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THE PHILIPPINE PRESIDENT-elect has encouraged the public to help him in his war against crime, urging citizens with guns to shoot and kill drug dealers who resist arrest and fight back in their neighborhoods.
In a nationally televised speech late last night, Rodrigo Duterte told a huge crowd in the southern city of Davao celebrating last month’s presidential victory that Filipinos who help him battle crime will be rewarded.
“Please feel free to call us, the police, or do it yourself if you have the gun — you have my support,” Duterte said, warning of an extensive illegal drug trade that involves even the country’s police.
If a drug dealer resists arrest or refuses to be brought to a police station and threatens a citizen with a gun or a knife, “you can kill him,” Duterte said.
Shoot him and I’ll give you a medal.
The 71-year-old Duterte won the 9 May presidential election on a bold promise to end crime and corruption within six months of his presidency.
That vow resonated among crime-weary Filipinos, though police officials considered it campaign rhetoric that was impossible to accomplish.
Human rights watchdogs have expressed alarm that his anti-crime drive may lead to widespread rights violations.
Duterte has been suspected of playing a role in many killings of suspected criminals in his city by motorcycle-riding assassins known as the “Davao death squads,” but human rights watchdogs say he has not been criminally charged because nobody has dared to testify against him in court.
In his speech yesterday, Duterte also asked three police generals based in the main national police camp in the capital to resign for involvement in crimes that he did not specify.
He threatened to humiliate them in public if they did not quit and said he would order a review of dismissed criminal cases of active policemen, suggesting some may have bribed their way back onto the force.
“They go back again crucifying the Filipino,” he said.
I won’t agree to that.
“If you’re still into drugs, I will kill you, don’t take this as a joke,” he said to loud jeers and applause.
I’m not trying to make you laugh, son of a bitch, I will really kill you.
Bounties
The foul-mouthed longtime Davao mayor and former government prosecutor said crimes were committed by law enforcers because of “extreme greed and extreme need.”
He said that he would provide a small amount to an officer who was tempted because his wife has cancer or a mother died, but that those who would break the law because of extreme greed “will also be dealt with by me. I’ll have you killed.”
Duterte, who starts his six-year presidential term on 30 June, repeated a plan to offer huge bounties to those who can turn in drug lords, dead or alive.
While it remains to be seen what will happen to his threats when he takes office, some policemen have heeded his call for a tougher anti-crime approach.
In suburban Las Pinas city in the Manila metropolis, police have apprehended more than 100 minors who defied a night curfew, and men who were either having drinking sprees in public or roaming around shirtless in violation of a local ordinance.
The crackdown was dubbed “Oplan Rody” – after Duterte’s nickname – or “Rid the Streets of Drinkers and Youth.”
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Bout as Irish as I am a Rabbi….
Sean hannitty is the complete opposite of irishness ….him and that other great irishman oreilly are 2 of the most hateful characters that god ever screwed feet on
Ye everyone knows you can only be Irish if you subscribe to a certain political philosophy…
Hey if it makes you feel any better most people here are pretty embarrassed by the whole “Obama is Irish” crap too.
D H, bit of a dumb comment. Can think of plenty more hateful characters than a couple or TV presenters. Tuigeann?
Megyn Kelly . hubba hubba hubba .That’s right, 3 hubba’s.
@Mr KnowitAll:
If Trump said that you’d all be bawling your eyes out.
Guess we know how she got the job.
@A hater: What an ignorant statement! Does your innuendo also apply to Hannity or are you one of those true male chauvinists pigs who thinks women can only progress in the workplace by giving sexual favours?
I’m sure he’s referring to her outstanding C.V.
You’re probably right given what’s happened to Roger Ailes at Fox. All these bimbos banged and blew their way to pundit fame.
As a country, we should be able to sue bigoted clowns like Hannity for defamation. Either that or invite him here, so that we can take turns kicking him in the nuts!
Wow so charming and tolerant. At least you practice what you preach….
You’re the only bigot here. Please learn what a word means before throwing it around lest you be subject to libel or slander.
@A hater: Why don’t you Google Hannity and add the name Cliven Bundy and see what comes up. Hannity epitomises bigotry!
We’re Irish, it’s complicated?
Typical pathetic a$$ response from an American with Irish roots from several generations ago.
These people are NOT Irish, they are 100% american
Ok I know your position now. I think it’s a dumb one that you couldn’t defend but at least you stated it clearly. Now, let’s chew the fat. If I move to America, am I American? Or would that only apply to my children?
A lot of the readers on this would be right at home at Fox News to be fair
@Showbiz Babyyy: you’d be more of a Pravda type,i suppose ?
‘The pair later made up following a meeting at Trump Tower in New York.’
Cough…cough!
If that great twitter ignoramous Graham Linehan says you aren’t Irish then you most likely are. Have to laugh at the outrage some here have over Yanks identifying with their heritage. Get over yourselves for a second.
You don’t see me going on my Anglo-Saxon heritage do yah
^^ Who the f**k is that guy?
I agree with you Eamonn. It’s always the ones without a lick of Irish too…methinks they feel their token Irish identity slipping. Gonna have to rely on something else in the meetings, a chairde
About as irish as St Patrick
We’ll take kelly. The Americans can have our dumb ass taoiseach Kenny.
They are about as much Irish as I am Jamaican
fekin irish – always trouble!!!
I wonder… if you are born in Ireland, that doesn’t make you necessarily Irish, neither does it if you lived your whole life in Ireland, nor if you Irish parents or ancestors. I am curious what makes one Irish or any nationality.
Ask @James Odin
I’m pretty sure his one and only requirement is being white.
Bryan have you been triggered?
@Liviu Flore: It’s a very good question. Horses get away without all this stuff, unless they have an Irish passport. Even then they could be of Arab stock born in Riyadh but owned by someone here.
Hit s sore spot?
I would be quite happy for someone to say they are Irish, if they were born here, have lived here or one of their parents are Irish. At least something where they have been exposed to our culture and may have adopted some of the mannerisms, accent, sayings or outlook in life.
However, having a temper or arguing in public is not particularly or peculiarly Irish and is certainly not a genetic trait passed on for seven generations.
@James Odin
*yawn* you Reddit trolls have zero imagination. 0/10. Try harder.
About as Irish as Mahatma Ghandi was! Trump does not like interviews with difficult questions..
Hillary flocks to them, as we know. I’m sure you could link me an example of Hillary facing tough questions on a news network. I’ll wait.
@A hater:
Pointing out a deficiency in one of the candidates does not mean the poster supports the other.
Some right wing nonsense spouting D4 variant of Irish, sure.
The same D4 that had the highest support for gay marriage in all of Ireland? All right wing nutters for sure!
Ireland doesn’t have a right wing and everytime someone tries to establish one the so called “anti”-fascists beat them up and obstruct people’s rights of assembly.
Boo hoo! Poor James Odin is being oppressed everyone. Be super duper nice to him, you know how sensitive and thin-skinned the fascists are.
@Donal O’Leary: you are making yourself out to be a proper knacker
@Bryan Kelly: A certain irony in calling someone a fascist just because they disagree with you
Such binary thinking is sort of fascist
It’s not fascism. There are some admirable elements of fascism. What you’re describing is bigotry and has only been found left of the divide in the past 70 years.
100% correct James. Ireland has central/left and full on left. Also, antifa have proven to be incapable of rational debate on conducting themselves nonviolentyly. The only political violence in south of the border has been committed by leftists. Destruction of property during gay marriage ref and expected to be a lot more come a referendum regarding the 8th ammendment.
@A hater – can”t think of too many, TBH. Fascism is the 1st cousin of communism. Both are totalitarian, leftwing, statist ideologies, very dangerous for free trade and religious + individual liberty.
@Bryan – honestly I could write the script for you over emoting lefties no matter what the topic. ‘Racist’, ‘bigot’, ‘fascist’. That about covers it. Clowns with tourettes.
And conservatives lose their minds if you use a singular “they” and send violent death threats to children who don’t stand up for a song.
Yup…it’s the liberals who are overly sensitive.
Sup the whole country except one constituency voted for equal marriage. On other issues D4 is patronising to people who aren’t globalists and uber liberals
Her youngest is named Thatcher, enough said.
wally will be delighted they made up.. a big p*ss up at AAA headquarters to celebrate.
Racists! They are no more Irish than that idiot Bill O’Reilly
@JFN – to call someone a racist without any evidence is a disgusting slur.
Cheers for sticking up for us Graham! Couldn’t do it without you, you channel hopping fairy
Americans…
Willing to blow anyone out of the water. Come on, try me. Defend your political opinions or I’ll reveal them as.emotional, reactionary nonsense.
@A hater:
You follow David Duke on Twitter. Enough said about your allegiances and “political opinions”
@A Hater
I’ve a question for you.
Why do you sound like a cartoon superhero? Why do you and your ilk (David Duke fan says it all) always sound like that.
The pseudo-intellectualism coupled with the absurdly inflated rhetoric and feelings of self-importance speaks of massive insecurity.
Maybe try and improve yourself rather than just spouting whatever nonsense you get from the former KKK Grand Dragon.
Hannity has gone full Trump. At least Kelly tries to be impartial.
Horseshite
Seems at this point you can only be Irish if you’re living, working and paying taxes elsewhere.
Out makes me sick to my stomach to share my heritage with these two disgusting pigs.
*It
@Philip – in the disgusting stakes, you’re way ahead of them.
@Squarepeg01: oooooooh, burn…..
Tim Kaine used the same line to explain his interruptions in VP Debate
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