What was he thinking?!?
The head of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency, Dionisio Santiago, went to Tacloban City to sign a memorandum of agreement with non-governmental organizations who were supporting the PDEA’s campaign against illegal drugs.
At the press conference after the signing, Santiago told reporters that the PDEA plants drugs on suspects.
We sometimes do this although this is against the rule of law. Definitely we only apply this matter to some cases, like a subject who is publicly known to be peddling drugs but always escapes arrest. This is when we enter the picture.
But PDEA operatives make sure that they (known drug traffickers) won’t know that we put planted evidence. We are doing this because we want to neutralize big personalities engaged in the illegal drug trade which destroys the future of the youth.
This is a remedy that we sometimes undertake so that we can put to rest some people. Kesa naman patayin natin e di plantingan na lang natin para mabilanggo. Alam niyo to kill a cat there are so many ways, pero hindi naming gagawing very obvious ang planting. (Rather than killing them let’s just plant evidence so they go to jail. You know to kill a cat there are so many ways, but we won’t make very obvious the planting.)
Santiago’s regional director, Gil Pabilona, then told the press that more than 200 drug cases filed by the PDEA in Region VIII have led to convictions.
“Whoopee!” said the Region VIII defense lawyers club. “Santiago just shot himself in the foot. He admitted his agency plants drugs on suspects. That means each and every one of those 200 drug cases his regional director talked about now carries reasonable doubt.”
“Furthermore, all future drug cases his agency will prosecute will also become suspect. He just made his agency inutile,” cheered the defense lawyers.
“Too clever for his own good, Santiago is,” said Yoda.
on May 31st, 2008 at 11:55 am
Naknampucha naman oh…
I wonder if Esperon would commit similar blunders if ever Gloria appoints the guy to any goddam position.
on May 31st, 2008 at 12:16 pm
So, they are now admitting that they plant evidence?
Isn’t that illegal?
on May 31st, 2008 at 9:59 pm
mami_noodles: this government’s logic goes like “well, it’s illegal. so what?”
Gloria IS illegal, afterall. LOL.
on June 1st, 2008 at 12:59 am
The guy looks like a lunatic & speaks like a lunatic, too !
on June 1st, 2008 at 9:30 am
i’m guessing that a defense lawyer could likewise argue that any case filed after santiago took helm at the PDEA could be tainted by reasonable doubt, under the concept of official sanction, maybe.
on June 1st, 2008 at 11:05 am
Re: ‘We sometimes do this although this is against the rule of law. ”
Whaaaat? That guy should be shot by a firing squad!
Incredible! Is this for real Manuel, i.e., he did say that to reporters?
Question is not “What is he thinking?” (Because I have no doubt the man doesn’t even have a monkey’s brain) but “Whadda fuck?”
on June 1st, 2008 at 11:07 am
And this, after what Gloria bombastically said to IHT in a recent interview? She said, “Nobody is above the law!”
With that for a go signal, I think Filipinos should now drag her by the hair and throw her in a dungeon!
on June 1st, 2008 at 11:08 am
Nakakadiri ang mga putxxxxxina!
on June 1st, 2008 at 2:34 pm
“Nakakadiri ang mga putxxxxxina!”
Amen, to that, Ans.
on June 2nd, 2008 at 5:32 am
This is a display of NO moral decency in our government offices. The problem is, we let them go scott-free. We seemed to be used to government heads shooving the vowels to our throat and we seemed to tolerate such lacerations to our injury.
It’s time for people to show our disgust and drive away these kind of people from holding office in our government.
Rex
on June 2nd, 2008 at 6:17 am
Susmaryosep……… perverted values talaga, impunity redefined at its highest aberration. Am I surprised? Not really but surely terrified with this kind of morons thinking their authority is a license to do screw anyone.
on June 4th, 2008 at 1:23 am
And all these times I even believed Santiago is morally upright unlike many of his uniformed contemporaries. Gago rin pala.
Sarap batukan.
on June 16th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
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