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Western media based their report on our local media here which are largely owned by the same Oligarchs who wants Duterte out.

Did anyone of you know that during the past administration of President Aquino the crime rate increased to 350%? Yeah not kidding and nobody talks about this. Did all of you know that there were 1,819 killed in 2010 and 2,089 in 2011 by "riding-in-tandem" (crimes perpetrated by more than one person, usually two men, on a motorcycle)? Well nobody gives a shit back then, not the Human Rights or the Media. There were no "kill list".

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Your background information of the previous administration is much appreciated. However, I don't think that that excuses any of the actions of the current administration.

Excuses of what exactly?

You aren't pragmatic enough. Syndicated crime sets up the equivalent of parallel governments inside of your country. They compromise the integrity of your people by taking advantage of weakness and fostering distrust.

There is nothing to negotiate: you give these people money and they will just want more. You give in to their demands, or ignore them, and you become a part of the problem. A war suddenly becomes a lot more tempting to wage...

This might be an excuse that you mean:

When people do drugs for at least 6 months, their brains don't function well that they could rape young children, sell all their stuffs in exchange for drugs, kill the taxi drivers and all the crimes that can come in your imagination. They will do whatever they want (which includes killings) for their own needs since they're already retarded addict and since a lot of people do drugs the crime rate gets to increase rapidly. Look now, the crime rate just got lowered except for the drug related crimes that is happening now since drug lords would kill all the people they do not trust and do everything just to avoid the consequence that could happen when they got caught. There's no joke about the actions of the current government.

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