After the successful May 2016
National and Local Elections, again the country, Philippines is now beneath a
cloud of disagreement over the Retraction
of Death Penalty on Maximum Security
Prisons – perpetrators of heinous
crimes.
We are aware of President
Duterte’s take on this matter – in which he is very much eager to revoke the
temporary lifting of the punishment BUT the Commission
on Human Rights and other groups are opposed to it. Again, I am not writing this to support any
sides. I am here to give you what I
think pushes each side to stand on their ground.
Positive
Side/In Favor
Pro-Death
Penalty
- it may discourage or
at least warn the criminals of committing heinous crimes that might
subject them to the penalty.
- Drug Lords who are said to be ‘alive
and kicking’ and as they say and STILL
masterminding drug activities outside the prison thru their continuous
leadership and connections can be lined-up for immediate execution. I can see that this has weight – drug pushers
as well as users have been an ordinary scenario in the country in the past
years.
The incoming President has
expressed his wrath over the pushers and has shown mercy
for the users – that he even said that if a pusher fights and refuse
to surrender – the police should not think twice of defending themselves
against them even at the cost of the ‘pushers’
life. And he also added that he never wanted his (our) country be the home for psychotics – that is not far from
reality.. . He wanted to HANG these culprits who circulate drugs
in the country and rehabilitate his
beloved countrymen who get addicted to it as well as give them another chance
of a BETTER and more productive life and living.
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Illegal
Drugs affect the motor and psycho-ability of a person using it. There are kind of illicit drug that causes
user’s desperation, hallucinations and other mind-inducing violence. In the US,
several incidents of school firing happened and the possibility of drug
influence is not zeroed-out in the motives of the suspect
Side
Story:
In the past week, I witnessed how
illegal drugs had conquered my fellow-countrymen. A grandmother, a wife, teenagers, minors,
even cops (some not all), some dirty politicians had been involved in the black market. The deals on pushing were not so clandestine anymore
that it is done just anywhere, in the streets, in a private residence of a
middle-class or I can say poor families.
Many were caught right-handed in the buy-bust
operations. Why? Because drugs is sold in tiniest
(retailed per
gram if I am not mistaken) quantity and cheapest
price that has been even made affordable to the curious students and
people who do not have a job to sustain the addiction. That is how prevalent it is in the country
today.
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The
latest is the widespread trading- even in youth parties and events – like in
the recent ‘Close-up’ gathering that caused the death of five innocent
youngsters who were unaware that a glass of drink passed-on they sipped is
contaminated with the ‘ecstasy’ drug in a tablet form. Experts said that it
rendered their heart and other organs’ failure.
In fact, self-confessed users
have surfaced especially in Quezon City that Mayor Herbert Bautista has given
the drug users in his city AMNESTY.
They have been asked to surrender to the operatives (policemen with portable
mic and speakers announcing on every corner) ad be ready for
rehabilitation.
Important:
In
an interview of an authority (PDEA) – rehab might cost around twenty thousand pesos but can be FREELY obtained with
just a CERTIFICATION from Barangay Officials that the subject is INDIGENT.
One time, around one thousand
five hundred citizens have voluntarily submitted to the authorities and another
seven hundred in QC alone as I watch the news the other day. When interviewed
(their faces were not shown in the camera ) they have confessed that they
feared the recent killings (in a shootout) of drug-involved individuals by the
cops and drug operatives and a man even tactlessly saying that he is afraid
Duterte might take the first step on him. Whew, it only took a brave and
straightforward leader to intimidate them!
- Death Penalty is sure to compensate the monstrous
criminals who killed
other people heartlessly, raped and killed children and women helplessly, those
who have kidnapped people for ransom and eventually killing the victims even
after the relatives have paid them or in the event that they have not raised
the amount of ransom ordered.
- Why the CHR could have
thoughtfully considered the side of the criminals, how come they have not
thought of the victims and their families?!
A months-old baby, a three year-old girl raped and killed brutally,
people who died just because of their mobile phones or gadgets?! Massacre victims (others were buried alive
just because they are in the wrong place at the wrong time)? Are not those
criminals inhuman enough?! Or maybe they are the alter-ego of Satan?! Do not they deserve to die?! When wealthy prisoners live in an
airconditioned cells with complete amenities – is justice been served
righteously?!
The President want the penalty be
done thru hanging – he is telling
that electrocution will cost us
energy, why the hell he would spend for
their execution…hanging in public is the best way he thought of – it will
take only a rope to accomplish it and frighten
the would-be-villains.
- Drug trading involvement cases are considered heinous because most
of the murders and rape where done under the influence of drugs (if not, I
doubt if they can do that UNLESS they are abnormal!)
- Only criminals who have
committed ‘HEINOUS CRIMES’ as defined by the constitution shall be put
to death. Here is a link of the PHilConst. Here is the link on the complete copy of the RA 7659
this EXCLUDES ordinary robbers,
thieves, petty-crime offenders.
Cons
(Negative
Side)/Not in Favor
Death
Penalty
(with Rebuttal Arguments)
-Commision on Human Rights (CHR)
opposes as the chairperson said – the
act of imprisonment is a punishment itself.
That is if the person is
suffering behind bars – what is common to well-off offenders are just mere RESTRICTION from leaving the prison premises – life? Having mobile phones,
internet access, high-tech gadgets, foamed beds, airconditioned cells, one
recently demolished even got a swimming pool.
-Another thing the chairperson is
telling is that it refuses to give people a chance to renew their lives. Like
the kidnappers and drug pushers as
they say that only ‘poverty’ has caused them to err. And that some of them have
not murdered anybody.
-She also emphasized the
possibility of getting the wrong persons to be penalized. (I do not agree with it, because ALL convicted
criminals has passed SERIES OF COURT TRIALS and been judged WITHOUT reasonable doubt to have committed the
crime.
The burden just lies to the justice
system that corruption must be truly eradicated so that no innocent
man can be a ‘fall guy’ (just accused to make it appear that a case is
solved) to a crime, that no
investigator, policeman, or even judge can serve justice for a PRICE. That we must be assured that selective justice
is just a nightmare and could not be
real.
I am again an ordinary citizen,
putting my whole trust in your governance, President Duterte – hoping that you
will not fail us and our descendants.
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