Changing the subject

IT is typical of critics of the Duterte administration’s war on drugs to be selective about the news to react to lest they compromise their “moral” stand on the government crackdown not only on shabu but also on crime and corruption.

It has been more than a week since five members of the Carlos family, including three children, were massacred in their house in San Jose del Monte, Bulacan, on June 27 and yet not a squeak has been heard from the bishops and so-called civil society about the sanctity of human life.