On 11/17/2016 09:17 AM, jim bell wrote:
From: Mirimir <mirimir@riseup.net>
On 11/16/2016 08:11 PM, grarpamp wrote:
On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 11:25 PM, Razer <rayzer@riseup.net> wrote:
If police vanished off the street this second what do you think might happen, realistically?
There'd be a whole lotta thugs rising up, and becoming dead thugs just as fast. More efficient than today's model of dethugging? Who knows. Don't be a thug. Consider the Philippines. Young mothers becoming assassins ;) Yes, that is a very interesting current example of such a thing. My question is, are the right people being killed?Is it anybody associated with drugs that is dying, or is it just such people who are merely unpopular with the police? Consider this logic: If a person is a bigtime drug dealer, just about the most 'threatening' thing to him is that the drugs he sells would be declared legal.
<SNIP> Well, I do get the sense that it's been mostly low-level people, working in the streets, who have been killed.[0] But Duterte's list apparently includes "government, military and police officials".[1] And the article doesn't even suggest the possibility that they're just his political opponents. And a Mirror article does claim that innocent people are being killed.[2] So it's probably not a good model approach. [0] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3867524/Crimes-against-humanity-Phil... [1] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/philippines-president-rodrigo-d... [2] http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/husband-wife-death-squad-execute-911...