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WHAT MATTERS MOST - Atty. Josephus B. Jimenez (The Freeman) - July 30, 2018
- 12:00am
In his SONA, the president declared in no uncertain terms,
that the war against drugs shall continue to be relentless and
chilling. He is not distracted by alleged human rights abuses.
To him, human lives are more important. It is his
determination that by continuing this undertaking, he is
protecting millions from becoming victims of crimes arising
from the use, possession, trade, and manufacturing of illegal
drugs. The president is bull-headed, uncompromising and
determined. Nobody can stop him. Not Trillanes, not de Lima,
not even the international community of human rights
advocates. He has a whole nation of 110 million lives to
safeguard. He is the president, and he will do his job.
President PNoy never even mentioned illegal drugs in his six
SONAs. If ever he did, they were all words and no positive
action. For six years, by his negligence and ineptitude, the
government allowed drugs to proliferate, to the extent that
‘’drug tiangges’’ mushroomed like jueteng and lotto outlets.
Now the yellowtards of PNoys obstruct the war against
drugs. Unwittingly, the LP and the Aquino partisans like
Trillanes, Roxas, de Lima, and Hontiveros give aid and
comfort to the enemies of the state. GMA and FVR also did
nothing draconian to fight the drug menace.
When Special Action Force troopers were massacred in
Mamasapano, neither the LP nor the PNoy government
complained of human rights violations. When the many
mediamen were massacred in the Maguindanao, the human
rights activists were mysteriously silent. When policemen are
ambushed by rebel forces, the Human Rights Commission
remains silent as if these atrocities are just okay. Don’t the
later, Marawi City were pillaged by terrorists, innocent
children and women murdered, and the whole cities
pulverized and burned, no yellow advocate came denounced
the crimes against humanity.
The president has a mandate from 16 million Filipinos (it
should have been 20 million had he not been cheated by
PCOS machines) to clean up the mess which Cory, FVR,
Erap, GMA, and PNoy allowed to proliferate unabated for
decades. The president will just be true to his mandate by
not stopping the drug war. Many will die, of course. Don’t kid
yourselves. This is not an excursion, but war. It is better if the
criminals are the ones eliminated. This is survival of good
against evil. Rather than endangering the lives of innocent
children and other victims of heinous crimes, we have, at
last, a government which is not sleeping on the job. We don’t
like killing, we are Catholics. But it is not a crime to defend
ourselves. This is a matter of self-defense.
If there is a choice between killing and being killed, the law
allows us to defend ourselves, to defend our relatives, and to
defend even strangers. Drugs is an unlawful aggression. We
did not provoke the drug addicts. The means that we use is
reasonable. We have a perfect self-defense.
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