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Re:Body count rises as Philippines president calls for drug ... by zouhair on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @04:11AM (#12084669)
Hitler was also democratically elected. What will happen in the Philippines now is that anyone who any grudge with anyone will just kill that person and label him a drug dealer.
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Re:Body count rises as Philippines president calls for drug ... by nindalf on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @04:16AM (#12084696)
Labeling him a drug dealer won't be easy because its difficult to prove that he dealt drugs. The logical thing to do would be to label your victim a drug user instead. Far easier to simply plant some drugs in their house, kill them and collect your medal for saving society.
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Re:Body count rises as Philippines president calls for drug ... by masklinn on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @04:26AM (#12084748)
> Far easier to simply plant some drugs in their house

Isn't the normal procedure to just sprinkle some crack over their body?

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Re:Body count rises as Philippines president calls for drug ... by restalis on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @07:54AM (#12085422)
"simply plant some drugs in their house, kill them and collect your medal for saving society"

Hmm.. No addict's blood testing confirmation necessary, huh?

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Re:Body count rises as Philippines president calls for drug ... by rubber_duck on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @04:21AM (#12084720)
You really think the main reason people aren't grudge killing each other because they are afraid of getting caught ? Look at the murder case % that goes unresolved even in the US - IIRC it was ~40% ? If you wanted to kill someone and were smart about it's probably not that hard to do - unless it's your spouse or something similar that makes you an obvious suspect - in which case it will also look suspicious to anyone investigating if you killed your wife because she was a drug dealer.
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Re:Body count rises as Philippines president calls for drug ... by thomasfoster96 on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @04:44AM (#12084811)
I suspect that very few murderers study the murder case solve rate in their local area before murdering someone they hold a grudge against.

On the other hand, if the President of a country says to kill drug dealers and addicts, quite a few people will go ahead and do that, thinking that it's now justified.

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Re:Body count rises as Philippines president calls for drug ... by fsloth on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @04:59AM (#12084871)
"Hitler was also democratically elected. "

Actually his final rise to power came through back room shenanigans with Hindenburg when the popular support of the national socialist party was way below 50% of the voters.

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Re:Body count rises as Philippines president calls for drug ... by spacecowboy_lon on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @08:55AM (#12085751)
And Extrajudical killing of opposing deputies as well as having socialist deputies arrested.

Its easier to get a quorum if you can kill your opposition

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Re:Body count rises as Philippines president calls for drug ... by tluyben2 on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @05:04AM (#12084892)
The article title says drug addict. Which is far easier. Drank 2 beers instead of one every day => shoot. "I loved my neighbor (not) but he was an addict." Sad face.
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Re:Body count rises as Philippines president calls for drug ... by ralfd on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @04:55AM (#12084855)
To be fair, after being elected Hitler made it impossible to unelect him.

Election ballot 1936: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wahlrecht_in_der_Zeit_des_Nati...

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Re:Body count rises as Philippines president calls for drug ... by zouhair on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @09:09AM (#12085819)
Something tells me this guy will do the same.
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Re:Body count rises as Philippines president calls for drug ... by aedron on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @04:22AM (#12084729)
So like the U.S. drone regime in the Middle East.
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