Rodrigo Duterte, Angry Puppet or Sovereign Tough Guy?

I bet I've met a lot more Filipinos than most people and they all love America and Americans.

when put up against the Moro juramentados many officers learned of the cartridge’s shortcomings the hard way. Reports of juramentados absorbing a cylinder-full of .38 Long Colts and still beheading the shooter with a keris knife were disturbingly regular.

It only took us 70 years to forget the 1930's.

Here are a few facts that are not common knowledge in the MSM. Duterte, before he was elected made his intentions very well known regarding what would be his drug policy Even BEFORE he was elected he told the crooked government workers, crooked cops, crooked military and the drug dealers to “walk away”.

AFTER he was elected, he said the same thing. He even went as far as to offer any government worker / military persons who “walked away” full pension and retirement. He made this offer and he said “or I’ll f__king kill you”. This is not BS. The Youtube video’s of him saying this might still be up. Also it was reported on the “zerocensorship dot com” news site. I am sure if you go to that site and click on the “Asia” filter and search back a few months you’ll see everything I type here is correct.

A month went by and he made a second less generous offer. “you have 24 hours to hand in your guns and turn yourself in. We have your names. You will get your day in court. If you do not do this, I’ll f__cking kill you.”
Again this offer was well documented. To those that did not pick from door # 1 or door # 2, well, he f__king killed them.
As an aside he ALSO started a massive anti-drug campaign in all the rural provinces sending out an army of nurses and paid counselors to try to sway the young ones against even starting drugs.

Of course this also never gets mentioned in MSM.

“You are a good man,” Trump told Duterte, according to an official transcript of the April 29 call produced by the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs and obtained by The Intercept. “Keep up the good work,” Trump told Duterte. “You are doing an amazing job.”

Trump began the call by telling Duterte, “You don’t sleep much, you’re just like me,” before quickly pivoting to the strongman’s drug war.

“I just wanted to congratulate you because I am hearing of the unbelievable job on the drug problem,” Trump told Duterte at the beginning of their call, according to the document. “Many countries have the problem, we have a problem, but what a great job you are doing and I just wanted to call and tell you that.”