Is it time to kill Duterte?

http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2016/01/17/1543436/duterte-kill-me-if-i-dont-resolve-crimes-6-months

Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte made the call urging Filipinos to kill him if he cannot resolve heinous crimes and illegal drugs within the first six months of his administration if elected president. 

“If I succeed perhaps that would be my greatest contribution to the country, but if I fail, kill me,” Duterte told the crowd during a book launching Thursday at Century Park Hotel in Manila.

"If I fail, kill me."

Strong words from a man who prides himself on his honesty and integrity.  So has crime been resolved since Duterte took the oath of office on June 30, 2016? Six months bring us to the end of December and into 2017.  Is the Philippines crime and drug free in 2017?

February 03, 2017

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/867926/afp-3-soldiers-killed-by-npa-had-at-least-24-gunshots-each

February 28, 2017

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/02/27/asia/philippines-german-behead-abu-sayyaf/

March 03, 2017

http://www.philstar.com/nation/2017/03/03/1677400/woman-strangles-3-kids

March 20, 2017

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cagayan-de-oro/local-news/2017/03/20/p33-million-shabu-seized-cops-pdea-532125

April 6, 2017

http://www.philstar.com/metro/2017/04/06/1688061/boc-seizes-marijuana-shipped-canada

April 7, 2017

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/887221/ex-bulacan-beauty-queen-shot-dead-after-receiving-gifts-from-2-men

April 22, 2017

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20170422/p2g/00m/0dm/008000c

April 25, 2017

http://www.philstar.com/nation/2017/04/25/1693818/npa-kills-zamboanga-del-sur-barangay-chair-allowing-troops-village

April 29, 2017

http://www.philstar.com/nation/2017/04/29/1695072/13-hurt-quiapo-blast

May 02, 2017

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/893605/p2-m-high-grade-shabu-seized-at-batangas-port

Heinous crimes have not stopped. Abu Sayyaf, The NPA, Maute Group and other terrorist organisations are all active and continue to kill civilians and soldiers. Abu Sayyaf is even seeking to extend it's activities into the Visayas.  The blood spilled by communist and Islamic terrorists continues to flow and shows no sign of abatement.

People continue to be violent towards one another. Daily there are reports of killings motivated by revenge, while under the influence of drugs, or out of the inexplicable evil of the heart. Gangs continue to proliferate violence. Women continue to be exploited throughout the country. The Philippines remains a global leader in manufacturing child pornography.

Huge amounts of drugs are routinely seized at customs and in raids across the country. This indicates that there is a market for drugs. There are still addicts in the country and there are still pushers willing to risk everything to import massive amounts of shabu and other drugs. The violent drug war has not eradicated the drug trade or drug use.

The PNP continues to be a corrupt organisation with the CHR recently finding a dozen inmates packed together in a tiny secret jail cell behind a wooden cabinet.  PNP chief Bato even admits the cell was illegal while he continues to defend the police who utilised it. The head of the PNP defends the corruption of the PNP calling it "necessary."

Nothing has changed since Duterte took office. It is business as usual in the Philippines. And that means the business of crime and corruption at every level of society.

Duterte's promise to resolve heinous crimes and drugs within 6 months has gone unfulfilled. He has failed.

So is it time to take him at his word?  

Is it time to kill Duterte?

Geckos: Common and Special

The common house gecko is all over the place here in the Philippines.  They are great for pest control. This gecko is out and about all day and all night scaling the walls, clicking its tongue, and scrounging for insects to eat.

He's just waiting for his meal to show up

However, sometimes they can be quite the problem. Especially when they crawl into places and die. You won't know what's happened until you encounter a putrid smell or see a long train of ants.  Once there were ants all over the rice cooker and when it was taken apart there were four dead lizards who had managed to sneak inside where all the wires are.  The heat undoubtedly cooked them all to death.

They also tend to get squished in the door jamb especially on windy days when the door is blown shut suddenly.  But you won't notice until the smell or the ants come.

This one died in the refrigerator

Smushed in the door

Another lizard smushed in the door jamb 

Aside from getting squished in doors and dying in hard to reach places the gecko also leaves its droppings all over the place on both the walls and the floor.  It is possible, as a gecko scurries across the ceiling, a dropping could fall fresh from the source and into your coffee.

Along with the smaller geckos there is also the large Tokay Gecko.  

Loud and fierce

The tokay gecko is a bit more special and rarer sight because he only comes out at night. The call of the tokay gecko is a loud and unmistakable croak. They will make a home in your rafters or in the trees. While they look and sound fierce tokay geckos are mostly harmless and also eat insects. However, the droppings they leave behind are much larger than the other geckos.

An unfortunate collateral victim in the war against mice

Tokay geckos will hide in your walls

The tokay gecko remains in high demand throughout Asia as a miracle cure for cancer, AIDS, impotence, and other ailments.  Such claims are unfounded but persistent. The perception of the tokay gecko as a miracle cure puts them in danger as a species and also puts the patient's health at risk for consuming them.

The Philippines' government in July also warned that using geckos to treat AIDS and impotence may put patients at risk. 

The geckos, popular as pets in Asia, have long been used as traditional medicine for illnesses such as diabetes, asthma, skin disease and cancer, the report said. Their carcasses are dried up and ground into powder for consumption. In some parts of Asia, Tokay wine or whisky is consumed to boost energy.

http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/wild-claims-asian-geckos-cure-aids-dangerous-species-conservation-group-article-1.978296 

If you don't want these lizards in your home it is easy to capture and release them elsewhere. There is no need to exterminate the geckos. Or eat them. Or sell or use them as medicine. They are your friends. Just make sure to clean up their droppings and watch out for their rotting corpses.

We Are Collapsing

"You say you want a revolution? Well, you know we all want to change the world"

-The Beatles

Filipinos are some of the most politically active people on the planet.  They spend the most time on social media and it's not all sharing funny videos and pictures. A lot of it is activism.  Getting the truth out.  Informing the people about the dark secrets of politicians which everyone knows are there but can't quite grasp because they are not insiders.

Enter We Are Collective.

In March of this year they published part 1 of a proposed 3 part series titled: "Deception."  This series was to expose the rise of Leni Robredo and the evil misdeeds of her late husband.  

The exposé dropped like a bombshell.  Leni responded.  Esquire magazine responded. WAC lost their webpage and was banned from Facebook.  They had published the truth and now were suffering martyrdom.  The Yellow party had smacked them down with all their might and this was justification enough in the eyes of man. Why would the Yellow Party even bother to take down WAC if WAC was not telling the truth?? 

WAC vowed to rise again. They said "You can't cut down the Hydra."  WAC promised to release even more damaging material.

All throughout April they teased they had finally put together part 2.  They made movie-style character posters.  

They made wild speculations about Jesse having a love child.  They defended all their actions saying they are only speculating and considering what could be and looking at every angle.  It doesn't matter if  what they are writing is true because as long as they search for the truth it will surface.

All this in the run up to May 1 when they promised to publish part 2 of "Deception."  

Finally the big day comes.  8am.....10am.....12pm......3pm......and then finally!

Deception 2 will be posted here at 10:00pm Philippine time.  

Instead of uploading the whole piece as one, we are considering serializing the upload. We will be posting the article chapter by chapter, with three hour intervals, to make it easier for you at para hindi kayo malula sa haba kagaya ng dati.

At 5pm WAC finally makes an announcement that we have to wait 5 more hours to get part 1 of part 2!

They decided to serialise it all on Facebook rather than publish the whole thing in one go somewhere else.  Why? Because they have no respect for their readers!  They think their readers cannot handle a long exposé like last time. The think their readers are dumb.

Ulitin namin ha. We're posting it in intervals. To make it more digestible. Not everyone matyaga magbasa. Experience kasi natin dati pag isahang upload people tend to skip some parts. Kung sa pelikula nagfafast forward dahil tinitingnan yung haba. Let's be relaxed this time. The downloadable format will be available after. Thanks!

Nothing to do but wait. Finally 10pm comes around and they actually deliver part 1 of part 2.

https://www.facebook.com/wearecollectivephilippines/posts/254952204979203

Great now we only have to wait 3 hours or so and then part 2 of part 2 will be published.  

But nothing came.  We waited all day and nothing came.  People started getting restless. Trolls came out.  Allegations that the Yellows had sabotaged WAC floated around.  And then around 5pm we get this notice from Darwin Cañete:

Everyone is posting on WAC's FB page wondering what happened and Darwin Cañete cannot relay this message on WAC's FB page where everyone will see it?  Someone else has to grab a screenshot and post it?? What a joke!!  Not to mention that the content of the message is a lie.  WAC's FB page has not been taken down for any reason. Everyone and anyone can comment on WAC's page.

This has been a fiasco from the get-go. WAC's decision to publish ONLY on Facebook and in a serialised form really screwed everything up.  But perhaps not. They admit that this is all a work in progress.  Maybe what they published so far is all they have.

If WAC had any real information and really cared about getting it out to the people they would not have published solely on Facebook.  They would have put it on Pastebin, Scribd, Archive, a throwaway blogspot or wordpress page, or any number of places.  They would have published it all in one go and also had it divided up into smaller packages if they were concerned about their readers not being able to handle so much information.

This is not a Yellow conspiracy to bury the truth!

This is all the result of WAC's incompetence or a cover for their complete lack of any information.

Today is May 3 and people are still waiting.  I have hunch they will be waiting for a long while yet.

The Philippines Needs A Revolution

There is  petition circulating on Change.org asking that Duterte be granted "revolutionary powers."

https://www.change.org/p/the-people-of-the-philippines-to-grant-revolutionary-powers-to-president-rodrigo-duterte

 The accompanying letter reads thus:

Letter to

The People of the Philippines 

My friends and I share the sentiments of many of our FB friends who have called for action to help our President. We are raring to go just like many of you but we have to have a decisive action. 

This political battle is a numbers game. If we claim to have that numbers then we have won. But we just have to show it and use it. We can use our numbers to grant revolutionary powers to President Duterte. 

In EDSA 1986, more than two million people granted Cory Aquino revolutionary powers. They claimed to be representatives of the sovereign will of our people. Cory used this to issue Proclamation # 3 to install a revolutionary government and to adopt a provisional constitution. Can we do this? I believe so. It is not exclusive to the forces of EDSA 86. 

This is what we want to do. We want to initiate a campaign to mobilize the 21 million voters of the President so they can grant him revolutionary powers and do what Cory did. You may call this a campaign to give the opposition a dose of their own medicine. This campaign is to help empower our President to accomplish his task of bringing change in our country. 

We have a number to reach and even go beyond it. Cory Aquino needed only two million people to be granted with revolutionary powers. And 17 million people to ratify the 1987 Constitution. 

We need a united front effort to surpassed the 2 million mark. 

We can start with an internet campaign and when we have the numbers, we can converge to grant President Duterte the revolutionary power. 

We can start small. Remember, revolutions were started by a small group of patriots. We can start where we are with our family, relatives and friends. 

Never despise a small beginning. Remember, the flap of a butterfly can create a tornado. We just have to continue to love our people and believe that we are doing this for them. And by the grace of God, we can succeed. 

We are not really that small. In fact, there are more than 21 million Filipinos waiting and eager to come into action. We just have to join hands and move as one. All Duterte supporters must come together. 

This must be a people’s initiative to reflect the true will of the Filipino people. We have to put up our own provisions to accomplish this.

This is our idea of a decisive action to take. An idea of putting our sentiments into action. What do you think? Can we do this? Will you be part of it? Will you help? 

If you are willing, we will start it. 

We do not desire to lead you. We have to lead ourselves and work together if we want real change be made in our country. We must be driven to do this by our love for our country.

What is this letter even saying?  Is the petitioner unhappy with the 1987 constitution? It seems as if that is the case.  It seems as if the complaint is that Cory Aquino was "granted with revolutionary powers" and that she created a new constitution that is now being used to hamper Duterte in his plans to "accomplish his task of bringing change in our country."

Let's analyse this petition starting with this outlandish claim:

The sovereign will of the Filipino has been hijacked by the political elite and the oligarchy.  They re-engineered our constitution and system of government in 1986  to protect their own selfish interest and perpetuate control over our nation.

How has the sovereign will of the people been hijacked when Cory Aquino had the people behind her. The petitioner contradicts himself:

Cory Aquino needed only two million people to be granted with revolutionary powers. And 17 million people to ratify the 1987 Constitution. 

A nationwide vote on the constitution was held in 1987 and it was ratified.  How is that a hijacking of the sovereign will of the people?

The petitioner does not say. He simply makes baseless assertions and does not attempt to demonstrate the truth of said assertions.

Next:  

Our system of government cannot help us. It was designed to work against us. It cannot be harnessed to achieve real change. It is manipulated by the political opposition to prevent President Rodrigo Duterte from accomplishing his job. It is being used to oust him.

How was the 1987 constitution designed to work against the people?  How is the constitution being manipulated to impede Duterte from doing his job?  

The petitioner does not say.  

And finally:

The only way to bring order in our political system and be able to pursue a real change in our country is through a revolutionary government.

We want to initiate a campaign to mobilize the 21 million voters of the President so they can grant him revolutionary powers and do what Cory did. 

What is meant by "revolutionary government?"  What "revolutionary powers" are to be granted to Duterte?

What does the petitioner mean by "do what Cory did?"  Does he want Duterte to dismiss everyone in congress, dismiss duly elected officials throughout the country, and draft a new constitution?  That is the essence of dictatorship. What's the problem with the current constitution?

Again the petitioner does not say.  

There is nothing specific in this petition. There is no list of grievances and how to fix them. Filipinos are not happy with their government. They know they have been raked over the coals for far too long. Beyond encapsulating the current zeitgeist of discontent for the government this petition is worthless. 

This is less a petition and more an emotional outburst. 

There are 7,864 supporters who have signed this petition and the reasons given are not very hopeful and indicate the most have not given any real thought to the content of the petition.  Most just say "I support Duterte."  One signatory seems to have a firmer grasp on the issues at hand.

100% tax rate????  This person does not know what they are talking about. 

https://www.bir.gov.ph/index.php/tax-information/income-tax.html#it0012

I agree that the Philippines needs a revolution and a revolutionary government.  They can start with these very revolutionary words:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

What the Philippines absolutely does not need is power consolidated in the hands of one man.  No people need a dictator. 

Like the rest of the world what the Philippines needs are statesmen who understand politics and the art of statecraft. Men who understand the people and their needs.  Filipinos who love their country and would pledge their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honour to serve it.  Not men who would use their office as a cloak for plundering the national treasury and enriching themselves. 

Politicians serving the people and not themselves?

Now that's a revolution everyone can get behind!

Pacquiao for President

Boxing superstar and Philippines Senator Manny Pacquiao is set to step back into the ring on July 2nd which has people asking, "When will Manny ever be done with boxing and focus on his job as a politician?"

Coach Freddie Roach has the answer.

http://www.philstar.com/sports/2017/04/27/1694428/roach-pacquiao-retire-boxing-when-he-runs-president

Hahaha!  Right?  I mean surely this is just a joke Roach is making during a press conference.  Just being light-hearted and.......

http://www.thenational.ae/sport/other-sport/boxer-manny-pacquiao-to-consider-running-for-philippines-president

http://sports.inquirer.net/179724/pacquiao-eyes-philippine-presidency

http://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/12/17/16/duterte-pacquiao-will-be-president-someday

Looks like it's not a joke at all.

Manny Pacquiao can certainly run for president in the 2022 elections but that will not guarantee a win.  The people have to elect him.  If Manny Pacquio wins the 2022 presidential election it will be solely the fault of the Filipino people.  They will be the ones who cast the votes.  They will be the ones who demand Manny Pacquiao occupy the highest office in the land. They will be the ones to hand the reigns of power to him.

Is he capable of such a responsibility?

Pacquiao actually tried retirement for a while—after defeating Timothy Bradley in April last year and momentarily shifting his focus to politics—but decided he can’t just leave the boxing spotlight. He returned just a few months later to take on Jessie Vargas, ending his brief hiatus. 

The Horn fight, Roach added, will show whether Pacquiao can indeed juggle boxing and his work as a Philippine senator. 

“He is a good test for us to see where we’re at this point. If we do or don’t continue, how much is being a senator [affecting] training for Manny Pacquiao. The camp went really well when he was a congressman. Congressman is not quite as demanding as a senator. That remains to be seen,” he explained. 

http://www.philstar.com/sports/2017/04/27/1694428/roach-pacquiao-retire-boxing-when-he-runs-president

The primal call of the fight is too strong for Pacquaio to resist. Surely by 2022 he will be too old to fight.  Too tired.  Maybe even punch drunk. But if he does retire the Presidency is much more demanding then being either a Congressman or a Senator and if he can't handle the demands of either of those offices then how can he expect to handle the presidency?

It is fitting that the boxer who would be president is a member of PDP-Laban whose logo is a fist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP–Laban

If Manny runs and wins it will only be because his opponent will be a corrupt Yellow party member. With the election of Duterte Filipinos have shown that they don't want the LP in power anymore.  They don't want more corruption.  They want an honest man who will fight for them and save the country.

How sad that there are no Philippine politicians who fit that bill.

Who Needs A Toilet?

Aside from President Duterte cursing the New York Times in front of Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei it looks as if the ASEAN summit is going well. The PNP should get a big thanks for securing Manila and keeping ISIS at bay.  Does anybody care about those guys?

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/892268/asean-security-measures-forgot-portable-toilets

The Philippine National Police scrambled on Wednesday to produce portable toilets after a ranking police official discovered that nearly 4,000 officers guarding the summit site had nowhere to go to relieve themselves and did not have enough drinking water since Monday. 

Director Oscar Albayalde, National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) chief, inspected the summit site, the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) complex in Pasay City, and found that there was not a single portalet for the policemen deployed in the area. 

“We checked where they were detailed, particularly along Roxas Boulevard and we saw that they had no portalets and not enough water,” Albayalde said in a press briefing. 

Albayalde said the policemen got to drink only when their meals were distributed, as these included water.  

He said the portalets should have been deployed with the policemen on Monday. 

“We have lists for this. All of these are listed down in the requirements so we don’t know why this was overlooked. Good thing we conducted an inspection and we immediately saw what our men needed,” he said.

Now this article is full of lies.  They have nowhere to relieve themselves??  Just go against the wall like a dog, I mean like how the culture is. Why do they think all the walls have this written on them?

Because in the Philippines men piss everywhere whenever they have the urge to go. Why would they use a port-a-potty?

Do they even have port-a-potties in the Philippines?  I have never seen one even on a job site. Did they bother with them when the Pope visited in 2015?

https://www.rt.com/news/224091-manila-pope-police-nappies/

MMDA official Emerson Carlos told AFP that "there have been no complaints" from the traffic police officers over the initiative. 

The Authority’s chairman, Francis Tolentino, even advised all the visitors of the mass, including priests, nuns and the elderly people, to put on nappies as well. 

“If you attend an event that will last for 24 hours, you can’t go around looking for a [portable toilet],” Tolentino told AP.

No they didn't bother with toilets then and what's worse is that the PNP did not issue a single complaint! How's that for the submissive take-what-you-get-and-shut-your-mouth-and-don't-complain-about-it culture here in the Philippines?  The PNP meekly humiliated themselves. Their complaints would not have made a world of difference anyway because no-one anywhere in the Philippines listens to complaints.

"You can't go around looking for a toilet?"  You could if there were toilets stationed in the right places. That is called foresight and event planning. Large concert festivals do this every year. Advising the public to wear diapers is not good planning and it is offensive.

This is lack of toilets is all part of a much larger and disgusting picture of waste management in the Philippines.

No one is thinking about toilets because everyone in the culture from top to bottom simply goes whenever and wherever they have the urge.  Is there a toilet in the house?  They will piss outside.  Does the garbage come once or twice a week?  They will burn it rather than collect it in a bag to be taken.  Are there no garbage cans to to put trash in when out in public?  They will just toss it in the street!

There is no culture of cleanliness in the Philippines.  That is why the water and the air are both very polluted.  That is why people live next to waterways that have a foul disease breeding miasma.

Polluting the environment is shameful.  That idea should be drilled into the minds of the people.  It is a shame to piss outside. It is a shame to burn your garbage or toss it in the street or river. The Philippines is a culture where pride and saving face are very important.  Instilling shame for littering and pissing anywhere might be the only way to combat this toxic aspect of Filipino culture.

SHAMEFUL DISPLAY!!!!

Why is Duterte so Mad?

In a remarkable display of tact and restraint President Duterte kindly asked the New York Times to please refrain from publishing wrongful opinion pieces about him.

http://globalnation.inquirer.net/155506/duterte-new-york-times-better-stop-publishing

“Well, it’s about time that their publication also must stop,” Duterte told reporters in an ambush interview in Malacañang on Thursday. 

“New York Times – asshole, asshole,” Duterte said. “You cannot even criticize your own mistake. Invading a country, making up excuses before the world that is not true, then you have the gall to say stop. You better stop your publishing.”

The New York Times recently published an editorial piece titled "Let the World Condemn Duterte." The writer of this article details the recent compliant filed in the ICC by Jude Josue Sabio.

The lawyer, Jude Josue Sabio, filed the complaint in his own name, but he also represents two men who have publicly said they were paid members of the death squad that Mr. Duterte set up in Davao City when he was the mayor to hunt down drug dealers. 

There is hardly anything offensive or speculative in the NYT piece. It's a statement of fact, a compliant with the ICC has been filed, and a statement of opinion:

This is a man who must be stopped.

So what is Duterte mad about?  Is he mad that the NYT and others continue to link him to the Davao Death Sqauds?

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/693373/duterte-confirms-ties-with-davao-death-squad

In an interview in the local television program “Gikan sa Masa, Para sa Masa” which aired on Sunday, Duterte admitted his link to the infamous Davao Death Squad (DDS). 

“They say I am the death squad? True, that is true,” Duterte said. 

Duterte, who is tied with Interior Secretary Mar Roxas in third place in the recent Social Weather Stations electoral survey, warned that the number of dead crime suspects would shoot up to 100,000 if he got elected. 

“If by chance, God will place me there, the 1,000 will become 100,000,” he said. 

“Diyan mo makita na tataba ang isda sa Manila Bay. Diyan ko kayo itatapon (You will see bigger fish in Manila Bay because that is where I will dump your bodies),” he added. 

“I do not want to be president. I do not want to kill people so do not elect me as president,” Duterte said. 

The local chief executive remains firm in his mission to kill everyone “who makes the lives of Filipinos miserable.” 

“Papatayin ko talaga kayo (I will kill you),” he stressed, referring to criminals. 

“I will kill all of you who make the lives of Filipinos miserable. I won because of the breakdown in law and order,” he said.

He admitted with his own mouth that he was involved with the DDS.  He said he did not want to become president because he did not want to kill more people.  To all the criminals listening he said, "I will kill you!"

But then, two days later:

http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2015/05/27/1459339/duterte-retracts-admission-death-squad-links

Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte said his statement on "DDS" links meant “Davao Development System” and not “Davao Death Squad.”

HAHAHAHA so funny right?  Joke lang!! When he said DDS he really meant Davao Development System not Davao Death Squad.

Despite the fact that this is how he answered the question:

"Ako, ako daw death squad? True, that's true," he said in an interview with Gikan sa Masa Para sa Masa.

http://news.abs-cbn.com/halalan2016/nation/regions/05/25/15/duterte-admits-links-davao-death-squad-says-hell-kill-100000-criminals

So what is Duterte mad about?

He has admitted to being connected with the Davao Death Squad.

He has admitted to the BBC that he killed three men. 

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-38337746

He has admitted that he drove around on his motorcycle looking for criminals to kill in order to set an example for the police to follow.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/12/14/rodrigo-duterte-used-kill-crime-suspects-set-example-police/

He has admitted he is going to hell for the vicious war on drugs.

http://www.vox.com/world/2017/2/6/14521480/rodrigo-duterte-philippines-president-drug-war-catholic-church-hell

After all these admissions what is Duterte so upset about when the NYT publishes an opinion piece saying "This is a man who must be stopped?"

Why is Duterte so upset when people accuse him of being connected to the Davao Death Squad or for killing people when he has admitted both these facts?

The New York Times is wrong.  The world does not need to condemn Duterte.

He has condemned himself.