oblique way of saying, “We support the war but please stop the EJKs.”