Let us see how the Twin Presidents opinion on death penalty for drug dealers:
NOTE: Unit 1012 is
not here to make any political endorsement. We just want to show two different
leaders opinion on capital punishment.
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Caricature of Donald Trump and Rodrigo Duterte
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Rodrigo
Duterte versus Donald Trump on Gun Rights
[PHOTO
SOURCE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgvD6TKw7wk]
The
Second Amendment to our Constitution is clear. The right of the people to keep
and bear Arms shall not be infringed upon. Period. – Donald Trump
[PHOTO
SOURCE: http://www.azquotes.com/quote/1300468]
"Please feel free to
call us, the police, or do it yourself if you have the gun - you have my
support," Duterte said.
If a drug dealer resists arrest or refuses
to be brought to a police station and threatens a citizen with a gun or a
knife, "you can kill him",
Duterte said.
"Shoot him and I'll give you a
medal."
He also said that drug addicts could not be
rehabilitated and warned, "If you are involved in
drugs, I will kill you. You son of a whore, I will really kill you."
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Trump Talks Up Death Penalty For Drug Dealers
Tom Angell , Contributor
I cover the policy and politics of marijuana
Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own.
President
Trump, speaking at the White House on Thursday (March 1, 2018), seemed to imply
he supports executing people who sell illegal drugs.
“Some
countries have a very, very tough penalty. The ultimate penalty," he
said. "And by the way they have much less of a
drug problem than we do. So we’re going to have to be very strong on
penalties."
The president
said he thinks sellers of illegal drugs don't get punished harshly enough in
the U.S.
"We
have pushers and we have drug dealers that kill hundreds and hundreds of people
and most of them don't even go to jail," he said. "If you shoot one person, they give you life, they give
you the death penalty. These people [who sell drugs] can kill 2,000, 3,000
people and nothing happens to them."
The public
remarks, at a White House event on opioids issues, come just days after Axios
reported that Trump has privately told a number of people that he supports
executing drug sellers.
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We've begin a nationwide
effort to remove criminal aliens, gang members, drug dealers and others who
pose a threat to public safety. – Donald Trump
[PHOTO
SOURCE: http://www.azquotes.com/quote/1565172]
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"Forget
the laws on human rights. If I make it to the presidential palace, I will do
just what I did as mayor. You drug pushers, hold-up men and do-nothings, you
better go out. Because I'd kill you," he said at his final campaign rally.
"I'll dump all of you into Manila Bay, and fatten all the fish there."
– Rodrigo Duterte
[PHOTO SOURCE: https://www.morningledger.com/10-rodrigo-duterte-quotes-to-celebrate-his-inauguration/1381052/]
[QUOTE SOURCE: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-36251094]
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TWITTER:Jonathan Swan
✔
@jonathanvswanI’ve learned in past two days that Trump has talked up the Chinese, Filipino and Singaporean systems of killing drug dealers to even more people than I originally thought. List includes members of Congress (including some in leadership) & foreign leaders.
Last year,
Trump was quoted in a leaked transcript of a phone call with Philippines
President Rodrigo Duterte praising that nation's bloody “war on drugs” that has
led to thousands of extrajudicial killings.
“I
just wanted to congratulate you because I am hearing of the unbelievable job on
the drug problem,” he was quoted as saying. “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.”
The
International Criminal Court began an inquiry into that country's drug war
killings last month.
While the
president has made a number of suggestive comments implying he supports
radically stepped up drug enforcement and harsher penalties in recent months,
the new comments are the closest he has come in public to endorsing the death
penalty for people who sell controlled substances.
At a signing
ceremony in January for a bill providing drug screening technology to border
patrol agents, for example, he suggested he has a particular drug policy in
mind that he’s not sure the county is quite ready for.
"No
matter what you do, this is something that keeps pouring in. And we’re going to
find the answer," he said. "There is an answer. I think I actually
know the answer, but I’m not sure the country’s ready for it yet. Does anybody
know what I mean? I think so.”
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At his rally in
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, President
Donald J. Trump pledged to continue going after gangs like MS-13.
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“Do not destroy my country or the youth.” –
Rodrigo Duterte
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At another
event this year, Trump noted how other countries handle drug selling with
“very, very tough measures” and decrying that "we’re not prepared to do
that, I guess, they say, as a country.”
And in his
State of the Union address he vaguely vowed to get “much tougher on drug
dealers and pushers.”
Speaking in
front of administration officials and stakeholders in the addiction recovery,
treatment and law enforcement communities at the opioids event on Thursday,
Trump said, "the drug dealers and the drug pushers
are really doing damage."
"We
need strength with respect to the pushers and to the drug dealers. If you don't
do that you're never going to solve the problem," he added. "If you want to be weak and you want to talk about just
blue ribbon committees, that's not the answer. The answer is you have to have
strength and you have to have toughness."
The president
also spoke about litigation against opioids manufacturers and broader reforms to
drug policy and enforcement, saying his administration is "going to be
rolling out policy over the next three weeks, and it'll be very, very
strong."
The sentiment
in favor of responding to drug issues with harsh penalties and enforcement
clashes with legalization comments Trump made in support of legalizing drugs in
1990.
“We’re losing
badly the war on drugs. You have to legalize drugs to win that war,” he said,
according to newspaper reports. “You have to take the profit away from these
drug czars."
Much more
recently, in a meeting about guns on Wednesday, the president seemed to imply
that prohibition and policing can never eliminate the illegal drug market.
“The problem
is you have a real black market. They don’t worry about anything... They sell a
gun and the buyer doesn’t care and the seller — that’s one of the problems we
are all going to have," he said. “And you have that problem with drugs.
You make the drugs illegal and they come, you’ve never had a problem like that.
We’re fighting it hard, but you’ve never had a problem like this."
Tom Angell
publishes Marijuana Moment news and founded the nonprofit Marijuana Majority.
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Trump suggests death penalty for drug dealers
during White House meeting on opioids
David Jackson, USA TODAY Published 3:54 p.m. ET March 1, 2018 | Updated 9:24 p.m. ET March 1, 2018
David Jackson, USA TODAY Published 3:54 p.m. ET March 1, 2018 | Updated 9:24 p.m. ET March 1, 2018
WASHINGTON —
President Trump broached the idea of instituting the death penalty for drug
dealers on Thursday, but stopped short of formally proposing it.
"Some
countries have a very, very tough penalty — the ultimate penalty,"
Trump said during a White House conference on the opioid crisis. "And, by the way, they have much less of a drug problem
than we do. So we're going to have to be very strong on penalties."
The
Philippines and Singapore are among countries that execute drug dealers, and
Trump has discussed those policies in meetings with the leaders of those
countries, officials said.
Critics have
assailed Trump's praise of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, whose
self-proclaimed war on drugs has included extra-judicial killings.
In discussing
the nation's epidemic of pain killer addiction at the White House, Trump said
he will be "rolling out policy" over the next three weeks, and that
he has spoken with Attorney General Jeff Sessions about possibly filing
lawsuits against opioid companies.
He also
amplified the theme of harsh penalties for those who traffic illegally in
drugs.
"You
know, if you shoot one person, they give you life, they give you the death
penalty," Trump said. "These
people can kill 2,000, 3,000 people and nothing happens to them."
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" you're really
right, trump. I'm impressed with you. You are telling the truth (you are right,
trump. I'm impressed with you. You are telling the truth),"-President Rody Duterte
[PHOTO SOURCE: https://www.facebook.com/DailyDuterte/photos/a.575746725906524.1073741828.573288849485645/1016856165128909/?type=3&theater]
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Duterte elated
with Trump’s PH drug war comment
Updated March 3, 2018, 12:10 PM
By Genalyn Kabiling
President Duterte is elated that US
President Donald Trump wants to follow his controversial campaign against the
illegal drug trade.
The President said Trump was right when
he commented that the Philippines has no drug problem since those involved are
killed.
“Was it yesterday or the other
day? Tignan mo ‘yung front page ng either Bulletin or ‘yung Philippine Star.
‘Trump: we would like to follow Duterte because they have no problem in the
Philippines, he just kills them,’” Duterte said with a grin during a police shoot fest in
Davao City.
“Tama ka talaga Trump. Bilib ako sa iyo.
Nagsasabi ka ng totoo (You are right, Trump. I’m impressed with you. You are
telling the truth),” Duterte added.
President Duterte admitted that he
prefers drug suspects to put up a fight so they could be neutralized by
arresting lawmen.
“Bakit kung lumaban ka, hindi kita
patayin? Hay naku, yan nga ang gusto ko. Mas gusto ko lumaban ka (If you fight
back, I won’t kill you? That’s what I actually like. I prefer that you fight
back),” he added.
PNP elated, too
The Philippine National Police (PNP)
also echoed the elation expressed by President Duterte.
“This is a welcome news for us. Kami
naman ay natutuwa dahil siyempre na re-recognize ng US government ‘yung effort
ng ating pamahalaan sa bawal na droga (We are happy because the US government
is recognizing the effort of our government [to address] the illegal drugs
[problem],” said PNP spokesperson, Chief Superintendent John Bulalacao.
“This should inspire our police officers
to do more without violating any human rights so that we can really address the
problem on illegal drugs,” Bulalacaosaid.
Trump’s views
Apparently inspired by Duterte’s
anti-drug campaign, Trump reportedly wants the death penalty for drug dealers,
believing they are allegedly as bad as serial killers. The US leader admitted
though that such a law would be impossible to pass but would supposedly love to
have a law that executes dealers in the US.
Trump was reportedly quoted as saying
“You know the Chinese and Filipinos don’t have a drug problem. They just kill
them.”
US version of ‘Tokhang’
Duterte, meantime, said the United
States has carried out its own “Tokhang” campaign by conducting anti-drug
operations to arrest suspected dealers.
“They were able to capture a website
tapos lahat ng transactions sa droga, inagaw nila (They seized all drug
transactions).
“Dinetain nila incommunicado ‘yungmga
drug people (They detained the drug people and held them incommunicado) and
they operated it. So nalaman nila lahat, lahat tinotokhang,” he said.
Double standard
Duterte, however, lamented the double
standard on how rights groups treat the anti-drug efforts in the country and in
the United States.
He said when the US agents conducted
such an anti-drug operations, nobody complained about any rights abuses. But
when the Philippine National Police conducted the “Tokhang” campaign, he said
the cops have been criticized for alleged violation of human rights.
Duterte’s war against illegal drugs was
the same campaign promise which put him into the helm of the presidency in
2016.
More than 100,000 drug personalities
have been arrested while over 4,000 have died in the war on drugs, according to
the PNP and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency. Further, over 2,000
drug-related deaths or those killed by unidentified suspects were also recorded
by authorities and have already been investigated.
However, human rights organizations said
that the number of drug suspects killed in the government’s war on drugs
already reached 12,000. (With a report from Martin A. Sadongdong)
Tags: drug dealers, drug problem, Duterte
elated with Trump’s PH drug war comment, illegal drug trade, illegal drugs, Philippine
National Police, President Donald
Trump, President
Duterte, Tokhang
Duterte praises Trump for proposing 'death penalty'
for drug dealers
By VJ Bacungan, CNN Philippines
Updated 07:15 AM PHT Fri, March 2, 2018
Metro Manila
(CNN Philippines, March 2) — President Rodrigo Duterte lauded U.S. President
Donald Trump's proposal for harsher punishments for drug offenses in the United
States.
"He
would like to follow Duterte because they have no problem in the Philippines,
he just killed them," Duterte said, quoting media reports, in a speech
at a police and military event Thursday.
"Tama
ka talaga, Trump," he added. "Bilib ako sa'yo. Nagsasabi ka ng
totoo."
[Translation:
You're absolutely right, Trump. I believe in you. You're telling the truth.]
A report from
U.S. news site Axios said Trump has been inspired by the policies of Singapore,
citing their low rates of drug use and their executions of drug dealers.
"He
often jokes about killing drug dealers....He'll say, 'You know the Chinese and
Filipinos don't have a drug problem. They just kill them,'" a senior Trump
administration official told Axios.
In a Thursday
opioid summit in the White House, Trump said drug dealers should get the
"ultimate penalty."
"Some
countries have a very, very tough penalty. The ultimate penalty. And by the
way, they have much less of a drug problem than we do. So we're going to have
to be very strong on penalties," Trump said.
The White
House did not immediately respond to CNN's follow-up questions about what
exactly Trump meant.
Trump could
also back legislation that would require people convicted of dealing as little
as two grams of the synthetic opioid fentanyl to receive a five-year mandatory
jail sentence, according to the Axios report.
U.S. law
currently requires that sentence for those who deal 40 or more grams of the
drug.
Trump adviser
Kellyanne Conway believes some of the President's ideas would have support.
"There
is an appetite among many law enforcement, health professionals and grieving
families that we must toughen up our criminal and sentencing statutes to match
the new reality of drugs like fentanyl, which are so lethal in such small
doses," she told Axios.
Duterte said
in October 2017 he predicted Trump's declaration of a national health emergency
for the U.S. opioid epidemic after the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention found that around 64,000 people died from drug overdoses in 2016.
Trump called
for the liberation of American communities from the "scourge of drug
addiction."
"Kaya
sinasabi ko eh. Kayo kasi you take time. You take time ma-realize ninyo na ano.
Eh ako matagal na dito nakita. Mayor pa ako, nakita ko na 'yung devastation,"
Duterte said.
[Translation:
I've been telling you. You guys take time. You take time to realize it. I've
known it for a long time-- ever since I was a mayor, I'd seen the devastation.]
In December
2016, Duterte said he sensed good rapport with "an animated
President-elect Trump," who told him over the phone that he supported the
Philippines' controversial drug war.
The Duterte
administration's drug war has been criticized by local and international human
rights groups since it began in 2016, when Duterte took office.
While
government data show around 4,000 drug suspects were killed in operations, the
groups believe the number to be as high as 13,000 — including those killed in
vigilante-style executions.
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President Duterte to
cops, soldiers: Protect nation amid threat of terrorism
DAVAO CITY —
President Rodrigo Duterte led Thursday the opening of the three-day National
SWAT Challenge here urging police and military to remain steadfast in their
commitment to protect the Filipino people amid threat of terrorism especially
in Mindanao.
“Let us remain
steadfast in our commitment to protect our people, especially now that we are
intensifying our fight against enemies of the state here in Mindanao,”
President Duterte said during the event participated in by 60 teams from the
police, military and other law enforcement agencies.
“Never lose sight of
the fact that notwithstanding our resounding success in the liberation of
Marawi, the decreased crime incidence nationwide and the growing public trust
in our institutions, threats will persist and our people will depend on you,
our law enforcers, to keep them safe and secure at all times,” he added.
The President
commended the security forces for their skill and bravery and asked them to
work closely together in order to successfully fulfill their task of protecting
the nation.
“As we continue our
work of maintaining peace and order across the nation, I direct the PNP, the
AFP and other law enforcement agencies to work towards interoperability in your
operations, professional training and capability development,” he said.
“A coordinated
approach at law enforcement will certainly ensure the success of all your
missions and minimize government and civilian casualties in all your
operations,” he added.
Bringing together
the best and the brightest policemen and soldiers in the country, the Chief
Executive said the three-day competition “will not only showcase the skills and
capabilities of the participants, but would also promote camaraderie,
sportsmanship and competitiveness among our police and military personnel.”
“I thank our elite
SWAT units for always being ready to take on critical, hazardous and complex
crisis situations. Your grit and determination have made you ready to take on
the challenging task of dealing with criminality, illegal drugs and terrorism,”
he said.
“May you never waver
in your commitment to ensure that every Filipino will go home every day feeling
safe and secure in their communities, in their streets and in their homes,” he
added.
The President
reiterated that he will protect and support the military and the police for as
long as they are performing their duties.
He likewise assured
uniformed personnel of full medical care noting that he has provided funds to
government hospitals such as Philippine General Hospital and Veterans Memorial
Medical Center to ensure the best medical care for wounded and recovering troops.
Citing continuous
threat government forces are facing from state enemies, President Duterte
pledged to equip all soldiers with a handgun by July this year for their
protection.
“By July, every
soldier will have a handgun,” he said.
With regard to the illegal
drug trade problem, Duterte renewed his commitment to put an end to it assuring
that no government official under his term will be involved in the illegal
activity.
“But remember that
the drug situation is still very, very alive and vicious. But I will never,
never until the end of my term, to the last day, allow a government official to
use his power or position as a platform to engage in criminality, especially
drugs,” he said.
The National SWAT
Challenge was spearheaded by Philippine National Police chief Director General
Ronald Dela Rosa. It is the first competition of its kind that is held
nationally.
The competition
which will run from March 1 to 3 aims to showcase tactical skills of the
participants, in line with the PNP’s Master Training Action Plan for 2018 to
“enhance the effectiveness and efficiency as well as the tactical proficiency
of SWAT units.”
The winning team
will receive P300,000; P200,000, second prize; and P100,000, third prize.
Individual winners
will get P50,000.
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FIRING AWAY– President Duterte fires an AR-15
sniper rifle during the opening ceremony of a competition of Special Weapons and
Tactics (SWAT) teams in Davao City Thursday. Sixty teams from police and
military units are vying in the competition. (Keith Bacongco)
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