Former Philippines President Duterte Subject of Follow Up on Warrant by ICC
March 18, 2025Volition - to do or not do something on one's own volition - in today's English basically means that ultimately or at the end of the day, you decided what you were going to do, exercising your decision over yourself, in parenthesis, even though you may have been asked, told, instructed to, or moreover, possibly influenced by someone else.
When a classmate urges another classmate to steal snacks or change grades in the grade book, that student still had the decision making power [unless incapacitated, like a far-fetched state of being under full mind control beyond the ability to have power over him or her self], to go forward with the wrongdoing or not go forward. Most of the class stayed seated, but a few misfits ran up to the gradebook and made changes. All the students, good and bad, acted on their volition regardless of the bully's threats.
Dictionary.com
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noun · the act of willing, choosing, or resolving; exercise of willing: · a choice or decision made by the will. · the power of willing; will.
The older but perhaps era and slightly politcal, philosophical direction reflected Merriam-Webster says
https://www.merriam-webster.com › dictionary › volition
1. The power of choosing or determining : will. 2. An act of making a choice or decision. Also : a choice or decision made.
- sourced 3/17/2025
Several or more decades ago, especially before the advent of the popular online Internet where there are multitudes of resources like we have at clicks of a button today, Webster dictionaries may have been the forerunner of what was available here in the US; [nevertheless].
US Judge Nunzio in 1977 thereabout, discussed 'own volition'.
There are leaders that recognize that there are certain chivalries that should be abided by when summoned by higher courts, hence volition may be taken away in that aspect, as abidance may be innate in expected behaviors of leaders whether acting or former, and some leaders act on that.
Volition is standout in the Duterte containment, or claim thereunto, for at least two reasons. One, Duterte discussed it in referring to the arrest. Second reason, all those reported killings [of individuals in the war on drugs or under color of it] could not have conceivably been done by him per se in terms of he was physically holding a weapon and used it, as an individual. Others carried out the killings.
Are those others under arrest?
Why not?
Not one other person, not a deputy, not a jail guard?
Will a sweep and investigations similar to WWII war crimes begin?
At this point, a process began several years after Duterte is no longer acting as President, and developments that appear as from outside his nation, in at least The Hague; geographically, a significant number of miles away.
There are a number of issues that are involved with the case, if it continues.
One, the status of the situation of illegal narcotics that Duterte was initially attempting to mitigate while he was in office, is described by some analysts as far out of control; plus ramifications of narcotics crimes including deaths of others.
Also of course, how true are the accounts of undeserved or minimal trial deaths? Were the numbers inflated in the mitigation effort? are they true, false?, if there are inflated numbers involved, are they a double-edged sword, that on the flip side could bring the leader into question?
Were there some enforcers of the referent narcotic crackdown, that were out of control using excessive force, and the 100% of the blame went on Duterte?
- Intervention? (earlier or when what the accusations are were going on)
- Weapons (quantity) source?
There are other questions in the broader scope, such as why now?, the history of subjugation of the Philippines (over for instance recent centuries), and the fold after fold concept of propagation of continually perpetrating a spiral of going as far as in the pit of haplessness as you can get someone (or some nation, people, etc.). Other options exist for justice and trial. People are going to want to know whether or not whatever is behind the current situation, is really in the best interest of the people. The bottom line, are there other injustices going on?
Duterte's words by the way, as for anyone, are his words, which mean what they mean, not to be confused with something else, nevermind heave judgment passed that has no application.
International Criminal Court ~ ICC
Current events of this sort were foreseeable at least several years ago simply because of the number individuals said to be affected.
All said, it appears from news reports, Rodrigo Duterte is in some kind of custody in The Hague for crimes against humanity and perhaps appearing before reviewers.
Posted by HCN.
