conservative politician locked up by the left

President duterte has been arrested by liberals https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/world/asia/icc-philippines-rodrigo-duterte.html

The president was famous for making formerly dangerous cities safe to walk in again by cracking down on the drug problem.

He is being arrested because the left is saying it's a human rights violation to crack down on crime and make communities safe. 

There is an issue of a lot of police shootings but what you have to remember when looking at those statististics is context. In the Philippines the drug dealers are shooting at cops through the door the second they start knocking essentially so there just is a lot more self defense situations. 

When the country was in liberal hands the streets were unsafe and people were suffering and this guy literally made life good for the average person.

He was arrested for crimes against humanity by committing extrajudicial mass killings of people (not all of whom had been found guilty of anything). He also wasn't just killing drug dealers, he was killing anyone found to be using drugs. The government would also falsify death certificates, claiming victims had died of "natural causes" when there was clearly a bullet hole in their skull and other signs of physical violence: https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/what-happened-philippine-drug-war-that-led-dutertes-arrest-2025-03-11/

Duterte did attempt to silence his biggest critic (Leila de Lima) with false accusations and arrest. 5 witnesses who gave testimonies against de Lima later retracted their testimonies and said that they were pressured to lie by member's of Duterte's government, and de Lima was eventually freed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leila_de_Lima#Retracted_testimonies

The crime rate in the Philippines are lower now than they were when Duterte was in office, and the crime rate was already declining before he took office in 2016: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1270736/philippines-number-of-crime-incidents/

I spent a lot of time in the Philippine's when I was working in Diego Garcia. They had some fantastic strip clubs in Olongapo.