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Originally Posted by evilnewbie
People think Duterte is crazy... a psychopath... etc etc... I see a vigilante... someone tired of the corrupt government and police force... I don't think he is crazy, he knows exactly what he is doing and completely aware of the events around him... He isn't a psychopath because he doesn't murder people indiscriminately, he has a focus on drug dealers... His method is definitely harsh, but quite effective... I am not condoning what he does but the only people who have an opinion are really the people who elected him... he's been quite frank to the people of the Philippines, he told them "I am going to kill you" in reference to the drug dealers... I don't understand why people are scapegoating him when it was the will of the people... the people there seem quite happy, Duterte may get another term... I find it odd that liberals want to defend criminals... but the genocide in Rwanda for simply being from another tribe.. the liberals give that a pass...
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Speaking at the same forum, Duterte told business leaders he had been using the painkiller fentanyl to relieve severe pain after a "bad slip."
"I have this migraine every day. I had a bad slip ... I hit my head on the cement. I have a lot of issues with my spine," he said on Monday.
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This is the stuff Prince got hooked on after being on pain meds for pain resulting from jumping off speakers on high heel boots for years. This stuff I have read is something like 10 x or 20 x more powerful than heroin (which originated as a pharmaceutical drug for pain relief and other ailments too).
I suspect he is a drug addict himself given his choice to inform people of his health problems and justify his opiate drug
dependency. But an opiate addict like a lot of white American soccer moms in the upper-middle-classes.
As the late Father Malachi Martin (Catholic priest released from Jesuit vows but still remained a priest) stated in an interview, the older we get it is usually the case the worst we get in our sins, not the better.
I'm under no obligation by Christ to endorse an American view held by either political cults, left or right, in the simple minded USA.
Duterte like Hillary and Podesta (actually, all humans including myself) are
sinners. And he will have to answer to the one crucified for our sins for the sins he (Duterte) committed. He may well be given glimpses of repented drug addicts and drug dealers in heaven, whilst he may possibly get damned to hell.
But Duterte is symptomatic response to a problem that was increasingly bubbling in the Philippines that liberals and conservatives in that country wanted to ignore. People get overwhelmed and tired of year after year, decade after decade, of living in dangerous areas and being on guard as potential prey.
The Catholic Church will take a historically beating for this too. Today it is all gravy but the intellectual and moral view will change eventually and Catholics will again go down in history as having supported and birthed forth as fruit from their tree of culture great evil and Nazi-like murders and death squads.
Eventually science--the influence of such--will sway towards my views that drug addiction is a medical issue (spiritual as well involving character issues), like alcoholism, and that criminalizing it and drugs only empowers the lower rungs of society not inclined to become engineers, physicists, teachers, or nurses but rather to seek
fast money by exploiting others weaknesses and probably joining criminal organizations.
Not that all drug dealers are terrible or "bad" people. All are not. But there are some very wicked ones among them, just like there are some very wicked people among drug addicts, or police officers.
The Portugal model of decriminalization would have been the better route. Along with reducing politicians pay, increasing police officers pay, and instituting a universal basic income for all citizens of the Philippines.
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