There are truth behind lies, and lies behind truths.

In this age of technological advances, rapid

access in information benefitted the most. The problem with this innovation people can’t properly
digest what was ingested in the mind. The majority seems to eat what they only wanted, what seems
delicious and appealing without prior knowledge to its nutritional value. Truth or lie, it doesn’t matter as
long as it’s tasty, the taste is more valid than the food itself. I’m talking about media as the medium for
all of these fiasco. The idiot’s box (television) and the idiot’s book (facebook) deserves the blame. The
two top broadcasters of information at present. Point is, one should always be vigilant; for one who
does know many things, knows that he/she does not really know anything.

Now, to answer yes or no to the given question seems mediocre and bias. It is impossible to
know how many people have been killed by police and other government officials in the early years of
Duterte’s reign and war on drugs, because the Philippine state is neither transparent nor consistent
about how often it kills extra-legally. There also are different degrees of state involvement, from
tolerating, condoning, and encouraging the killing of drug users and sellers, to the made up stories of
buy-bust operations in which targets who resist are arrest and killed in a shoot-out, to cold-blooded
assassination as an act of governmental terrorism. Moreover, some ordinary murders are staged to look
like extra-judicial executions in order to prevent police investigation into the killing, thereby further
complicating efforts to count. In many cases, there is little real distinction between a buy-bust killing and
an extra-judicial one. If the victim did not have a gun, one can be given to him after he is killed—and it
frequently is.

One could not also deny the fact that there are real victims to his advocacy. They may just be a
fraction of the whole killing that involve drugs (according to the survey), their life remains of value.
People are not just numbers for addition and subtraction, for one represents humanity. We cannot
tolerate such heinous crimes of the crooked officials.

Is it good to continue the anti-drug campaign this 2019 despite of the extra-judicial killings
happened last year? – Yes and no. The war on drugs is a great advocacy, for a country who’s in need of
change. I say yes to the eradication of drugs in my country, I cannot tolerate seeing my fellow teenagers
fall victim to drugs out of curiosity; And I say no to magnified and manipulated information about EJKs,
and to corrupt officials who’s using their power and the war on drugs advocacy as a catalyst to bully the
weak through EJKs. It may be an exaggeration to say that I could change the whole government system
with this essay about drugs and EJK. After all, I’m just a 16 year old girl who’s still depending on my
mother and in my senior year. But, I for one knows the area I could control and of my concern. People
having an uninformed opinion about something they don’t understand and proclaiming their opinion as
being equally valid as facts is what’s ruining the world. No one wants to do any research, they just want
to be right; and research is in my area of control.