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Kill The Protesters, Or Allow Hundreds of Thousands of People To Die Of COVID-19?
When does a logical fallacy become a matter of life-and-death for hundreds of thousands of people?
A very good friend of mine sent me a link about Philippine President Duterte’s shoot-to-kill order for protesters. From a different source:
“And do not harm the health workers, the doctors … because that is a serious crime. My orders to the police and the military, if anyone creates trouble, and their lives are in danger: shoot them dead.”
“Do not intimidate the government. Do not challenge the government. You will lose,” he added in Filipino and English.
Duterte’s warning came after residents of a slum in Manila’s Quezon City staged a protest along a highway near their shanty houses, claiming they had not received any food packs and other relief supplies since the lockdown began more than two weeks ago.
I know the Metro Manila “suburb” of Quezon City very well. My house and extended family are there. That’s where my oldest son graduated college, and my youngest graduated high school. They were both born here in America, but we chose for them to go there.
Duterte’s order is not just criminal, but tyrannical, a crime against humanity. After all, the title of this article clearly…
