Re:Body count rises as Philippines president calls for drug ...
by jacquesm on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @05:58AM
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Why am I not surprised that the person who sees the solution to a countries problems growing out of the barrel of a gun would not have a problem with journalists being killed.
> “If you are an upright journalist, nothing will happen to you,” said Duterte
Good. So we can rest assured that only those journalists that were not 'upright' will not remain upright.
And journalists too! Kill everyone you don't like!
> “Just because you’re a journalist you are not exempted from assassination, if you’re a son of a bitch,” Duterte said when asked how he would address the problem of media killings in the Philippines, after a reporter was shot dead in Manila last week.
> “Most of those killed, to be frank, have done something. You won’t be killed if you don’t do anything wrong,” Duterte said, adding that many journalists in the Philippines were corrupt.
> “That can’t be just freedom of speech. The constitution can no longer help you if you disrespect a person,”
> Duterte raised the case of Jun Pala, a journalist and politician who was murdered in Davao in 2003. Gunmen on a motorcycle shot dead Pala, who was a vocal critic of Duterte. His murder has never been solved. “If you are an upright journalist, nothing will happen to you,” said Duterte
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/31/philippine-pre...