Fetalvero: Drugs, drugs, more drugs

WE ARE deluged with all kinds of crisis: water supply, traffic congestion, Asian Swine Flu, and I will add, the war on drugs.

I will qualify as to why I included our government’s fight against illegal drugs.

When law enforcers, who are expected to spearhead the fight, are the ones proliferating the contraband, what should I think is going on? When our president himself admitted on national television that the drug menace cannot be eradicated even after he steps down from office is indicative how widely spread the problem is.

Furthermore, while there are still doubts and unanswered questions in relation to the spate of killings, are these killings politically motivated? Are these riders in tandem executions drug-related? The more bothersome question is: “Are these state-sponsored killings? Is the war on drugs anti-poor? In “tokhang” operations, were there drug lords and Chinese chemists operating shabu laboratories brought to court?

After setting aside some illegal drugs for evidence, it is prudent upon the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency to destroy the remaining drugs so that scalawags will not be tempted to recycle it. Our senators in a hearing asked: “How come “ninja cops” were not dismissed? Demotion ended up in promotion?” What will stop us from suspecting that recycled drugs may be utilized to get a higher “efficiency rating”? There is also the prospect of promotion when there are more police operations.

Drug-related statistics differ depending where the data is coming from. President Duterte, please show us a sense of transparency and honest to goodness war on drugs.

The pathetic state the Bureau of Corrections is in, and the late disclosure of a 2013 Pampanga raid is compelling. It has compelled our president to be more cautious in choosing the next Philippine National Police (PNP) chief.

“He was killed because he was in the Narco list.” One’s early demise is seemingly justified in the mindset of Filipinos. If you support the administration’s war on drugs, you are indeed a staunch supporter of Duterte. However, if you are against it, you are a protector of a drug syndicate. These defining narrative lines have bothered me for years now since the campaign against illegal drugs.

Amid the war on drugs, would you care to be a whistle-blower, given the fact that there are scalawags in our PNP?

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