Ms. Midler is right. Rodrigo Duterte is one of the world’s most detestable leaders. Everybody knows this. If killing 27,000 people, including children and minors, while letting big time drug lords go free does not make him one, then we might as well hail Satan as the epitome of everything good and pure in this world.
Malacañang is always quick to denounce as a brazen and unpardonable intrusion any move from the international community that is unfavorable to this administration – the US senators’ proposed travel ban against my persecutors, the UN Human Rights Council’s call to investigate the drug war killings, Ms. Midler’s comment – essentially everything that is true and just.
Balat sibuyas ang administrasyong ito sa harap ng katotohanang hindi na ito nagtatagumpay sa pagpapanggap na buhay ang demokrasya sa ating bansa at gumagana ito sa ngalan ng katotohanan at katarungan.
Kaya kung may higit mang kasuklam-suklam pa kay Duterte, ito yung patuloy na pagtatanggol at pagbubulag-bulagan sa mga pang-aabuso sa karapatang pantao na ginagawa ng administrasyong ito.
Ms. Midler only speaks the truth. History books will be written with Duterte’s name alongside the likes of Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Suharto, Marcos, Pinochet, Idi Amin, and all other mass murderers who terrorized millions.###
(Access the handwritten copy of Dispatch from Crame No. 654, here: https://issuu.com/senatorleilam.delima/docs/dispatch_654)