The Extrajudicial Killings Will Continue Until Morale Improves

To understand Trump’s war on the Constitution, we need to visit the Philippines

Public domain photo of Rodrigo Duterte

And now, it’s time to talk about Rodrigo Duterte.

Who?

As the president of the Philippines from 2016 to 2022, Duterte launched a heavy-handed pogrom against drug dealers in his nation that the current regime in the U.S. seems determined to emulate.

And why not? Duterte’s efforts, which reportedly included enough extrajudicial assassinations in the streets for charges to be brought against him in front of the International Criminal Court, were popular among a large number of Filipino citizens.

It isn’t hard to imagine the mad clown in the Oval Office thinking that he can get his death and hate cult on board with a similar policy in the United States. Who exactly the U.S. regime wants to target isn’t clear aside from “not themselves.” Could be you, could be me. Could be immigrants, but it might be young Black men. Or all of the above.

No matter who the regime’s target is, there’s a template.

Duterte won the presidential election by warning Filipinos that their nation was on the verge of becoming a narco-state. Drugs plagued the country at that time, so the fear-mongering resonated.

He responded to his victory by launching a campaign against drug dealers that included calls for police to shoot drug dealers in the street and promising immunity to those who heeded the call.

Duterte wasn’t the first Filipino president to embrace extrajudicial crimes. The country has a long history of that, from Ferdinand Marcos to Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, who turned a blind eye to death squads in the city of Davao, again in part because the general public was fed up with crime and a slowly moving judicial system.

The extrajudicial killings in Davao killed 107 people in its worst year. Among those killed were kids, referred to as “Street children” by the local press. The mayor of Davao during that worst year, 2004, was Rodrigo Duterte.

President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo subsequently named Duterte her adviser on crime. After that, he became president and implemented the same policy nationwide that had worked for him in Davao, but as president, he did so much more blatantly.

Estimates of extrajudicial killings during Duterte’s term range from 6,000 to 30,000, depending on the source.

Politico wrote that the mad clown’s own State Department raised significant alarms about Duterte’s policies in 2017:

According to the State Department’s 2016 Human Rights Report, which was last updated in March, police and vigilantes in the Philippines had killed more than 6,000 suspected drug dealers since July, the month after Duterte took office. An “apparent governmental disregard for human rights and due process” was among the State Department’s “most significant human rights problems” in the Philippines.

So what did Trump do in 2017? He called Duterte to congratulate him on his drug dealer eradication campaign:

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Wrote the exalted one:

“I just wanted to congratulate you because I am hearing of the unbelievable job on the drug problem. Many countries have the problem, we have a problem, but what a great job you are doing and I just wanted to call and tell you that.”

Fast forward to a couple of days ago, when the mad regime, led by someone who seems to be oozing orange gastric juices from his face, deployed this snuff film to the True Sociopath social networking site (I’ve only included the image of the snuff film, which I refuse to post):

Screencap from True Sociopath; fair use claim (but if it reaches that point, I’ll probably be disappeared instead)

What kind of patriots would we be if we assumed that the mad clown’s snuff film is a video of people doing what people in speedboats do all the time — having fun — before getting killed? Maybe Venezuelans don’t know how to have fun, or can’t afford speedboats unless they’re paid for with drug money?

Let’s check out the route the drug-laden speedboat would have to take to get to the U.S. and kill 50,000 of us, shall we?

Screencap from Google Maps

Even if we handicap the mad clown trip by letting the speedboat start in Aruba, which is sort of off the Venezuelan coast, and measure the distance as the crow flies, allowing for a super duper speedboat that can drive itself through Cuba like it’s parting the Red Sea, we are looking at a 1,161-mile trip to Key West.

That’s one helluva speedboat. Any Venezuelan with that kind of boat wouldn’t be plying the tricky ocean currents of the Caribbean during hurricane season to sell fentanyl. In a speedboat. They’d be in Key West selling the best speedboats in the world to eager consumers.

Nope, this was, quite simply, an extrajudicial killing by a guy who called Rodrigo Duterte one fine day in 2017 to tell him, “Job well done on those extrajudicial killings, Rodrigo.”

You might be thinking, well, whatever, fun story, but I have a plane to catch.

You might also think it won’t happen in the U.S.

Tell that to the folks in Chicago who are dealing with rogue ICE agents rappelling off their apartment roofs from helicopters and zip tying their naked children together before sending them off to the nearest detention camp.

Tell that to Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, who now has to contend with a madman deploying the Illinois and Texas National Guard to try to crush legitimate protests.

Even Trump-appointed judges are trying to warn us about the possible imposition of martial law (search the interwebs for info on the threats against Portland, Oregon).

It’s only a matter of time before an extrajudicial killing happens here, if it hasn’t already.

What will we do when that happens?

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