The great schism that pseudo human rights advocates are claiming that is dividing society, is nothing but a sounding brass and tinkling cymbal.
How did we come to that?
To date, if the assumption can be finally substantiated, then it can be said. But, certainly, the current government drive against drugs has shaken and stirred the underworld of the meth industry like what most of us were never really told.
Over 30,000 Boholano drug personalities have voluntarily surrendered and made themselves available to authorities. If projection was right, this leaves around 10,000 now shivering in the dark world of withdrawal. Until somebody gets a lead. Or he surrenders for good.
Unlike the simple-mindedness these pseudo human rights activists show to convince the gullible to swallow their shallow logic, the world of drugs may not be as simple as their simple minds can fathom.
As they seem to imply, their advocacy is the faulted logic of the absolutes. Their logic is black and white. In short: you are an angel or the devil. No in-betweens.
So when the order to finally bring down the hammer and pound drugs to brittle pieces, the President himself staked his name for the authorities.
“Trust that the office of the President would be behind you in this,” Duterte said.
Then, the human rights activists suddenly clicked on to the default setting.
Now, all the killings that happen are miraculously ascribed to state operatives.
This late, the death count is a little over 400. Some are pushers caught red-handed and had to fight it out because getting into the same cell block with the users would be fire on their asses.
Rights advocates easily forget that before Duterte became a household threat in the drug industry, people especially those linked to drugs have a queer habit of just dying. They forgot they did raise no howl, foul or full then, they whose easy refuge is a biblical quote.
Rival groups who dream of making a killing in the industry have to maw the competition.
Now, these pseudo rights advocates think rival drug groups suddenly forget they can kill competition.
They suddenly remember that killing is deplorable and that human rights must be the sole guide.
That is when the blinders come in.
Drugs, unlike the shallow minds can fathom, is a convoluting take and can divide one’s sense of propriety.
Drugs have caused people to act weird.
Sons rape and mangle mothers, grandmothers, sisters and innocent minors. Dutiful daughters steal and do everything; inhuman acts to ruin families and snap relationships. Drugs make human beings pale in comparison to animals for it messes with ones sense of logic.
They think killing has suddenly become a monopoly of government and much as it is inhuman to ascribe the murders to their usual suspects, anything against the government has become their moral compass.
Then last Tuesday, drug surrenderers took to the streets, certainly not on their free will.
Now, did we hear them raise a howl? This definitely is a shame campaign. And is not right. Not humane. Like sounding brass. Or tinkling cymbal.
But on one hand, drugs do strange things to one’s logic, like we argued.
