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Harry Roque Has The Right To Suspect Possible Links Between Certain Drug Syndicates And Human Rights Organizations

I remembered some time ago where I wrote an article "celebrating" the feast days of the "Three Martyrs in China" where I speculated that maybe, just maybe Migraine International is working for big time syndicates. My article was based on some speculation based on the fact that Migraine seems to be care too much about Filipino drug mules who are about to be executed abroad. I don't think they just get "self-sustaining funds" but that they have to be paid by someone -- which could be linked to major drug organizations.

I just read GMA News where it was reported Spokesperson Harry Roque has built the same speculation on possible links of human rights activists and drug lords in the Philippines. Since I'm no lawyer or political analyst then I leave the rest to him since he's a human right lawyer. Here's a couple of stuff where he did mention some stuff that Senator Alan Peter Cayetano had said earlier:

"We therefore do not discount the possibility that some human rights groups have become unwitting tools of drug lords to hinder the strides made by the administration," Roque said in a statement.

"To continue to do and thrive in the drug business, these drug lords can easily use their drug money to fund destabilization efforts against the government," he added.


He admits that right now -- there's still no legitimate and scientific investigation and it's still a hypothesis at best. If we were in the scientific method, you still need to test your hypothesis. There's some observations done that have seen some human rights activists are so active in demanding for the freedom of Filipino drug syndicates who are about to be executed abroad. That alone may have given very good room for Spox Roque to hypothesize based on an observation that there could be links between some human rights activists and some drug lords. But he has every right to do so because of how certain events happen considering he's a human rights lawyer. 

If we're to use some basic facts behind paid rallyists then one can safely assume the statement that, "Kapag may rally, may money." which is "If there's a rally then there's money." to be very true. I don't think anyone would just walk out of their classes or workplace if nobody was financing them to rally all day or all night. It's very tiresome and one can take a look at the rallies done hoping to receive pardon for guilty Filipinos who are about to get executed for breaking certain laws. It's possible that drug syndicates are now paying certain human rights organizations a certain fee to protest against President Duterte's war on drugs, link some deaths which may have been done by corrupt cops paid by the syndicate to President Duterte's policy (presumably to prevent leakage) and more in an attempt to destabilize the government.

If that's true then there's also the possibility that Leila De Lima, Etta Rosales and Chito Gascon may also be getting money from drug syndicates. It's a shame how they have turned a government office for human rights into one that cares more about criminals than law-abiding citizens. Sure, criminals do have rights not to get punished beyond their offense but don't the rights of law abiding citizens come first? This also reminds me that last 2011 -- one may notice that we didn't only get Migraine International protesting against the upcoming execution of the three "martyrs" in China. We don't only see human rights activist groups protesting but also the CHR (which was under Rosales that time) and the CBCP also joining in. Hmmm how much money did all of those organizations get from certain drug syndicates to join in the protest?

It didn't just stop at 2011 -- it's still going on today. The protest against President Duterte's war on drugs with lots of baseless assumptions and speculations have almost the same set of clowns again protesting the drug war. With these ongoing patterns, it really gives Spox Roque the right to suspect that there's a link between drug syndicates and human rights organizations. 

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