November 29, 2024
Manila – In October 2018, former President Rodrigo Duterte addressed a gathering of businessmen and warned the public not to mess with his daughter Sara Duterte. Later in March 2019, he told a gathering of barangay officials that “Inday is worse than me,” referring to his daughter. Duterte revealed that he “cannot control his daughter” because she is “really difficult to deal with.”
In January 2024, self-confessed Davao death squad assassin Arturo Lascañas told the media that he submitted a 186-page affidavit to the International Criminal Court (ICC) that he said contained Information City on Vice President Sara’s involvement in extrajudicial killings in Davao. Lascañas revealed that the Vice President launched the “Oplan Tokhang” program when she was mayor of Davao in 2012, with Senator Ronald “Bato” dela Della, who was the city’s police chief at the time. Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa co-founded the initiative. Lascañas also revealed that the total number of extrajudicial killings in Davao City is approximately 10,000. Lascañas then called on President Marcos to be careful not to trust the Dutertes, whom he called “traitors.”
Just a month ago, on October 18, 2024, Vice President Sala threatened to exhume the body of Mr. Marcos’s dictator father and throw it into the sea. She revealed that she “imagined cutting his head off,” referring to the president.
Then last Saturday, November 23, 2024, Vice President Sara went ballistic and revealed that she had ordered that an assassin hired by her would kill Mr. Marcos, First Lady Lisa Araneta, if she was killed -Marcos, and House Speaker Martin Romualz.
If Duterte’s persona is the embodiment of the temperament his children inherit and grow into, then unbridled words can lead to horrific behavior. The Duterte family’s verbal threats are just the tip of the iceberg. Beneath the surface lies a vast anger, a desire to manifest itself in the form of a horribly wrongdoing.
At his last presidential campaign rally in May 2016, Duterte issued an advance warning to the nation: “Forget about human rights laws. If I could get into Malacañang, I would do what I did as mayor. You guys Drug dealers, robbers and idlers, better get out because I will throw you all into Manila Bay and fatten up all the fish there,” Duterte said after taking office. turned into a bloody operation that resulted in a casualty of thirty thousand drug suspects, mistaken identities, idiot victims, collateral deaths, and wanton beatings by police thugs.
Now Mr Duterte’s daughter has emerged – he calls her a worse version of Mr Duterte – with dastardly intentions. We can feel strongly that anger wants to be turned into action.
Now, in addition to criminal charges, Vice President Sara will face increasingly intense talks of impeachment. If successful, she would not only be removed from her position as vice president, but would also be permanently disqualified from holding any public office. This would eliminate the Duterte family’s chances of re-election as president in 2028. It will expedite their return to Malacañang as Vice President Sala will succeed the president. Once they manage to re-enter Malacañang by 2028, it will be a piece of cake for them to extend their rule for another six years to 2034. Existential crisis. Even Duterte is now publicly calling on the military to stage a coup to overthrow Marcos.
Will all this lead to the conviction and imprisonment of Duterte and Vice President Sala through domestic prosecution? Fat chance. All these efforts will only weaken the ambitions of the Duterte family and reduce their size as political dwarfs. The only goal was to maintain and prolong the rule of the Marcos family and their chosen successors. Once this is guaranteed, the Duterte family will be released. Our country’s political elite is too cliquey and too sectarian to allow our political elite to be permanently punished. We have Joseph Estrada, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Juan Ponce Enrile, Jingoy Estrada, Bon Revilla and more This is seen many times in the destiny of man. The Marcos family owes a great debt to the Duterte family, as their patriarch is buried in Libingan ng mga Bayani, and the Duterti family lent the Marcos family a huge amount of political capital during their reconquest of Malacañang played a key role. There is a huge utang na loob to repay. Furthermore, the Duterte family could use their command votes as currency to buy freedoms from the succeeding government as they would function as co-opted political representatives in the southern Philippines.
In the end, only the deputy in charge of the war on drugs, the stand-in for the education secretary, and the person in charge of the vice president will fall by the sword.
