Alleged Group PADEM Calls for the Ouster of Pres. Rody Duterte (Viral Letter)

An alleged group calling themselves PADEM or Patriotic and Democratic Movement is calling for the ouster of Pres. Rody Duterte. The letter of the said planned ouster of Pres. Duterte is now circulating online and posted in various Facebook Groups.

According to the controversial letter, the group PADEM is composed of officers and members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Philippine National Police (PNP).

The group's aim is to condemn and hold Pres. Duterte accountable for gross crimes in betrayal of public trust and in violation of national sovereignty and democratic rights of the Filipino people.

PADEM also cited some of the crimes of Pres. Duterte who allegedly treat the AFP and the PNP as these were his private armies and practising favoritism and violating professional and service standards in the promotion and assignment of officers.

Here's the Controversial Letter of PADEM:

"CALL FOR THE OUSTER OF RODRIGO R. DUTERTE FOR BETRAYAL OF PUBLIC INTEREST

We, officers and members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police, hereby make a compact to constitute ourselves as the Patriotic and Democratic Movement (PADEM) and to condemn and hold Rodrigo R. Duterte accountable for gross crimes in betrayal of public trust and in violation of national sovereignty and democratic rights of the Filipino people.

Said crimes of Duterte and his administration are as follows: Treating the AFP and the PNP as these were his private armies and practising favoritism and violating professional and service standards in the promotion and assignment of officers;

1. Treating the AFP and the PNP as these were his private armies and practising favoritism and violating professional and service standards in the promotion and assignment of officers;
2. Corrupting the PNP and the AFP with a system of monetary awards for the extrajudicial killing of alleged illegal drug users and of NPA suspects;
3. Condoning and protecting top-level illegal drug lords (including Davao City vice mayor Paolo Duterte) and protectors (at the level of governors and generals);
4. Emboldening /Inciting police officers to engage in extrajudicial killings of poor suspected illegal drug users and pushers by publicly telling officers to plant evidence and by guaranteeing their pardon and promotion in case of conviction;
5. Aggravating corruption in government and criminality through the collusion of Duterte trustees and crime syndicates;
6. Allowing China to occupy maritime features in the West Philippine Sea and to violate Philipine sovereign rights upheld by decision of the Arbitral Tribunal in accordance with the UN Convention on he Law of the Sea;
7. Bungling the operations in Marawi City and indiscrinately destroying lives and property through aerial bombings, artillery and mortar;
8. Favoring certain Chinese businessmen and Duterte relatives and cronies in the award of projected infrastructure projects using loans from China;
9. Betraying the sovereign rights of the Filipino people by making the Philippines a debt vassal of China and offering to China the oil and gas resources under the West Philippine Sea as collateral for Chinese loans; and
10. Seeking to replace the partnership with the United States in matters of national security with an even more lopsided relationship with China and Russia.

We call on the Filipino people to unite with us in condemning and fighting Duterte and his administration for all the above. 

We urge all Filipinos as individuals and as groups in whatever social sector, field, institution or organization to exercise their right of assembly and expression to undertake mass actions demanding the ouster of Duterte and his administration.

We call on our fellow officers and members of the AFP and the PNP to join the people in demanding the resignation or ouster of Duterte and his administration.

We pledge to work for the withdrawal of military and police support for Duterte and his administration in conjunction with mass mobilization of the Filipino people in millions to manifest their demand for the resignation or ouster of Duterte and his administration.

Upon the change of administration, we pledge to follow the principle of civilian supremacy and support a new civilian administration, in accordance with the 1987 Constitution and the rule of law.###

Certified and issued by Antonio Bonifacio
Spokesperson"

Source: Facebook