MANILA – Senator Alan Peter Cayetano said on Monday that Filipinos should be grateful for the Duterte administration’s campaign against illegal drugs and criminality, saying the Philippine is slowly becoming like Singapore in terms of safety.
Cayetano came anew to the defense of President Rodrigo Duterte, amid concerns over the government’s bloody war on drugs that has claimed at least 1,600 lives based on monitoring by the ABS-CBN Investigative and Research Group.
The staunch Duterte supporter said, because of Duterte’s efforts, the Philippines is now a safer place for Filipinos.
“It’s not perfect. In fact the president very candidly said he needs another six months pero let us be honest to ourselves, it is happening. The Philippines is becoming more like Singapore in terms of being able to walk the streets at anytime at night,” Cayetano said in a privilege speech.
“What do we want? Bumalik tayo six years past o ipagpatuloy natin ang pagbabago? Do we go back or do we go forward? More of the same or change? Gusto ba natin na takot ang tao at ang criminal hindi takot?”
(What do we want, go back six years past or continue the change? Do we go back or do we go forward? More of the same or change? Do we want an environment where the people are afraid and the criminals are not?)
Cayetano said much more needs to be done under Duterte’s campaign on drugs, but he claimed many gains have been achieved with just two months into the new administration.
“Dalawang buwan pa lang mahigit, may pakiramdam na ng kaligtasan. (In just two months, there is already a sense of safety.) I’m not saying that people now feel safe, I’m saying they feel safer,” he said.
Duterte earlier admitted that he did not realize the magnitude of the country's drug problem when he declared his self-imposed deadline of three to six months during the campaign.
"Maybe just give me an extension of another six months. I did not have that idea that there were thousands of people in the drug business and worst is they are operated now by people in government," Duterte said.
"The problem is I cannot kill them all," he noted. "Even if I wanted to, I cannot do it."
PERMANENT constitutional conventions in each and every country in the world NOW NOW NOW: Arrest all judges, including all CONSTITUTIONAL judges, who have been lenient, negligent and complacent with the military plandemic wars, arrest ALL corporate crook managers complacent and cooperative with the military, the political and the medical crooks of the operation, DISSOLVE the CIA, the DHS, the NHS, the DoD, the Army, the Navy and the Air Force,the WHO, the UN, the EU, the BIS, the IBRD, the IMF, dissolve and destroy forever all ABC arms production facilities and labs ANYWHERE in the world belonging to ANY state, arrest presidents Clinton, Obama, Biden, Draghi, von der Leyen and their local cronies, confiscate and dissolve FB, Google, Microsoft, GAVI, BMGF, Instagram, Twitter, Pfizer, Moderna, J&J, AstraZeneca etc. etc: CLEAN UP THIS AUGIAS STABLE FOREVER!!! THIS IS NOT A TASK FOR JUDGES: IT IS A TASK FOR CONSTITUTIONAL LAWGIVERS.
WHAT IS NEEDED NOW, RIGHT NOW, IS AN ARMY CAPABLE AND WILLING TO MOVE ON DAVOS AND ON THE BIS AND EQUALIZE THEM TO THE GROUND. THEN EQUALIZE THE REMAINING FINANCIAL AND BANKING SYSTEM TO THE GROUND. THEY DO NOT LIVE ON "MONEY", THEY FEED AND PARASITIZE ON CREDIT AND ON YOUR DEBTS. TAKE CREDIT AND DEBT AWAY, CREATE A PEOPLE'S BANK, AND ALL WILL COME TO A SCREECHING HALT.
THE EASY PART WILL BE TO DEPOSIT THEM IN THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS THEY PLANNED FOR US.
TRUMP, OR ANY OTHER POLITICIAN, WILL NOT HELP YOU WITH THIS, FORGET IT, IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN: HE IS INCAPABLE OF THINKING AND ACTING THAT FAR.
STOP CHATTING MEDICALESE, WRITING "SOCIAL" CRAP: IT IS LATE, VERY LATE, VERY VERY VERY LATE, BUT NOT TOO LATE.
THE NEXT ATTACK AGAINST HUMANITY MUST NOT BE REACTED AGAINST, BUT PREVENTED. STOP CHATTING.
IF YOU DO NOT HAVE THE BALLS FOR FIGHTING: SUPPORT WHO IS WILLING AND ABLE TO FIGHT.
FOR THE REST THERE ARE THREE INFALLIBLE METHODS:
1. BOYCOTT THEM IN ANYTHING YOU DO
2. BOYCOTT THEM IN ANYTHING YOU DO
3. BOYCOTT THEM IN ANYTHING YOU DO
TRUMP WILL NEVER DO ANYTHING THAT YOU CAN DO BETTER BY YOURSELF.
DO NOT WAIT FOR THE ELECTION, ACT NOW NOW NOW. MAKE THEM A NEW YEAR "SURPRISE":
LOCK THEM ALL DOWN!!!
I AM TALKING TO THE MEN AMONG YOU, IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO TELL THE WOMEN, BECAUSE MOST OF THEM ARE ALREADY READY TO GO, THEY ALREADY KNOW EVERYTHING THAT NEEDS TO BE KNOWN:
YOU HAVE TO DIE, BUT IT IS YOUR CHOICE TO DIE OR NOT TO DIE LIKE THE SHEEPS AND THE CRICKETS THAT THEY INTEND TO MAKE OUT OF YOU.
GIVE THE RIGHT EXAMPLE TO YOUR CHILDREN AND TO THOSE WHO MAY SURVIVE THIS, DO THE RIGHT THING ONLY ONCE IN YOUR LIFE, EVEN IF IT MAY BE THE LAST.
WE SHALL OVERCOME!!!
JUSTICE, HUMANITY AND SACRED LIFE SHALL OVERCOME!!!
Wednesday, April 20, 2016
"Condemn Duterte Even If You’re A Supporter. Your man may win and become president but in the process you have lost. In making him a winner you have made yourself a loser. "
See - X - Condemn Duterte Even If You’re A Supporter
"x x x.
By:
Carlos S. Hernandez Jr.
When he advocated for extrajudicial killings, you remained silent.
When he called someone bayot (gay), you also remained silent.
When he cracked that rape joke, even intimating the he should be the first to commit it, you also remained silent.
There are times when you break your silence and start defending him.
You remain silent even if in your heart of hearts you know that what he said should be condemned. This is because you believe that he is still the best among all the presidential candidates. He must not be criticized because the other candidates deserve to be criticized more. By hook or by crook, he must win. Therefore you reduce everything, all issues bar none, into a mere political stratagem on how to make him win even at the expense of the values you hold dear, even at the expense of the rule of law, of the principles of equality and human dignity.
The only lens you are using now in assessing his words and actions is the outcome of the presidential elections. The other lenses you have consistently used before have been thrown out of the window: the lens that says laws must be humane, the lens that says we are all equal, and the lens that says we must never contribute to the development of a culture that condones rape. All the other lenses you kept in your conscience before are now gone because this is just about him, not about us, about his winning the elections, not about the things that we have been tenaciously fighting for before he ambivalently declared his intention to run for presidency. Your sense of right and wrong has been blurred when you started to support his candidacy.
When he declared that he is going to remove algebra, trigonometry, and calculus from the education curriculum and replace them with business math, you also remained silent. You forgot that you are staunch and vocal advocate of making Philippine education globally competitive.
When he said that if China will ''build me a train around Mindanao, build me train from Manila to Bicol... build me a train [going to] Batangas, for the six years that I'll be president, I'll shut up,” you suddenly forgot that you once said or believed that our country should put up a brave front against China, that if we cannot fight China with might, we will use the force of international law to counter its aggression. Because he said that our national sovereignty can be traded for trains even if China is not the exclusive source of funds for the building of these trains, you automatically jettison your nationalistic sentiments the moment he said those words about trains and China.
Here’s a tip on how you can be a Duterte supporter and a concerned, reasonable Filipino citizen at the same time: always make not voting for him an option, always threaten him with it. Don’t adopt the stubborn stance that no amount of rape jokes, gay bashing, poor educational policy, unconstitutional or unnationalistic foreign policy, and open advocacy for extrajudicial killings can ever make you change your vote. Call him out when he insults your intelligence every time he repeats that promise that he will either stop or suppress crimes in three to six months. Shame him every time he insinuates he’s going to kill suspects without due process of law. It is never ever going to be acceptable. And you should never ever tire of chastising him for it. You should not make excuses for him the way he does not make excuses for suspects, never mind that criminality is a far more complex problem than how he paints it to be.
Based on his TV ad where he claims that he needs Senator Cayetano as his VP to correct him, you will be doing your man a great favor if you indeed tell him that what he’s doing is downright wrong.
As a voter, you should hold power over him. Don’t profess unconditional love for him; hold him to higher standards. Always threaten him with a non-vote no matter how he feigns he is unfazed by it. Your support for him must not be cast in stone. It must be subject to your remaining non-negotiables. Stop treating him as a messiah whose words are like gospel truths that must either be believed in or tolerated.
The journey to the voting precints come May 9 is as important, if not more important, than the name of the candidate for whom we will cast our precious votes. Let us not sacrifice the values we want our children to have or the things that we stood for, just because one man was so right, arguably, when he identified fighting crimes as a paramount national issue and capitalized on it, and he was also so right, again arguably, when he diagnosed the Mindanao problem and proposed solutions for it.
When you keep your silence in the face of indignities, it’s not just about the man anymore but also about what kind of person you have become.
Your man may win and become president but in the process you have lost.
In making him a winner you have made yourself a loser.
x x x."
Posted by Atty. Manuel J. Laserna Jr. at 5:42 AM
Despite having
larger numbers and better equipment than the Taliban, Afghan forces were
never strong enough to sustain government control in the absence of
U.S. firepower.
A reporter asked U.S. President Joe Biden
in July whether a Taliban takeover of Afghanistan was inevitable. “No,
it is not,” he said, pointing to the presence of three hundred thousand
“well-equipped” Afghan security personnel.
Little more than a month later, the Afghan military completely collapsed. It lost control of much of the country, often without putting up a fight, and allowed the Taliban to take over. Near the end, provincial capitals fell with dizzying rapidity. On August 15, Taliban fighters marched into Kabul.
How did the $83 billion
U.S. effort to train and equip the Afghan military go so wrong? Why
didn’t the Afghan military fight harder to stop the Taliban?
Fatally Demoralized
The answer could be found in Napoleon Bonaparte’s maxim: “In war, the
moral is to the physical as ten is to one.” Quite simply, an Afghan
military that over the past twenty years had learned to rely on U.S.
support for airpower, intelligence, logistics, planning, and other vital
enablers was fatally demoralized by the U.S. decision to abandon it. An
Afghan special forces officer told the Washington Post
that many Afghans saw the troop withdrawal deal that the Donald Trump
administration signed with the Taliban in February 2020 as “the end” and
that the United States “left [the Afghan military] to fail.” As a
result, he said, “Everyone was just looking out for himself.”
It’s
possible that Afghan President Ashraf Ghani thought his government
would receive a reprieve from President Biden. But in April, Biden announced
that the remaining three thousand U.S. troops in Afghanistan would be
withdrawn by September 11, 2021. Not only did those troops depart, but
so did eight thousand allied troops and eighteen thousand contractors
that the Afghan forces relied upon to operate their air force and for
logistical support. In recent months, the Afghan military was unable to
provide vital supplies such as food and ammunition to outposts scattered
around the country. Some Afghan units, particularly the elite
commandos, fought hard nearly to the end. But seeing the writing on the
wall, most troops chose to cut deals with the Taliban, surrender, or
simply melt away rather than risk their lives for a hopeless cause.
U.S. Military Mistakes
The fall of Afghanistan rightly raises serious questions about the
mistakes the United States made during its twenty-year effort to train
the Afghan military. The U.S. armed forces will need to process lessons
learned, and there will need to be a great deal of critical self-examination.
The U.S. training effort had many shortcomings, such as deficiencies in
language and cultural knowledge and lack of expertise in training
police rather than soldiers, which hurt local-level security. In
addition, the U.S. effort concentrated too much on teaching tactical
infantry skills while neglecting the kind of higher-level expertise in
logistics, planning, training, and command and control that is needed to
maintain a military force.
The U.S. training effort was also hindered by
factors beyond its control, including the lack of education in one of
the world’s poorest countries and the pervasiveness of corruption. As a
police officer in Kandahar recently told the New York Times, “We are drowning in corruption.”
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All of that corruption meant Afghan troop numbers, such as the one cited by Biden, were vastly exaggerated. The Washington Post’s Afghanistan Papers project
found that of the 352,000 soldiers and police counted as members of the
country’s security forces, only 254,000 could be confirmed by the
Afghan government. Commanders not only created “ghost soldiers” to pad
their payrolls but also skimmed the pay of serving soldiers and failed
to deliver necessary supplies, the Post reported. To a large
extent, that corruption was enabled by the United States’ free-spending
ways. U.S. attempts to fight corruption were, by contrast, half-hearted
and ineffectual.
Who’s to Blame?
Many now criticize the U.S. military for building an Afghan force in
its own image—heavily reliant on airpower and technology that the
Afghans could not maintain by themselves. The criticism has some
validity, but there is a logic to the U.S. approach: The Afghan forces
were far too small to defend a far-flung nation of thirty-eight million
people, and no U.S. administration wanted to fund a larger force. There
was no way to maintain a security-force presence across such a vast
country without supplying outposts by air. Once U.S. troops and
contractors abruptly pulled out, the Afghans simply lost the ability to
keep their military machine functioning, and the military disintegrated.
Although it’s easy to blame Afghan troops for not fighting harder, it’s important to remember that more than sixty thousand Afghan security-force members
were killed in the past twenty years—that’s twenty-seven times more
than U.S. fatalities in the war. While some three thousand U.S. advisors
remained in the country, the Afghan military still controlled every
city. It was the U.S. pullout that brutally exposed the shortcomings of
the Afghan forces and precipitated the military’s collapse.
More
than a year and a half after it was completed, the Department of
Defense has finally published a report about extremism in the ranks.
The report was commissioned by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in April 2021 as one of four “immediate actions” announced in the wake of the Jan. 6 insurrection. Dozens of current and former members of the military have since been charged with Jan. 6-related crimes.
Earlier this year, a USA TODAY investigation
found that the military had little progress to show on its efforts to
combat extremism and that many important initiatives appeared to be
stalled or incomplete.
One such effort was
that “Study on Extremist Activity within the Total Force.” The study had
been completed by the Institute for Defense Analyses in June 2022, USA
TODAY first reported, but had never been released.
On
Tuesday, in response to renewed requests to the undersecretary of
defense for personnel and readiness, that report was provided to USA
TODAY for the first time.
Its 262 pages will be subject to further expert examination and review, but the report offers some quick insight into what the analysis did – and did not – find.
The report offers scant new data on extremism in the military
Experts
on extremism had been waiting for this report, hoping it would shed new
light on how bad the military’s extremism problem is. The report’s
primary focus was to gain “greater fidelity on the scope of the
problem,” according to Austin’s memo in April 2021.
“I
just want good data − small, big, minute, whatever, so that we can
address the problem,” Heidi Beirich, co-founder of the Global Project
Against Hate and Extremism, told USA TODAY earlier this year.
But
the report appears to offer almost nothing in terms of new data on the
scope of the military’s extremism problem. Instead, it collates existing
data from sources including the military’s inspector general.
The
authors of the report did research court martial judgments to search
for data on extremists and found 10 such cases. But they acknowledged
court martials represent only a tiny sliver of extremists – because most
cases don’t end in a court martial.
“Nearly
all of these cases were addressed through administrative action,
non-judicial punishment, or referral to command for appropriate action,”
the report notes.
Researchers from the Institute for Defense Analyses did not respond to requests for comment Tuesday.
The report says extremism appears to be becoming more common in the military
The report concludes that extremism in the military is rare but dangerous.
“The
participation in violent extremist activities of even a small number of
individuals with military connections and military training could
present a risk to the military and to the country as a whole,” it says.
The
researchers used publicly available data on extremism, including the
Profiles of Individual Radicalization in the United States (PIRUS)
database maintained by the National Consortium for the Study of
Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) at the University of
Maryland.
The Defense Department report makes
the same conclusion START researchers have made: “Participation rates
for former service members appear to be growing,” it says.
The military’s security clearance process doesn’t take domestic extremism into account
The
report says the military’s process for giving security clearances to
military and civilian personnel is outdated and inadequate.
“DOD’s
processes for awarding security clearances, assessing suitability, and
granting access to facilities still focus to a significant extent on
Cold War threats and threats related to the Global War on Terrorism
rather than the threat of home-grown extremism.”
The
researchers recommended updating and standardizing security and
suitability questions across the military to ask directly about
prohibited extremist activities.
Military
security clearances have been much discussed this year after Air
National Guard member Jack Teixeira was arrested and charged with
posting hundreds of classified documents on a Discord server.
In addition to Teixeira, three active-duty Marines were charged
for their suspected role in the Capitol riot in January. All three
Marines worked in intelligence. One was assigned to the National
Security Agency headquarters.
Without
updating the security clearance process, “the Department remains at
risk of unknowingly permitting persons who may have engaged in violent
extremist conduct to enter and encumber privileged positions as civilian
employees or contractors in the military community,” the report
concludes.
Over 200 service members demand Biden's military
leadership be court-martialed and FIRED for forced 'experimentation' on
troops with COVID-19 vaccine mandate leaving 'significant' physical and
mental scars
The
mandate enacted in August 2021 led to the forced firing of over 8,000
service members who refused the shot on religious or medical grounds
The service members say their 'suffering continues to be felt financially, emotionally, and physically'
Biden's military leadership is accused of 'continuing to ignore' their pleas to correct the 'injuries and laws that were broken'
They are threatening to bring Biden's top leaders out of retirement so they can be court-martialed and held to account
Over
200 active duty and retired service members are vowing to hold the
Biden administration accountable for 'trampling' on their rights by
enforcing the COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
On
New Year's Day, over 200 service members declared that they will do
'everything' in their power to get accountability since not a single
leader has resigned or been held to account despite the rollback of the
vaccine mandate last year.
In
a letter obtained by DailyMail.com, the current and former troops
accuse Biden's military brass of 'continuing to ignore' their pleas to
correct the 'injuries and laws that were broken.'
They
are threatening to even force Biden's top leaders to be brought out of
retirement so they can be court-martialed and held to account.
'While
implementing the COVID-19 vaccine mandate, military leaders broke the
law, trampled constitutional rights, denied informed consent, permitted
unwilling medical experimentation, and suppressed the free exercise of
religion,' the letter states.
Over 200 active duty and retired
service members are vowing to hold the Biden administration accountable
for 'trampling' on their rights by enforcing the COVID-19 vaccine
mandate.
On New Year's Day, over 200
service members declared that they will do 'everything' in their power
to get accountability since not a single leader has resigned or been
held to account despite the rollback of the vaccine mandate
It
goes on to say both service members and their families were
'significantly harmed' and their 'suffering continues to be felt
financially, emotionally, and physically.'
'Some service members became part of our ever-growing veteran homeless population, some developed debilitating vaccine injuries, and some even lost their lives,' the letter continues.
The
mandate was eventually rescinded in the December 2022 defense
authorization bill, but it did not reinstate service members who were
fired for not receiving the shot nor provide any other compensation.
In
the open letter, they explicitly name now-retired and still serving top
commanders that they are demanding accountability from.
Those
include the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark
Milley who exited the military in October and Gen. James McConville who
served as the 40th chief of staff of the Army until 2023.
'These individuals enabled lawlessness and the unwilling experimentation on service members,' they state.
'The
moral and physical injuries they helped inflict are significant. They
betrayed the trust of service members and the American people. Their
actions caused irreparable harm to the Armed Forces and the institutions
for which we have fought and bled.'
They have 'refused to resign' or take any accountability for their actions, the service members state.
The letter goes on to mutually pledge to hold them to account through 'lawful word and action.'
It
is signed by a handful of candidates who are running for Congress in
2024 including Mara Macie, a military spouse in Florida, and Cameron
Hamilton in Virginia, a former Navy SEAL.
But
the letter sparked an outcry of fury at the Defense Department by
lawmakers and current and former service members who said there was
always a process in place to do just that.
Since
the mandate, Army has also faced a huge shortage of recruits in fiscal
year 2022 at 55,000 - which was 10,000 short of its target for the
year.
Congress is also working
to further remedy the wrongs that these service members faced, but many
soldiers have told DailyMail.com that it is just the start.
In
the most recent National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which passed
a year later in December 2023, there is a provision allowing former
service members who were fired to change their discharge status.
But
some current and former troops are saying that the amendments in the FY
2024 NDAA are not strong enough to undo the 'serious harassment' they
endured over the last two years.
The letter goes on to mutually pledge to hold them to account through 'lawful word and action'
The letter sparked an outcry of fury at the Defense Department by lawmakers and former service members
John
Frankman, who was in the Special Forces as part of the Green Berets,
said that the 'missed career opportunities' he endured over the last two
years could never be undone by any action of Congress.
Another
active-duty Army officer previously told DailyMail.com that the fired
troops have had 'their lives turned upside down and were betrayed by
those charged with protecting them.'
And a formal apology from their service branches would be key to be able to have trust restored, he added.
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Over 200 service members demand Biden's military
leadership be court-martialed and FIRED for forced 'experimentation' on
troops with COVID-19 vaccine mandate leaving 'significant' physical and
mental scars
Leadership
starts at the top, so rather than fire and court-martial Biden's
leadership, I suggest Biden himself should be fired and court-martialed
because he is responsible for what is happening. Biden is the one who
made it mandatory to inject people. FIRE AND COURT-MARTIAL JOE BIDEN.
DONALD J TRUMP 2024 MAGA
As
a former service member, I know that our Constitutional rights are
abrogated, and we agree to this in our contract. We only enjoy the
rights enshrined in the UCMJ. Plus, we are not allowed to sue the
military while in service. Medical issues are remedied through care
given while active or retired, and by the VA for service-related issues
when no longer serving. This is a frivolous lawsuit brought by people
with no legal standing to do so.
There
moral, effect of the forced mandates was the most damaging. It split
the nation into two for a ultimately useless shot. Biden let those who
looked down upon the rest of nation show their open distain. And now in
desperation he is illegally showing that distain in their manipulation
of the ballots. Bidens handlers are no better then those of Putin
Statistics
are facts, knowing someone who knows someone is an anecdoate. I know 4
seriously injured people who are all claiming and receiving
compensation at their doctor's advice.
That's
the thing though. There are no statistics to support this claim. And I
don't even believe you comment. "All claiming and receiving
compensation at their doctor's advice." I can see you're from the UK,
but what does that even mean? Compensation from who?
Many
people had concerns about the vaccine. Some accepted it so as to stay
employed while others refused and, consequently, lost their jobs. They
may be able to find remedy for their losses in the courts or via
legislation.
As
a mother of 6 who have all served in the military, I commend all the
brave men and women who have put their names to this. May God bless then
ALL for their bravery.
And for all those who refused the shots, I commend you also, it took a
lot of courage to endure what you have had to put up with.
May God bless each and every one of you!
JeremyIrons, Meadowland, United Kingdom, 1 day ago
This
certi ficate of vacci nation ID - was a purposely modified seasonal flu
released by WEF Rot*&^schilds/RFellers, shadow owners through
Blac*&^krock and Vang*uard of Pfizer, Astrazeneca et al (replace P
bow with L bottom - Luz*& ifer), in order to enforce ge ne modifying
nanotec jabs on the rival Adamic race. Also a smart framework for the
planned 6 6 6 digital wallet vaccine passport/digital wallet impl ant.
Also see Event 2 0 1 and Operation Lock Step by K.Scwab Rotchilds
puppet.
No
one in the government will ever admit wrongdoing. I think the
government's response to the pandemic was egregious. Anyone objectively
looking at the data at the end would agree. The lockdowns and masking
changed nothing, and the vaccine only mattered for a few. The juice just
wasn't worth the squeeze.
lkemer, Sun City, 7 hours ago
Leadership starts at the top, so rather than fire and court-martial Biden's leadership, I suggest Biden himself should be fired and court-martialed because he is responsible for what is happening. Biden is the one who made it mandatory to inject people. FIRE AND COURT-MARTIAL JOE BIDEN. DONALD J TRUMP 2024 MAGA