Why are Some Duterte Critics Stupid?

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Aside from taking things out of context (and sometimes it seems intentional), most Duterte critics are really hell-bent on just sabotaging his efforts. It's not just to get their news items more controversial than they really are (to get higher ratings), it's really to destabilize his administration. Kick it out of existence and replace it with theirs.

And all because they're still so infatuated with Mar Roxas and PNoy. They just want to prove that Duterte was the wrong choice and Mar should've been seated in power. Putting down a government to replace it with one run by your political idol is not really insane. It's pathetic stupidity. If it were "insane" it would have sounded better. At least "insane" is genius gone overboard. But it's not. It's stupidity.

You can see how they just want to put down Duterte so the yellow Liberal Party could take over through VP Leni Robredo (and Mar and company could then rule the country through her) and also probably somehow save party-mate Senator De Lima in the process. The plan to oust or impeach Duterte---or something like that---has been true all along. And the effort involves some media organizations and even news blogs.

A lot of unsuspecting and misinformed individuals eagerly join them as misguided tools, not knowing that news sites and blogs they get information from make a lot of money misinforming people like them.

I'm NOT a Duterte fan or follower. I support him mainly because the bible says the faithful should submit to the governing authorities. I'm always loyal to truth, nothing else. Actually, I don't like the guy, especially how he talks foul-mouthed with his curses and expletives and how he retracts words he has already said officially (he is the highest official in the land and he should be aware that everything he says in public is official) in the guise of intending to mean another thing.

Well, sometimes silly reporters do twist his words around to mean another nasty thing or take everything completely out of context.

But sometimes, Duterte speaks one thing now and a moment or day later Malacanang comes out with a disclaimer, explaining how the president really didn't mean what he said or was merely misquoted. One begins to get tired of hearing that after a while. So, what things did he really mean? Who do we believe, him or his spokesmen or Cabinet? People may never take him seriously one day and just wait for his spokesmen for the real thing. People may tend to take everything he says as something merely preposterously said. That will be a big disaster.

I've observed how some sites or blogs sound so happy each time they can report something bad about Duterte. They watch out for his blunders or misworded statements and blow that out of proportion. I mean, build a whole planet out of it. They get a kick out of that and I can't understand why. Put down your own president, the president of your country? You must be a brainless traitor to want to do that. And for sure you're a coward, too. Traitors are automatically cowards---and morons.

I saw this idiotic site where every inaccurate or false news item (there are a lot of bogus news and news sites online) was directly attributed to Duterte, as if he was responsible. They assume that sites like that are under Duterte's "payroll."

It's similar to how unthinking critics blame gangland-style extrajudicial killings on Duterte and General Bato's PNP. And because of their lack of imagination, they can't understand why cops have to shoot "suspects" if they shoot at them. Why is there sometimes an over-kill? Well, I can imagine why when it's dark and you're in the middle of the shooting and you're the target. It would be hard to aim at the shoulder, hand or legs if the "suspect" aims at your heart or head.

Your tendency is just to shoot back. Self-preservation instinct tells you that.

And anyway, all such incidents are placed under investigation and the promise is that all those proven at fault will be charged accordingly. I, too, detest over-kills, but I also have to understand where the cops are coming from. In the first place, why involve yourself in what you know is highly illegal and then blame cops for overdoing their arrest? Toy with that thing and you deserve whatever consequences you get--even if you're not directly involved or if you claim to be already willingly surrendering.

If you want a quiet life, you shouldn't have allowed yourself to get involved in any way.

To be sure, I denounce killing of innocent people merely assumed to be suspects. It's the height of stupidity to just shoot anyone who looks like a pusher or addict. As a cop you were supposed to be trained to engage in lawful combat. You know the rules of engagement. Shooting a suspect in a shootout is different from plain shooting a non-combatant, no matter what you suspect him of.

Don't they teach trainees how to handle unarmed suspects using hand-to-hand self-defense techniques without using guns? It's a simple matter to lock the arms of an unarmed suspect resisting arrest if you are trained like I am. And definitely, you wouldn't be able to tackle me if you tried to grab my gun from my holster if I was really trained for these situations like how cops should be.

So, why always use a gun as first line of defense?

Some folks in Congress want the anti-drug operations to stop. Duh? So drug figures could recoup and better strategize their operations? When I hear this, I'm reminded of how traitors in Aguinaldo's cabinet wanted the revolution to stop so the country could just yield to the Americans.

If we stop Duterte's aggressive anti-drug campaign and do things the way previous administrations did it with decency and oligarchic style, the shootings and killings may stop. But that won't amount in any way to genuine and lasting peace and order. It will just be a lull before the storm of a narco-nation.