So apparently that guy in the news these past few days for calling Barry O a son of a bitch is actually purging the ghettos of the Phillipines with an army of militarized cops and contract killers. Seemingly open invitation to murder anybody you like (or anybody you're paid to) and get yourself an easy 'Get Out of Jail Free' card by saying they were drug pushers. It's like the very concept of why courts and laws exist in the first place has totally eluded the Filipeno president and his voters. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-37172002
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According to the police more than 1,900 people have been killed in drug-related incidents since he took office on 30 June. Of those, they say, 756 were killed by the police, all, they say, while resisting arrest. The remaining deaths are, officially, under investigation.
In practice most will remain unexplained. Nearly all those whose bloodied bodies are discovered every night in the slums of Manila and other cities are the poor - pedicab drivers, casual labourers, the unemployed. Often, found next to them are cardboard signs warning others not to get involved in drugs. This is a war being fought almost exclusively in the poorest parts of the country. People like Maria are used as its agents.
But it is a popular war. In Tondo, the shantytown area next to Manila port, most of the residents applaud the president's tough campaign. They blamed the "shabu" scourge for rising crime, and for destroying lives, although some worried that the campaign was getting out of hand, and that innocent victims were being caught up in it.
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Ahead of his election, he promised to kill 100,000 criminals in his first six months in office. And he has warned drug dealers in particular: "Do not destroy my country, because I will kill you." Last weekend he reiterated that blunt view, as he defended the extrajudicial killings of suspected criminals. "Do the lives of 10 of these criminals really matter? If I am the one facing all this grief, would 100 lives of these idiots mean anything to me?"
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Actually i think he called him "A son of a whore".
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