Oct 07, 2018 at 04:33 pm

Why Am I Not So Hopeful? Please Be Our Sign of Hope!

Update posted by Ernest Barraquias

Because I am equating this campaign with our recent months' efforts to beg for tiny amounts of help, that brought me tears, broke my heart and crushed my hopes in not a few instances when those who I / we thought were politics-neutral and pro-right-to-life, pro-right-to-due-process or disapproving of Duterte's extra-judicial killings instead harassed us and caused us to be further endangered. We can't state specifics here, but there were also not a few who helped us in very little ways they could.

Duterte is so lucky, he got the most powerful officials in the West to make personal efforts to appease this mastermind of mass murder because he and his security officials effectively held hostage the special security interests of the West in southeast Asia by deftly playing their China-card.

Liberals in the West also get to be moved to action or to issue statements against him by radicals and local communists who helped Duterte win the presidency, supported his pro-China policies that necessitated his program of killings partly to kill dissent in effect & deter opposition to his radical and unpopular policies and acts (using the so-called war on drugs that we long argued is a murder-for-money-&-political gains scheme). These so-called rights fighters just later raised their voices commensurately loud when Duterte begun to be less accommodating to their special interests and threaten to re-arrest their freed leaders.

Drugs and organized crime lords both with and against Duterte enjoy impunity for heinous crimes here, and enjoy their privileges in the West. We will never be as lucky and as favored because we're simple private citizens.


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