Why ask for foreign meddling just because you hate PDU30?

THERE is one singular line running throughout the concerted effort to demonize, thereby discrediting, the country’s ‘Drug War’ during the Duterte administration. And this is the constant appeal for the intervention of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in our internal affairs.

We can understand if in the beginning, this plea for foreign meddling came from the various foreign-funded NGOs, including some in the mainstream media, and CPP-front organizations as all are paid by Western governments, mainly by US Imperialism, to destabilize any regime that they don’t like.

And the Duterte administration falls under this category over his clear anti-US bias and his foul mouth that shamed even President Obama and the haughty Western press, both ever immaculate in their hypocrisy, during his public speeches.

Aware of this conspiracy to destabilize the country by personally targeting him, his administration had the foresight to withdraw from the ICC, completing the process in March 2019.

I am not defending PDU30, far from it. If he is guilty of the crimes he is accused of, let him suffer the consequences of his actions. But it should be here, in our country and under our own judicial process that no one can dispute is functioning, despite its inadequacies.

However, what we now find appalling is the fact that even our lawmakers and ranking government officials have joined the chorus in calling on the ICC to interfere in our domestic affairs despite already having no legal authority to do so—and to hell with our own functioning judicial system.

Again, the Western-paid local hacks calling for direct foreign intervention just to get one man, we can understand. That is what they are paid to do to start with—to propagate the Western narrative until it took hold and becomes official policy.

On this, they are succeeding, with the introduction in Congress of the ‘Kian Bill’ that seeks to classify drug addiction as a “health problem.” But let us leave this for future discussion.

And again, to include our lawmakers and high-ranking officials who are supposed to think and act as “statesmen” among those calling for foreigners to jail and prosecute our former president—who also won by a landslide by the way– really tells a lot about the moral corruption, lack of national dignity, lack of basic human decency and lack of intellectual acuity of those running our political system.

I’d say, these are dangerous people, dear readers. They would rather see our country fall into chaos and we, disunited as a people, just for the sake of satiating their lust for revenge. Towards this end, they would rather let foreigners like the ICC to do the political hatchet job for them and again, our functioning judicial system be damned. And there goes too our pride as a sovereign country.

I am not defending PDU30, far from it. If he is guilty of the crimes he is accused of, let him suffer the consequences of his actions.

But it should be here, in our country and under our own judicial process that no one can dispute is functioning, despite its inadequacies.

As it is, it has become clear as day that what is happening to Pres. Duterte is driven by US vendetta and personal motive fueled by the political ambition and ideological conviction of those wanting to destroy him inside and out of Congress.

I’d say, these are dangerous people, dear readers. They would rather see our country fall into chaos and we, disunited as a people, just for the sake of satiating their lust for revenge.

Towards this end, they would rather let foreigners like the ICC to do the political hatchet job for them and again, our functioning judicial system be damned. And there goes too our pride as a sovereign country.

On hindsight, this campaign for foreign meddling via the ICC is not something new to our country’s ruling political class.

After all, they happily allowed US Imperialism to put back their bases here and in increased number too and subordinate again our foreign policy to the State Department and the Pentagon.

I’d say, this call for ICC interference is just another turn in the circle, folks.