On 11/17/2016 09:17 AM, jim bell wrote: > > > From: Mirimir <miri...@riseup.net> > > On 11/16/2016 08:11 PM, grarpamp wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 11:25 PM, Razer <ray...@riseup.net> wrote: >>>> If police >>>> vanished off the street this second what do you think might happen, >>>> realistically? >> >>> There'd be a whole lotta thugs rising up, and becoming dead thugs >>> just as fast. More efficient than today's model of dethugging? >>> Who knows. Don't be a thug. >> Consider the Philippines. Young mothers becoming assassins ;) > Yes, that is a very interesting current example of such a thing. > My question is, are the right people being killed?Is it anybody > associated with drugs that is dying, or is it just such people > who are merely unpopular with the police? > Consider this logic: If a person is a bigtime drug dealer, > just about the most 'threatening' thing to him is that the > drugs he sells would be declared legal.
<SNIP> Well, I do get the sense that it's been mostly low-level people, working in the streets, who have been killed.[0] But Duterte's list apparently includes "government, military and police officials".[1] And the article doesn't even suggest the possibility that they're just his political opponents. And a Mirror article does claim that innocent people are being killed.[2] So it's probably not a good model approach. [0] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3867524/Crimes-against-humanity-Philippines-president-accused-atrocities-intensifies-war-drugs-leaving-bodies-strewn-streets.html [1] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/philippines-president-rodrigo-duterte-mayor-dead-war-on-drugs-gunfight-makilala-datu-saudi-ampatuan-a7384321.html [2] http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/husband-wife-death-squad-execute-9114244