Pubdate: Sat, 06 Aug 2016
Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer (Philippines)
Copyright: 2016 Philippine Daily Inquirer
Contact:  http://www.inquirer.net/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1073
Author: Isidro C. Valencia
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v16/n518/a04.html

HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF

THIS REFERS to the news item titled "Widow tells Duterte: Kill drugs, 
not people" (Front Page, 8/1/16).

The enemies of the Republic and its people are not the drug 
dependents or those hooked on drugs or their coddlers in the 
government. The enemy is illegal drugs.

Given this fact, President Duterte should not order the killing of 
any person, be they guilty or not.

The millennials should know that in the first year of martial law, 
dictator Ferdinand Marcos got the highest approval trust rating. Then 
the people in the military, police, executive, legislative, judiciary 
and even coffee servers, gardeners, drivers, and security guards 
started to be abusive. Then some 10,000 people (excluding 
desaparecidos and victims and survivors of unreported torture) became 
easy victims of martial law atrocities.

History appears to be repeating itself. Marcos supposedly wanted 
change in the form of what he called "New Society." Mr. Duterte wants 
change and he would do this by encouraging extrajudicial and 
vigilante killings and by promoting the values of communism.

I agree 101 percent with the Catholic Church's call for vigilant 
cooperation and harmonious partnership with the Duterte presidency in 
order to protect or uphold the dignity of life; and respect for the 
rule of law, human rights and the Constitution; and presumption of innocence.

- -ISIDRO C. VALENCIA,  ---
MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom