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The mind of Rody Duterte on leadership
"I AM NOT A MESSIAH,
I AM THE GARBAGE MAN'
By Manny Pinol
"I do not care if I burn in hell for as long as the people I serve live in paradise."
This is basically what Davao City Mayor Rody Duterte believes is the meaning and essence of leadership.
In an interview with a group of young students from the University of the Philippines Cebu who flew to Davao City over the weekend, Duterte was confronted with the question: "How do you define a leader and what kind of a leader are you?"
There was a short pause, after which Duterte delivered his treatise on leadership, a view which departs from the conventional perspective of a Filipino political leader who travels in a convoy of vehicles, who projects a morally upright image, who is concerned with what people may think about him and his views on certain issues, and to who the audience rises whenever he enters the room.
"A leader is not a messiah. He is the guy who does the work nobody else would like to do," said Duterte, who bows before his audience and who has publicly declared that he does not want people to rise whenever he enters the room or delivers a speech.
"I consider myself a garbage man. I take care of the dregs of society. I make sure that my city is safe and clean and my people are comfortable," he said.
This view on Philippine political leadership is a radical departure from the image of a Filipino traditional politician and this is the image of a leader which Filipinos are now slowly showing preference for, given the popularity of Duterte and the seeming acceptance by the people of his unconventional character.
Duterte cusses in public and even during his weekly television program, making the "bleep" part of the regular sound bites of his "Gikan sa masa, Para sa masa program" which airs on ABS-CBN Southern Mindanao every Sunday.
He openly talks about his love life, sometimes even his sex life, threatens criminals with serious consequences if they operate in his city and has been linked to several extra-judicial killings prompting a Time magazine writer to call him "The Punisher."
Duterte's character portrayal as a leader is the complete opposite of the image of a leader in mold of Moses who led his people to the Promised Land by leading the journey and who projects the image of a holy man.
He is not the typical Filipino politician who likes to project a "cutie" image and who sometimes even wears a light make-up to hide scars and acne in their faces.
He does not walk in front of his people carrying a flag and shouting the battlecry. Duterte walks among his people and literally makes a nightly round of his community like a shepherd would do to his herd of sheep to protect them from predators.
Duterte, before a near fatal motorcycle fall which injured his spine, rode his big bike at night, drove a taxicab to get a feel of the city first hand, led raids on a drug dens, personally shot and killed a prisoner who held hostage and raped a nun in the Davao City Jail years back, entered a rebel camp to negotiate for the release of soldiers and policemen captured by the New People's Army and even attended to such inane problems as a family break-up.
This is the kind of leader who allowed his own pick-up vehicle to be used by passengers stranded by flash floods in city and opted to take a taxicab to go home, a tough guy who has vowed to personally aid children who are suffering from cancer and who cried at the sight of the devastation and the stench of death in Tacloban City after Typhoon Yolanda.
In 2002, he hosted a boxing event which featured Filipino boxing icon Manny Pacquiao and he invited Muslim and communist rebels to watch the fight for free.
"Davao City is Zona Libre for everybody who comes in peace. But you are not allowed to carry firearms in the City unless you are a policeman or an army soldier. Even Nur Misuari at the height of his popularity and power acceded to this rule," Duterte said.
His conciliatory and accommodating gesture towards the "enemies of the state" has generated criticisms that Duterte supports the New People's Army and the Muslim rebels.
"There are enemies who should not be killed because otherwise we will have nobody to talk to about the prospects of peace," he once said following criticisms on his statement that Misuari, the MNLF leader who was accused of leading a deadly siege in Zamboanga City, must be consulted on the peace process in the Southern Philippines.
"You kill Misuari? Who do you talk to in the Western part of the Bangsamoro? The Abu Sayyaf?," Duterte asked in response to the criticisms.
Duterte seems unperturbed by what people outside of his city would think about him.
Following a newspaper report which said that American officials are bothered by incidences of extra-judicial killings involving drug lords in the City of Davao, Duterte retorted: "I am not the Mayor of New York. I am not answerable to the Americans. I am answerable to my people in Davao City."
But whether you like him or hate him, there is no argument that the Duterte brand of political leadership works in a city which used to be one of the most violent places in the whole country, where communist assassins turned the Agdao District into a killing fields earning the name "Nicaragdao," comparing it to Nicaragua during the bloody days of the Sandinistas.
Davao City has been ranked as the 4th Safest City in the World which stands out as the only city in the Philippines with a fully-operational 911 Emergency Response Unit.
It is so progressive that today negotiations are afoot for the construction of a light-rail transit system linking its barangays north and south, a project to be fully financed by the city government.
This is the Duterte paradigm on leadership which would merit serious study by political and social scientists.
Is this the image of a political leader that Filipinos are identifying themselves with?
The Duterte leadership phenomenon could yet mark a period in the country's political history when Filipinos, fed up with the corruption and criminality threatening society, go through a shift in their leadership preference, embracing an unconventional and controversial leader who has no record of corruption and who gets the job of protecting his people done.
This is leadership in the style of Rodrigo Roa Duterte, The Punisher, The Garbage Man and The Comforter, circa 2014.
(Photo credit: GMANews photo shows Mayor Duterte with NPA Commander Leonardo Pitao, alias Commander Parago, following the release of hostaged soldiers.) — with Nur Ali UP and Merlinda Quiño Lopez.
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"The fucking Chinese is really fucking us."
This is what the Chinese have done to us:
1. They invaded the West Phil sea, they build an airstrip and a deep seaport.
2. To add "salt to an open wound", they paid a Corrupt Politician and have stolen our rocks, fill materials and garden soil.
3. Then they moved their jet planes and navy ships to control the sea.
4. They controlled the free passage of ships delivering goods at the West Philippine Sea.
5. Slowly over years, they already invaded our economy.
6. The have infected 3,000,000 Filipinos, in preparation for their final take-over
7. There are Chinese Sleeper Agents in our midst just waiting for the signal.
8.,There are Chinese NGOs operating as an innocent looking International NGOninbtge Philippines.
9. Pres Duterte said that they have sophisticated Satellites guided systems to monitor the location of our Phil Navy watching our shores.
10. Now, reports said that Cambodia sides with China during An ASEAN Meeting in not bringing to the Bilateral talks With China the UN Arbitration Decision, and our Philippine Repsentative agreed with it, why?
To all the members of Pres Rody Duterte's face book Army, make this posting viral by pressing like and reposting it to your friends.
We are calling on Pres Duterte to ask the help of the UN to covene a United Nation Arbitration Implementation / Peacekeeping Force.
Fulfill your promise - " I never give UP An inch".
Investigate, prosecute, and put to Jail all Corrupt Officials and replace the corrupt Supreme Court judges, so these corrupt politician will stay in Jail.
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MAGELLAN'S LANDING SITE RAPED...........
Homonhon Island, a part of our history as a country - the Philippines, is currently RAPED and DESECRATED.
Homonhon Island, Guiuan, Eastern Samar was the first island where Ferdinand Magellan landed when he arrived in our archipelago.
There is a mining company present in Homonhon which is extracting chromite. Three thousand (3,000 has) hectares of forest were burned in order to start mining the chromite.
suspectedly, the soil extracted from the island is brought to the Scarborough Shoals for the Chinese man-made islands.
As is usually the case with mining companies, the only benefit that the people of the place can get is that they get employed in mining the fields, but in terms of profit from the mine itself there is very little if there is at all. When the mining is over they are then left with barren and unproductive land coupled with the pollution from the tailings of the mines which goes into the sea.
the once beautiful sandy white beaches of Homonhon Island, site of Ferdinand Magellan's first landing, is now a DISASTER. people are threatened by this heartless and greedy mining company in collaboration with local politicians.
people are starving, people are dying.
PLEASE HELP SAVE HOMONHON ISLAND.
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