MAYOR Rodrigo Duterte never minces words when it comes to his stand of imposing death penalty on criminals convicted of drug trafficking, kidnapping and rape. We cannot blame Duterte from his rigid position on the imposition of the maximum penalty because we have seen how crimes and criminality proliferate in our country and how these threaten every individual, every home, every family and our community.
Against the stand of the catholic church, amnesty international, human rights advocates and even on some functionaries in our government, Mayor Duterte passionately argues and defends his proposition to re-impose death penalty not only as deterrent but also to eliminate perpetrators of these abhorrent crimes.
Duterte makes it clear that he values life and that he will come in the way against those who will attempt at snuffing the life of the innocent. For Duterte, members of the drug and kidnapping syndicates and rapists have very little rights at all. They have to be dealt with severely.
Duterte laments that convicted drug lords and drug pushers live in luxury inside Muntinglupa. They not only enjoy all the amenities that they have in liberty, they also continue manufacturing shabu inside their so-called prison cell, managing the distribution of drugs and maintaining their syndicates. Duterte warned that most of the victims are young children.
He said that once they are into shabu, you lost your children for they will forever be dependent on the drug. He said, that the lifting of death penalty in the country has encouraged foreign nationals to come to the Philippines and set up shabu laboratories and establish distribution network not only within our shores but elsewhere. They ought to be stopped and completely annihilated and one of the means in death penalty.
Duterte also insists that maximum death penalty should be imposed on kidnappers because experience has it that many of the victims are either killed or if freed had become in constant fear and trauma because of threats from the perpetrators who make kidnapping an industry.
The rapists to him are of equal footings as drug pushers and kidnappers because either they kill their victims or they destroy the life of their victims just the same.
Duterte makes no qualms about how he deals with criminals in Davao City. The heinous crime offenders have to be eliminated if the fight it ought with the law and if arrested and convicted should, just the same, be sentenced to death by hanging. It should be by hanging because electricity or gas chamber and firing squad is just too expensive for these types of criminals.
The Davao City Mayor also lambasts former Sen. Kiko Pangilinan for his juvenile delinquency law which he said is the prime motivation for the minors to engage in criminality. Pangilinan should be blamed for the rise in numbers of youngsters involve in crime. Since the imposition of the Pangilinan law, children below 18 years of age cannot be held accountable for their crime and therefore are freed within 24 hours from the moment the commit crime.
How can one discipline these so-called child offenders if there is no modicum of penalty that will be imposed on them. In Davao City, there are rehabilitation centers established by the local government. This is because the city government can afford it. But what of the other local government units who can barely afford?, Duterte asked. He said Pangilinan compounded the problem because he did not provide a single centavo for rehabilitation program of the youth offender. So what happens, Duterte said, the child offenders are let loose to the streets and commit another crime knowing that they are protected by the Pangilinan edict.
Duterte said that if he is President of the country he will have the Pangilinan law abolished immediately as it was abolished by the State of New York from where Pangilinan copied it after finding ought that it abetted criminality among the young offenders. As President, he said, he will have Death Penalty restored. Well said and the people believe him. The problem here is that he has to be President first.
Now if you value security, love your family, your freedom from threats from criminals then you have to convince Duterte to run for the Presidency. That is all there is to it. (jerrydureza@yahoo.com)
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