Which is more important: Human rights or human lives?
In his SONA, the president declared in no uncertain terms, that the war against drugs shall continue to be relentless and chilling. He is not distracted by alleged human rights abuses. To him, human lives are more important. It is his determination that by continuing this undertaking, he is protecting millions from becoming victims of crimes arising from the use, possession, trade, and manufacturing of illegal drugs. The president is bull-headed, uncompromising and determined. Nobody can stop him. Not Trillanes, not de Lima, not even the international community of human rights advocates. He has a whole nation of 110 million lives to safeguard. He is the president, and he will do his job.
President PNoy never even mentioned illegal drugs in his six SONAs. If ever he did, they were all words and no positive action. For six years, by his negligence and ineptitude, the government allowed drugs to proliferate, to the extent that ‘’drug tiangges’’ mushroomed like jueteng and lotto outlets. Now the yellowtards of PNoys obstruct the war against drugs. Unwittingly, the LP and the Aquino partisans like Trillanes, Roxas, de Lima, and Hontiveros give aid and comfort to the enemies of the state. GMA and FVR also did nothing draconian to fight the drug menace.
When Special Action Force troopers were massacred in Mamasapano, neither the LP nor the PNoy government complained of human rights violations. When the many mediamen were massacred in the Maguindanao, the human rights activists were mysteriously silent. When policemen are ambushed by rebel forces, the Human Rights Commission remains silent as if these atrocities are just okay. Don’t the police have human rights too? When Zamboanga City and later, Marawi City were pillaged by terrorists, innocent children and women murdered, and the whole cities pulverized and burned, no yellow advocate came denounced the crimes against humanity.
The president has a mandate from 16 million Filipinos (it should have been 20 million had he not been cheated by PCOS machines) to clean up the mess which Cory, FVR, Erap, GMA, and PNoy allowed to proliferate unabated for decades. The president will just be true to his mandate by not stopping the drug war. Many will die, of course. Don’t kid yourselves. This is not an excursion, but war. It is better if the criminals are the ones eliminated. This is survival of good against evil. Rather than endangering the lives of innocent children and other victims of heinous crimes, we have, at last, a government which is not sleeping on the job. We don’t like killing, we are Catholics. But it is not a crime to defend ourselves. This is a matter of self-defense.
If there is a choice between killing and being killed, the law allows us to defend ourselves, to defend our relatives, and to defend even strangers. Drugs is an unlawful aggression. We did not provoke the drug addicts. The means that we use is reasonable. We have a perfect self-defense.
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