Our former president, Ninoy Aquino gave his own life and died for the Philippines; for Filipinos freedom, democracy, fight for extra judicial killings, corruption, violence and injustice against the Marcos regime! He was put in jail for 8 years before he was assassinated And yet Ninoy’s Life is not enough for you?! I wish I could agree with Ninoy that “Filipino is worth dying for.” The Philippines, is definitely worth dying for but not the Filipinos with very short memories. Ninoy gave his life. The Filipinos became outraged and finally revolted against the conjugal Marcos dictatorship. But his sacrifice and that of those who laid their lives on the line during EDSA ,were all for naught. The Marcoses are back in power, with the help of Present Pres. Duterte …Marcoses and Duterte are dancing partners again! The corruption, Tyranny and Extra judicial killings which we then believed was a thing of past, is reigning supreme once again! When I look back at EDSA,I tell myself that it was all for nothing! I’m sorry Ninoy, but I have to disagree that “the Filipino is worth dying for.” for the Philippines and not for the Filipinos with very short memories! May they one day wake up and give justice to Ninoy’s belief, for which he gave his own life! Now history repeats itself from the past Marcos to Present Duterte… Poor Philippines! I thank Ninoy for that one selfless act. It prodded us into action like we would never have done.. That is why Ninoy Aquino will always be a national hero in my eyes. He was not a saint. He was flawed as anybody else. But he did more to ignite that perfect storm that liberated Philippines from a decade of coerced silence.
On the other hand, The alleged human rights violations and extra judicial killings in the Philippines are nothing compared that to the US and EU. Here in the Philippines, only drug pushers and drug lords are being killed and hardened criminals too. 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’. This is abortion and should be a heinous crime! This is the worst kind of human rights violations and extra judicial killings!!! So don’t lecture us on human rights. Let De Lima and all human rights advocates in the Philippines request asylum to these countries where the leaders are idiots and violators of the sacred right to life. This is not even including those deranged people who kill students in the schools.
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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!!
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.
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.
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!
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.