No President from Emilio Aguinaldo to the present time has had a close, personal encounter with the issue of drug use---until Bongbong Marcos came along.
The well-respected columnist Rigoberto "Bobi" Tiglao is again: where is the media at this time when the beauteous Cathy Binag is having her epiphany? Where is the media to scrutinize the video of the man sniffing what looked like cocaine? Where is the media to report the harassment and unfair treatment, bullying, etc. of the senators and the judiciary on one retired PDEA agent named Jonathan Morales?
It would seem that these are non-events that do not merit even a short item in the Across-the-Nation newsbits. Shame on you, media, as Tiglao would say. Let me echo that, Echo Rosales.
Well, just as we had the "mosquito press" and the "Xerox media generation" during the Martial Law of the dictator Ferdinand Marcos in the 1970s, at least we now have Maharlika Contreras, Atty. Vic Rodriguez, Trixie Cruz Angeles, Princess Maui and others who have surfaced to tell their versions of the narrative, the one that traditional media would not dare to touch even with a ten-foot "bugaw." For reasons unknown, I dare to add.
In a grand show of "DEAD MA" on Cathy Binag, Maharlika and company, Bongbong Marcos and Marbil have unveiled
the police force's recalibrated approach in its fight against illegal drugs.
They said the new approach recognizes that the drug problem is a complex issue, and thus it prioritizes targeting the sources and supply chains rather than focusing on street-level pushers and users.
Marbil cricitized the previous anti-drug campaign of the Duterte administration, which was a great user of body bags---at least 6,000 dead.
"We are now focusing on high-value drug personalities and movements of illegal drugs across the country. These are the real targets, not the street-level pushers and users, who are often victims of circumstance," Marbil explained, noting the importance of minimizing bloodshed in drug operations.
This elicited a sharp reaction from Sen. Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa, who was the principal implementer of Duterte's Oplan Tokhang against illegal drugs.
Former PNP chief Dela Rosa insisted that the controversial drugs crackdown under the Duterte administration was not selective in going after targets.
The senator said: “We didn’t discriminate as to who we are going to arrest in our war on drugs. We were not selective in the implementation of the Dangerous Drugs Act.”
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