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Duterte tells US, other critics to stop hypocrisy

Allan Nawal (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
Davao City, Philippines
Fri, September 30, 2016

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Duterte tells US, other critics to stop hypocrisy Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte (right) addresses Overseas Filipino Workers who were repatriated back to the country, Aug. 31, at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport in suburban Pasay city south of Manila, Philippines. (AP/Bullit Marquez)

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resident Rodrigo Duterte said the US must stop criticising him, particularly in connection with the extrajudicial killings tied to his war on drugs and stressed that it should “not pretend to be the moral conscience of the world.”

“Do not be the policeman because you do not have the eligibility to do that in my country,” he stated.

Earlier, US Senator Benjamin Cardin of Maryland said in a dialogue with Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont that “in advocating and endorsing what amounts to mass murder,” Duterte has adopted the wrong approach in dealing with the illegal drugs problem.

“Senator Leahy is absolutely right when he said that a lack of respect for the rule of law and democratic governance breeds instability, distrust and sometimes violence,” Cardin said.

However, Duterte said the US was being a hypocrite and urged it to “stop it.”

“Why are you shooting the black people there when they are on the ground?" he questioned.

He pointed out that the US and its allies, such as the Great Britain, also violated the human rights of other countries, such as when they invaded Iraq “on the flimsy excuse that there was a weapon of mass destruction there.”

“They’re only good at criticising,” he said, calling them pea-brained.

Duterte said the criticism has been going on for years now.

“In all these years, not a single case has been filed against me. It’s only talk up to now,” he said, adding that the criticism dated back to the time when he was the mayor here.

Duterte also went on to say that his critics are “peabrained, i*****” by criticising him for threatening criminals.

“When you have to charge me, you have to find out if the penal laws of this land will make a mayor liable for threatening or intimidating criminals. Read all the penal laws of this land, and you will find nothing,” he remarked.

Duterte also admitted he was now piqued by the criticism that he was even “portrayed to be some cousin of Hitler.”

“But they did not even bother to investigate. Things like this. Look, US, (EU), you can call me anything, but I am never into hypocrisy like you,” he said.

Hinting at the EU, Duterte said it had allowed migrants escaping from the Middle East to rot at sea in the middle of winter.

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