I was an NBI agent from 1963 to 1969. There were less heinous crimes and illegal drug cases then.
Heinous crimes have proliferated after the death penalty was abolished in the Philippines. Drug lords and foreign criminals started dumping their prohibited drugs and building shabu laboratories and factories in the Philippines, which they could not do in Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand and other Asian countries where the death penalty is imposed. The death penalty kept away drug lords from our country.
President Duterte just inherited the ill effects of illegal drugs and corruption in government which previous administrations failed to arrest.
With no budget for rehabilitation and about four million drug pushers and addicts to attend to, President Duterte’s system of preserving life and the welfare of current and future generations is the correct one: Kill those drug pushers and addicts who endanger the lives of our peace officers and innocent citizens.
Some religious leaders claim that the death penalty is not allowed by God. They have forgotten that God killed the criminals and sinners in Sodom and Gomorrah and through the great deluge, as written in the Bible.
I hope that the families of human rights advocates and congressmen who oppose the restoration of the death penalty will not fall victim to heinous crimes and drug lords, pushers and addicts.
ERNESTO Z. MEDINA, asiadetectives@yahoo.com