Drive vs drugs
THE government’s total war against the dreaded “drug monster” has a new twist, with President Marcos ordering the Philippine National Police (PNP) to focus on the “big fish.”
The Filipino people, including the ordinary citizens not only in the metropolis but elsewhere, welcomed President Marcos’ order to the men and women in police uniform.
Compared to former President Rodrigo R. Duterte’s total war against the “drug monster,” the Ilocano Chief Executive from Ilocos Norte said his “approach is slightly different.”
President Marcos revealed in New York City last Friday that he gave the order to go after the “big fish” during a meeting with top PNP officials after he took office last June 30.
The highly-articulate Marcos told the police officials that “I am not interested in the kid who makes P100 a week selling weed. That’s not the person that I want you to go after.”
If government authorities get the big-time narcotics suppliers and distributors and not the small fry, he said, “we will make an actual difference.”
Of course, we, like the rest of the more than 110 million Filipinos, including the poor, share this view of the only son and namesake of the late President Ferdinand E. Marcos.
Certainly, people agree that the government’s drug rehabilitation program has to be more sensitive and sympathetic to those who have gotten caught up in this lifestyle.
In other words, the government ought to help drug dependents, who are mostly youngsters, start again and live a good life as highly-productive citizens of the community.
Dapat lang!
