If I had a story for everytime someone misspelled either my country of the name for people of said country ...I'd be where I am now. 
Apologies. I did try, the first two instances are correct, but I guess at the third one my old faulty finger memory took over.
Love you too bud
It just reminds me of the WTF thread where everyone nicely and awesomely replied in humor about how to spell my country/men.
I, for one, would like to get Tiruin's thoughts on the situation. The picture we're shown is worrying... but it doesn't necessarily follow it's real, and/or complete. I know first hand sometimes the perception of things can be very skewered
Same here. I mean, we don't know if the agency has a corruption problem, otherwise it's a "What the hell?" situation.
SO I'm once again going to note that I'm busy and haven't as much clarity as others, but here are a few facts to note.
1. Duterte is working AS HARD AS HE CAN on the corruption problem x.x Very easy to play with the media though
In the difference between Davao Mayor, and President of this Country: You uncover a HECK LOT MORE. Like the police force having corrupt officers, or private militia/armies, or our druglords being on par with those in Mexico, or having a metaphor of 'cockroach infestation being uncovered' in our national newspaper and that being alluded to by what Duterte is doing. It is very much a What the Hell situation, but it is one that is very understandable, but also very deep. >_>
2. It is worrying.
So to add detail since I've had a forensic psychologist be a local speaker since I'm reviewing for the psychometrician exam--him, alongside my classmate/best friend from Davao, do note the truth of several matters, and do especially note the delicate nature of how things can be reported here. I recall first hand in reading the news months after the inauguration regarding the drug problem; it wasn't handled well by the previous administrations and seems so blown up because Duterte is tackling it directly >_>
-- We're an international hub for organized crime.
3. So back to that story of said forensic psychologist (who seriously has his schedule for the whole months filled traveling everywhere), and my bestie friend:
> Yes the Davao death squads are real.
> No, the killings aren't all deaths.
This is because while there are real casualties (because I'm not ever going to say there aren't and am trying to shed more light in the best wording I can, but I suffer from a past of social anxiety so my wording is all messy messy :V), the corruption problem is DEEP ROOTED [alongside any connection to its sources in the first place]. One issue that I was astounded by because it wasn't...err, how you say readily heard, was that there were adolescent killings. Said psychologist raised the note of despite that happening in Davao, why did 98.6% vote for Duterte? He noted that they weren't really adolescents being killed. They did have a death certificate done, and reported as dead--but that was to escape the syndicates operating and using them, wherein they adopt a different name, etc.
Problem being the President, a ton more to control gets blamed on you (especially your wording, which I still am wholly :V about).
4. Duterte's communication style is pretty much reliant on informal speeches (see: Our latest SONA). He says things that shouldn't be taken literally, but is fully able to explain those things later on. (which is what I connect to being easily spun by the media x~x remember that 'rape "joke"'?, yeah like that. And more.)
Firstly, he's not against human rights. He says '**** HUMAN RIGHTS' because of the issues he's got with America [recent interviews has his take on them; he's okay with America, he's not okay with how they interact, because they pursue their needs and wants first {he brought up a metaphor that us Filipinos are familiar with--carrot & stick, like saying the Americans [and the EU] are double-handed or something, because one is they promise aid, but then they retract it later {because 'human rights violations'} and we're left with waiting for nothing.}, and part of his background is that his people and many others have been taken advantage by the Americans, so this possibly makes a perception of our country still being as if it can be pushed over/used as a colony {because we still have those issues despite being declared independent...he does make many references to how vocal some American organizations are in comparison to local issues on their side}, and has noted in the recent SONA regarding issues {eg Balangiga bells}]. Anyway to shorten it, the move of the Human Rights group [pretty much American in origin], given the details and many interviews done with him recently, creates that kind of saying because he feels as if internal issues aren't being taken as readily as they are. It's as if its superficialized to "people die = human rights violations" (I mean yeah, that's true) [but many factors therein aren't taken into account in the same depth, and those are seen in Youtube interviews that I can't search and link right now because we're having a typhoon--and that it's always better to search these yourselves x.x] So it's like the notion of an organization with the name of Human Rights all over it, just goes over from a country where there is MUCH MORE internal squabbles, onto a country where the administration is autonomous in itself (we've our own human rights groups here too, but welcome others), and something I forgot in between but it was mentioned in an interview I overheard. <_< But he has reasons why he's saying that under his coarse way of speaking. (If he was against human rights entirely, it'd show, but in the many interviews done on him regarding his statements and the process of how judicial occurrences go, that's not happening.)
Err, point being: Yeah we're in a tough situation, but it's not as bad as it is. Where 'it is' is the situation painted there: GROSS VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS. DICTATOR DUTERTE KILLS EVERYONE AND DRUGS. Etc. However the situation is a very tough one, ESPECIALLY for our judicial branch--one reason Duterte was elected was improvements to jails and otherwise (which were crowded as they were before his inauguration...and only are getting worse given all this, especially for those who may have been innocent before all this. The process is
slow )
Also it's very much true that there are a lot of extrajudicial killings
but the connection to that and the context isn't being met in depth by what I see in the international news, and we can be very easily twisted by news sources in many delicate situations like what's happening at present. x.x We do welcome aid and are open to it, but as noted by words quoted there by martinuzz, these things are easily spun into the wrong perspective.
'when the organisation wants to protect criminals, let them get their money from criminals as well then', and called them 'useless'.
...Like who even thinks this is realistic.
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