Aug. 21, 2016 – Duterte responds to CNN Jonathan Miller’s questions on increasing numbers of killings in the Philippines 08-20-16
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5UtXbfwoMs
FULL PRESSCON INTERVIEW: President Rodrigo Duterte (August 21, 2016 Davao City)
In reply to CNN correspondent Jonathan Miller why there’s a surge of killings when he became president, Philippine Pres. Duterte explained the flaws in the system that renders the law enforcers ineffective when a case is filed against the police. Cops are suspended without pay and the case drags on for years.
Moderator: “Ok, last question from Jonathan Miller
Pres. Duterte: ‘Yes sir! May I help you?”
Jonathan Miller: “Mr. President at the risk of being shut down, the numbers of people who are being killed on the streets of the Philippines since you came to power six weeks ago has risen to around a thousand. Now, I know you are contemptuous of your critics. But they are accusing you of unleashing a national death squad. Where it is going to end? Because some say that the social fabric of the Philippines is at risk here.”
In reply, Philippine Pres. Duterte explained the flaw in the system that renders the law enforcers ineffective when a case is filed against the police. Cops are suspended without pay and the case drags on for years. Watch Duterte answer the first question.
Jonathan Miller: “But with due respect, sir, you as a lawyer knows better than anyone of us know how important the principle of innocent until proven guilty is. (Due process)
Pres. Duterte: “Look at last count there are 3 million drug addicts. . .
One comment or reaction to the press conference:
DUTERTE: A MAN A LEADER. USA WAKE UP!
I am American and I wish I had a president that cared enough to clean up the US this way. Duterte truly cares about his people
http://rodydu30.blogspot.com/2016/08/duterte-man-leader-usa-wake-up.html
My comment to “Duterte: A MAN A LEADER. USA WAKE UP!
USA Wake up? More like Waking USA (Pinaglalamay na ang USA).
“You can’t wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.” – Navajo Proverb
“Mahirap gisingin ang nagtutulog-tulogan.” Tagalog Proverb.
It is impossible for this drug crisis in the Philippines to reach pandemic proportions without Aquino III’s and the oligarchs’ permission and help.
It is impossible for Aquino III and the oligarchs to get away with it without US or the Obama administration’s knowledge and implied consent.
This is why CNN reporter was someone other than an American correspondent. This mess in the Philippines could not reach this proportions without implied consent, open funding and approval of Washington DC. This is a day to mourn the U.S.A.
Bienvenido Macario shared CNN Philippines‘s video.
The lack of due process was introduced by the 73rd US Congress in 1934 during FDR’s administration first when the Philippine Commonwealth was established under the Tydings-McDuffie Act.
What is seldom mentioned in history books is the Filipino Repatriation Act of 1935 a follow-up to the Tydings-McDuffie Act. A fund was established for Filipino people living in the United States to provide free passage back to the Philippines. It is in fact the Filipino Deportation & Exclusion Act of 1935.
If Filipinos would like to return to the U.S. we were restricted under the quota system established by the Tydings–McDuffie Act which limited the number of Filipinos entering the US to 50 per. Many families were separated because of this.
year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filipino_Repatriation_Act_of_1935
Look at Hollywood, they will insist on the slavery issue and nothing is said about this wholesale discrimination of the Native Americans in the Philippines.
Then in 1946 the 79th Congress ratified the Treaty of Manila that unconstitutionally, prematurely and irresponsibly granted dependent-independence to the Philippines a U.S. territory bought from Spain in 1898 along with Puerto Rico and Guam. The Philippines was a U.S. territory during WWII when it was defended by US and Filipino troops and liberated by U.S. and Allied troops.
There was NO DUE PROCESS, NO REFERENDUM WHEN THE PHILIPPINE COMMONWEALTH WAS CREATED IN 1934 by the US CONGRESS.
There was NO DUE PROCESS, NO REFERENDUM WHEN THE PHILIPPINES WAS GRANTED INDEPENDENCE IN 1946.
The Filipino people were never consulted if we wanted to secede from the union (US).
This all the US Senate’s fault when it ratified on 22 Oct. 1946, the Treaty of Manila that granted dependent-independence to its territory, the oil, gas & mineral rich Philippines.
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Tydings–McDuffie Act (No referendum held to consult the Filipino people)From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tydings%E2%80%93McDuffie_Act
Senator Millard Tydings is one of the authors of the Philippine Independence Act.
The Tydings–McDuffie Act (officially the Philippine Independence Act, Pub.L. 73–127, 48 Stat. 456, enacted March 24, 1934) was a United States federal law which provided for self-government of the Philippines and for Filipino independence from the United States after a period of ten years. It also established strict limitations on Filipino immigration.
The act led to the writing of the 1935 Constitution of the Philippines and the establishment under it of the Commonwealth of the Philippines with the first directly elected President of the Philippines.
It was authored in the 73rd United States Congress by Senator Millard E. Tydings of Maryland and Representative John McDuffie of Alabama,[1] and signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, all Democrats.
Filipino Repatriation Act of 1935
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filipino_Repatriation_Act_of_1935
The Filipino Repatriation Act provided free one-way transportation for single adults. Such grants were supplemented in some instances by private funds, such as from the California Emergency Relief Association, that paid passage for Filipino children who had been born in the United States so that they could return with their parents to the Philippines. Both the Tydings–McDuffie Act and the Filipino Repatriation Act halted family reunification under U.S. immigration law, forcing many Filipino families to remain separate for a number of years.[1] If they wished to return to the US, the Filipinos were restricted under the quota system established by the Tydings–McDuffie Act which limited the number of Filipinos entering the US to 50 per year.
AFTER WWII
On Feb. 18, 1946 after Pres. Truman signed the Rescission Act of 1946 into law that RETROACTIVELY ANNULLED THE MILITARY BENEFITS OF FILIPINOS WHO FOUGHT & SERVED DURING WWII. Of the 66 countries allied with the U.S. in WWII, only the Filipinos were denied the military benefits they were promised upon enlistment.
Pres. Truman signed it into law on 18 Feb. 1946
https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCODE-2011-title38/html/USCODE-2011-title38-partI-chap1-sec107.htm
Two days later he issued a statement saying among others that PHILIPPINE ARMY VETERANS ARE NATIONALS OF THE UNITED STATES and will continue in that status until July 4, 1946”. Therefore Filipinos were stripped of U.S. nationality without due process! Why did the 79th U.S. Congress ratified the 1946 Treaty of Manila and granted independence to the Philippines without a referendum?
If you read carefully the statement, Pres. Truman is almost pleading with the U.S. Congress NOT TO PROCEED WITH THE GRANTING OF INDEPENDENCE TO THE PHILIPPINES.
Excerpt: “IN APPROVING H.R. 5158, I wish to take exception to a legislative rider attached to the transfer of a $200,000,000 item for the pay of the Army of the Philippines.
The effect of this rider is to bar Philippine Army veterans from all benefits under the G.I. Bill of Rights with the exception of disability and death benefits which are made payable on the basis of one peso for every dollar of eligible benefits. I realize, however, that certain practical difficulties exist in applying the G.I. Bill of Rights to the Philippines.
However, the passage and approval of this legislation do not release the United States from its moral obligation to provide for the heroic Philippine veterans who sacrificed so much for the common cause during the war.
PHILIPPINE ARMY VETERANS ARE NATIONALS OF THE UNITED STATES and will continue in that status until July 4, 1946. THEY FOUGHT, AS AMERICAN NATIONALS, UNDER THE AMERICAN FLAG, and under the direction of our military leaders.
I consider it a moral obligation of the United States to look after the welfare of Philippine Army veterans.
I recognize, of course, that the Commonwealth Government, and after it, the Government of the Philippine Republic, have obligations to these veterans. But the Government of the Philippines IS IN NO POSITION TODAY, NOR WILL IT BE FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS, TO SUPPORT A LARGE-SCALE PROGRAM FOR THE CARE OF ITS VETERANS.
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38 – Statement by the President Concerning Provisions in Bill Affecting Philippine Army Veterans.
February 20, 1946
https://www.trumanlibrary.org/publicpapers/index.php?pid=1480&st=&st1=
Here is the Treaty of Manila that granted dependent-independence to the Philippines, a U.S. territory and created the hell on earth. We were handed over to oligarch-traitors who wanted to escape justice for collaborating with the Japanese during WWII.
“The Treaty of Manila of 1946 (61 Stat. 1174, TIAS 1568, 7 UNTS 3), formally the Treaty of general relations and Protocol,[1] is a treaty of general relations signed on 4 July 1946 in Manila, the capital city of the Philippines.
The United States GRANTED the PHILIPPINES INDEPENDENCE, and the treaty provided for the recognition of that independence. The treaty was signed by Ambassador Paul V. McNutt as a representative of the United States and President Manuel Roxas representing the Philippines.
The treaty became effective in the United States on 22 October 1946, when it was ratified by the Senate (79th Congress).”
The 1946 Treaty of Manila
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Manila_(1946)
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This Time Magazine Article was from Nov. 6, 1950. Even then Filipino oligarch-traitors who collaborated with the Japanese during WWII were stealing U.S. taxpayers’ money given to the Philippines as war reparations. Let us truly honor those who served and especially those who gave ALL for our freedom. It is our sacred duty to look after what they died for. Please let us forget politics and prosecute corrupt officials in the World Bank, IMF and the UN.
From Oct. 28, 2011 to July 13, 2013 the World Bank gave the Aquino III government a $3.7 billion and a $300 million ($4 billion) loans for disaster preparedness, relief, reconstruction & poverty alleviation ($300M).
But when Typhoon Haiyan came, NOT A PENNY OF THE $4 BILLION COULD BE FOUND!
BACK TO THE FUTURE . . . . The mother of all scams victimizing the U.S. taxpayers. Time Magazine article from 6 Nov. 1950.
We’ve been pouring billions of dollars on the Philippines and things are getting worse!
Had the U.S. bought the Philippines twice over ($40 million) in 1945, it would have been a tropical paradise the envy of the Hawaiian Islands.
Remember after WWII everyone, no exception, everyone in the Philippines were poor. So how did the 50 richest “Filipinos” as listed on Forbes Magazine start amassing
Excerpt: “Although the U.S. has poured some $2 billion into the Philippines since 1945, the new republic is on the verge of bankruptcy.
President Truman’s fact-finding mission (Bell Commission) reported that the money is gone. And obviously it went to landowners and unscrupulous businessmen oligarchs who are now richer than ever while the majority of the people’s standard of living has not risen to anywhere near the pre-war levels.”
THE PHILIPPINES: Bristling Bankrupt
Time Magazine – Monday, Nov. 06, 1950
http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,813694,00.html