Game Theory
“I will call the mayors, lock them in. It will only be us and I will really tell them, you know, I have a thick drug list, find your name, mayor. Son of a bitch, if your name is there, you have a problem, I will really kill you [Sunstar].”
Strong emphatic words straight out of a Hollywood action movie. The kind that could spawn a whole franchise out of a single speech. Could have been written by Tarantino. Could have been uttered by Neeson. Except that it's not.
These words came out of Rodrigo Duterte's mouth. And if they did, you better remind yourself you're not watching a fucking movie.
He means it.
And you should be scared.
But only if your name is on that list. And God that list is thick. Two mayors have already been shot dead to serve as examples. And that list must contain hundreds of them. For the life of me I do not understand how these bastards were able to get away with this for so long. That mongrel Aquino never made any mention of the drug problem EVER during his six years in office. Either he was asleep in the noodle house, or he was just too fucking inept or scared shitless to deal with it. Years later, the nation would wake up to the reality that the Philippines has become a narco-state, and the contamination has reached catastrophic levels. These mayors use hard-earned taxpayers' money to perpetuate themselves in power, while they enrich themselves further by protecting drug lords or becoming drug lords themselves.
Digong must be frustrated. Enough to kick the narco-list in front of Jessica Soho's face during a live television interview. Take a look at how thick that list is and imagine how one can't feel overwhelmed by the enormity of the crisis. Do you jail these bastards? Spend hundreds of millions more of taxpayers' money to build new jail cells and put all four million of them in rehab? Money that could have been better spent feeding the hungry, building schools or houses for the poor. It's certainly not enough that these narco-politicians already had their fill of taxpayers' money. Hell we're even subsidizing and feeding them in incarceration. And there's absolutely no certainty that these fuckers will ever leave prison as changed men. Look at what happened to Herbert Colangco and Jaybee Sebastian. These dudes entered Bilibid as car-nappers and hold-uppers and ended up being big time drug lords while inside. So much for correction.
And it's not as if these narco-politicians can be dealt with diplomatically.
Take Loot for example. He's so notoriously prominent and ostentatious it's public knowledge that he's a drug protector and this guy has the gall to deny this in front of a Senate hearing? Also that guy Mabilog who's mayor of Iloilo and who happens to be Drilon's cousin. That fucker owns a gigantic house by the river and even proudly posted pictures of himself with the Odictas (may they rest in peace) and that other drug lord Jing-Jing Espinosa on Facebook. During Noynoy's time those posts could have even probably garnered sufficient likes. But not on Digong's watch. By now these fuckers may have realized the stupidity of advertising their connections with these drug lords on social media for all the world to see.
Truly their time has come, and the day of reckoning is near.
I don't know what Digong is planning to do with these bastards but If I were him, I'd lock them up in a giant chamber or transport them to a remote island and leave them there until they extinguish themselves. Leave crude weapons and perhaps some food and allow natural selection to take its course. Something akin to Battle Royale or the Hunger Games, only this time give them barbaric medieval weapons for primal effect. Broadcast it live on TV and on the web so that everyone will understand that fucking with this President and this country is no joke.
Game theory. It's a simple mathematical solution to an extremely complicated problem. Not to mention the fact that it'll be infinitely more satisfying to watch than Pinoy Big Brother.
The big winner gets to spend eternity in an isolated beach island alone with Leila De Lima.
