Monday is the moment of truth. I have not made up my mind as to the presidency. But, Rodrigo “Digong” Duterte, my fellow Bedan, who shot a fellow student in 1972, is definitely out. The victim (Octavio Goco), for whom Digong waited, survived.

A human rights advocate cannot support anyone who plays God and who decides who among the poor, riffraff, yagits, atbp., will live or die. No El Cid, Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, he. If Digong has knocked off an abusive high official or billionaire, I may be tempted, in a moment of weakness, to join the memorial park and funeral parlors owners in lauding his private population reduction program, along with grave-diggers, florists, pro mourners, et al. San Beda does not produce the kind of Lady-Killer Digong seems to be, talking of a feudal lord’s jus primae noctis (right of the first night), etc.

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