Best Posts in Thread: Duterte to run for president in 2016

Above the law but it's the only thing that's effective!

 

That is not what the NPA wants. They are communists willing to kill for their political agenda. (I don't use that word "communism" in a negative way. Communism is a great concept...if we lived in a utopian society where we didn't have the unavoidable human elements of greed and power. The Philippines could never make that work.)

 

Wow.....he's going to need the entire military on his side protecting him if he wants to stay alive long enough to become president. He's basically threatened every single person currently serving in the government.

 

DAVAO CITY, Philippines – If 70-year-old Rodrigo Duterte became President of the Philippines, he would work to make 3 things happen. He counted them on the fingers of one hand: “I would stop corruption, stop criminality, and fix government,” he said forcefully.

Here’s what makes him different: he’s willing to kill to make that happen.

“When I said I’ll stop criminality, I’ll stop criminality,” said one of the Philippines’ longest serving mayors. “If I have to kill you, I’ll kill you. Personally.”

I held his gaze to see if he meant what he said. He did. His track record proves it.

In public office since the people power revolt in 1986, he ran and won as mayor of Davao City in 1988 until he hit his 3-term limit in 1998. He then ran for the House of Representatives and represented the 1st District of Davao City. He was elected to his 4th term as mayor in Davao in 2001 and reelected again in 2004 and 2007. Hitting his term limit a second time, he ran as vice mayor to his daughter until he received a new mandate as mayor in 2013.Duterte, his 6 contradictions and planned dictatorship

Straight to the point in that interview!