No to Extra Judicial Killing

Now in the term of our president Mr. Rodrigo Duterte it is the most
scary and strict because killings are everywhere. There’s no certain
place in killings here in the Philippines, although it is good for our
country because the drug lords, drug addicts will be lessen or gone
but sometimes the police did not give a chance to the other drug
pusher, sometimes the other police officer use their power/authority
to kill also an innocent one. Mr. Rodrigo Duterte and Mr. Rolando Dela
Rosa is good tandem because they are both hate drugs.

We all know that putting to an end the lives of people is not good,
but how about the victims of the pushers and drug Lords? Is there have
a justice for an innocent children being rape because of drug addicts,
the children using drugs even at the young age? They kill, steal,
hold-up, push drugs etc... Are we giving them a considerable because
they are not in the government? No! They committed crimes. The
authorities give them the chance to surrender all of them so that
they’re not getting hurt but unfortunately some of them are trying to
fight against the authorities so that they are not being caught and
put to jail. So it is their fault why some of them experience even
into death. Our governments doing is to clean and protect our country,
so we should not blame them of what happen in our country today
because they only serving and doing their job and wasting their lives
too for our community and the people.

There are many ways aspects of the president`s solution to violence

and crime that I can understand and even support. Placing curfews on
teenagers, alcohol consumption, and more are smart preventive
measures... However, having said all that, I don’t believe that “SHOOT
TO KILL” is the way to achieve the goal of a safer country. When did
fighting fire with fire ever actually work in the long run? There has
to be a better middle ground. If the president`s mandate of shoot to
kill is followed what we would end up with are even more vigilantes
walking the streets with a convoluted sense of wild wild west justice.
This is not the way to make things safe again; In fact, things might
get even more dangerous. We all want to live in a safe society. We
want to able to raise the children in a safer world. I commend the
president on his mission to stamp our crime, drugs and violence in the
Philippines. On the note, we are all aligned in wanting a better
country. However, there has to be a way to do this while letting DUE
PROCESS and the rule of law prevail. I remember the Latin legal
phrase-`Fiat iustitia ruat carlum` which translate into “let justice
be done though the heavens fall”. Fair justice should always prevail,
especially when lives are at stake.

Each time a person is killed by the RAB or the police, the

government, in effect, casts a vote of no confidence in the judiciary.
Each time a person is denied trail, the legal system of the country is
undermined. Each time the law enforcing agencies are allowed to
randomly “kill” a suspect, the government creates a Frankenstein. Each
time police or RAB take a person’s life without the due process of
law, the government itself becomes a lawbreaker and reduces itself, in
a sense to the level of those that it is trying to punish. An
inevitable consequence of this process is that the legally constituted
greatly loses its moral authority to government.

The core feature that distinguishes a cyclized society from an

uncivilized society from an uncivilized one that the former is
governed by law and the latter is not. A vital portion of that feature
is the principle that “no one is above the law”. From the highest
office holder to the most disadvantaged individual. The modern state,
through the organ of the judiciary, has been given the power to put
someone to death. We underscore the fact that the judiciary is the
only organ of the state, not the executive or legislative that enjoys
this exceptional power. The judiciary has been allowed this power
under very special circumstances and that also after a thorough and
lengthy process of law has been completed. Why has so many
preconditions been imposed on the judiciary before it can exercise its
power of sentencing to death? Simply because life is the Creator’s
greatest gift to Humankind and the “Right to Life” is the most
fundamental of University recognized human rights, and once taken it
can never been restored.

The “crossfire” phenomenon has demolished our claim to be a society

under law. Today we have a special force that has been empowered to
kill. Not only can it kill at will, it can literally pick up anybody
with significant, insignificant or no criminal record and put him (so
far there has not been any woman) to the so-called crossfire and kill
him. We have also learnt that people who have been otherwise killed in
custody is shown to have died in a “crossfire” , it can be called a
murder, because this is not a section of the law enforcement machinery
that has gone astray and is on a killing spree on its own without the
knowledge of the authority. No, this is a specially constituted and
trained body that has been given the ‘go ahead’ authority by a
democratically (!!!)Elected government to kill people with a high
record of criminal activity. Well Democracy basically does not hold
that to kill people without any authority from the judiciary or court.
So if the name, Democratic Republic of Bangladesh wants to exist
without any argue, these murderous executions should have to be
stopped.