“License to Kill”

day of my term was that: Go out and hunt for these criminals. Arrest them if
they surrender peacefully but if they put up a violent stunt then you just
have to kill him?? because I do not want people in government dying
needlessly for doing his work when you were then leaving behind a family
and children.… For the extrajudicial killing, we say it’s not the work of the
police to be wrapping people with [plastic tape] and put him in the bag,
that is not a job of the police. I just told him one bullet will do. Why do you
have to wrap it [the head]? I said [don’t] waste your time.…
The Human Rights Commission, I don’t know why, but they would insist in
counting the dead criminals and never made a comparison to the dead
victims, innocent people, law-abiding people being killed in the streets, at
the same time last year.… You are publishing the side of the criminal. How
about now publishing the side of the government protecting people or
preventing the killing of people, innocent victims?
My job, ladies and gentlemen, and of the United Nations, my job as
president is to protect the innocent law-abiding citizens. I was never tasked
by any law to protect the life of criminals.…
You know, I am forced to [take these actions]. I’m just saying, you forget the
law. Forget the United Nations. Forget your outrage. It is misplaced. Now I
tell you now, by what right do you have in this universe to cook shabu, feed
it to my children, and destroy their lives forever? … You destroy with your
drug [the children who take care of me.] You destroy me in advance. Now I
ask the question. Do I have the right to destroy you? In advance also, so
that nothing of this sort would happen to other families? 300
300 “Press Conference of President Rodrigo Roa Duterte,” Official Gazette of the Government of the Philippines, August 21,
2016, http://www.gov.ph/2016/08/21/press-conference-of-president-rodrigo-roa-duterte-august-21-2016/.
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