Vocal Anti-Drug Pastor Murdered in Cebu

Agree, the war on drugs seems to be a failure. Anyone with a basic understanding of gang warfare understands that if you hit someone with a stick, they come back to the next party with a knife and so on. Escalation breeds escalation. I've no idea how to stop demand, or prevent it, but it would seem to be that harm reduction policies such as adopted by the Netherlands might be a step forward.

 

I see, the new chief urges people to shoot drug dealers so the drug dealers shoot a Baptist pastor who was just reporting drug activity. Can you tie it a little closer please? Or do you have any other instances that coincided with this? A hangnail maybe?

It might be different if the pastor was advocating shooting drug dealers but I didn't see than anywhere in the story.

 

The $100,000 question is why didn't the police just walk up and shoot the man they arrested? I mean, that seems to be the big squawk. Some people seem to be saying that police won't arrest people if there is an incentive for killing them? Why is the assassin still alive?

 

And where in the story did a citizen take the law into his own hands? Would it be unusual for a pastor to preach against drugs? Are not good citizens expected to report drug activity? Was the pastor trying to make a drug arrest? Where in this did a citizen take the law into his own hands?

 

Wait, wait! How is actively supporting a candidate taking the law into one's own hands? I thought regular everyday people do that?

 

This quote, the taking the law into their own hands thing. That is the piece that is missing for me.

As long as I'm here, who else was shot? Which innocent people were caught in a crossfire?