A DUDIRTY CULTURE in the Philippines began auspiciously in 2016.
Within a few weeks after his inauguration as President of the Philippines, Rodrigo Roa Duterte declared in public that “God is stupid!” To tell the world that he meant business, he publicly blamed Pope Francis, the head of the Catholic Church and Vicar of Christ on earth, for the traffic he encountered along Roxas Boulevard one day when Pope Francis visited the country. In fact, he wanted the Pope to go back home soon.
That was in 2016. Today, February 11, 2025, the news carried a declaration by the PNP that the PNPA alumni are free to publicly express their support for VP Sara Duterte, who was just impeached by 215 members of the House of Representatives (HOR). This means that the PNP, known as “Protector of the People” has chosen to be politically partisan. The charges made against her: culpable violation of the Constitution, bribery, graft and corruption, betrayal of public trust, and her misuse of up to P612.5 million in confidential fund of her OVP and the Department of Education from 2022 to 2023.
What comes to mind among Filipinos of goodwill, given this clear partisan stand of the PNP, is that the 215 representatives of the people (purportedly the voice of the people in crafting laws for the country) are biased and have no credibility as to their decision to impeach VP Sarah Duterte.
Is this PNP perspective a reflection of the Dudirty Culture which eschews the sacred values of the God of Truth and Justice?
Is this PNP perspective a reflection of the Dudirty Culture which eschews the sacred values of the God of Truth and Justice?
KILL KILL KILL
The Dudirty Culture somehow imbedded itself from then on as President Rodrigo Roa Duterte launched his bloody “War on Drugs – Operation Tokhang.” The PNP ground troops, mandated to ARREST law violators, (and NOT kill using their guns only when their targets appear to fight back and pose a danger to their lives), went on a killing spree, resulting in more than 30,000 victims of extrajudicial killings (EJKs).
Contrary to God’s law of “Thou shall not kill,” the Dudirty Culture has stressed the policy of “Kill Kill Kill” in the case of suspected drug addicts, pushers, smugglers, drug lords, and even any lowly law violator. And this is despite the country’s abolition of the death penalty many years back. This culture of death has proliferated with the able support of his longtime aides, now senators Bong Go and Bato de la Rosa, and his daughter VP Sara.
To cement this Dudirty Culture in the minds of the country’s law enforcers in particular, and to all Filipinos, president R R Duterte had Congress pass the Anti-Terror Law. This apparently was a big favor to the self-serving dynastic leaders, as they have a legal cover to malign their perceived political enemies. This led to the creation of the implementing arm, the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-Elcac). Its track record, sadly for the Filipino people, has been a brutal trail of illegal actions against reformist activist citizens and groups.
BLOODY CULTURE
The reputable human rights watchdog, KARAPATAN, has faithfully documented that there were “as many as 1,609,496 victims who have been threatened, harassed, and intimidated under the Marcos Jr. regime, mainly through red- and terrorist-tagging.” This means that the bloody Dudirty Culture, founded on the “God is stupid” mindset, has also deeply colored the policies and programs of the current President Bongbong Marcos – VP Sara Duterte administration.
The question is: “Is this anti-God ‘Dudirty Culture’ acceptable to the majority of the Filipino people?”
The answer: “Definitely NOT, this culture must be expunged completely ASAP!”
