Is it just me, or are others thinking this is exactly the kind of thing Trump might do?

especially when they can't keep their own black citizens from being targets..

Vigilante gangs of citizens gunning down drug dealers and drug users? I'm sure they were all very bad people and totally had it coming. No sense letting any pesky due process get in the way. Thirty dead in less than two weeks. You have to believe President Trump could do better. Jesus.

Like the trump punchers at his rally. Duerte stirs these ones up to kill and is the country 's leader

At least that is how it would go here.

Oh goody.

Less so nowadays than in the days of Subic Bay, Cubi Point, and Angeles, but still....

Up until 1992, we recruited the very best and brightest to serve in the military (USN) from the PI--hundreds every year, tens of thousands over the course of the program. And they were a very good value--their retention rate was nearly a hundred percent, so we didn't lose a trained professional at the end of their enlistment. They were better behaved than the average sailor, too--they tended to go less crazy on liberty.

It was a path to naturalization, and an escape from lack of opportunity. Most did a full career until retirement. Many settled in southern California rather than return home to PI (save for occasional visits). The end of the basing era signaled the end of that program, which had been going on for close to a century. There probably aren't very many servicemembers recruited from PI left in service, at this point in time. There might be some 2nd generation kids following in the footsteps of their fathers (no women were recruited under that program) but those old timers are just about gone.

Unfreakingbelievable

people who want to take what others have will denounce and murder the owners of the property they covet.