Subj : Re: Authoritarianism
To   : Lee Lofaso
From : Jeff Thiele
Date : Wed Nov 09 2022 08:35:26

On 09 Nov 2022, Lee Lofaso said the following...
 LL>  JT> On Monday night, a potential presidential candidate said that s/he wo
 LL>  JT> have
 LL>  JT> drug dealers executed within "two hours or less." The executions woul
 LL> by
 LL>  JT> firing squad and the bullets that killed the suspected drug dealers w
 LL> be
 LL>  JT> sent to their families.
 LL> Federal executions are carried out by lethal injection.

That is apparently of no consequence to this would-be candidate.

 LL>  JT> This is highly reminiscent of the extrajudicial killings of thousands
 LL>  JT> people in the Phillipines, ordered by ex-President Rodrigo Duterte un
 LL> the
 LL>  JT> cover of a "war on drugs."
 LL> There is no death penalty in the Philippines.

That was apparently of no consequence to Duterte.

 LL>  JT> Is this where we are as a country now, with summary executions lackin
 LL>  JT> due process for crimes that don't even carry the death penalty?
 LL> The Congress has authority to sentence an individual convicted of
 LL> treason to death - including death by firing squad.

So now drug dealers are automaticlly guilty of treason?

 LL>  JT> Would you vote for someone who proposed this?
 LL> President Ferdinand Marcos did away with that practice.
 LL> So did the other President Ferdinand Marcos, decades before.

This was a potential US presidential candidate.

Jeff.

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