POTUS cancels meeting with Phillippine President

[Mike M (the other one)]

(09-07-2016, 02:16 PM)fredtoast Wrote: So what is your source of knowledge other than media?


How many trials have they had so far for any alleged drug dealers or corrupt officials?  Considering how many have been killed I am sure a lot more have gone to trial, correct?

How do you explain these items


The director general of the Philippine National Police (PNP), Ronald dela Rosa, told a Senate hearing on Aug. 22 that 712 people had been killed in police operations in the seven weeks since the crackdown began, and that another 1,067 had died at the hands of vigilantes.

When he was President-elect, Duterte offered medals and cash rewards for citizens that shot dealers dead.

“Do your duty, and if in the process you kill 1,000 persons because you were doing your duty, I will protect you,” he told police officers on July 1, the day after his inauguration. 

“If you know of any addicts, go ahead and kill them yourself as getting their parents to do it would be too painful,” he was quoted as saying to another crowd that day.

"I don’t care about human rights, believe me,” he says.“



“There is no due process in my mouth,” the President [/url]said on Aug. 7.  That night, he named 159 judges, public officials, and even police officers, whom he claimed were involved in the country’s narcotics trade. He ordered that the policemen on the list be immediately dismissed, the politicians have their government-assigned security details revoked, and the judges to report to the Supreme Court within 24 hours.  In the manner of a dictator, he chose to do this on live national television, naming one high-profile individual after another without providing any evidence. 
The list itself is also full of mistakes. The country’s Chief Justice, Maria Lourdes Sereno, pointed out [url=http://www.philstar.com/news-feature/2016/08/09/1611623/full-text-chief-justice-sereno-letter-president-duterte]in an open letter to Duterte that only four of the seven judges named were still on the bench. One of them was dismissed in 2007, and another died eight years ago. When she instructed that nobody named should surrender unless an appropriate arrest warrant had been issued, Duterte said that she “must be joking,” and threatened to withdraw all executive support from her.

I have a lot of Family and Friends over there. They keep me abreast about a lot of what is going on. Along with Filipino Media sources.
Edit: just in case you ask, 1 friend if mine is a Chief of Police's right hand man, and in my wife's family we also have 3 Officers.

Have some mistakes been made? Yes, but the people are turning in crooked people and in turn those are turning in their bosses.

The Media is completely mis-representing this problem.
First, about 700 have been killed from the Police Operations.
about another 1,000 is gang on gang action where they are killing off rats,
the remainder of the deaths aren't even drug or police related, but you know the media will report them as such.

In 2 months, almost 600k people have also surrendered and overall crime has dropped by 50%.

If you surrender, you get the benefit of the doubt to clear your name in court.


Now, back to the OP, the reporter intentionally flubbed it up, D30 did not call Obama an SOB, he called the Reporter an SOB, but that's not how he reported it.

Many people are pissed at this reporter's incorrect translation.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-08/rodrigo-duterte-was-directing-comment-at-reporters-not-obama/7828078