Drug money to buy votes in May polls?

The recent series of big time drug raids conducted by government, the latest of which was in Quezon and Eastern Samar, SHABU worth P1billion packed in 151 kilos indicates that money that will flow in the coming elections will be partly DRUG MONEY.

We cannot imagine politicians seeking to run for public office and get elected by the people sitting as elected leaders because they paid thousands of voters with drug money.

These drug money come from the people themselves who are addicted to the vice. In short, some of our candidates are using people’s money to buy themselves out in office. This is one very pathetic and unconscionable manner of getting elected to public office, maybe even the presidency, for who could afford to capitalize P1billion worth of illegal drugs? Not a mayor, not a congressman but most probably a presidential candidate.

So it might be a legitimate question to ask, who among the presidential candidates is using drug money to finance himself in the coming elections. All you have to do is look at eight suspects and you can choose or pickout the most guilty.

It is important therefore that as voters you and I will be able to smell and distinguish whether or not the money being laundered in the coming elections is clean or dirty money. Dirty of course for nobody would squander clean money.

Upon the advise of some of her friends, President Arroyo herself led in the burning of P1B worth of smuggled and confiscated shabu in order to avert the possibility of recycling the hot items by equally corrupt law enforcers who might be in cahoots with the drug smugglers.

The Cabinet meeting this Tuesday in Baguio will discuss recent drug busts in Samar and Aurora worth more than P1 billion.

The proliferation of illegal drugs is “very dangerous and very alarming” and must be assessed on the basis of the country’s drug situation. Drug money is the easiest way to use for election vote buying.

Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) Director General Dionisio Santiago was directed to double their watch for drug money being used to buy votes this elections.

PDEA intercepted 85.87 kilos of shabu in Dingalan, Aurora last Dec. 21, 55 bricks of high-grade cocaine in Eastern Samar last Dec. 22-23, and another 84 bricks of cocaine, also in Samar, on Christmas Day.

The results of the election might be influenced by drug cartels. The government will not just assess the drug situation on its impact on the national elections next year but also as a “scourge” of society. “We need to protect our children and the youth; otherwise, we will put in jeopardy the future of our youth.”

The drug enforcement agencies must not just apprehend the pushers but must also destroy their laboratories that produce the substances that endanger the future of our country, he added. MOST OF ALL, destroy all confiscated drugs even if it means evidence because it is safer to destroy the evidence this time, so that it will not be recycled and re smuggled again in the black market.