All About Current Admin of Duterte

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Haters need to grow some balls and give where, to whom and when kudos is due.
I am not a fan, but I have to thank his fight against drugs and criminality - I can now text in a jeepney on my way home @ 10 PM. I feel safe after a long time.

A look at the 1st 100 days of Duterte’s phenomenal rule | INQUIRER.net

In just 100 days in office, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has stirred a hornet’s nest by picking a fight with Barack Obama, the United Nations, the European Union and others who have criticized his brutal crackdown against drugs that has left more than 3,600 suspects dead.

In another defining aspect of his unorthodox rule, the 71-year-old Duterte has pushed back his country’s 65-year treaty alliance with the United States while reaching out to China and Russia.

A look at the highlights of the first 100 days of Duterte’s phenomenal presidency.



ANTI-DRUG WAR

Duterte’s obsessive focus on his deadly crackdown on illegal drugs, a hallmark of his three-decade political career, has single-handedly defined his early days in the presidency. It has become his boon and bane and earned widespread condemnations when he compared it to the Holocaust under Hitler. A rough estimate puts the death toll at about 3,600, including more than 1,300 suspects killed in gunbattles with police — an average of 36 killings a day since he took office on June 30.

The scale of the crackdown has been unprecedented, with the police launching more than 23,500 raids so far and arresting 22,500 suspected drug dealers and addicts. More than 1.6 million houses of drug suspects have been visited by police to invite them to surrender and stop using drugs or disengage from the drug trade. About 732,000 addicts and dealers have surrendered, apparently for fear of being killed, overwhelming Duterte and the national police and prompting them to scramble for land and money to build rehabilitation centers.

Duterte’s public threats to kill criminals, especially drug dealers, have helped considerably reduce the crime rate, according to police. A poll by the independent Social Weather Stations last month showed 84 percent of adult Filipinos are satisfied with his war on drugs, but 94 percent felt it’s important for police to arrest suspects alive, underscoring public worry over the growing body count even in a crime- and insurgency-plagued country long accustomed to deadly violence.


Western governments led by the U.S., the EU, the U.N. and human rights watchdogs are alarmed. Amnesty International says Duterte’s “first 100 days as president have been marked by state-sanctioned violence on a truly shocking scale.”

Uncertainty over the killings, Duterte’s SOB-laced verbal assaults on Barack Obama, U.N. Secretary-General Ban ki-moon and other critics, along with flip-flopping government pronouncements, have been partly blamed for foreign selling in the stock market and the peso’s plunge to a seven-year low.

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FRAYING U.S. ALLIANCE

An emerging casualty under the Duterte presidency is the country’s 65-year treaty alliance with the United States, which has been a constant target of his foul tongue. He has had a falling out with President Barack Obama, who along with the State Department raised concerns over the widespread drug killings, earning Duterte’s wrath. In a speech this week, he told Obama “to go to hell.”

While critical of the U.S., Duterte has reached out to China and Russia.


Labeling himself as leftist, Duterte wants U.S. counterterrorism forces to leave his country’s south, saying their presence was helping inflame restiveness among minority Muslims and they could be targeted by extremists. He ordered the military not to join the U.S. Navy in planned joint patrols in the disputed South China Sea and said that an ongoing combat drill by U.S. Marines and their local counterparts, one of 28 joint exercises by the allies each year, would be the last in his six years as president.

The U.S. has generally played down the effect of Duterte’s remarks and underscored the Filipinos’ long affinity with America, although Philippine officials have said that some of their U.S. counterparts have privately been concerned about where Washington’s alliance with the Philippines is headed.

Duterte’s moves to limit engagements with visiting American troops will impede Washington’s plans to expand the footprint of U.S. forces in Southeast Asia to serve as a counterweight to China, including in the South China Sea.

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TAMING DECADES LONG REBELLIONS

Duterte’s effort to resume peace talks with communist insurgents who are waging one of Asia’s longest rebellions has led to cease-fire declarations by both sides. With a cease-fire accord forged with the largest Muslim rebel group under his predecessor, the easing of violence involving the communist insurgents has freed up thousands of troops who were redeployed to execute the president’s order to destroy the brutal Abu Sayyaf group, notorious for kidnapping and beheading Western tourists.

Duterte, however, walks a tightrope in handing concessions to the communists, including the release of long-detained insurgent leaders, without unsettling a military that’s in the front line of a bloody conflict that has left between 30,000 to 40,000 combatants and civilians dead in nearly half a century. The president has made whirlwind visits to at least 22 military and police camps to explain his counterinsurgency strategy, raffle off pistols and update them on a pledge to double their salaries and improve medical care for combat troops.


A Sept. 2 bomb attack that killed 15 people at a night market in his southern hometown of Davao prompted him to declare a “state of lawlessness” to empower the government to harness troops in countering militant threats in urban areas. The attack was a reality check on the complexity of fighting the restiveness Duterte blames on atrocities against local Muslims by American colonial forces around the early 1900s.

[drux]

Lubonga na sa akoang post by oi dili nako kareply tanan. So i'll just make a point.

First of all, I am not against "war on drugs". What I am against is people got killed in the process. And some of those people killed kay napagan lang or mistaken identity. Pres. Duterte is creating a notion that it is okay to kill in the name of "war on drugs" gipahimuslan ni karon sa mga criminals... "patya na ma.charge ra na sa "war on drugs" and get away with it" Asa man ang hustisya ani? Magpasalamat ka kung way membro sa pamilya nimo nga napagan ani. Pero maghuwat pa ba ka.

We can fight against illegal drugs by not resulting into violence by getting into the root cause why people take illegal drugs. And one of the cause is poverty...and many more. Diri unta magfocus wala pay human rights nga ma.violate. killing is a crime against human rights and right now thousands is being killed. Any war will never be won if people got killed.

Philippines is known to be a civilized democratic country with peace loving people. Asa man ko maabot sa kalibutan I am proud to say that filipinos are not violent people... pero sa mga panghitabo karon I honestly dont know how to justify it. So sad for my country...

[firestarter]

Lubonga na sa akoang post by oi dili nako kareply tanan. So i'll just make a point.

First of all, I am not against "war on drugs". What I am against is people got killed in the process. And some of those people killed kay napagan lang or mistaken identity. Pres. Duterte is creating a notion that it is okay to kill in the name of "war on drugs" gipahimuslan ni karon sa mga criminals... "patya na ma.charge ra na sa "war on drugs" and get away with it" Asa man ang hustisya ani? Magpasalamat ka kung way membro sa pamilya nimo nga napagan ani. Pero maghuwat pa ba ka.

We can fight against illegal drugs by not resulting into violence by getting into the root cause why people take illegal drugs. And one of the cause is poverty...and many more. Diri unta magfocus wala pay human rights nga ma.violate. killing is a crime against human rights and right now thousands is being killed. Any war will never be won if people got killed.

Philippines is known to be a civilized democratic country with peace loving people. Asa man ko maabot sa kalibutan I am proud to say that filipinos are not violent people... pero sa mga panghitabo karon I honestly dont know how to justify it. So sad for my country...

You are not against "war on drugs", so? ..................

[drux]

You are not against "war on drugs", so? ..................

So?.... so what?

[GemWArrioR]

kapy na istorya pabalik balik about sa mga namatay sa war on drugs.. may mga kriminal elements na sumasakay sa War on Drugs ni Pres. Digong. ito dapat ang sabta, kay tan awa nimo ang legitimate operations, naa man nag suko at hindi namatay. kanang mga cardboard victims, we don't know if its related to what they are accused of, or just a cover-up on crime itself.

If you hear on some news articles, meron pa ring riding in tandem, at napatay sila ng mga awtoridad, at nakuwa sa kanila ang target dapat nila at cardboard. this means they are covering their crime with the current program of Pres. Duterte war on drugs.

[shebacs]

Sumbong lang ko, sakay ko og bus ba, naa na sad koy nadunggan. (Mura na ko'g tsismos ani, lol)

Hikatabi nya iyang kapamilya, ani ang happening:

Convo 1:
Girl on bus: HA? NAKA-IKYAS SI ANN(not her real name)? How?
(The other line nga wa ko kadunggog)
Girl: Lagi! Wa man to'y gate ilaha. Makalabas ra sya.
(Other line)
Girl: Unsa!? Ni-ambak sa- HA?
(Other line)
Girl: Nag.nightie ra sya? Wa diay to nadala sa rehab?
(Other line)
Girl: Ha? Wa diay nasulod sa rehab? Ingon...
(Other line)
Girl: Ok, ok, ok. Ako tawagan sila.

Convo 2:
Girl: Hello! Oi, naka.ikyas si Ann!
(Other line)
Girl: Wa na-rehab. Nag.promise sya nga dili na so wala na gisulod.
(Other line)
Girl: Oo, patabangon ta og pangita. Naka-nightie ra daw. Og wa nag-tsinelas.
(Other line)
Girl: Oo, padulong nako uli. Tawagi lang sila-
(Other line)
Girl: Oo, mo-absent na lang ko ugma. Sige, bye!

So na.angin ang tanan kay pangitaon pa nila si Ann, nga addict.

[inyourface]

Lubonga na sa akoang post by oi dili nako kareply tanan. So i'll just make a point.

First of all, I am not against "war on drugs". What I am against is people got killed in the process. And some of those people killed kay napagan lang or mistaken identity. Pres. Duterte is creating a notion that it is okay to kill in the name of "war on drugs" gipahimuslan ni karon sa mga criminals... "patya na ma.charge ra na sa "war on drugs" and get away with it" Asa man ang hustisya ani? Magpasalamat ka kung way membro sa pamilya nimo nga napagan ani. Pero maghuwat pa ba ka.

We can fight against illegal drugs by not resulting into violence by getting into the root cause why people take illegal drugs. And one of the cause is poverty...and many more. Diri unta magfocus wala pay human rights nga ma.violate. killing is a crime against human rights and right now thousands is being killed. Any war will never be won if people got killed.

Philippines is known to be a civilized democratic country with peace loving people. Asa man ko maabot sa kalibutan I am proud to say that filipinos are not violent people... pero sa mga panghitabo karon I honestly dont know how to justify it. So sad for my country...

mas okay pa cguro kung mo-ingon ta namaligya ug shabu kay dali ra ang kwarta.. mogamit ug shabu para kurso mang snatch o manulis.. laktod nga pagka-istorya, tapolan ng mga tawhana..

pero basin naka ingon rka ana kay abi nimo dili jud grabe ang problema sa drugas sa pilipinas..

[The_JACKAL]

mas okay pa cguro kung mo-ingon ta namaligya ug shabu kay dali ra ang kwarta.. mogamit ug shabu para kurso mang snatch o manulis.. laktod nga pagka-istorya, tapolan ng mga tawhana..

pero basin naka ingon rka ana kay abi nimo dili jud grabe ang problema sa drugas sa pilipinas..

Mao jud boss, ang drugs walay pili ma pobre manka or ma datu - wala sila kahibaw unsa ka grabe ang problema sa drugs sa pilipinas.

[C'thulhu]

DU30s' first 100 days - Team Philippines losing | mb.com.ph | Philippine News

OF COURSE, WE ARE TALKING ONLY OF THE FIRST 100 DAYS. WE DO NOT INDICATE HERE A WISH-LIST OF OUR HIGHEST ASPIRATIONS TO BE ACHIEVED IN THE 6 YEARS OF THE PRESIDENT’S TERM – BUT ONLY WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN DO-ABLE BY P. DIGONG, IF HE HAD HIT THE GROUND RUNNING INSTEAD OF BEING STUCK IN UNENDING CONTROVERSIES ABOUT EXTRA-JUDICIAL KILLINGS OF DRUG SUSPECTS AND IN HIS ABILITY AT USING CUSS-WORDS AND INSULTS INSTEAD OF CIVILIZED LANGUAGE.

IN THE OVERALL ASSESSMENT BY THIS WRITER, WE FIND OUR TEAM PHILIPPINES LOSING IN THE FIRST 100 DAYS OF DU30’S ADMINISTRATION – AND LOSING BADLY. THIS IS A HUGE DISAPPOINTMENT AND LET-DOWN TO MANY OF US.

EQUALLY DISCOMBOBULATING ARE THE MIX OF “OFF-AND-ON” STATEMENTS BY P. DIGONG ON PHILIPPINES-U.S. RELATIONS, PARTICULARLY ON SECURITY AND ECONOMIC MATTERS.



AT THE TIME WHEN (1) DFA SECRETARY JUN YASAY WAS ADDRESSING THE U.N. IN NEW YORK; (2) DOF SECRETARY SONNY DOMINGUEZ WAS LEADING A TRADE DELEGATION TO THE U.S. AND (3) DND SECRETARY DEL LORENZANA WAS HUDDLING ON SOUTH CHINA SEA/WEST PHILIPPINE SEA CONCERNS WITH U.S. DEFENSE CHIEF ASH CARTER AND THE OTHER ASEAN DEFENSE MINISTERS IN HONOLULU, OUR PRESIDENT CONTINUED TO BERATE OUTGOING PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA, OUTGOING U.N. SECRETARY GENERAL BAN KI-MOON, AND TERMINATED RP-U.S. MILITARY EXERCISES BY END-2016.

SO, WHAT GIVES?? ARE WE THROWING AWAY DECADES OF MILITARY PARTNERSHIP, TACTICAL PROFICIENCY, COMPATIBLE WEAPONRY, PREDICTABLE LOGISTICS, AND SOLDIER-TO-SOLDIER CAMARADERIE JUST LIKE THAT?? ON P. DU30’S SAY-SO

LET ALL DO-GOODERS, P. DIGONG INCLUDED, PLEASE HELP JUN YASAY, DEL LORENZANA, ERNIE ABELLA AND OTHERS CLARIFY, CONTEXTUALIZE, DISBEWILDER, SOOTHE, DETOXIFY AND OTHERWISE ENLIGHTEN MOST OF US WHO BELIEVE THAT – IN THE 21ST CENTURY – HARMONY, PEACE, INCLUSIVENESS, CONNECTIVITY, AND MUTUAL BENEFIT, ETC. ARE PEOPLES’ HIGHEST ASPIRATIONS.

WE HOPE P. DIGONG’S NEXT 100 DAYS WILL BE MUCH, MUCH BETTER, CONSIDERING THE ENTIRE GAMUT OF PHILIPPINE PROBLEMS, STARTING WITH POVERTY.

[drux]

mas okay pa cguro kung mo-ingon ta namaligya ug shabu kay dali ra ang kwarta.. mogamit ug shabu para kurso mang snatch o manulis.. laktod nga pagka-istorya, tapolan ng mga tawhana..

pero basin naka ingon rka ana kay abi nimo dili jud grabe ang problema sa drugas sa pilipinas..

Bai, kahibalo ko kung unsa ka problema ang illegal drugs sa Pilipinas. High school pa lang ko nag.apil na ko ug mga org helping drug addict. I joined a lot of march on the streets rallying against illegal drugs. I visited a lot of drug rehab center. I saw a lot of drug addict in and out of rehab. I saw a lot of mother cried for their addict children. I saw a lot of drug addict overcome addiction.

Ang issue dili ang war on drugs kung dili ang EJK...thousands ang mga nangamatay bai.... kung wala ka ma.alarm ana... I do.