Chapter 10a

A Harvest of Lead

The Economist

 

War against crime in the Philippines

A harvest of lead

Rodrigo Duterte is living up to his promise to fight crime by shooting first and asking questions later

Aug 13th 2016 | From the print edition

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THE Philippines’ kill-list of suspected drug-pushers shot by the police or unknown gunmen gets longer by the day. By one count more than 600 people have died since Rodrigo Duterte was elected president on May 9th; another puts the total at nearly 1,000. Inaugurated on June 30th, Mr Duterte has taken to naming senior officials publicly as suspected narcos: generals, policemen and judges have been told to resign and submit to investigation. Or else? The kill list speaks for itself.

Mr Duterte is unabashed at international criticism, boasting that he does not care about human rights or due process. He was elected on a promise to eradicate crime, even by killing 100,000 gangsters and dumping their bodies in Manila Bay. More worrying still is that the bloodletting is popular with Filipinos, many of whose lives are blighted by poverty and crime.

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That satisfaction will not last. Wholesale extrajudicial killing is no solution to the Philippines’ many problems. Instead, it will lead only to more misery.

From Davao with bullets

Mr Duterte has been schooled in the violent politics of Mindanao, the southern and most lawless large island of the archipelago. A region historically influenced by Islam and progressively settled by Christians, Mindanao still has the feel of a restless frontier. It has been plagued by both communist and Muslim insurgencies, now more or less quiescent apart from splinter groups affiliated to al-Qaeda and Islamic State. Assassinations and death squads have been endemic. Davao City, of which Mr Duterte was mayor for 22 years, has been a byword for violent crime.

Mr Duterte claims to have cleaned up Davao by being the baddest man in town. But his tenure is hardly the success he claims it to be: crime rates are high and the city is still the country’s murder capital. Now he is bringing the methods of Davao to Manila (see article). That so many should find this appealing speaks volumes about how far Filipino institutions have rotted, under both the dictatorship of the late Ferdinand Marcos and successive democratically elected presidents.

 

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Mr Duterte would have the world believe that the Philippines’ corrupt and ineffective police have suddenly become omniscient—able to tell innocence from guilt and decide who may live and who should die. When he menacingly read out the names of more than 150 officials deemed connected to the drug trade, at least two of those whom he fingered were already dead. It would be comical were the consequences not so horrifying. One recent picture shows a distraught woman cradling her husband lying dead next to a sign,pusher ako (“I am a drug pusher”)—a tropical version of Michelangelo’s “Pietà”.

Right now Mr Duterte seems beyond restraint. When the chief justice demanded proper arrest warrants, Mr Duterte threatened to impose martial law. And when the American ambassador expressed misgivings, Mr Duterte labelled him bakla, a pansy. But Filipinos and their foreign friends must keep exerting pressure on him.

The lesson of the drug wars in Latin America, and of previous dirty wars, is that extrajudicial violence resolves nothing and makes everything worse. Innocent people will be killed; and denunciations will also be used to settle scores and exploited by gangs to wipe out rivals. Filipinos’ desire for instant retribution will, surely, turn to horror, hatred and revenge. The rule of law will erode. Investors, who have made the Philippines one of globalisation’s winners in recent years, will flee. The only winners will be the still-lurking insurgents. Mr Duterte’s ill-conceived war on drugs will make the Philippines poorer and more violent.

 

This unfortunately is the harsh reality in a country where so much evil has reigned for so long. And where the Rod of Steel spoken of in the bible in the book of Revelation, is presently being applied without mercy and not allowing it to bend.

Note above: Assassination and death squads have been endemic.

What they have done for ages is presently reproducing in government. If you live by the sword you will die by the sword. An eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth. Therefore: This is destiny at work pushing those that see it as good to do it.

We also know that in these times god the spirit or destiny is separating the sheep from the goats.

Would it not be better in this case when destiny relents, for logic to manifest instead of the present blindness? If instead of killing all these individuals, because it’s wrong when destiny later once put into practise will not excuse others that are implementing and supporting it and later generations even if laws by then change to deal with the problem in a better manner, it’s quite possible that people will then have to commit suicide or destiny kill them off in different ways if man himself will not do it as at present.

I believe that there is a better way, especially if destiny in these times is separating the goats from the sheep and because we can't stop Mr Rodrigo Duterte?  By taking these people, if they are really guilty and not just targeted for political reasons to an isolated place in the world, where they are given their freedom to live and work there but in no way be part of the better society that exists in the rest of the world and improving the state of the sheep that are happier and merrier to live without the goats.

At the end of the day, some of these people can't change if they are not strong enough to do it and crime and everything else only increases when there is no work. People then have to make do with whatever keeps them alive due to their prevailing circumstances. Is it really their fault that they have become what they are if they are poor due to corrupt past governments. It's also no excuse for those in prominent positions where this is happening that are using their positions to make more money because they are greedy! Those people that are doing the killing should be careful that they don't enjoy doing it because they will incorporate it in their genes and family tree and someone in the family will then enjoy doing it even when they are not given a licence to do it, by becoming killers.

If Mr Duterte also enjoys living in this way he will also pass it on to his family and they will become goats when they are not in power and are normal citizens!

 

With receiving the scripures, whereby god is dividing the sheep from the goats. This is destiny knocking at the door of life and telling us or forewarning us that "ALL" people who are practising criminals or others, who are involved in ways that affects other people, in time will be segregated, not in prisons but to a part of the world where they will be amongst others similar to themselves, if this is what they enjoy doing and work and live there.

There has to be leeway to some degree as the opportunity to change will have to be given to them, but they will no longer continue to be repeat offenders and a nuisance to those that wish to live in peace and harmony with one another!

This will obviously involve everyone, from royalty downwards, with no excuses or interference and no one pulling strings for them, otherwise they will end up with the same fate in the same boat!

God is saying that this is the only way that we will ever curb greed dishonesty, etc and achieve a more or less balanced world order!

Those that are presently trying to live better lives, can't truly find the balance due to others who through their wrong inconsiderate and reckless attitudes not only drag them back but create evil around them and the community that they touch. Wherever we are in life, most people enjoy living life in that manner, as they know no other life or are not interested in changing their lives, even though they know that what they are doing is wrong but don't care, or are not given the opportunity for something better. 

 

This is the result of what is happening in the Philippines, when governments and other civil servants in the past were allowed to steal in so many different ways from the people that they represented by having no respect for the law and corruptively doing as they pleased from one generation to the next, infecting society at large. Creating a more criminal orientated and corrupt society when they not only were in league with them but also when unable to adequately support themselves as they should, people resorted to crime or sinful practices.

 

There were always criminals in England but not to the extent that we see today. Granted that some of the increase is from people from other EU states, but English society is not what it was when I first came to this country in 1958. Is this not due to neocapitalism and privatization with too much freedom and lack of respect for others and political correctness not helping either! Please tell me whether everything that has been created really works well for everyone and whether we should now review and bring into line what obviously stands out like a sore thumb. 

 

In the past there were poor and rich people and we have now allowed it to go full circle again. When will it be possible to slowly find some kind of balance, for then again slowly to bless all of us, without making the same repetetive mistakes that will manifest under other guises?

 

Benito Mussollini a Fascist, who came to power due to the rich barons, dukes and landowners taking advantage of the poor, did stop the mafia until his death during the second world war. The mafia only came back strongly after the war because it became part of the public governance and everyone was making money who were tied to it.

I wonder how all these many years of mafia, camorra, and ndrangheta with the corrupt disease in public office and Italian society will really affect Italy? No doubt we shall see, because everything with time will always be rebalanced, but who knows, maybe there's hope for the 5 Stelle Politicians that seem to be intent on change? This is if they don't burn themselves out due to others in power which are against them and will not cooperate, by doing everything possible to destroy them.

 

Other planets are being discovered that could possibly sustain life.

Technology is advancing to a degree that it will soon be possible to screen everyone and which will place us in different categories for the division to happen!

This has happened in the past. The giants (Nephilin) in the book of Genesis: When studied and serious thought is added, with other clues also in the bible, are nothing other than other humans arrived on earth from another planet with higher beings, but were cast out of their planet (similar to Satan and his followers ) cast down amongst us. All fallen angels, but not angels that could fly! They could no longer live together with others who were not at par with them and no longer wanted any part of them, due to their sinful behaviour!

The remains of giants have been found in India that are up to 37ft tall, over 10mtrs but with no wings. Many giants have been found all over the world and none with wings. Anyone over 7ft is classified a giant. Having visited Scandinavian countries, I was surprised to encounter very tall people. Diet though could have had an effect on their height and evolution. 

Bible writers did not have our understanding, regarding all that man has created and received on earth and could not relay to us the obvious of how we would explain it today with our advanced know how and technology. Planes, rockets etc.

They did in parts of the Bible explain some of the innovations, but you have to be smart to spot them and interpret them. 

 

Consider all attitudes that affect others in society, otherwise destiny is saying? This could be some of us being sent to colonise other planets, a better alternative really, than separation happening on earth. For the time being though it will happen here. It's the rod of steel and those who do not wish to live amongst a corrupt degenerate society, that will make it happen! There has to be some lee-way in the rod of steel though, as we are not perfect and decisions have to be made in how to apply it, according to each individual case and whether there is actual repentance in the life of the individual to remain with the sheep!

Preparation now that we have the revelation, will without doubt through politics and the vote slowly advance! Change is needed to avoid being part of those that will have to start life again amongst their own kind!!! Show that you have changed before laws get passed! It will not be a nice thing really, with life going backwards and without the comforts of human rights, health and safety and political correctness!

 

This is food for thought, I am being told by destiny. So therefore: We are now being told to make ready for better advances towards the life that will keep us safe from the above fate!

We need to bless ourselves, because god will not bless us! His blessing lies in the fact: That he has forewarned us!!!

 

Those that believe that they will be taken out of the troubles that are ahead, lack the all round knowledge of the bible when not divided rightly, and justly the proper foundation necessary to see, that a new earth will manifest and that they will not be taken out of the earth, just because they believe that they are saved in Jesus and that Jesus will either take them up in the air with him or come back here on earth to sort the problems that we are facing and all the time the world moving to that place of where they can't see or appreciate!

Which is it to be though! Being taken up in the air and where to! When you are sinners, living life with wrong attitudes in worldly ways, even though you have given your life to Jesus, but not living it according to how he would have lived it! Or secondly waiting for him to return and cast proper judgement on the earth which is already happening and( NO JESUS), but the spirit that was always with us before Jesus arrived on the scene. NOW DOING IT!

Please make up your minds and get on target for your own sake!!!

Seek out your own salvation with fear and trembling the scripture says. Please do not trust religion to do it for you, because they have always confused the whole world and are now left with confusing aspects that will not help or save, from the turmoil ahead.

The symbols in the bible regarding present day prophecy and the understanding that they have of them, are in areas totally wrong. Leaving them in a state of bliss but like babies ready for the slaughter!

Be obedient to the spirit and renew and build a new foundation, for destiny then, to keep you safe. 

 

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