Selective due process

IT is bad enough that the number of Filipinos, mostly the young ones, getting hooked on illegal drugs has been growing over the years. But it is worse that law enforcers who should curb the problem of drug addiction are those behind the menace as protectors or dealers.

The situation turns worst if, in a pretentious effort to show performance, authorities just shoot anybody who fits their profile of a drug user or pusher. Not only that; they ransack the homes of these poor suspects and steal anything even of little value—wristwatches, mobile phones, computers, piggy banks—as if to completely deprive their families any material means to fight back.