The moral dilemma of a real-life Dexter Morgan
Kill bad guys in his spare time? Tick.
Claim you’re doing a good deed for society? Tick.
I’m not referring to the character Dexter from the successful television series of the same name. I’m talking about a real man by the name of Edgar Matobato a former hitman who was ordered by the Duterte family to kill people in the Philippines because it was a Davao city law at the time Rodrigo and Sara Duterte were in city government.
Let me get the differences out of the way:
Edgar Matobato killed multiple of people under the orders of the Duterte Family and Police he was told to be criminals via allegations mentioned Philippine congressional hearing. Dexter killed approximately 135 people according to the undisputed reliability of an Internet discussion forum.
Matobato killed rapists, murderers, terrorists, drug dealers, pedophiles, psychopaths, political opponents , police officers and politicians accused of corruption under orders or face arrest or death for not complying with the killing order. Dexter killed drug dealers, murderers, rapists, pedophiles, psychopaths, serial killers, police officers, his brother, his sister, and his friends…
Matobato was ordered to plant evidence on the deceased or face getting killed by another hitman the Dutertes hired. Dexter nicked his victims’ cheeks with a blade, and retained a drop of blood on a small glass slide as a memento.
Matobato may appear as a witness in the International Criminal Court and congress again for the country's human rights reforms. SPOILER ALERT! Dexter killed his sister, faked his death in a cyclone, let his son leave with another serial killer to South America, and lived out his life as a lonely lumberjack in the middle of nowhere with subsequent specials.
So they aren’t carbon copies of each other but the burning question remains just as pertinent. How would you feel about a real-life Dexter in your neighborhood? Someone who operates outside of the law, doing what the police, juries, and judge fail to. Performing good deeds that ultimately benefit society, while ridding the earth of murderers, rapists and other various murderous violent human beings?
There was something karmic, and almost heroic about Dexter. I was on his side for the most part. He was a lovable, socially awkward, misunderstood, blood-spatter analyst, who carried around his rather influential dark passenger. He was suffocated by an unexplained urge to kill since he was a teen. His foster-father Harry taught him to channel it into something that would benefit society so he started killing murderers that slipped through the judicial cracks on technicalities. It was his code; the set of rules he lived by.
However in Matobatos case he had to comply with a city law at the time the Duterte family was in city government in davao. One of his first killings was when he killed somebody Duterte claimed was a rapist or drug dealer by shooting him to death. Another example is another report of him sending people to a mass grave in the Davao area because the police told him the target is a criminal.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-38337746
In Edgar Matobatos case the Dexter Morgan comparisons came into play because of the systemic issues he was in or face arrest by not complying with the demands of Davao City Police in the Rodrigo and Sara Duterte mayoral era. Matobato is Dexter Morgan on the surface but start digging then its more of hitmen and police officers being used as puppets for the Duterte Agenda as we seen in the ICC and congressional hearings.
Dexter Morgan on the other hand had Two subsequent specials after his show ended in 2013.
The law exists for a reason. It’s not perfect, and doesn’t get everything right. But on the whole it does keep society in balance, people on both sides of the law remain accountable, and the legal system may stutter, then flourish, but it doesn’t spiral out of control.
In this case we had a series of congressional hearings showing some ties to the daughter being corrupt to cover up her father's crimes. Now we need to wait for the International Criminal Court trial to start and prove that Rodrigo Duterte is a case of Dexter Morgan getting political power. Yes there were several other people who claimed a Dexter Morgan Status like Manuel Pardo the former cop who killed 9 people he claimed to be drug dealers got executed in 2013 on Florida's death row and Pedro Rodrigues Filho who claimed to kill 100 criminals got convicted for some but is now deceased after his release from a prison in Brazil. But this tops the other two given their claims to fight crime by exterminating criminals by using political power to justify those questionable actions.
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