Total Cleansing of the Philippines may be Impossible, but Something is being Done by Duterte
Posted on Monday, 19 September 2016
TOTAL CLEANSING OF THE PHILIPPINES MAY BE
IMPOSSIBLE
BUT SOMETHING IS BEING DONE BY DUTERTE
By Apolinario Villalobos
Unlike the past administrations, something
is being done by the Duterte’s own today as regards the problem on drugs and
criminality. It is an accepted fact that had the past administrations after
Marcos did their job in at least curbing the proliferation of the drug menace
in the country, it could have not gone to the seemingly uncontrollable extent
at the time of the Duterte administration. Pro-life advocates say that since
the death penalty had no effect on criminals anyway, it is good that it has
been scrapped. They forgot that when Marcos had a big time Chinese drug lord
shot at Luneta, there was an exodus of other drug lords out of the country and
the spread of illegal drug somehow decreased, as even the use of marijuana to
which the drug users resorted was minimized.
Duterte himself, insisted that the reason
why some observers say that the death penalty has no effect on criminals is because,
the laws were not strictly implemented. Although there were apprehensions
before, convictions were very insignificant in number due to corrupt judges or
the so-called “rogues in robe”, even the police rank has been tainted with
involvement in view of the so-called “recycled drugs” that find their way to
the streets. Some high-ranking government officials were not spared with the
uncovering of the systematic “narco-political” scheme in which “narco-money” is
raised to finance the campaign of many politicians who as expected get elected.
Even some of those in the military are involved according to the list revealed
by Duterte. As it is a public knowledge that as soon as apprehensions were
blotted down, but with suspects bailed out by their financiers who will be
hanged or convicted to die if there are no convicts?
The stumbling blocks in the effort of
cleansing are the so-called, religious and human rights advocates who by their
acts, show that those they protect are the criminals instead of the victims.
Their banner is emblazoned with “unjust extrajudicial killings” with their
fingers pinpointing at the police and the new president. Not a single banner
carries even a lightly-written “save the victims of illegal drugs”. Their acts
show hypocrisy to the highest level!
Total cleansing of the country from illegal
drugs could mean a lot for the Filipinos who are surprised by the number of
those affected, as practically, greed has bred corruption in all levels and
sectors of the society. Again, the problem here, are the stumbling blocks.
By the way, in building highways, boulders
and rocks that block the way are bulldozed, otherwise, the highways will never
be leveled and paved with either concrete or asphalt.
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