By Jose Maria Sison
NDFP Chief Political Consultant
June 26, 2020

Duterte says that he is tempted to hang himself because of the problems that he cannot solve and that he has in fact aggravated. He talks this way out of fear that the people will soon catch up with him in a corner and hold him accountable for his failures and abuses.

But he is hell-bent on imposing a kind of state terrorism worse than martial law. He is still enjoying himself in locking down and killing people and stealing hundreds of billions of pesos in the name of the pandemic.

And he is daydreaming about being able to kill all the revolutionaries or bribe them to surrender so that he can rule without opposition from the revolutionary movement.

No psychopathic narcissist and sociopathic tyrant would really think of hanging himself until he is put in a corner by the people and the revolutionary forces.

Duterte thinks that he can appease the people by threatening to kill himself. The overwhelming response of the people is that he should go ahead and give the people some relief from his tyranny and corruption.

He seems not to realize that he has bankrupted the economy and the government and that he is the target of the people’s wrath against the the escalating oppression and exploitation that they are suffering.

Conditions are now so many times more favorable for the people’s armed revolution than in the years of 1968 to 1972. And the revolutionary forces are so many times far stronger now on a national scale than in that period.

There is practically no space for Duterte to save himself with foreign loans. The IMF, World Bank and OECD have already proclaimed the certain fall of the global GDP by 4.9 to 6 per cent this year in what they describe as the Great Lockdown.

They estimate that this is far worse than the Great Depression. The unprecedented fall of the global GDP will have the worst impact on underdeveloped and heavily indebted economies like that of the Philippines.###

========================================

PH problems tempt him to hang himself, says Duterte

By: Julie M. Aurelio – Reporter / @JMAurelioINQPhilippine Daily Inquirer / 05:06 AM June 15, 2019
https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1130514/ph-problems-tempt-him-to-hang-himself-says-duterte?fbclid=IwAR05Wh6K1Vdg9FCbHWZnW4xbwotTmuEWZWAtBM9BJ8dPd-wv0TT9yPbzdJY

The country has “so many problems” that “if you were the president of a nation such as this, you would be tempted to hang yourself.”

So confessed President Duterte during an agrarian reform program in General Santos City, South Cotabato, on Thursday where he distributed certificates of land ownership to 13,595 beneficiaries.

Among the problems Duterte referred to was the longstanding communist insurgency and the illegal drug trade, two topics he often dwelt on during his speeches.

Thursday’s event was no exception, with the President describing the New People’s Army (NPA) rebels as a spent force that has run out of bullets and food.

“Whether you agree or not, you New People’s Army, the communists, you are about to end,” Duterte said.  Distributing lands to poor farmers was his way of making the communist insurgency irrelevant, he added.

New gov’t peace panel

In April, the President said he might create a new peace negotiating panel despite his earlier pronouncements terminating the peace talks with the rebels.

The new government peace panel will be composed of three members from the military and two civilians, Duterte said.

At the same time, the President urged the communist rebels to lay down their arms, pointing out that they had been unable to occupy even a single barangay in the past half-century.

“To the communists, come down. I’ll give you a small condo, the same condo that I allot for the military and police. Yours will be smaller but it’s a house that you can live in. It’s habitable, so to speak,” he said.

“I’ll give you a job. I will send you to school for skills training,” the President added.

E-CLIP

Under Administrative Order No. 10 released by Malacañang in April 2018, all former rebels are entitled to benefits under the Enhanced Comprehensive Local Integration Program (E-CLIP), which is being handled by the interagency Task Force Balik-Loob led by the Department of National Defense and the Department of the Interior and Local Government.

Under E-CLIP, each former rebel will receive P15,000 in cash and P50,000 as livelihood aid.

In his speech, the President cited China, which, he said, has become a “controlled capitalist” and “market-driven economy.” There are no more communist countries, he said.

“But the Philippines is letting itself be deceived,” Duterte added.

Early on in his speech, the President ordered his security group to remove the bulletproof glass panel in front of him, part of the “highest security protocols” accorded him during events held in open areas.

“Don’t shoot us politicians because we are just serving you,” he said. “Why would you shoot me when I did nothing wrong to you?” he jested.  —WITH A REPORT FROM ORLANDO B. DINOY
Read more: https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1130514/ph-problems-tempt-him-to-hang-himself-says-duterte#ixzz6QsCimBuo
Follow us: @inquirerdotnet on Twitter | inquirerdotnet on Facebook