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ON THE EVE OF THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
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The chaos in our country is already too much.
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The children suffer from poverty.
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I feel great pity for them.
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The children suffer in this world of violence, drugs and corruption.
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A courageous president is needed.
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Director of photography Lutz Reitemeier
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Before Duterte came, Davao was chaotic.
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Duterte can handle the chaos in this country.
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Courage and care! Duterte is the right one!
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Sound Mark G. Laccay
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So interesting to see. I remember.
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I interviewed you a long long time ago, when…
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1987.
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Yeah. 88 election, it was 87 when I was the vice mayor.
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I really do not know
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what was the occasion there, but I remember
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talking to you.
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That's why I said, it was years, years. Okay.
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Sure.
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Where is my camera? Okay.
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He will follow you. And we will just have a conversation,
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like they all don't exist.+
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Hello and welcome. I am Maria Ressa,
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this is rappler talk. We are sitting now with davao mayor
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Rody Duterte, thank you for joining us.
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Thank you for your time.
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Right now, part of the reason people want you to run for
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president or vice president is because you are a strong leader.
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I mean, what is this yearning in filipinos for a strong leader.
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What do you think of this?
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Well I would say that what you say in public,
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you must do.
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So never never say something in public
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that you are reluctant to do,
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or will not do it at all.
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There is the gap that
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really divides the country between the rich and the poor.
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And the poor is getting poorer and the rich is getting richer.
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They utter it every election, every candidate.
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Why don't you just do it.
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Shut up and just do it.
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When I say I will stop criminality, I will stop criminality.
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And if I have to kill you, I kill you. Personally.
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Do not fuck with me, because I will.
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I must admit I have killed.
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Three months early on I killed…
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Three people.
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I told you to avoid me.
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I am telling the Filipino people: It's gonna be bloody.
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It's going to be difficult.
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Do you think one man can make that much of a difference?
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To turn the entire system upside down?
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Yes. It's always… In every dictatorship…
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It's gonna be a dictatorship. The police and the military
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will be the backbone.
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On june 30, 2016 a few hours after he took his oath of office,
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the 16th president of the republic of the Phillipines
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appeared at the Delpan Sports Complex along road 10 in Tondo, Manila.
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To inform his new constituency that the war was uphand/upheld.
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President Rodrigo Duterte was late,
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held up by his first cabinet meeting.
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When he arrived,
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the pineapple silk shirt was gone,
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traded for a striped polo shirt
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and a navy jacket with the sleeves rolled up.
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Delpan sits at the bottom of Tondo,
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one of the capitals poorest areas.
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Plastic tables covered with white table clothes were scattered
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across the orange painted gym.
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He said: I am asking you,
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do not go into drugs because I will kill you.
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I'm speaking in simple terms.
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I will end the drug problem.
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Our country, our children
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are being destroyed by drugs.
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I challenge you.
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Stop using drugs or I will kill you.
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And then the police killings began.
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At 3 am of July 1,
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hours after the president's speech
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the earliest reported extrajudicial killing of the new regime
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occured at Ibp road,
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near the corner of road 10 and the Delpan Sports complex.
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The killing held the rough elements of what would be a pattern of deads
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across the rest of the country in the next 7 months.
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The unidentified victim between 25 and 30 years old,
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about 5'3 tall had been left with a sheet of cardboard
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over his body, it read: I am a chinese druglord.
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The directive to the police was:-
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go to the communities where you have drug addicts,
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drug users and kill them,
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and they followed orders.
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Every night,
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they would be reports of,
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I don't know, in certain areas maybe 3-5,
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10 killings in just 1 night.
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They would be… some of the victims were taken out of their houses
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and shot brutally in front of their family members.
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I mean, we are a civil race,
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we are modern,
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this is 21st century
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and this shouldn't be happening,
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but this was happening every night and reporters who were
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hovering the police would have to go and
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count the bodies and count the number of dead.
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June. We give up something.
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This is the one where Leny was…
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They're a sidegroup,
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that's why I wasn't so... so their an NGO...
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so by January 2017 there was a number:
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7000.
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At least 7000 people killed
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and then by what they started doing was
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watering that down, cutting it up into parts,
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so you don't know exactly how many people were killed.
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I would say, that was really the last time you could trust some of the numbers,
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cause you could see them evolving the strategy for the numbers.
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The first is, split it up.
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Here is the number of people killed in the drug war.
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And then this number let's call it deads under investigations.
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None of them are being investigated because they are presumed
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presumed to be in the line of duty.
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So no, we have definitely crossed the line.
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We are here at the Manila Police district,
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Police station 7 which handels Jose Abad Santos Avenue,
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its 1:30 am and we are just beginning to set off.
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I recognize these people
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because of the cardboard signs.
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Yes...
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they are our victims.
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My role is to shoot down the victim, then we leave immediately.
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I believe this body is from our group.
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There are many groups of contract killers.
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I'm the leader of a group of seven to ten men.
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When was the last time you killed someone?
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Just last week.
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I work for a wealthy businessman
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who is also a policeman.
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How much money do you get for a murder?
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For a killing of a dealer or pusher, I get between 200 and 400 dollars.
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And 100 dollars for a normal person.
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Our boss gives us details and name
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of the target person in an envelope.
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Then we follow the target.
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If possible,
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we kill the person immediately on the same day.
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I call in my wife when I need her so that the job can be done well.
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My husband has been in this business for a while.
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Once it was very difficult to get to a person.
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So they decided to take a woman for the job.
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I asked my husband if I could give it a try.
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For us it's just a job. That's the lifestyle we live in.
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This is how I got started.
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How many have you killed?
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I killed seven.
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I started three years ago.
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With some targets it is really difficult.
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That's when women get involved. We pretend to be dancers.
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We hang out in front of bars.
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Then we have the chance to kill the target.
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If there are too many people, we don't use a gun.
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Then I use a knife.
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So we did the stories, we pursued the stories. We spoke to
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the families of victims,
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and then Patricia Evangelista who is one of our
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investigative reporters has also written about vigilantes,
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those who have been hired by the police to do the killings.
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And of course, that doesn't put the government in a very very good light
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and I guess he wants to make us an example,
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if you will not stop this critical reporting,
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then we will stop you from publishing your stories,
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we will stop your operations.
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What's the question, Rappler?
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Your article has arrived with
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innuendous and pregnant with falsity.
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We do not intervene in the affairs of
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the armed forces.
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We do not get any money, we are not interested in that.
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But since you are a fake
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news outlet,
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I am not suprised that your articles are also fake.
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First question Pia A. of Rappler.
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We can debate now. Tell me where is our lies,
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and I tell you where are yours.
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So earlier in your speech you were saying that
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the issue with ♪incomprehensible ♪ is not an issue on press freedom but...
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I just landed and haven't enough sleep...
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Sir, earlier in your speech you said that the issue on the second
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ruling against Rappler is not an issue of press freedom,
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but at the same time, during your speech
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you were giving comments about the media and about Rappler.
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That we are going too far. So what does that mean, Sir?
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You say that this is not an attack on media but you also have attacks on media in your
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own speech- Let me give you an example.
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Your inquisitive mind
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goes beyond its normal proportions.
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You know, I just
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show you a daily dose of your medicine.
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Bongo intervenes
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in a 15 billion… who gives you the idea he can intervene?
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Where is his signature? Where is your statement?
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And where is your even your point of reference?
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Sir, first of all, you are digressing from the question.
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Secondly, we also got Bongos side before publishing the story,
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so...
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What's the truth here?
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I won the presidential election without any people of my own.
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You're dead media people. You're my opponents. You're garbage.
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You just gave me garbage.
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You don't want to admit that you lost. I won, but you're still going on.
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Sir you have already adressed the issue of fairness on that article,
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can you just answer please the question? Don't use the microphone. I can't understand you.
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I am now explaining even with your article.
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Prove you're telling the truth. I'll give it to you.
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And if you can find, I will ask Bongo to resign tomorrow.
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Work on it tonight.
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Let me know tomorrow and I will fire him.
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If he did intervene. Even for one word.
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The issue here is not press freedom.
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What kind of a son of a bitch is that?
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Technically the constitution does not really allow your company,
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of which you are a worker of that company.
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You are a Filipino, who was allowed
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to abuse our country.
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And you are an active participant of that
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in the name of the holy grail of press freedom.
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That's the truth.
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Thank you Pia, next question.
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You crossed a line with me as well.
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You are not only throwing toilet paper, you are
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throwing shit at us.
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I say to enemies: I see you and I will slap you in the face.
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If I don't shoot you, you son of a bitch.
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Sir, is this a message also to
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other news outlets in the phillippines that if you continue to be critical
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of the-to other news
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outlets that if we continue to be critical of the administration the
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same thingwill also happen like what happened to Rappler?
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Look,
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why should you complain, if I am critical against media?
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Are you not critical of me?
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Yes?
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Sir just one question, is that right?
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I can't have that. I'll treat you like pigs, motherfuckers.
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…now if a media entity is very critical of you,
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you can and you will...
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I can drag you into the mud, you sons of bitches.
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Even Rappler.
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I don't cover anything.
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You can dig
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the entire cemetery of lies and not find anything.
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Thank you Mr. President, thank you.
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The government has succeeded in scarying business.
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They did this with the largest television network,
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they did this with the largest newspaper,
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they threatened the business people who run these groups
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and they get what they want in general.
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The coverage is-there is a chilling effect.
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In Rappler, when they tried to do that,
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the journalists stepped up and then they did other things.
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It began in January, the very first case that was filed against us,
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they wanted to revoke our license
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and without that license, without that permit
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we wouldn't be able to operate, so that came in January.
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And then, there were succession of cases:
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there were accusations that we were american-owned,
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that we were violating the anti-d♪incomprehensible♪ law.
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And then there was a cyber libel case that
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came eventually,
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another libel case that also involved our
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reporter and the IR tax evasion cases.
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So shut up, follow the line, stop being critical of government.
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That's the message.
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This is politically motivated.
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It is intended to harass us, it is intended to
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tone down our reporting, but what they keep forgetting
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is that every time they do this, we become
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more resolute and we realize they are hiding something.
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What are they hiding?
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Why are they afraid of journalists?
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New York
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Thank you time for helping us shine the light,
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that's truly important and including us
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in this room full of people, sometimes in the global south we're not included,
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well it's ironic that even though our two nations are
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almost exactly across the world from eachother,
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our leaders have the same style,
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their macho-populist styles,
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sexist at best, misogynistic at worst.
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Our leaders, these leaders use anger and fear
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to divide and to conquer.
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They create and they live a politics of hate.
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We have to answer some crucial questions.
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Who are we? What do you stand for?
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What are the values, this word came up a lot today,
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what are the values that give meaning?
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What is the line that you will never cross?
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Because on this side you're good
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and on this side you're evil.
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I think, the time 100, you in this room,
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please let's toast to freedom.
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ON HER RETURN, MARIA RESSA IS ARRESTED ON MARCH 29TH 2019
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There she is, there is Maria.
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She is being escorted by 3 policemen.
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Well I would like to post bail.
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Where do you like me?
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Know I have lawyers.
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Okay wow, thank you guys.
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It's a nice welcome home I suppose.
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And it's sad that this is the kind of welcome
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our country gives a journalist.
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So, what have we done? I posted bail,
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the 7th time. What can I say?
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I am gonna laugh, cause I think that is all you can do now.
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Every action takes us further into a descent to tyranny.
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This is the weaponization of the law.
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You are seeing it in action, please report.
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I can take questions.
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Of course if Maria is arrested we would all be devastated.
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It would have a very strong effect on our moral,
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on everyone's moral,
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not just the senior editors,
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but I am sure even the reporters.
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But as I said a while ago,
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I think we have it in our minds,
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we play it in our minds-that scenario.
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We always say that,
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you know, we will continue operating
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and
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if in the event it becomes difficult because of
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finances,
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because in the end that's what it will boil down to.
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We have to have money, we have to have the funds to be able to pay
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our reporters and our staff and
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finance operations and stories.
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So in the end, that's what's gonna kill us-
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the lack of funds, the lack of money.
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This is the time when I need a hug. And I gotta thank Paterno for coming.
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Hug the person next to you.
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Oh, group hug!
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You need a hug. It's been a tough week guys!
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Did you hug eachother?
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So one of the things that your managers have done yesterday was to kind
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of assess our response to what happened
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and to try to figure out what the next steps could be.
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And all of that wheel cascade to you,
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but oh my gosh, how can we forget,
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the reporters on the B,
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you know, you guys do this everyday,
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give them a hand.
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Q&A, any questions? Concerns?
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In filipino♪.
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The tax cases are criminal charges.
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Is there a possibility that the BIR will now start
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a civil
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simultaneous with the criminal trial?
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My thinking is that they were after things that would
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scare us,
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because it worked for others.
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Can they file a civil? They can file a lot of cases.
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They can make up. They made up these cases,
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so for me,
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there is not much that they can do now that would
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be worse than this.
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We are fighting it, our lawyers are prepared,
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we're prepared for the long hall,
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we also have the committee to protect journalists.
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You know I hope other journalists also do the story because it's a
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very interesting intersection of power.
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Hey we move on to nicer things,
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other questions? Concerns?
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Paterno!
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Oh, Paterno.
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Just an update on our favorite question about job security.
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Since the last time we had this GA,
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what are the developments and how viable is Rappler as a business
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and what assurances can you give us
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in terms of our job security the next few years. Very good.
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Excellent question.
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What 2018 proved to us,
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is that the mission
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is good for business.
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2018, despite the fact that we were under attack,
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we essentially made almost as much as 2017,
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we were the only news group that didn't lay off people.
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And part of that is also because of your commitment.
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Is it scary to be part of Rappler? I hope not.
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But you know,
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we have our plans in case worst case scenarios happen.
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Will you know-this has all been cascated to you what we were doing.
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So if you see anything suspicious,
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if you feel like you're being followed,
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you pick up the phone and call.
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And we will try to identify specifically
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if there is any new threat.
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As it stands right now, it's intimidation.
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Don't be intimidated. I think you all now, it pisses me off
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when people say stupid things,
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when they're government officials.
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A spot report prepared by the NPD homicide section,
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mark the case a shooting incident.
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The account filled by police investigators listed the collected evidence.
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They included a Smith and Wesson.38 caliber snubnose revolver
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without a serial number;
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a twenty peso bill and 5 plastic sachets of what appeared
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to be Methamphetamine Hydrochloride,
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street name Shabu, or crystal meth.
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Can we turn off the TV so we can understand each other better?
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I turn it off, right?
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Let's talk about how it happened.
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- It was 9 p.m.. The door blew open. - This one?
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Yes. Two uniformed police officers dressed in blue polo shirts...
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One wore a vest, the other not. They wore two long guns.
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Long rifles?
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I'm not sure. He said: "Don't move!"
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My husbald who was asleep woke up as the door opened.
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Still sleepy, he straightened up.
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There was the mattress, so the air from the fan could reach us.
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Otherwise the fan would not get us.
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My husband sat up. He put his hands up.
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He took his hands up?
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Yes, he surrendered. No matter what.
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I started to cry and asked what the problem was.
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He grabbed my husband. My husband did not fight back.
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Then he took me outside.
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I was outside, when I heard...
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That there was a bang inside.
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I wanted to go in. I fell. The police stopped me from going back in.
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He said: "Keep her out, keep her out!"
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I was pulled back. I fought. I begged: "Sir, have mercy with us!"
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"My husband did nothing wrong. Please have some sympathy for us."
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"Don't you have a family too?"
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A policeman screamed that my husband was fighting.
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But I knew it was a lie.
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I heard shots and called for help.
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Then I heard shots at the neighbors.
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Rifle shots?
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Yes. Maybe four or five.
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That was over there.
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At a quarter to ten I knew they were dead.
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I ran back and forth but they blocked my way.
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I kept screaming.
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Then the one with the birthmark came to me.
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He hit me.
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He said: "You whore, stop it, or do you want to die, too?"
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I forgot to ask: Did they have a search warrant?
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No, they didn't show anything.
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- Did they have any documents? - No, nothing at all.
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The door just blew open
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and they shouted that we shouldn't move.
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Then they dragged me outside.
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Can you recognize their faces? Do you know their names?
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I don't know their names, but I knwo their faces.
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We've discussed that the faces have to be assigned to names.
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You can file two reports with the court.
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But we still have to collect evidence.
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I want them to go to court.
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They rushed in here like devils and killed my husband.
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The people of the villages know the killer by name.
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The neighbours are certain the killer was a cop.
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Every witness to certain,
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the killer was a cop.
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There is no doubt on that one point.
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The cops also say, the killer was a cop.
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President Rodrigo Duterte said: "if someone's child is an addict,
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be the one to kill them, so it won't be so painful to their parents.
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Do it first, he said, because that person will die either way.
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If anything happens to them, they wanted it.
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They wanted it...
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IN DUTERTE'S DRUG WAR ABOUT 25,000 TO 30,000 PEOPLE WERE EXECUTED WITHOUT TRIAL UNTIL 2019
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Well the primary aim of mister Duterte is
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to control society.
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To keep them under an environment of fear.
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That they won't oppose or question his actions.
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That's one. Then the next objective
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is to deflect suspicion.
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If he is openly,
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vocally, against
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illegal drugs and in fact, killing people because of it,
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then people will not suspect his involvement
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in illegal drugs.
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When Duterte was still mayor of Davao City,
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that's the known ♪incomprehensible ♪ shipment point of illegal drugs.
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The port of Davao.
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But when he became president, they started bringing
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the illegal drugs,
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through the main door, the front door.
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Which is, the port of Manila.
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Plus, there are 2 big shipments, worth billions of pesos,
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that came in and was investigated even
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here in the senade,
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and in one of the deliveries,
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in one of the shipments,
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I was able to link the son of Mr. Duterte,
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to the major players involved in the
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smuggling of illegal drugs.
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In the same hearing we conducted
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about that illegal shipment,
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I openly made the allegation
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that Paolo Duterte, the son of the president,
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is a member of the chinese triade.
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He has a triade tattoo on his back.
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I say Mr. Paolo Duterte has a tattoo of the Triads.
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He admits that he has a tattoo.
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I'm being asked for evidence.
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The tattoo will prove that you are a member of the Triads
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because it has sacred digits.
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If Mr. Vice Mayor Duterte will agree,
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we will take a picture of the tattoo
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and send it to the US DEA so it can be decrypted.
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Are you willing Vice Mayor Duterte?
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No way.
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Mr Chairman, can...
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I'm sorry, no way.
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So, is there a tattoo? Is that so?
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We can ask security to accompany you,
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to just take a picture of your back.
521
00:45:33,640 --> 00:45:37,200
We will send the photo to the US DEA to have it decoded.
522
00:45:38,360 --> 00:45:39,560
Are you ready?
523
00:45:40,560 --> 00:45:41,880
Are you willing?
524
00:45:43,160 --> 00:45:44,240
Are you willing to do that?
525
00:45:44,360 --> 00:45:45,360
No, Mr.
526
00:45:45,560 --> 00:45:46,960
Why not?
527
00:45:47,200 --> 00:45:52,760
If you have nothing to hide and it's just a tattoo done somewhere...
528
00:45:53,760 --> 00:45:56,400
you should not be afraid.
529
00:45:56,560 --> 00:45:59,040
We can't uncover nothing in that case, Mr Vice Mayor.
530
00:45:59,200 --> 00:46:00,440
Vice Mayor.
531
00:46:02,560 --> 00:46:04,960
I already answered the question.
532
00:46:11,760 --> 00:46:12,760
Early on,
533
00:46:13,120 --> 00:46:15,680
we received the information
534
00:46:15,840 --> 00:46:18,960
that Duterte wanted to have me killed. In fact,
535
00:46:19,120 --> 00:46:22,440
the witness that we presented here in the senade,
536
00:46:23,040 --> 00:46:25,640
who used to be a member of the Davao death squad,
537
00:46:26,920 --> 00:46:30,920
said and testified that he
538
00:46:31,520 --> 00:46:35,720
received an order from the
539
00:46:36,040 --> 00:46:38,360
Operations Officer of the Davao Death Squad,
540
00:46:38,520 --> 00:46:41,320
that Duterte wanted to have me killed.
541
00:46:42,320 --> 00:46:45,960
But then he passed on it because he felt that
542
00:46:46,120 --> 00:46:49,440
the job was too big for their
543
00:46:50,080 --> 00:46:51,080
hitsquad,
544
00:46:51,440 --> 00:46:55,480
so there is that. Then eventually, during
545
00:46:55,640 --> 00:46:59,240
the course of the first 6 month of this term,
546
00:47:01,600 --> 00:47:06,360
one of the police generals who were in attendance
547
00:47:06,520 --> 00:47:09,800
in a meeting of Mr. Duterte,
548
00:47:10,200 --> 00:47:12,200
hear Duterte said that:
549
00:47:12,800 --> 00:47:15,800
"Why can't you just have Trillanes killed?"
550
00:47:28,200 --> 00:47:30,800
Our last question. You have big curtains.
551
00:47:31,400 --> 00:47:33,400
So, what is behind the curtains?
552
00:47:35,600 --> 00:47:39,920
Well, my security officer
553
00:47:40,720 --> 00:47:44,760
recommended that we place a bullet proof mechanism
554
00:47:44,920 --> 00:47:48,400
on the window to prevent any
555
00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:52,200
assesination attempts
556
00:47:53,000 --> 00:47:56,760
through this very vulnerable part of the building.
557
00:47:56,920 --> 00:47:58,000
And I can show you.
558
00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:15,200
So this one is a bullet proof plate.
559
00:48:17,000 --> 00:48:20,000
Because the other side of that, there is a walkway
560
00:48:22,680 --> 00:48:26,880
and it has access to a vacant lot.
561
00:48:28,720 --> 00:48:31,720
Now this curtain
562
00:48:32,320 --> 00:48:37,320
is actually an anti-shrapnel curtain.
563
00:48:37,720 --> 00:48:41,320
So if there is an RPG that's used there,
564
00:48:42,000 --> 00:48:45,840
it can absorve the sharps from the
565
00:48:46,000 --> 00:48:47,800
glass or any shrapnel.
566
00:48:48,800 --> 00:48:52,600
So this is the purpose of the heavy curtain.
567
00:49:02,840 --> 00:49:06,240
ON JUNE 52019 THE VILLAGE COUNCILOR NESTOR CALLANGA AND HIS FAMILY
568
00:49:06,400 --> 00:49:08,760
WERE KILLED BY A DEATH SQUAD.
569
00:50:19,720 --> 00:50:21,720
He seems an ordinary man.
570
00:50:22,200 --> 00:50:24,160
There is no mention of his proffession.
571
00:50:24,320 --> 00:50:28,240
He appears to be Delpan secret. The man in the white shirt,
572
00:50:28,400 --> 00:50:30,240
with a thick gold necklace,
573
00:50:30,400 --> 00:50:32,240
who wanders down alleyways,
574
00:50:32,400 --> 00:50:36,520
allegedly slamming plastic tubs into people's heads.
575
00:50:37,720 --> 00:50:41,360
The people of Parola in Isla Puting Bato believe they know
576
00:50:41,520 --> 00:50:42,520
a killer's name.
577
00:50:43,400 --> 00:50:46,720
The people of Isla Puting Bato call him a murderer.
578
00:50:47,200 --> 00:50:50,560
Along Parola he is called that son of a bitch killer.
579
00:50:52,360 --> 00:50:55,200
The people along Road 10 call him a demon.
580
00:51:41,000 --> 00:51:46,320
It's a Remington, 45 caliber.
581
00:51:47,640 --> 00:51:49,640
Is that your favorite gun?
582
00:51:50,520 --> 00:51:51,520
Yes.
583
00:51:54,000 --> 00:51:55,280
I like it
584
00:51:58,880 --> 00:52:01,080
because it'll get the job done faster.
585
00:52:01,960 --> 00:52:06,800
It only takes one shoot to kill someone.
586
00:52:09,520 --> 00:52:10,520
Not much effort.
587
00:52:17,520 --> 00:52:19,720
Did you murder people with it?
588
00:52:20,240 --> 00:52:22,440
Oh yeah. People were killed with it.
589
00:52:30,560 --> 00:52:32,720
And here I have an extra magazine.
590
00:52:56,000 --> 00:52:57,640
How many people did you kill?
591
00:52:57,960 --> 00:52:59,000
What?
592
00:53:00,320 --> 00:53:01,800
How many have you murdered?
593
00:53:02,160 --> 00:53:05,600
I've killed a lot. If I count them all.
594
00:53:05,880 --> 00:53:09,960
I don't know exactly how many.
595
00:53:10,120 --> 00:53:14,640
I kill the people but I refuse to count them.
596
00:53:16,320 --> 00:53:19,520
It doesn't feel good.
597
00:53:22,200 --> 00:53:27,520
For me it is natural to kill people.
598
00:53:35,240 --> 00:53:38,280
When Duterte became mayor of the city,
599
00:53:38,600 --> 00:53:43,680
Davao became peaceful.
600
00:53:45,240 --> 00:53:49,800
His values and principles were definitely for the people.
601
00:53:50,120 --> 00:53:53,080
So peace and order came to our city.
602
00:53:53,560 --> 00:53:59,120
The people had to be disciplined. That's what the military and we did.
603
00:54:01,040 --> 00:54:06,760
This is how peace came. Which is still the case today.
604
00:54:07,520 --> 00:54:11,360
Davao is still peaceful today thanks to the mayor,
605
00:54:11,880 --> 00:54:16,080
who is our new president.
606
00:54:17,400 --> 00:54:21,000
Did it happen that the president asked you to kill a person?
607
00:54:21,600 --> 00:54:23,240
Yeah, definitely.
608
00:54:23,400 --> 00:54:24,840
How did that happen?
609
00:54:25,000 --> 00:54:27,760
You mean when he wanted to get rid of someone?
610
00:54:28,240 --> 00:54:33,200
We got a call and helped him right away. We killed the person.
611
00:54:49,040 --> 00:54:53,000
Duterte didn't speak to us directly.
612
00:54:54,480 --> 00:54:56,400
Duterte had a middleman for that.
613
00:54:57,800 --> 00:55:01,800
When this guy came to us
614
00:55:04,040 --> 00:55:06,280
he told us what job to do.
615
00:55:06,440 --> 00:55:09,880
Who had to be killed.
616
00:55:26,680 --> 00:55:32,360
I kill for the peace of the nation.
617
00:55:32,520 --> 00:55:34,440
I will gladly do it over and over again.
618
00:55:51,920 --> 00:55:57,640
IN THE MIDTERM ELECTIONS DUTERTE'S PARTY IS CONFIRMED WITH AN OVERWHELMING MAJORITY.
619
00:56:08,360 --> 00:56:14,120
THE OPPOSITION LOSES ALL HIS SEATS IN THE PHILIPPINE SENATE.
620
00:56:35,720 --> 00:56:37,720
Can you hear me now, can you hear me?
621
00:56:38,600 --> 00:56:41,600
Are you going to the dinner with the tech team tonight?
622
00:56:43,600 --> 00:56:46,120
Okay. Have fun! Who else is going?
623
00:56:46,280 --> 00:56:47,480
I feel left out?
624
00:56:50,760 --> 00:56:53,600
I am doing the testimony,
625
00:56:53,760 --> 00:56:56,160
which I have to finish.
626
00:56:58,360 --> 00:57:01,120
I am too tired, I have been up since 4:30.
627
00:57:01,280 --> 00:57:04,200
I don't think I'll make it.
628
00:57:04,360 --> 00:57:07,680
Alright. Ok. Thanks, goodbye.
629
00:57:19,080 --> 00:57:22,880
This is an 11 nation grant committee and it's
630
00:57:23,040 --> 00:57:25,080
on data privacy and democracy.
631
00:57:25,240 --> 00:57:28,240
And being able to testify in front of them,
632
00:57:28,600 --> 00:57:33,160
that we're in a strangely unique position that I wish wasn't so.
633
00:57:33,960 --> 00:57:37,520
What we have is, not just data but horrendous experience
634
00:57:37,680 --> 00:57:39,880
of actually living through this.
635
00:57:56,880 --> 00:57:59,080
We're a cautionary tale for the west.
636
00:58:00,160 --> 00:58:03,040
The Philippines is an example of how democracy...
637
00:58:04,000 --> 00:58:07,440
of how quickly democracy is eroded, how information...
638
00:58:07,600 --> 00:58:09,800
Ok Miss Ressa.
639
00:58:10,600 --> 00:58:14,080
In a few minutes, we have the parliament of Singapore with us,
640
00:58:14,680 --> 00:58:17,040
the houses of ♪incomprehensible♪ are here,
641
00:58:17,200 --> 00:58:20,160
the parliament of the federal republic of Germany is with us,
642
00:58:20,680 --> 00:58:24,040
the chamber of debuties of the republic of Chile is with us,
643
00:58:24,200 --> 00:58:27,160
the parliament of the republic of Estonia.
644
00:58:27,840 --> 00:58:31,840
♪ Incomprehensible ♪
645
00:58:32,440 --> 00:58:34,920
Technology gets its power through control of data.
646
00:58:35,520 --> 00:58:38,520
Data is not the new oil, its the new plutoniun.
647
00:58:38,800 --> 00:58:40,120
Amazingly powerful,
648
00:58:40,280 --> 00:58:41,800
dangerous when it spreads,
649
00:58:41,960 --> 00:58:44,600
difficult to clean up. We canadians,
650
00:58:44,760 --> 00:58:48,680
are currently in a historic battle with the future of democracy.
651
00:58:48,840 --> 00:58:52,680
♪ Incomprehensible♪ I am here to tell you
652
00:58:52,840 --> 00:58:55,120
that we will win that battle, thank you.
653
00:58:55,440 --> 00:58:56,840
Thank you Mr. ♪incomprehensible♪.
654
00:58:57,000 --> 00:58:59,840
And from Manila in the Phillippines Maria Ressa,
655
00:59:00,000 --> 00:59:03,760
the chief executive officer and executive director of Rappler co.
656
00:59:03,920 --> 00:59:06,440
Good evening from Manila.
657
00:59:06,600 --> 00:59:10,040
The Phillippines, we here are a cautionary tale for you.
658
00:59:10,200 --> 00:59:13,640
An example of how quickly democracy crumbles,
659
00:59:13,800 --> 00:59:16,160
is eroded from within and how these
660
00:59:16,320 --> 00:59:19,760
information operations can take over
661
00:59:19,920 --> 00:59:24,520
the entire ecosystem and transform lies into facts.
662
00:59:24,760 --> 00:59:28,360
If you can make people believe lies are facts
663
00:59:28,600 --> 00:59:32,160
then you can control them. Without facts, you don't have truth,
664
00:59:32,320 --> 00:59:35,520
without truth you don't have trust.
665
00:59:36,320 --> 00:59:39,240
Journalists have long been the gatekeepers for facts,
666
00:59:39,400 --> 00:59:42,240
when we come under attack democracy is under attack.
667
00:59:42,400 --> 00:59:46,760
When this situation happens, the voice with the loudest megaphone wins.
668
00:59:47,200 --> 00:59:51,640
In the Phillippines, the weaponization of social media began in July 2016,
669
00:59:51,800 --> 00:59:54,840
after president Duterte won not coincidentally,
670
00:59:55,000 --> 00:59:57,160
when our brutal drug war began.
671
00:59:57,320 --> 01:00:00,760
In a global study, with 12 other research groups we help define
672
01:00:00,920 --> 01:00:03,920
patriotic trolling. Here is how it happened.
673
01:00:04,600 --> 01:00:07,600
And let me show you, please in this one, can you zoom in?
674
01:00:08,400 --> 01:00:13,080
And again, I'll make sure you already have a copy of this. Let's see if he can zoom in.
675
01:00:13,320 --> 01:00:14,760
This is a database that
676
01:00:14,920 --> 01:00:17,760
we actually began to put together as a defense,
677
01:00:17,920 --> 01:00:20,120
since we lived on social media
678
01:00:20,280 --> 01:00:24,120
we were able to identify the attacks early on, we found
679
01:00:24,280 --> 01:00:27,440
a ♪incomprehensible♪ network of 26 fake accounts,
680
01:00:27,600 --> 01:00:31,080
as journalists we then did do deletions to make sure it was fake.
681
01:00:31,240 --> 01:00:33,960
And then we went and counted manually
682
01:00:34,120 --> 01:00:37,520
how many accounts could it impact from 26 fake accounts,
683
01:00:37,680 --> 01:00:40,720
they could impact as many as three million.
684
01:00:40,880 --> 01:00:43,640
You can basically see the same thing that happened in the west,
685
01:00:43,800 --> 01:00:48,040
which is a fracture line of society, you can see this here,
686
01:00:48,200 --> 01:00:51,000
and then after the drug war began,
687
01:00:51,160 --> 01:00:55,280
it was pounded a million times,
688
01:00:55,440 --> 01:00:58,440
and it becomes fact. It becomes a solid line.
689
01:00:58,720 --> 01:01:01,000
The biggest accelerate
690
01:01:01,160 --> 01:01:05,320
to this movement towards an ♪ incomprehensible♪ for authoritarian rulers,
691
01:01:05,480 --> 01:01:06,480
is technology.
692
01:01:06,760 --> 01:01:09,080
But then what happened in 2016
693
01:01:09,320 --> 01:01:11,760
was that the technology, social media,
694
01:01:11,920 --> 01:01:14,920
was gained and overtaken
695
01:01:15,160 --> 01:01:18,000
by autocratic leaders,
696
01:01:18,160 --> 01:01:22,520
by digital companies, like cambridge analytica,
697
01:01:22,680 --> 01:01:27,520
facebook, and its wanting to gain more and more;
698
01:01:27,680 --> 01:01:30,520
people wanting to accelerate its growth.
699
01:01:30,680 --> 01:01:34,120
And part of the reason I think we live in such an upside down world,
700
01:01:34,280 --> 01:01:35,920
in many different countries,
701
01:01:36,080 --> 01:01:39,080
many different democracies around the world, is precisely because
702
01:01:39,760 --> 01:01:40,760
of that tactic.
703
01:01:41,360 --> 01:01:45,480
Mrs Ressa you have for your testimony 12 minutes, so I
704
01:01:45,640 --> 01:01:47,360
want to let questions.
705
01:01:47,520 --> 01:01:51,360
Sure. So I guess just to end with this is, that
706
01:01:51,520 --> 01:01:55,000
I don't know unless you've been the subject of an attack.
707
01:01:55,160 --> 01:01:57,800
It's very difficult to go through
708
01:01:57,960 --> 01:02:00,280
90 hate messages per hour
709
01:02:00,640 --> 01:02:02,680
sustained over days and months.
710
01:02:02,840 --> 01:02:06,960
That is what we are going through, the kind of astroturfing that turns lies
711
01:02:07,120 --> 01:02:11,120
into truth, for us this is a matter of survival.
712
01:02:11,920 --> 01:02:14,760
And my appologies for cutting you off,
713
01:02:14,920 --> 01:02:19,360
your testimony is powerful and we have watched your story from afar so,
714
01:02:19,520 --> 01:02:21,520
thank you again.
715
01:02:25,920 --> 01:02:28,360
Mrs Ressa, thank you we will disconnected now.
716
01:02:28,520 --> 01:02:29,520
Thank so much!
717
01:02:29,920 --> 01:02:31,520
Thank you, have a good day. You too!
718
01:03:01,560 --> 01:03:05,520
There's a lot of people who are afraid to speak
719
01:03:05,840 --> 01:03:07,120
here in my country.
720
01:03:07,920 --> 01:03:11,200
There is a lot of people who are afraid to speak. But through my blog
721
01:03:11,800 --> 01:03:17,120
they feel that I was able to give them voice.
722
01:03:25,720 --> 01:03:30,160
It all began when I wrote an open letter to president Duterte,
723
01:03:30,320 --> 01:03:33,560
that was just after the elections when these killings,
724
01:03:33,720 --> 01:03:37,560
10 killings every night, 25 killings and I was like,
725
01:03:38,080 --> 01:03:42,400
this is not what you have promised and it was shared 39 thousand times.
726
01:03:44,120 --> 01:03:47,920
Then I started receiving hate messages, death threats.
727
01:04:10,600 --> 01:04:14,200
And they would send me pictures of guns.
728
01:04:14,600 --> 01:04:17,200
Like "I'm gonna use this to you.
729
01:04:17,600 --> 01:04:21,400
Or...
730
01:04:21,880 --> 01:04:27,360
I'm gonna throw acid in your face if I see you in the streets."
731
01:04:29,360 --> 01:04:31,960
Different kind of threats.
732
01:04:32,279 --> 01:04:35,920
And then the latest one is the one that
733
01:04:36,080 --> 01:04:38,560
they put me in a coffin and said
734
01:04:39,840 --> 01:04:43,160
"time of dead 8 o clock...
735
01:04:43,760 --> 01:04:47,360
an them internment is tomorrow
736
01:04:47,880 --> 01:04:51,480
and then it's up to you". And then they put my face in a coffin.
737
01:05:09,000 --> 01:05:12,320
I have been transferring from one adress to another
738
01:05:12,800 --> 01:05:16,640
because there is one time in our house... we have a small
739
01:05:16,800 --> 01:05:18,120
apartment in Makati.
740
01:05:19,000 --> 01:05:22,960
A guy pretending to be a cable guy
741
01:05:23,120 --> 01:05:24,760
went and talked to my mom,
742
01:05:24,920 --> 01:05:28,640
she is a cancer survivor and she thought that she could just
743
01:05:28,800 --> 01:05:33,240
talk with that guy and then the guy is asking a lot of information:
744
01:05:33,760 --> 01:05:36,240
at what time I am gonna be home;
745
01:05:36,920 --> 01:05:39,760
when is my scedule going to the office;
746
01:05:39,920 --> 01:05:42,520
and how many are in our house…
747
01:05:43,000 --> 01:05:46,520
So I asked the smart communication,
748
01:05:46,840 --> 01:05:51,200
if they sent someone to our house
749
01:05:51,360 --> 01:05:53,560
and then they said they did not send anybody.
750
01:05:54,240 --> 01:05:56,520
That's the fear comes in,
751
01:05:56,920 --> 01:06:01,080
so an employee from the commision of human rights
752
01:06:01,240 --> 01:06:03,080
told me that I need to transfer,
753
01:06:03,240 --> 01:06:06,440
because for them, they call that profiling
754
01:06:07,440 --> 01:06:08,920
before execution.
755
01:06:09,920 --> 01:06:12,680
Right then I had to transfer
756
01:06:12,840 --> 01:06:15,040
to another place
757
01:06:15,640 --> 01:06:16,680
with my mom.
758
01:06:16,840 --> 01:06:19,279
There is a fear
759
01:06:19,440 --> 01:06:22,760
when I found out that it would come to this,
760
01:06:22,920 --> 01:06:26,120
where your life will be threatened, actually for me,
761
01:06:26,800 --> 01:06:29,240
I am scared yes but I can manage,
762
01:06:29,400 --> 01:06:32,640
but what I cannot manage is that
763
01:06:32,800 --> 01:06:34,400
my family will be included.
764
01:06:46,400 --> 01:06:49,680
Stop shaming the Philippines! Stop shaming the Philippines!
765
01:07:38,520 --> 01:07:42,760
We are here now at the Rappler head quarters,
766
01:07:42,920 --> 01:07:46,400
I am with Mark Lopez
767
01:07:46,800 --> 01:07:49,800
and we are here to see miss Maria Ressa
768
01:07:50,160 --> 01:07:52,160
and give her a piece of our mind.
769
01:07:54,680 --> 01:07:55,680
Alright.
770
01:07:57,200 --> 01:07:58,240
Alright.
771
01:08:26,640 --> 01:08:29,640
Yes, we have a message for miss Maria Ressa.
772
01:08:29,920 --> 01:08:30,920
You're from?
773
01:08:31,319 --> 01:08:35,240
We are independent writers.
774
01:08:36,240 --> 01:08:37,319
Do you have an appointment?
775
01:08:37,640 --> 01:08:41,720
No we don't, but we would like to see her if she is here.
776
01:08:44,319 --> 01:08:46,520
Are you taking a video of us?
777
01:08:46,920 --> 01:08:48,760
Are you taking a video of our office?
778
01:08:48,920 --> 01:08:49,920
Yes we are.
779
01:09:02,640 --> 01:09:05,359
It was on wendnesday or thursday? I don't remember it anymore.
780
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But we just had a meeting.
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This was...
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We had an interview in February
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and we were talking and suddenly there were noises in the background,
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me personally I wasn't really realizing,
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I thought some students are visiting Rappler.
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But it came out that it was something totally different.
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What happened in our interview?
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If you remember, we were in that small conference room.
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And all out of a sudden there was noise outside.
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And it also drew my attention
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and apparently there was one of the
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Duterte supporters his name is Mark Lopez,
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he was able to get through, to get past security
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and enter
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the third floor,
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going through the mall area
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and he was just outside our door,
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when we were doing the interview and the
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security guard at that time tried to stop him,
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because he was trying to film something,
801
01:10:17,400 --> 01:10:19,760
he was trying to go on facebook live
802
01:10:19,920 --> 01:10:23,520
and he was calling for people,
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Duterte supporters to come to the rappler office
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and of course
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that was a breach of security.
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No one is supposed to be able to get close to our office without
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clearance from us,
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and that was very alarming for us.
809
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Hi guys so we are now here at Rappler office.
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Below in the picture
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you can see the tweet of Maria Ressa.
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We can't and won't accept that.
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This is a slap in the face for us, for all of us.
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Because she only sees us as trolls.
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As people who execute orders from somebody else.
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So we are here to express our outrage.
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- And fight for our country. - Yes!
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They are destroying our country
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and we're not goint to sit here and let them do it.
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This is what we're goint to say...
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to Miss Ressa and to the people around her.
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They won't let us in.
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01:11:54,200 --> 01:11:57,559
You work here in front of the Rappler's office?
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You know what Maria Ressa did, what she did to our country, right?
825
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She has embarrassed us to other countries.
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This is my message, stop destroying our country
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01:12:18,920 --> 01:12:22,240
Maria and Rappler, you have no business doing this,
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this is not your mandate as a journalist
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to destroy our country
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and I think you should just close up.
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Sir, may I ask you to go downstairs?
832
01:12:42,800 --> 01:12:46,600
Please go down. You are in the private area.
833
01:13:06,000 --> 01:13:09,600
Facebook took this down within like a day. But still,
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this is psychological warfare.
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And so what I have done, is I have increased security yet again.
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So I still struggle with this,
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but I know that the first line of defense
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01:13:25,520 --> 01:13:29,000
is to know what's real and what's not,
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in a situation where it's impossible
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to know when these threats get to a point that they jump into
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the real world,
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it's your judgement call.
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So I always tell our guys,
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it's just nothing to fear but fear itself.
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The first thing is to like, in your head just quantify
846
01:13:50,680 --> 01:13:53,400
what are the risks, what's the worst case scenario
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01:13:53,559 --> 01:13:57,160
and how do I keep going down the path I wanna go on,
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being pragmatic about the risks,
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protecting myself against the risks, and yet at the same time,
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going down the path. You cannot be your own worst enemy.
851
01:14:39,240 --> 01:14:41,680
The day that it happened, the day that they came,
852
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we had the managers meeting
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and then all of a sudden I was on my desk
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and I saw Glenda
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01:14:49,760 --> 01:14:51,600
talking to a man who
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01:14:51,760 --> 01:14:53,680
looked unfamiliar
857
01:14:53,840 --> 01:14:55,920
and then all of a sudden they were so many of them
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01:14:56,760 --> 01:14:58,559
and we didn't know who they were.
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NBI:
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What's your name? I want to see your ID. We need your name.
861
01:15:09,200 --> 01:15:11,840
What's it about? Sir?
862
01:15:12,000 --> 01:15:16,559
We asked for the name. Is he from here?
863
01:15:17,120 --> 01:15:19,160
So we started messaging eachother,
864
01:15:19,320 --> 01:15:22,160
who is this, what's going on? Who are these people?
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And then we figured out that they were from the
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NBI and we said,
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you know this was not supposed to happen.
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And it was just too late.
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Maria was inside, she had another meeting and
870
01:15:36,880 --> 01:15:39,720
Glenda was getting in touch with the lawyersand
871
01:15:39,880 --> 01:15:43,000
I too had to talk to some of the agents
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01:15:43,160 --> 01:15:46,760
and I was also trying to get in touch with the lawyer.
873
01:15:49,760 --> 01:15:53,200
And I told the agent: can you just please wait,
874
01:15:53,360 --> 01:15:56,559
there is a lawyer on his way,
875
01:15:56,720 --> 01:16:01,320
just wait for the lawyer and don't call Maria off to the NBI.
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It was very late in the afternoon and we knew that you know,
877
01:16:06,520 --> 01:16:08,520
5 o clock the courts are closed,
878
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there are no judges who we could talk to,
879
01:16:13,720 --> 01:16:16,880
so when the lawyer came he spoke to
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the agents and then the agents
881
01:16:19,320 --> 01:16:22,960
explained we would have to bring Maria to the National Bureau of Investigation
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01:16:23,120 --> 01:16:25,120
headquarters in Manila,
883
01:16:27,120 --> 01:16:32,120
but then we said but she has to post bail.
884
01:16:44,720 --> 01:16:47,080
When we looked at the arrest warrant,
885
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there was no indication of how much bail was supposed to be payed.
886
01:16:50,640 --> 01:16:54,120
Normally there is an arrest warrant and you are entitled to bail,
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01:16:54,280 --> 01:16:57,640
then the amount should be specified. So we didn't even know
888
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how much Maria was supposed to pay.
889
01:17:02,280 --> 01:17:06,320
You can deduce from there that clearly the plan
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was for Maria to be arrested.
891
01:17:08,480 --> 01:17:12,280
The plan was for Maria to spend the night in jail.
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01:19:25,200 --> 01:19:29,760
For many years Maria Ressa ran CNN's coverage in Manila Phillippines,
893
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but this week, she spent the night in jail.
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The result of a cyber libel charge for an old article on her website.
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01:20:04,000 --> 01:20:07,520
My stay last night at the NBI
896
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really made me think about what this is all about.
897
01:20:10,720 --> 01:20:12,920
For me it's about two things:
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abuse of power
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and weaponization of the law.
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01:20:18,920 --> 01:20:22,520
This isnt just about me and its not just about Rappler.
901
01:20:22,880 --> 01:20:26,920
The message that the government is sending is very clear and
902
01:20:27,080 --> 01:20:29,800
someone actuallytold our reporters this last night:
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be silent our you're next.
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01:20:34,080 --> 01:20:38,280
So I am saying and I am appealing to you
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not to be silent even if,
906
01:20:41,760 --> 01:20:45,559
and especially if you're next
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you have to express outrage like I am doing now.
908
01:20:51,120 --> 01:20:54,240
This is not-press freedom is not just about journalists,
909
01:20:54,400 --> 01:20:57,440
it's not just about us. Its not just about me,
910
01:20:57,600 --> 01:21:00,960
it's not just about Rappler. Press freedom is the foundation of
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every single right of every Filipino to the truth.
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So that we can hold the power full to account.
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What we are seeing is deaths by a thousand cuts of our democracy
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and I appeal to you
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to join me-I've said this.
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01:21:20,360 --> 01:21:22,960
I have been thinking about this for a long time.
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I always said that when I look back a decade from now,
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I wanna make sure
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that I have done all I can,
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we will not duck, we will not hide,
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we will hold the line.
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You say that there is so much more here,
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it's not just about you, not just about rappler, but democracy.
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01:22:26,600 --> 01:22:30,040
Do you believe Duterte is out to silence you,
925
01:22:30,200 --> 01:22:33,760
despite the fact that you are a time person of the year,
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the whole world is watching.
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01:22:37,600 --> 01:22:40,000
You know I try not to take anything personally,
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01:22:40,160 --> 01:22:42,000
nor to give any kinds of...
929
01:22:42,160 --> 01:22:46,000
and I am extremely sad about what is happening
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01:22:46,160 --> 01:22:48,800
in our country, I have been a reporter for more than 30 years,
931
01:22:48,960 --> 01:22:51,800
I have covered all the administrations since Marcos,
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I've covered dictatorships
933
01:22:54,440 --> 01:22:57,080
and I have seen more transparency
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01:22:57,400 --> 01:23:00,040
and sticking to the established standards of the law
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than here.
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01:23:05,160 --> 01:23:08,360
When I was released on bail thursday,
937
01:23:08,520 --> 01:23:13,040
everyone was there and I talked about the lesson that this only
938
01:23:13,200 --> 01:23:17,040
really drilled into my head which is, this is about abuse of power
939
01:23:17,200 --> 01:23:20,559
and it is, they moved beyond weaponization of social media
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01:23:20,720 --> 01:23:22,160
to weaponization of the law.
941
01:23:22,320 --> 01:23:24,800
We are being sandwhiched in between.
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01:23:24,960 --> 01:23:29,160
Top down from the president himself and
943
01:23:29,440 --> 01:23:33,640
legal attacks and then bottom up from social media.
944
01:23:35,240 --> 01:23:38,559
And then here we are trying to survive, trying to pull back,
945
01:23:38,720 --> 01:23:40,240
trying to pull it out.
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01:23:41,120 --> 01:23:44,120
I think what we need to do is
947
01:23:44,720 --> 01:23:49,120
to try to get Filipinos to find a ray of hope.
948
01:23:49,840 --> 01:23:53,640
It goes to courage and hope. Courage to speak up,
949
01:23:54,840 --> 01:23:57,080
and courage to hope that it will get better.
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01:23:58,080 --> 01:24:00,080
Maria is the soul of Rappler.
951
01:24:01,000 --> 01:24:03,280
She started it. This is her baby.
952
01:24:04,800 --> 01:24:07,640
We are part of the supporting cast.
953
01:24:07,800 --> 01:24:09,080
We are the pillars,
954
01:24:09,480 --> 01:24:13,680
but she created the foundation, she built the foundation.
955
01:24:15,200 --> 01:24:17,840
I think if you take her out,
956
01:24:18,000 --> 01:24:20,000
we will still continue to function
957
01:24:20,400 --> 01:24:22,240
because we have a mission.
958
01:24:22,400 --> 01:24:26,120
The objective is clear, government will want to shut us down.
959
01:24:26,280 --> 01:24:28,520
Government would want to silence us.
960
01:24:28,680 --> 01:24:33,440
But if they take away Maria, if they arrest Maria,
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01:24:34,240 --> 01:24:38,360
I think it will be-we owe it to Maria,
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01:24:38,640 --> 01:24:41,480
to continue with our operations, no matter what.
963
01:24:41,640 --> 01:24:45,200
We are prepared, we have plans, we have contingencies.
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01:24:45,360 --> 01:24:48,680
They shut down this wonderful office, we will go elsewhere,
965
01:24:48,840 --> 01:24:52,240
and good luck to the government if they continue hunting us down,
966
01:24:52,400 --> 01:24:56,320
they will have to arrest each and everyone of us, to stop us.
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01:25:09,520 --> 01:25:13,720
Do not translate the we will continue to hold the line, just thank you for your support…
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01:25:44,000 --> 01:25:51,000
10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3
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01:25:54,400 --> 01:25:57,000
Thank you for your support.
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01:25:57,600 --> 01:26:00,600
We will continue to hold the line.
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We are leaders of Hold the line.
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