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Treathyl FOX replied 7 years, 9 months ago

Hope you don’t mind me re-quoting you. But I need you to understand what I honed in on in while reading your blog post.

“Here in the Philippines, only drug pushers and drug lords are being killed and hardened criminals too.”

~ Are you sure about that? Because dead people can’t talk. Did they ever come to trial or were they just shot in the streets like dogs??

“In the US & EU human beings who are not being born yet are being killed by the millions every year in the pretext of ‘choice’.”

~ Truer words were never spoken. It’s a shame and a disgrace.

“So don’t lecture us on human rights.”
Who’s lecturing you folks? I just read a news headline that we’re trying to impeach our own president! Who’s got time to lecture y’all? We’re busy! Really really busy!!
Eve York replied 7 years, 8 months ago

These are what I am sure are heart felt ideas. You obviously love your country but is killing really the answer. Isn’t that a bit dramatic? Or, do the drug lord and pushers need to be killed? I live in the US and believe me I am not happy with Mr. Trump. I hate liars and big business jerks who come in and think they know it all. It takes many heads to do the best and right thing. Not just one person.
- josie_ replied 7 years, 8 months ago
  
  We in the Philippines unfortunately don’t have the facilities you in the US have to lock up 1 out of 10 persons in federal, state and prisons ran by private corporation. Is killing drug lords and pushers morally wrong? That would depend on whether you or a relative of yours have been a victim of drugs.
  - Treathyl FOX replied 7 years, 8 months ago
    
    Mam. My comments to your statements are presented with a genuine respect and concern for the nation of the Phillipines. Please don’t take offense. But I take issue with what you’ve said.
    
    * “Is killing drug lords and pushers morally wrong?”
    
    The answer is Yes. Because “killing” is morally wrong.
    
    But not many will argue that point in your country for fear the next bullet may have their name on it.
    
    At the rate things are going in your country (per what is reported via our media), you really don’t know if the next bullet has your name on it. How do you know you don’t have an enemy who would be very happy to use permission to engage in “extra judicial killings” as a convenient way to get rid of you? You don’t know that do you?
    
    Do you really think such “authorized activities” are the way to clean up a country and make life better for the citizens? When a person has been given the power to pull the trigger and never has to bring the accused to justice for trial, and they don’t have to show their face either, you open the door to an “OFFICIAL convenient form of murder”? That’s scary. That’s actually scarier than ruthless drug dealers roaming the streets.
    
    You say a distinction is being made and only “drug dealers and hardened criminals” are the targets of the Deaths Squads. Really? Dead people can’t talk. So you just have to take the killer’s word for it don’t you?
    
    You can’t justify those killings (synonym: murders) by saying that you don’t have enough prisons to put the prisoners in like we do in America. Seriously???
    
    I hope your faith in a generation to protect freedom and democracy proves to be a solid ground for you to stand on.
    
    For the record mam: “Extra judicial killings” are a very real threat to freedom and democracy anywhere in the world. Because when leaders are willing to employ that “method of problem solving” in their own country, what’s to stop them from implementing a similar measure as a “foreign policy” for dealing with another country. Killing get easier and easier. Especially when you don’t fear punishment for doing it. For real!
josie_ replied 7 years, 8 months ago

It was a proud moment for Filipinos when the EdSA revolution succeeded. Ninoy Aquino may have been the catalyst that united us in toppling the Marcos dictatorship, but without the millions of ordinary freedom loving Filipinos, EDSA could not have happen. Unfortunately after more than 30 years that historic event has just become a memory. Worst still is that today history is being rewritten by people with vested interest in order to rehabilitate the image of Ferdinand Marcos.”Is the Filipino worth dying for?” you ask. I have faith that this present generation will, like their older generation raise up to protect freedom and democracy if and when it is threaten.