The President really know his politics.
A few days passed when United Nations Human Rights Council
head Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein told President Duterte should have his head
examined, the President has a ready reply to that statement. President Duterte
said that the United Nations human rights members should all be fed to the
crocodiles as he justified his order for the police to ignore the rapporteurs
when they come to investigate the Duterte government’s war on drugs.
Department of Foreign Affairs Secretary defended the
President against that statement, as well as Senator Panfilo Lacson.But it
seems the President does need any defending as he fires back. *
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| The President justified his orders to the PNP in ignoring the UN probers, saying they might incriminate themselves( photo credit to PCOO) |
“If these fools come here, are there crocodiles here?
The ones that eat people? Throw those sons of b****** to them,” he said in
a speaking engagement with soldiers in Zamboanga City over the weekend.
The president justified his orders to the police to
ignore human rights investigators, saying he was protecting law enforcers from
incriminating themselves.
The president has been scrutinized by the critics for
his brutal war against illegal drugs, which they have alleged to have been the
proximate cause of the summary executions.
The president told the audience that the best way to
answer the probers is to remain silent.
“You know, they say they are investigating us. My God, you fools! If you
are investigating us, the rule in criminal law is, any statement or answer that
you give may incriminate you,” the President said.
“If you answer their questions, it will be freewheeling, it is recorded.
If you are called there, you are bound by whatever you say. So the best way is
to just keep silent. Just tell them: ‘We have a Commander-in-Chief.’
Haven’t I told you? I take full responsibility,” Pres. Duterte added.
Duterte claimed that his order is allowed under the current 1987 Constitution. *
“(These human rights groups) got angry because the advice is ‘do not
answer questions from them’ and that is for a reason – legal. That is provided
for in the Constitution itself,” the President said.
President Duterte said investigators would see several loopholes from
the statements of police officers “because we are not situated in the same
situation or similarly situated at one time.”
“It’s (going to) be convoluted... then that places us in jeopardy. They
will see many loopholes, but if you shut up, just say: ‘Duterte ordered it.
Destroy the organization.’ What’s wrong with that? Can I not protect my country
by killing people and destroying apparatus?” he added.
Report from PhilStar
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