– Philippine President Rodrigo DuterteInterpreting that stand as “encouraging” vigilantism is the evident editorial error in both local and foreign media’s so-called “reporting” of the situation in the Philippines. And so, “you destroy my country, I’ll kill you” is Duterte’s straightforward stand on the matter - “nothing wrong in trying to preserve the interests of the next generation,” Duterte adds. To Duterte, the destructive power of the drug menace is a real threat to the Philippines’ youth and, therefore, the country’s future. The fact is, Duterte points out, it is the president’s duty to express a hard stand on any threat to his country, and that there is no law in the Philippines barring him from using the harshest words to stress that stand. Ultimately, it comes down to the error in the perception that Duterte “encouraged” vigilantism. While the world chatters about this “bloody” war on drugs and the supposed plight of its “victims”, the fact that the drug menace itself that Duterte is combatting, has far more real victims seems to have been glossed over (some insist deliberately) by mainstream media in favour of the easier conjecture. Duterte’s position on the matter is quite simple and he expressed this succinctly during the interview - no law had been broken thus far. This is the seminal assumption that started a global media circus. Hay’s line of questioning surrounding the “war on drugs”, was underpinned by the assumption that Duterte was the cause of more than 3,000 deaths so far attributed to this war. Subscribe to our Substack newsletter, GRP Insider! Opt into a paid subscription and you'll get premium insider briefs and insights from us daily. Subscribe to our Substack community GRP Insider to receive by email our in-depth free weekly newsletter.
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