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In the early morning hours of Tuesday, President Rodrigo Duterte indicated to a roomful of businessmen that he was highly dependent on the drug Fentanyl to manage his pain. Duterte explained he was taking Fentanyl “to relieve the pain” he was feeling in various parts of his body. He described his pain: “I had a bad sleep, the last one was this. And I hit the…I have a lot of issues with my spinal. My doctor would want to operate but you know my wife was a nurse and she used to work in the States, United States, and she said, since a lot of operations for the spinal that went awry, that went wrong. So that if you guys see me always with a sad mode, I am actually pushing a nerve here to relieve the pain. And even if when I’m doing my arms sa kimbo and sometimes I do this…It’s actually pushing something here to relieve the pain.”
Rodrigo Duterte has announced he personally killed suspected criminals when he was mayor of his home city of Davao in the Philippines, cruising the streets on a motorcycle and “looking for trouble”. The country’s president made the comments in a speech late on Monday night as he discussed his campaign to eradicate illegal drugs, which has seen police and unknown assailants kill around 5,000 people since he became president on 30 June. “In Davao I used to do it personally. Just to show to the guys [police officers] that if I can do it, why can’t you,” he was quoted as saying by AFP, talking of his two decades as mayor of the southern city of 1.5 million people. “And I’d go around in Davao with a motorcycle, with a big bike around, and I would just patrol the streets, looking for trouble also. “I was really looking for a confrontation so I could kill.”
originally posted by: iTruthSeeker
I don't think he is hunting Sunday school teachers.
originally posted by: iTruthSeeker
I don't think he is hunting Sunday school teachers.
originally posted by: IkNOwSTuff
I think its easy for us in the west to judge but until youve spent some time in SE Asia you have no idea, its a whole other world.
If hes killing drug dealers Im all for it but the average junkie is a bit different.
Death for people who push death seems fair but vigilante justice can get messy, my issue is whats to stop someone killing their neighbour that they dont like and saying they were on drugs?
originally posted by: zosimov
originally posted by: iTruthSeeker
I don't think he is hunting Sunday school teachers.
Your comment is a bit vague so I thought I'd ask for clarification: are you saying you're in support of extrajudicial executions?
originally posted by: iTruthSeeker
originally posted by: zosimov
originally posted by: iTruthSeeker
I don't think he is hunting Sunday school teachers.
Your comment is a bit vague so I thought I'd ask for clarification: are you saying you're in support of extrajudicial executions?
In this case, not really, or at least it is not how I would go about it as far as drug dealers. Now violent criminals, yes I would fully support vigilantes, in cases where the law did not work (catch and release, slap on the wrist for the 434th crime, etc)
originally posted by: underwerks
originally posted by: IkNOwSTuff
I think its easy for us in the west to judge but until youve spent some time in SE Asia you have no idea, its a whole other world.
If hes killing drug dealers Im all for it but the average junkie is a bit different.
Death for people who push death seems fair but vigilante justice can get messy, my issue is whats to stop someone killing their neighbour that they dont like and saying they were on drugs?
Either it's all ok, or none of it is ok. Drug users are also the suppliers the majority of the time, mostly from necessity.
originally posted by: IkNOwSTuff
originally posted by: underwerks
originally posted by: IkNOwSTuff
I think its easy for us in the west to judge but until youve spent some time in SE Asia you have no idea, its a whole other world.
If hes killing drug dealers Im all for it but the average junkie is a bit different.
Death for people who push death seems fair but vigilante justice can get messy, my issue is whats to stop someone killing their neighbour that they dont like and saying they were on drugs?
Either it's all ok, or none of it is ok. Drug users are also the suppliers the majority of the time, mostly from necessity.
If someone was selling smack or yaba to my loved ones you can bet Id be more than happy to dob them into some vigilantes if that was an option in Oz.
When you go from being a user to a pusher in my mind youve lost your victim status and most likely your soul, anyone with that level of disregard for others and is actively harming/slowly killing people should be removed from the gene pool.
I dont buy into your all or nothing mentality, life has alot of grey areas
originally posted by: underwerks
originally posted by: IkNOwSTuff
originally posted by: underwerks
originally posted by: IkNOwSTuff
I think its easy for us in the west to judge but until youve spent some time in SE Asia you have no idea, its a whole other world.
If hes killing drug dealers Im all for it but the average junkie is a bit different.
Death for people who push death seems fair but vigilante justice can get messy, my issue is whats to stop someone killing their neighbour that they dont like and saying they were on drugs?
Either it's all ok, or none of it is ok. Drug users are also the suppliers the majority of the time, mostly from necessity.
If someone was selling smack or yaba to my loved ones you can bet Id be more than happy to dob them into some vigilantes if that was an option in Oz.
When you go from being a user to a pusher in my mind youve lost your victim status and most likely your soul, anyone with that level of disregard for others and is actively harming/slowly killing people should be removed from the gene pool.
I dont buy into your all or nothing mentality, life has alot of grey areas
If you see drug users as victims, I can understand why you would think the way you do. No one that chooses to do drugs is a victim of anything but their own choices. And as free people, we should be allowed to make those choices, even at our own detriment. Freedom isn't always pretty.
The war on drugs is a war on human nature and a war on what should be one of the most basic freedoms. The freedom to intake what we choose into our own body. Life does have a lot of gray areas, but this isn't one of them.
originally posted by: IkNOwSTuff
originally posted by: underwerks
originally posted by: IkNOwSTuff
originally posted by: underwerks
originally posted by: IkNOwSTuff
I think its easy for us in the west to judge but until youve spent some time in SE Asia you have no idea, its a whole other world.
If hes killing drug dealers Im all for it but the average junkie is a bit different.
Death for people who push death seems fair but vigilante justice can get messy, my issue is whats to stop someone killing their neighbour that they dont like and saying they were on drugs?
Either it's all ok, or none of it is ok. Drug users are also the suppliers the majority of the time, mostly from necessity.
If someone was selling smack or yaba to my loved ones you can bet Id be more than happy to dob them into some vigilantes if that was an option in Oz.
When you go from being a user to a pusher in my mind youve lost your victim status and most likely your soul, anyone with that level of disregard for others and is actively harming/slowly killing people should be removed from the gene pool.
I dont buy into your all or nothing mentality, life has alot of grey areas
If you see drug users as victims, I can understand why you would think the way you do. No one that chooses to do drugs is a victim of anything but their own choices. And as free people, we should be allowed to make those choices, even at our own detriment. Freedom isn't always pretty.
The war on drugs is a war on human nature and a war on what should be one of the most basic freedoms. The freedom to intake what we choose into our own body. Life does have a lot of gray areas, but this isn't one of them.
As an occasional recreational user of weed myself I dont think all drug users are victims, I think junkies are victims though.
I like you dont think drugs should be illegal, if alcohol is OK I dont see why weed isnt. Even harder stuff I think should be regulated but legal, it would solve a whole heap of issues and save taxpayers millions, not to mention tax revenues.
The problem is alot of people are pressured in one way or another into taking drugs, in SE Asia its normally men getting young girls hooked who they then get to work as prostitutes to make them money.
For most people over there weed is as bad as smack and almost without exception people dont want drugs in their society
From a western perspective we are on the same page but its obvious you have no idea of the realities of how things are in non western countries.