Paquiao Admits That He Used Drugs

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."

JAYBEE SEBASTIAN FINALLY SIGNED AFFIDAVIT WHILE RECOVERING THE HOSPITAL

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.

JAYBEE SEBASTIAN SIGN:

SANDRA CAM: IRE-REVEALED KUNG KANINO GALING ANG SCANDAL NI DE LIMA

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New York Times Blames for Drug and EJK issue 'It was Aquino's and Liberal. Laziness and Unwillingness to Solve the Country’s Problems'

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

Lawyer: Jaybee Sebastian Wish To Tell All Only President Duterte About Drug In Bilibid

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.

CCTV FOOTAGE sa RIOT sa BILIBID PINAKITA KUNG SAAN NAPATAY si TONY CO, HAWAK NA NG CIDG !