00:00What message do you have for President RR Dunda on his birthday?
00:10Of course, he's incarcerated now in the ICC.
00:14Father Dugong, we are now united for our birthday gift to you.
00:22Our birthday gift to you is our united voice that we will make sure that the whole world will hear.
00:33Before, the whole country heard us. Now, the whole world will hear that President Duterte is the true leader of the Republic of the Philippines.
00:48Now, the pro-and anti-Duterte forces are clashing in the Philippines.
00:54Of course, there are some who are against me.
00:58I am a critic of President Duterte.
01:01I am telling you, I hope that he won't go to jail.
01:04I hope that he will be released so that he can face the ICC.
01:08What's your take on what the critics are saying that President Duterte should go to jail?
01:14No, because they always look at it from an emotional and political point of view.
01:21But if it's from a legal point of view, they don't want to discuss it anymore.
01:26So for me, the only way we can achieve some form of understanding, common understanding here, is to go to the rule of law.
01:37So, let's toast legally.
01:40Because our contention is very clear and very simple.
01:44There is no jurisdiction of the ICC.
01:46No matter what legal acrobatics and gymnastics they do, we are not under the control of the ICC.
01:55And if there is a gray area there, I don't think there is a gray area,
02:00but if there is a gray area, stand by the Philippines.
02:03Stand by your own country.
02:07So, you really believe in the Bill of Rights?
02:10Yes, of course.
02:12But like I said, the main issue here is the jurisdiction of the ICC.
02:17There is none.
02:18Now, in the Bill of Rights, that's a matter of evidence.
02:21We will prove that his rights have been violated, his fundamental rights.
02:28But that's a different discussion.
02:32First of all, we are not under the control of the ICC.
02:35We don't need to talk about the red notice, the defusal notice.
02:39Let's talk about that, but let's focus on the first point.
02:43We are not under the control of the ICC. Period.
02:45And to anyone who doesn't believe that, he's a traitor.
02:55That's the point.
02:57They keep fearing PRRD as a violent man.
03:01And the supporters are rabid.
03:03But you know, what the supporters are doing is peaceful protest.
03:08Peaceful protest.
03:10If it's true, they're all running.
03:12They keep fearing mass action.
03:15But why is there none?
03:17Because the supporters really want a unified and peaceful Philippines.
03:22And they've proven it time and again.
03:24For me, there are a lot of stupid things that the authorities are doing in the Philippines.
03:30It should be a mess, but why isn't it?
03:34Even the president himself, I mean Duterte, doesn't call it a mess.
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