DURING DONALD TRUMP'S TOUR IN ASIA HE MET WITH THE FILIPINO
PRESIDENT RODRIGO DUTERTE AND HE SEEMED TO BE CHUMMY WITH
HIM WHO HAS BEEN A CONTROVERSY OF FIGURE CONSIDERING THAT
HE HAS BEEN VERY SUPPORTIVE AND HAS ENCOURAGED EXTRAJUDICIAL
KILLINGS OF INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE ADDICTED TO DRUGS.
THE PHILIPPINES HAVE AN ISSUE WITH DRUG ADDICTION, SO DOES THE
UNITED STATES AND THE APPROACH IN THE UNITED STATES HAS BEEN
TO STOP CRIMINALIZING PEOPLE WHO ARE ADDICTED TO PAINKILLERS
AND HEROIN AND GET THE HELP THAT THEY NEED TO RECOVER.
THE PHILIPPINES, IT IS A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT STORY.
PEOPLE HAVE BEEN KILLED IN EXTRAJUDICIAL KILLINGS, SOME BY
POLICE OFFICERS, SOME BY VIGILANTES AND THERE HAS BEEN
DISASTROUS BECAUSE THERE IS NO DUE PROCESS IN THESE CASES.
THERE'S ANOTHER PART OF THEIR MEETING THAT IS A LITTLE
DISTURBING.
BOTH LEADERS HAVE A DEEP DISDAIN FOR THE
MEDIA AND SO:
THERE ARE NUMBER OF ISSUES HERE.
FIRST ON THE SO-CALLED DRUG WAR THAT DUTERTE IS RUNNING.
ABOUT A HUNDRED THOUSAND PEOPLE HAVE BEEN KILLED AND YOU THINK,
IT IS GANG WARFARE AND I AM SURE THAT IS SOME PART OF IT BUT
MAINLY, IT IS ACTUALLY THE COPS DOING THE KILLING, SO AMNESTY
INTERNATIONAL ACCUSED THE POLICE OF SHOOTING DEFENSELESS PEOPLE.
NOT ONLY THAT, THE POLICE PAYING ASSASSINS TO MURDER NOT
DRUG DEALERS BUT ADDICTS.
PEOPLE THAT ARE ADDICTED TO DRUGS AND AGAIN, AS WE ARE
EXPERIENCING HERE IN THE UNITED STATES, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT
SHOULD BE MET WITH DECRIMINALIZATION AND WITH
REHABILITATION BECAUSE PEOPLE GET ADDICTED TO DRUGS FOR
ALL SORTS OF REASONS.
THEY ARE NOT BAD PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY ARE ADDICTED TO DRUGS.
THIS IS TERRIBLE.
THE U.S. DOESN'T HAVE COMPLETELY CLEAN HANDS BY A
LONGSHOT.
WE ARE THE PEOPLE WHO STARTED THE WORLD DRUGS IN
THE FIRST PLACE AND IT HAS BEEN AN ABSOLUTE DEBACLE AND OF
COURSE, NOW WE ARE TALKING ABOUT REHABILITATION BECAUSE IT IS
AFFECTING A WIDER CROSS-SECTION OF AMERICANS.
BACK WHEN IT WAS MAINLY BLACK PEOPLE THEY WERE LOCKING
UP, THEN THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT IT AS A HEALTH ISSUE, THEY
WERE TALKING ABOUT WE ARE GOING TO THROW THEM AWAY SO WE
HAVE PLENTY OF SKELETONS IN HER CLOSET, NO QUESTION ABOUT
THAT BUT DUTERTE IS NEXT LEVEL.
JUST LAST YEAR HE SAID WE SHOULD KILL THE 3
MILLION ADDICTS AND THE PHILIPPINES.
I HAVE HIS EXACT QUOTE WHICH IS SHOCKING.
HE SAID: HE WOULD BE HAPPY TO SLAUGHTER 3 MILLION ADDICTS.
SLAUGHTER THEM AND HE HAS MADE A NUMBER OF THESE COMMENTS
AND IT EMBOLDENS THE VIGILANTES.
IT EMBOLDENS THE COPS AND EVEN IF SOMEONE THINKS, NO, DRUG
ADDICTS SHOULD BE CRIMINALIZED WELL, WHAT ABOUT DUE
PROCESS OR A TRIAL?
EXTRAJUDICIAL KILLINGS IMPLY THERE IS NO TRIAL, NO DAY
IN COURT, NOTHING.
YOU CAN BE ACCUSED AND HIS SOON AS YOU ARE ACCUSED, BECAUSE
YOU ARE EMBOLDENED BY THE LEADER OF THE COUNTRY, YOU CAN GO
OUT JUST KILL SOMEONE FOR BEING ADDICTED TO DRUGS OR
ALLEGEDLY ADDICTED TO DRUGS.
YOU JUST GO OUT THERE AND KILL SOMEONE YOU DON'T LIKE AND
ACCUSE THEM OF BEING ADDICTED TO DRUGS THAT
OF COURSE, THAT'S WHY THE KILLING IS OUT OF CONTROL
AND THE PHILIPPINES.
NOW TRUMP, WHILE ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL PRETENDED TO CARE
ABOUT THE OPIATE PROBLEM IN AMERICA AND HE PRETENDED TO
EMPATHIZE WITH THE FAMILIES OF THOSE ARE ADDICTED.
NOW HE IS GOING AND EMBRACING A GUY WHO SAYS WE SHOULD KILL
ANYONE WHO IS ADDICTED TO ANY KIND OF DRUG SO IF YOUR FAMILY
HAS BEEN AFFECTED BY THE DISASTER IN THIS COUNTRY THAT
OPIOIDS HAVE WREAKED AND YOU THOUGHT TRUMP WAS GOING TO HELP
YOU, HE JUST EMBRACE THE GUY WHO SAYS YOUR FAMILY MEMBER SHOULD
BE MURDERED AND SO DUTERTE JUST LAST WEEK AND ANOTHER
ASIAN SUMMIT IN VIETNAM BRAGGED ABOUT HOW HE PERSONALLY
KILLED SOMEONE WHEN HE WAS 16 YEARS OLD.
LET'S READ YOU THAT QUOTE.
HE SAID:
HE IS BRAGGING ABOUT MURDERING PEOPLE AND IT IS SO FASCINATING
TO ME TO SEE WHO TRUMP SHOWS ADMIRATION FOR.
PEOPLE WHO HAVE THIS DICTATORIAL STREET, PEOPLE LIKE DO TEAR
TODAY AND VLADIMIR PUTIN WHO VICIOUSLY GO AFTER THEIR
OPPONENTS, IN SOME CASES MURDERING THEIR OPPONENTS.
WISE OF THE TRUMP HAS THIS DEEP ADMIRATION FOR THEM BUT
WHEN IT COMES TO OTHER WORLD LEADERS LIKE ANGLE A GOAL,
HE IS A VICIOUS TOWARD THEM.
IT IS FASCINATING TO ME.
ON THE ISSUE OF THE PRESS DUTERTE CALLS THEM
SPIES
AND IF YOU DO NOT KNOW HIS HISTORY YOU MIGHT THINK, OKAY,
WHATEVER HE DOES NOT LIKE THE PRESS.
A LOT OF REPUBLICANS DON'T LIKE THE PRESS BECAUSE THEY
COVER FACTS FROM TIME TO TIME BUT UNDERSTAND THAT THERE IS A
DIFFERENCE EVEN BETWEEN TRUMP AND DUTERTE.
TRUMP HAS SAID THE PRESS CAN'T WRITE WHATEVER THEY WANT BECAUSE
TRUMP HAS NOT READ THE U.S. CONSTITUTION, HE DOESN'T CARE
TO,
HE WANTS TO BE DICTATOR BUT DUTERTE HAS SAID, JUST BECAUSE
YOU ARE JOURNALIST, YOU ARE NOT EXEMPTED FROM ASSASSINATED
IF YOU ARE A SON OF A BITCH.
FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
CANNOT HELP YOU IF YOU HAVE DONE SOMETHING WRONG.
THIS IS A GUY WHO HAS ENCOURAGED THE ASSASSINATION OF JOURNALISTS
SO WHEN HE SAYS ALL YOU PEOPLE IN THE PRESS ARE SPIES IT IS NOT
A LAUGHING MATTER.
THE PHILIPPINES KNOWN FORTUNATELY RANKS AS THE
THIRD WORST COUNTRY FOR KILLING OF JOURNALISTS, ONLY BEHIND
SYRIA AND IRAQ AND THOSE JOURNALIST DIED IN WAR ZONES.
DUTERTE HAS CREATED A WAR ZONE WHERE HE IS
ENCOURAGING THE ASSASSINATION OF HIS CRITICS IN THE PRESS
AND NOT CHARACTER ASSASSINATION, ACTUAL MURDER ASSASSINATION
SO IT IS NOT REMOTELY A LAUGHING MATTER.
USAGE OF DESIGN OF THAT BECAUSE HE IS AN IDIOT OKAY, I
GUESS THAT IS YOUR DEFENSE.
MY PRESIDENT WHO I LIKE DOESN'T DO ANY HOMEWORK, IS A
MORON, DOESN'T KNOW WHO HE IS YUKKING IT UP WITH AND WHO
HE IS SAYING IS A WONDERFUL PERSON.
EVERY PART OF TRUMP IS AGAIN, WITH PUTIN, DO TOWARDS A.
LOVES THE STRONGMEN WHO ARE DICTATORS, WHO MURDER POLITICAL
OPPONENTS IN THE PRESS AND THINKS IT'S A WONDERFUL THING TO
COMPLEMENT THEM OVER AND OVER AND LAUGH AT THEM AND BY THE
WAY, AFTER THE LAUGHING WAS DONE, DUTERTE SAID I AM NOT
JOKING AND POINTING TO THE PRESS AND SAID, YOU ARE.
YOU ARE SPIES.
HE'S NOT JOKING, HE CALLED FOR THEIR MURDER.
TRUMP IS LIKE THIS IS GREAT, WHY CAN'T I DO THIS?