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The Candid Honesty of President Rodrigo Duterte and His Desperate Detractors
Posted on Wednesday, 15 March 2017
The Candid Honesty
of President Rodrigo Duterte
and His Desperate Detractors
By Apolinario Villalobos
The detractors of Duterte seem to be at the
end of their wits on how to push the guy in the corner. Before they could think
of any unbecoming act that they imagine or heard to have been done by him, the
wise president is already in front of the microphone announcing to the world
what he has been doing and what gifts he received in all candid honesty. Still,
in desperation, his detractors use his candid honesty against him. Despite
Duterte’s manifestation of honesty coupled with the Visayan witty humor, the
detractors are saying that he is not serious in what he says. They forgot that
Duterte is a Minadanoan with various ethic blood flowing in his vein, but
brought up in a Visayan surrounding. As the detractors are blinded by hate,
they failed to discern that Duterte uses humor only when he feels “at home”
with his audience during which he also uses Davao-Visayan dialect.
Duterte was honest about his election campaign
funds by admitting that he had a “surplus” which he divulged to be used to help
the calamity victims. The story about his supposedly millions in a bank, died a
natural death when he gave authority to the bank to reveal his records. He
admitted to have had two wives, but today just lives only with one after having
been separated legally from his first wife who remains close to him, being the
mother of his grown up children. He breached the protocol by inviting the
Japanese emperor to his home and showed his bedroom with all its simple
furnishing highlighted by the mosquito net. He is vocal about his frugal meals,
especially, ginisang monggo. He admitted to have killed rapists. Who among the
government officials can be that honest, that put the people he deals with, at
ease. In short, the guy is not a hypocrite, unlike SOME of the Roman Catholic
“leaders” and MOST of the government officials who are corrupt and have
unashamedly remained in their posts.
Trillanes and de Lima failed to pin him
down with the extra-judicial killing issue which has dogged him since he was
the mayor of Davao for three consecutive terms. The arrogance and intellectual
pretentions of de Lima did not help her even when she was the Commissioner of
Human Rights until she became Secretary of the DOJ. Trillanes on the other
hand, relied on “second hand” information – all rumors. He literally pushed
Matobato behind the bars when he made the latter testify against Duterte which
boomeranged as his sworn testimonies of killings were used against him. And,
now Trillanes is using another guy, who is likely to land in jail, too, when he
duplicated the blunder of Matobato. Still, Trillanes is threatening to bring
out four more “witnesses”….all desperate moves, as at this point in time, he
could already feel his downfall when he steps out of the Senate in less than
two years from now.
Joining the fracas is another desperate
political personality whose “victory” as Vice-President is highly questionable
– Lenny/Lenie Robredo. As she proved to be a poor researcher, she relied on rumors from “friends”, especially, on the
latest issue about the “palit-ulo”, literally, “change of head”, which means,
if the police fail to pick up their target drug personality in his home, they simply
pick another member of the family to take his or her place which is ridiculous.
And to magnify this credulity, she even shares the baseless information with the
United Nations, as if she is dealing with a local fiscal!. Her act is very
unethical, especially, being the second highest official of the land.
The world will definitely laugh at Robredo
as her statements imply her defense of the criminal drug personalities who are
killed extra-judicially. Due process proved useless in the past in dealing with
the drug problem in the country, thereby, necessitating, an “iron hand”. In
this regard, the Filipinos saw in Duterte their hope based on his cleansing of
Davao City. Robredro and her cohorts on the other hand, want the incorrigible drug
addicts, drug pushers, drug lords, rapists and robbers go scot-free because “they
have the right to live….how about the life of their victims that they have
taken away?
This woman from Naga has not done anything
about the rape victims of the drug addicts… not even for the bread winners of
families who have become victims of these trigger-happy and mentally-deranged criminals. She also joined
hands with the equally imprudent old Roman Catholic bishops whose advocacy is
“to stop the killing”….Christians kuno who do not even bother to explain to
their Roman Catholic flock why the criminals are getting killed and who their
victims are. FROM ALL INDICATIONS, THESE OLD BISHOPS ARE ASHAMED TO SAY THAT
THE EXTRA-JUDICIAL KILLING VICTIMS THAT THEY ARE SUPPORTING ARE INCORREGIBLE
DRUG ADDICTS, DRUG PUSHERS, DRUG LORDS, RAPISTS, ROBBERS….AND THEIR VICTIMS ARE
INNOCENT YOUNG GIRLS AND BREAD WINNERS OF POOR FAMILIES!
THE AFOREMENTIONED GUYS AND GAL ARE SO
DESPERATELY OBSESSED TO PUT DOWN DUTERTE…BUT AS THE SAYING GOES, “YOU CANNOT
PUT A GOOD MAN DOWN”….ADD TO THAT THE SIMPLE WORD, “HONEST ”.
