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Philippine ‘war on drugs’ comes under fire at UN Human Rights Council – Deutsche Welle
Posted: May 9, 2017 at 4:01 pm
Facing the UN's rights body in Geneva on Monday, Senator Alan Peter Cayetano of the Philippines attempted to use a slideshow and video clips to prove that President Rodrigo Duterte is acting within his rights in a "war on drugs" that haskilled thousands of people. Cayetano said nearly 1.3 million people who have used or dealt illegal drugs had surrendered voluntarily, and that only a small fraction put up violent resistance.
"One: There is no state-sponsored killing in the Philippines," Cayetano said, seeking to put the issue to bed from the start. "Two: There is no sudden wave of killings."
Cayetano claimed that officers had killed 2,692 people in the 11 months since Duterte took office. He pointed out that national law legitimates deaths during police operations.
Other estimates suggest the figure is much higher, however. The US group Human Rights Watch, for example, has tabulated 7,000 deaths during Duterte's crackdown.
Is Duterte 'excellent'?
Following Cayetano's remarks, delegations had a minute each to critique Duterte's rights record. A delegate from China cited Cayetano's "very convincing" remarks and the challenges faced by China and other "developing countries" in fighting the drugs trade.
Other delegates criticized the frequent extrajudicial killings, violence against journalists and the prospect that Duterte could formally reinstate executions. The Germanenvoy, for example, said the Philippines must take "all necessary measures" to stop extrajudicial killings, and the Vaticancalled reports of enforced disappearances "deeply troubling."
The 47-member council, which the Philippines holds a seat on, regularly reviews the rights records of the 193 UN countries. The current two-week review session focuses on 14 countries, including Britain, India and South Africa. Several members - such as Britain, China, Cuba, Egypt, Germany, Saudi Arabia and the US - have previously earned criticism for their own rights records.
A poll of 1,200 Filipinos released Monday found that Duterte maintains an "excellent" trust rating, with 80 percent giving him the highest score in a survey that focuses on personality rather than policy. The pollster Social Weather Stations has tracked Duterte's trust rating since he began his run for the presidency in December 2015.
As a candidate, Duterte started off with a 47 percent rating; he peaked with 84 percent a week before he took office late last June, and has lost a point since the last survey. Pollsters did not ask respondents to give a reason for their ratings.
Last week, US President Donald Trump set off an uproar in Washington by inviting Duterte to the White Housedespite rights groups' criticism of his policies and the deaths that have ensued.
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Washington, DC(ENEWSPF)May 8, 2017
By: Grant Smith
America and the world have learned hard lessons about the failings of the war on drugs.
For too long, we saw drugs as an invasion to be repelled rather than as a public health crisis to be answered. We treated drug addiction as a crime, not as a health issue. We incarcerated too many drug users and attacked the supply side of the problem, largely ignoring the demand.
But now, at the very moment weve reached a broad, bipartisan consensus and begun to reform our overly punitive policies at the state and federal level, President Trump is poised to turn back the clock. It is difficult to overstate what a major historical misstep this would be, and how many lives could get chewed up and spit out by the new throwback approach.
Late last month, Trump had what the White House called a very friendly talk with Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, in which Trump invited his Filipino counterpart to the White House.
Duterte has incited civilians to engage in the extrajudicial killing of more than 4,000 drug abusers; last year, he compared himself positively to Adolf Hitler, saying he would be happy to slaughter 3 million drug addicts, just as Hitler killed millions of Jews.
In his phone call with Duterte, Trump reportedly praised his Filipino counterpart as the right way to attack drug misuse. That is an astonishing endorsement.
No one is suggesting that Trump intends to import Dutertes brutal, morally repugnant approach to drugs to Americas domestic struggle with narcotics. But we do know that in significant ways, Trump is bringing a dangerously retrograde approach to the issue.
The warning signs were evident the day Donald Trump descended an escalator and announced his presidential bid in 2015. It was then that Trump stoked the fear and resentment toward immigrants residing and working in the United States and first made the call for a wall along the Mexican border that has become a theme of his presidency.
When Mexico sends its people, said Trump, theyre not sending their bestTheyre bringing drugs. Theyre bringing crime.And its got to stop and its got to stop fast.
Whether he knew it at the time or not, Trumps call for a border wall to keep drugs and immigrants out of the country came straight out of the same political playbook that President Richard Nixon used when he declared the first war on drugs more than four decades ago.
As Nixons advisor John Ehrlichman admitted in a 1994 interview, the true motivation for Nixons war on drugs was to channel white middle-class fear and distrust of blacks and war protesters toward a hatred of the drugs these groups were perceived to be using. By launching a war on drugs, Nixon was able to declare war on entire communities that he despised.
Then, on the 2016 campaign trail, another element entered. Trump must have seen an opportunity to tie the fear and resentment of immigrants felt by voters in places devastated by the opioid epidemic.
And so, appealing directly to predominately rural and suburban white voters in states like Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia, Trump and his campaign viciously exploited sentiments that immigrants have stolen jobs from these communities, constructing a completely false narrative that Latinos and other immigrants are responsible for the hardship that drug addiction, unemployment and other social problems have wrought on these communities.
The President built his political base by converging peoples fears about the opioid crisis with resentment toward immigrant groups. In much the same way that Nixon used drugs as a catalyst for striking at his enemies, Trump is now doing the same.
Now, as President, Trump has leaned hard on his campaign promise to build a wall and stop the drugs from pouring in. As he told a room full of police chiefs in February, were going to be ruthless in that fight. We have no choice.
To wage this fight, Trump has filled top positions in his cabinet with hardliners on drug issues.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions is perhaps the hardest of the hardliners. A former prosecutor from Alabama who has long believed that the way to reduce demand for illicit drugs is by sending more people to prison and drilling just say no into young peoples brains, Sessions was one of the biggest opponents in Congress to bipartisan drug sentencing reform.
Since his Senate confirmation, Sessions has signaled a reversal of Obama-era policies at the Department of Justice that encouraged federal prosecutors to use discretion in seeking mandatory minimum sentences and has promised a new intensity to drug enforcement.
A new intensity that will likely mean more aggressive efforts by federal prosecutors to throw the book at drug offenders, carrying out Sessions order to use every tool we have to crack down. Communities long scarred by decades of drug war policing will see more disruption, and more families will be torn apart. Prisons already overcrowded with drug offenders will become more packed with people who belong in treatment and diversion programs instead. Taxpayers will be on the hook to pay for Sessions ruinous intentions.
Another way this fight is manifesting itself: an aggressive move to deport people with any history of drug arrests whatsoever, no matter the drug and no matter the crime.
John Kelly, head of the Trump administrations agency charged with immigration enforcement, the Department of Homeland Security, has also vowed to make marijuana a major part of its enforcement efforts against immigrants.
U.S. drug prohibition laws therefore make tens of thousands of noncitizens eligible for deportation every year, even when the drug charges that triggered deportation are dismissed by a court. In this way, the machinery of this countrys entrenched drug war could be a major weapon in Trumps politically motivated war against immigrants.
Its not as though Trump ignores the need for treatment entirely. He has made sweeping promises that under his leadership he will fight to increase access to life-saving treatment to battle the addiction to drugs, with a special focus on the exploding opioid addiction thats wreaking havoc in so many communities.
In March, he invited people who struggled with opioid addiction to the White House and launched a task force, being led by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, to recommend ways the federal government should respond to the opioid crisis.
We want to help those who have become so badly addicted, said Trump.
The President doesnt need a commission to study the opioid crisis when there is a mountain of evidence that shows what works. Communities struggling under the weight of the opioid crisis need more funding for treatment, housing, harm reduction and other supports essential to keeping people alive and on the road to recovery.
New York City is among many urban communities that have been severely affected for a long time. It would require real leadership from Trump to push for the treatment funding and policy changes needed to deliver real results. Instead, the country waits for a panels recommendations, and undoubtedly more people will tragically and needlessly die waiting.
The perfect early test of whether the Presidents rhetoric on treatment was hollow or substantive was in health care reform. Trump failed.
His push to replace parts of Obamacare with the American Health Care Act would eliminate health care for millions of people acutely vulnerable to opioid dependence. This legislation would hit states that have some of the highest opioid overdose rates in the country, like Kentucky and West Virginia, especially hard.
Nearly 3 million people got treatment coverage from an expansion of the federal health insurance program known as Medicaid that they didnt have before Obamacare became law in 2010.
The Trump administration recklessly signed off on House Speaker Paul Ryans American Health Care Act, which passed the House on Thursday, knowing that it could jeopardize the ability of millions of people struggling with substance use disorder to keep health insurance that will cover the cost of accessing treatment and mental health care.
The dramatic failure of lock em up drug policies is clear to all who have studied the problem or, really, just about anyone whos lived in America these last 40 years.
Two generations of intensifying war on illegal drug markets made little difference in the price or availability of illicit drugs. The toughest drug sentences have not made a dent in drug demand.
Instead, an outraged public has turned against the war on drugs. By 2014, two out of three Americans supported ending prosecution for drug possession, and today 60% of Americans support legalizing marijuana.
These numbers should be a warning to Trump that pursuing a revival in the war on drugs would be a serious mistake both politically and fiscally.
Trump also risks alienating his own party if he pushes too hard. A strong bipartisan voting bloc in Congress has consistently supported letting states set their own marijuana policies, and just this week, Congress denied Sessions the federal money to prosecute medical marijuana patients and dispensaries in states where medicinal trade is legal.
Congressional leaders came close last year to reforming some of the harshest mandatory minimum sentencing laws for drug offenses, and have indicated plans to try again soon. This is something that both Trump voters and law enforcement appear to agree on.
Trump voters expressed strong support for criminal justice reform in a recent poll, and nearly 200 law enforcement leaders across the country recently called on the White House to continue pushing for drug sentencing reform.
Incarcerating drug offenders isnt only bad public policy; its very expensive for taxpayers.
All of that is why the Obama administration took serious strides to move the country away from some of the most draconian aspects of the drug war, directing federal prosecutions to seek mandatory sentences for drug offenders more sparingly, and taking steps to recognize drug addiction as a health issue.
Ignoring all this wisdom, threatening all this progress, Trump seems to believe, deep in his gut, that the key to winning the war on drugs is a border wall and a law-enforcement crackdown.
Authorities havent been successful at keeping drugs out of maximum security prisons, let alone the third-largest landmass in the world. No border wall will impede the illicit drug trade. And no escalated federal enforcement effort will reduce the demand for powerful narcotics.
Grant Smith is deputy director of national affairs with the Drug Policy Alliance in Washington.
This article appeared in the NY Daily News at: http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/addicted-war-drugs-article-1.3140663
Source: http://drugpolicy.org
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What’s the War-On-Drugs endgame? – Journal Review
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We see it in the news constantly: The drug abuse epidemic. Sometimes its heroin. Sometimes its meth. Sometimes its prescription drug abuse. But the results seem to be the same. Those addicted tend to neglect their job, their family and themselves. Emergency rooms and emergency medical responders are seeing more and more of these people overdose.
Our societys response is to treat it like a criminal problem instead of a medical problem. And weve been doing it that way for 46 years. We declared a War-On-Drugs in 1971, aggressively sent the police after users and dealers to get them off the streets. We tried to teach drug users and drug dealers a lesson by making the punishment so awful it would deter others. We made judges hand out mandatory minimum prison sentences for drug-related convictions. We allowed police to conduct civil asset forfeiture.
Despite these aggressive policies and enforcement actions, illicit drug trade is worse than ever. In 2008, only 81 tons of the 450 tons of heroin trafficked that year was seized. And that same year 865 tons of cocaine was trafficked worldwide, 165 tons of which was consumed in the United States (more than any other nation). In 2009 drug use was responsible for more than 37,000 deaths in the U.S., which exceeded traffic accident deaths that year. Over the past decade drug-related deaths have doubled, even though all other causes of death declined. In other words, the War-On-Drugs has failed its primary objective (despite receiving over $1 trillion in funding since 1971).
What it has succeeded in doing is fill up our prisons and jails to bursting. In 1974 there were 218,466 inmates in all federal prisons, state prisons, and local jails. By 2014 it exploded to 1,508,636 (600 percent increase). According to a study by Jonathan Rothwell, a senior economist at Gallup, more people are now admitted to prisons for drug crimes each year than for violent crimes or for property crimes. The cost on the taxpayer to house and care for these inmates is now $12.6 billion a year.
Treating drug abuse as a criminal problem instead of a medical problem is making it worse not better. Our goal should be recovery so that the previously addicted person can overcome addiction, where he gets his life back on track. However, once we as a society label that person a felon, we make it infinitely harder for him to do that. When he is tries to get a job, on job applications he is forced to check the box labeled Have you ever been convicted of a felony? If he is trying to better his life by going to college, he is ineligible to receive financial aid to pay for college because felons arent eligible for financial aid. We are putting obstacles in the way of achieving our goal.
What are we hoping to accomplish by continuing this failed War-On-Drugs policy? The last 46 years has proven that even if we pass a plethora of get-tough-on-drugs laws, spend a trillion dollars, and put 600 percent more people behind bars, it will not decrease the number of people getting drugs and getting addicted to drugs. Instead, we need to treat it as a medical and mental health problem, not a criminal problem. The first step to doing this is ending the War-On-Drugs and all the problems it created. This will allow our society to then focus our resources toward addiction treatment, recovery, and prevention, and actually solving the problem.
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gambling machine owner pleads guilty to state charges – Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)
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The owner of a company licensed by the state to operate video gambling machines has pleaded guilty to lying about how much money he made on them.
Sandip Patel, a 41-year-old McDonough resident and owner of Sudama Resorts, Mondaypleaded guilty to three counts of commercial gambling and was sentenced to one year of house arrest and fouryears probation, according to the Macon Telegraph. The plea arrangement includes a promise from Patel that he will testify for the state in other gambling cases, if needed.
Patel was among 10 arrested in October 2015 as part of a sweep of businesses across central and south Georgia by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and the Georgia Lottery Corp. All of the machines seized in the raid belong to Sudama Resorts.
A technician opens a coin-operated amusement machine at a Duluth gas station in 2015. BOB ANDRES / BANDRES@AJC.COM
The machines are commonly seen in gas stations and pool halls and resemble video poker machines. Under state law, owners of the machines are not allowed to pay cash to winners. At the time of the raids, GBI officials said an undercover investigation determined players were receiving cash payouts at more than a quarter of the locations where Sudama machines were placed.
According to the Telegraph, investigators discovered Patel was dramatically under-reporting how much money the machines were making. Prior to July 1, 2015, owners of the machines were responsible for reporting the take, but a new state system that automatically reported earnings showed Sudama machines took in much more.
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Gambling expansion stalls tentative budget agreement – Theadanews
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OKLAHOMA CITY Oklahoma lawmakers said Monday that a proposal to expand casino gambling has stalled a tentative budget agreement that would have raised hundreds of millions in new revenue.
House Minority Leader Scott Inman, D-Del City, said House lawmakers thought they had reached a bipartisan budget framework that would have closed about half of the nearly $900 million budget gap by taxing cigarettes, capping itemized tax deductions, restoring an income tax credit and slashing about $50 million in oil and gas subsidies. It also would have expanded tribal gaming agreements, he said.
He said Monday, though, that state Senate Republicans had torpedoed the deal.
For the Senate Republicans to continue to stand in the face of the citizens of Oklahoma who are calling for an increase in the gross production tax, who are calling for significant revenues to help fund education, health care and public safety, is a tragedy, he said.
But Senate President Pro Tem Mike Schulz said theres no way his Republican caucus members could support any budget agreement that would allow full-blown Vegas gambling in Oklahoma.
Budget officials estimate that expanding gambling to allow Oklahomas tribally run casinos to offer dice games and roulette could generate an additional $20 million a year in revenue for the cash-strapped coffers. Under agreements better known as compacts tribes pay the state a portion of their gambling revenues each year.
Schulz, of Altus, said the proposed gambling component also would have given tribes the exclusive right to take sports bets if the federal government ever legalizes the practice beyond Nevada.
For me, personally, yeah, its a moral objection, Schulz said of expanding gaming. I think we have too much gambling going on in this state. I think its too accessible. I think we have people who are spending milk and bread money in a casino rather than taking care of their kids.
Senate Majority Floor Leader Greg Treat, R-Oklahoma City, said Senate Republicans back the plan to hike the pack of cigarettes by $1.50 a pack. That tax could generate more than $184 million a year.
They also support a plan to increase that states gasoline tax by 6 cents a gallon as well as eliminating the oil and gas rebates and back the plan to cap itemized deductions at $17,000 that would generate another $148 million, he said.
Were tired of the gimmicks, Treat said. We want a package not contingent on us expanding to Vegas-style gambling to bring revenue in to fill these holes that we all agree we have.
But Inman said its time for senators to act and do the right thing for the public that relies on crucial state programs.
Weve said all along that a cigarette tax is just simply a Band-Aid on a bullet hole, he said. It will not solve the states budget problems. Youve got to have additional revenue.
Janelle Stecklein covers the Oklahoma Statehouse for CNHI's newspapers and websites. Reach her at jstecklein@cnhi.com.
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TOPS proposal to use gambling revenue for funding sparks concerns — then is shelved – The Advocate
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A plan to use riverboat gambling revenue to offset any shortfall in state aid for TOPS sputtered and was shelved Tuesday in a House committee.
State Rep. Franklin Foil, R-Baton Rouge, sponsor of the bill, withdrew his proposal after it sparked questions and concerns.
TOPS stands for Taylor Opportunity Program for Students.
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A bill that would require TOPS recipients who leave the state to repay some of their assista
It finances college tuition, and in some cases other costs, for students who meet academic guidelines.
About 50,000 students get the assistance.
However, the program faces a shortage of about $80 million for the 2017-18 college year, and was underfunded for the 2016-17 school year.
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In a bipartisan but controversial push, two state lawmakers have filed bills that would make
Foil proposed using riverboat gambling dollars to offset any shortages.
The Republican said lots of his constituents already think gambling proceeds are used for education.
However, Foil said only 25 percent of riverboat revenue goes for education while 65 percent is earmarked for the state general fund, which finances a wide range of services.
"I believe we have an obligation that, if the students meet the requirements, the program should be funded," he said of TOPS.
State Rep. Patricia Smith, D-Baton Rouge, a member of the House Appropriations Committee, noted that TOPS would be fully funded under the operating budget approved last week by the state House.
Whether that plan will be changed when the Senate comes up with its own budget proposal is unclear.
Smith also said riverboat gambling money has slipped in recent years.
Others noted Foil's bill would mean less money for other state services amid recurring financial problems.
Rep. Walt Leger III, D-New Orleans, another committee member, said while he appreciated Foil's goals he planned to offer an amendment to instead direct some gambling money to the state Board of Regents for a wide range of higher education needs.
State aid for colleges and universities has been cut by about $700 million in the past seven years.
Leger's comments caused Foil to say he would voluntarily defer his bill, which means it is likely dead for the session.
"I understand the concerns of the committee," he said.
The legislation is House Bill 91.
Foil is one of two sponsors of bills set for hearings on Wednesday.
Both would increase the GPA needed for students to qualify for TOPS.
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Authorities raid Saline Co. game rooms due to illegal gambling | KATV – KATV
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Authorities say Chicot Game Room, Just For Fun Game Room, Penny Place Game Room and Teana's Game Room were all raided due to reports of illegal gambling. (Photos courtesy: Saline County Sheriff's Office)
Four game rooms in Saline County were raided Monday by authorities due to gambling offenses.
The sheriff's office reports U.S. currency, gaming machines and several documents were seized from Chicot Game Room, Just for Fun Game Room, Penny Place Game Room and Teana's Game Room during the operation.
This type of gaming is considered illegal in the State of Arkansas and after fielding several complaints from local residents, the Saline County Sheriffs Office acted accordingly," Sheriff Rodney Wright said.
Authorities say search and seizure warrants were conducted after a collaborative investigation by the Saline County Sheriffs Office, Pulaski County Sheriffs Office, Little Rock Police Department and the IRS.
The investigation is considered ongoing.
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Time for legalized sports gambling? What makes an ‘MVP’ and more The New ‘Jersey’ Guys Podcast – New Jersey 101.5 FM Radio
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Always Dreaming took the crown at the Kentucky Derby and that got Dan and Chris thinking, is time for legalized gambling in New Jersey already?
Now that two professional franchises are going to be calling Las Vegas home, the stigma of pro sports and gambling are pretty much history. New Jersey has had a long history of attempts at getting sports gambling legalized. Isnt it time it actually happened?
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The guys also discuss what defines an MVP. The NBA has some superstars vying for the title of MVP this year but what does it really mean? Is an MVP the player that means the most to his team? Or is it the player is just the best overall athlete in the league?
The Boston Red Sox and Baltimore Orioles engaged in a nasty battle the last couple weeks with players on both teams being beaned by the opposing pitchers as retaliation for something the other team did. Chris thinks this is an archaic tradition that needs to stop. Dan, on the other hand, thinks its a sign of sticking up for your teammates and a sign of unity. If anything, Dan says that the league should impose harsher fines for retaliation.
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Lifetime’s ‘Mary Kills People’ Uses Bible Verse to Justify Euthanasia – NewsBusters (blog)
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NewsBusters (blog) | Lifetime's 'Mary Kills People' Uses Bible Verse to Justify Euthanasia NewsBusters (blog) Sunday night's episode of Lifetime's Mary Kills People, Wave the White Flag, championed the cause for passive euthanasia (withdrawing medical treatment ... |
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