Pres. Duterte Sinagot ang Pahayag ni Sen. Gordon sa kanya na "STOP MAKING NOISE".
President Duterte also said that "Their is no law at all which says I cannot threaten criminals either as Mayor or President. If anyone who dis-agrees give me the provision of law".
Sen. GORDON AMBUSH INTERVIEW AFTER nag WALKOUT si Sen. DELIMA.
"Ilang oras kaming naghintay tapos bigla nalang siyang darating at magpapagwapo? oh come on" Gordon said.
Umalma ang mayor ng Tanauan City nang madawit siya sa iligal na droga. Pinapipirma umano si Mayor Halili sa form na kapareho ng sinusulatan ng mga sumusuko sa "Oplan Tokhang".
Mula Beijing China si Sir Orion Perez ibinunyag ang buong kaalaman ng mga sekretong plano ng US sa Pilipinas, totoo namang naging tuta tau ng US sa nakaraang Aquino Administration.
Filipino boxing legend Manny Pacquiao admits drug use, despite his close personal friendship with President Duterte who has declared a war on drugs.
The boxing star, who was elected as a senator in May, said he backed president Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs and claimed that the leader was chosen by God to "discipline the people".
Since taking office in June, Mr Duterte has put the crackdown at the core of presidency and said it will not stop "until the last drug manufacturer is killed".
According to police, 3,171 drug dealers and users have been killed - two thirds by unknown assailants and the rest in police operations.
Pacquiao, 37, said: "The president, he doesn't know my experience with drugs.
"I tried drugs…many kinds of drugs, all kinds of drugs."
The boxer said his substance abuse happened for years "before I became a champion".
He added it was unfair to blame the drugs-related death toll on Mr Duterte.
Pacquiao said: "God put him there for a reason, for purpose - to discipline the people.
"In the past administrations, people didn't respect the law, the leader, the authorities.
"What Duterte is trying to do is let the people know - and put it in their heart and minds - that you need to respect the laws of the land."
The boxer, who is the godfather of Mr Duterte's grandson, is a close ally of the president.
In his first speech in the senate, Pacquiao backed Mr Duterte's drugs crackdown by calling for the death penalty to be reinstated for dealers.
Pacquiao also fronted a motion to oust the chair of a high-profile committee examining the president's links to vigilante death squads in Davao.
The 37-year-old's comments come after Mr Duterte sparked outrage by calling Barack Obama a "son of a whore" while warning the US president not to question him about extrajudicial killings.
Despite the fall-out, Pacquiao asserted that the Philippine president is "a nice guy".
He said: "(Mr Duterte) is a respectful person, a hospitable person, a friendly person."
Prominent inmate Jaybee Sebastian, who was injured in a stabbing occurrence inside the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) on Wednesday, is presently in stable condition.
Photographs of Sebastian inside the doctor’s facility was discharged to the media Thursday, alongside photographs of his sworn affidavit about the riot in Bilibid that left one drug lord dead and 3 others harmed (including him).
As indicated by Sebastian, he was stabbed by an inmate named Tomas Doniña, also known as Tom, between 7:00 to 8:00 Wednesday morning in the chaos corridor of Building 14 of NBP.
He added that he was watching TV when he was stabbed in the back with an ice pick.
Sebastian likewise said in his announcement that he chatted with Doniña and a specific Clarence Dongail before the stabbing incident.
THE New York Times reported that the Philippines problem on drugs can be traced back to the President Rodrigo Duterte’s predecessor, Benigno Aquino III.
“It might seem that the Philippines’ trouble began when it elected Mr. Duterte, a brash provincial politician who has for decades embraced extrajudicial killings as a legitimate method of crime control," NY Times said in a report.
"But the true roots of the problem can be traced to the administration of Mr. Duterte’s predecessor, Benigno Aquino III. That is because, experts say, the true cause of this kind of extrajudicial violence is the public’s loss of confidence in state institutions and its turning instead to more immediate forms of punishment and control," it added.
In 2010, Aquino was elected on high hopes that he will support the rule of law and human rights. However he failed to fix the Philippines’ corrupt and ineffective justice system.
During his administration, he also faced a series of security-related scandals, including a hostage crisis in Manila in 2010.
"And, perhaps most critical, Mr. Aquino was perceived as lazy and soft, unwilling to take the necessary steps to solve the country’s problems," NY Times said.
With the previous administration's failures to respond the Filipinos' needs and frustration with the government’s inability to provide basic security, the people demanded a new kind of leadership that would take more decisive action to provide security, thus President Duterte's election.
When people begin to see the justice system as thoroughly corrupt and broken, they feel unprotected from crime. That sense of threat makes them willing to support vigilante violence, which feels like the best option for restoring order and protecting their personal safety.
Gema Santamaria, a professor at the Mexico Autonomous Institute of Technology in Mexico City who studies lynchings and other forms of vigilante killings, and José Miguel Cruz, the research director at Florida International University’s Latin American and Caribbean Center, used survey data from across Latin America to test what leads people to support extrajudicial violence.
The data told a very similar story across all of the countries in their sample. People who didn’t have faith in their country’s institutions were more likely to say vigilante violence was justified.
Leaders like Mr. Duterte have a political incentive to exploit this sentiment, marketing their willingness to go around the system to prove that they are willing to do whatever it takes to solve the country’s problems.
“When you have a weak government that faces a security crisis and also a crisis of trust of the people, the issue of promising more punishment is a shortcut to gain citizens’ confidence, to gain support,” Ms. Santamaria said.
Source: Pilipinas Update
Jaybee Sebastian will speak about his knowledge of the drug trade inside the New Bilibid Prison only with President Rodrigo Duterte, his lawyer said on Wednesday, hours after the high-profile inmate was hurt in a riot inside the prison compound.
In a live interview on GMA News TV's QRT, Sebastian's lawyer Edgar Arriba said the incident showed that there was a clear and present danger to the inmate's life.
"Napakarami niyang alam," said Arriba. "Ayaw niyang magsalita dahil lalong manganganib ang buhay niya."
Arriba said Sebastian told him: "Magsasalita lang ako sa presidente."
Sebastian was the most prominent name that surfaced in last week's House of Representatives hearing on the illegal drug trade inside the national penitentiary, with fellow inmates linking him to Senator Leila De Lima. Duterte has tagged De Lima for allowing narcotics to proliferate inside the NBP while she was justice secretary.
De Lima, a vocal critic of Duterte, has denied the links, saying that Sebastian was a government asset.
Arriba declined to answer when asked if this was true.
Sebastian underwent surgery on Wednesday after the riot, which left another high-profile inmate Tony Co dead and two others hurt.
Arriba said Sebastian did not want to court the ire of either the previous administration or the current one.
Senator Leila de Lima on Thursday said inmate Jaybee Sebastian, who had been accused as the one who pooled money inside the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) for her 2016 senatorial bid, is actually a government asset.
“Yes, that’s true,” De Lima said when asked by the media if Sebastian was indeed a government asset as claimed by Magdalo party-list Rep. Gary Alejano.
“The reason why I’m saying he’s an asset is to dispel yung mga maling haka-haka, insinuations that the reason why hindi muna siya sinama sa Bilibid 19 is because favored, protektado and lalo na yung insinuations na yan siya kumolekta ng pera [para] sa akin,” De Lima said at a press conference.
De Lima then dared the House committee investigating the alleged illegal drug operations inside the NBP to invite Sebastian to the probe.
“Let him address that. If he wants to testify, let him address that,” she said.
In the House hearing Wednesday, Aguirre said that Magalong “doubled” the strength of the cases to be filed against de Lima whose high-profile December 2014 raid of the NBP didn’t include the operation’s original planners – Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) and Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) – who codenamed their plan ‘Cronus.’
“Even as of yesterday, we have enough evidence to file this case. But now we believe that with General Magalong’s statement, the strength of our case has double,” said Aguirre.
Aguirre said that it was clear that de Lima’s raid – which resulted into the transfer of 19 drug lords to the maximum security prison while leaving de Lima’s alleged pet inmate, Jaybee Sebastian, as the top dog in the Bilibid trade – was all for show when only her cohorts from the Bureau of Corrections led the raid and only K-9 dogs were brought and not the PDEA agents.
Aside from de Lima, the NBP raid was then led by then BuCor Chief Franklin Bucayu, then Police Deputy Director General Marcelo Garbo, and then Philippine Anti-Organized Crime Commission executive director. Magalong said the three former generals were classmates at the Philippine Military Academy Class +f 1981.
Aabot sa 30 na witness at resource person ang ipiprisinta ng Department of Justice (DoJ) bukas sa isasagawang imbestigasyon ng Kamara kaugnay ng umano'y illegal drug trade sa New Bilibid Prison (NBP).
Ayon kay Justice Sec. Vitaliano Aguirre, ang mga witness ang magdidiin kay Sen. Leila de Lima na umano'y nakinabang sa drug money mula NBP.
Sa unang araw ng House probe bukas, ihaharap ang mga testigo para ma-establish kung bakit, papaano, saan, kailan at ang pinakamahalaga ay kung sino-sino ang nakinabang sa perang galing sa droga.
Kinumpirma rin ni Aguirre na isa si Herbert Colangco na miyembro ng binansagang Bilibid 19 sa mga tetestigo laban sa senadora.
Kasama ni Colangco ang iba pang high profile inmates na inilipat sa custodial center ng Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) dahil sa banta sa kanilang buhay sa loob ng Bilibid.
Kabilang din sa tetestigo ay ang dating OIC ng Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) noong justice secretary pa si De Lima.
Muli ring nilinaw ni Aguirre na walang kapalit at hindi nila pinilit ang mga inmates na tumestigo laban sa senadora.
Anime version ni President Duterte! A video of an anime version of President Duterte together with PNP Chief Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa etc. was published by Davao Nikkei Jin Anime Club and Bisayaball Community on Facebook.
Handang ipa-contempt ni kabayan party list Rep. Harry Roque si Senador Leila De Lima sakaling igiit nito na hindi sisipot sa gagawing pagdinig ng kamara tungkol sa problema ng droga sa loob ng new bilibid prison
