Dennis Prager Show - Dictatorship In The Philippines
Aired: 2020-04-20
Duration: 02:54


=== 350 Years of Slavery (02:21) ===

[00:00:00]  How many people have died in the Philippines?
[00:00:04]  I think it's something like, they're calling it about 150 out of a country of 105 million people.
[00:00:15]  Basically nobody.
[00:00:18]  The way I put it is, if you've ever read The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire, 10,000 words, very boring.
[00:00:26]  Basically, our deaths are a period.
[00:00:29]  At the end of a sentence in that book.
[00:00:32]  But we are more locked down than you are.
[00:00:36]  Basically, the Philippines has become a dictatorship now.
[00:00:40]  Wow.
[00:00:43]  Wow.
[00:00:44]  So give me an example.
[00:00:46]  Can you leave the house for groceries?
[00:00:49]  It completely depends on your neighborhood.
[00:00:52]  But there's a neighborhood near me, which coincidentally is poor, meaning they have no political power, and they have soldiers.
[00:00:59]  Surrounding them.
[00:01:02]  Making sure they stay in their homes.
[00:01:05]  We're not talking police anymore.
[00:01:06]  We're talking soldiers.
[00:01:10]  You having been there for some time now, is this surprising to you, given this leader?
[00:01:17]  Well, you know, unfortunately, it goes back centuries before the current leaders.
[00:01:24]  We were a Spanish colony for 350 years.
[00:01:28]  And the Spanish basically treated their colonialists, the people they colonized, as slaves.
[00:01:35]  So, you know, this country basically was a slave country for 350 years until the Americans came in for just 50 years.
[00:01:43]  So, unfortunately, they still have that slave mentality of, you know, that the master tells them you will do this, and they do that.
[00:01:54]  Protesting just isn't part of the mentality here.
[00:01:58]  And they're easily bought off, really, with a bag of rice.
[00:02:01]  So let me ask you, Michael, other than Sweden, pretty much the whole world has followed the same protocol.

=== Outside Pressure Restricts Events (00:46) ===

[00:02:09]  How do you explain that, if you are right?
[00:02:14]  Well, there have actually been varying degrees of following.
[00:02:18]  Even Sweden hasn't just said, you know, been laissez-faire.
[00:02:22]  At first, they restricted crowds to 500, which isn't much of a restriction, actually.
[00:02:29]  Although, you know, it covers sports events.
[00:02:31]  So, you know, it meant that basically they outlawed sports events.
[00:02:36]  Then due to outside pressure, not internal, but outside, they restricted that to 50.
[00:02:41]  But, you know, in a lot of countries, they restricted to two.
[00:02:44]  Yes, exactly.
[00:02:45]  All right, hold on with me.
[00:02:46]  I'm talking to Michael Fumento, who's an investigative reporter, but basically, in my experience, a truth-teller.