My dear friends, colleagues, comrades.....
Are harsh punishments neccessary for extraordinary crimes?
Yes!
Is drug-trafficking an extraordinary crime?
Yes!!
Don't get confused with human-rights issues, life being taken away,
killing a man, and etc like that. Because here is a man who
committed an extraordinary crime. His crime must be met with a
response. A response for him and for other would-be perpetrators of
this hineous extraordinary crime.
Singapore will become like Australia where youth smoke dope IF
Singapore starts to apply lax law like Australia.
My dear friends, colleagues, comrades.....
Don't get your views distorted.....Singapore is not like it is
today without its strong laws. Laws to protect and safeguard. The
lifes of thousands more Nguyens in Singapore. Thousands of youths
who would be drug addicts because of 1 Nguyen.
The human rights of the greater public must be above the human
rights of an individual criminal.
My friends, let me put in front of you an irony.
if you remember, Mr. John Howard himself, when recently tried to
pass the new Anti-terror law in Aussie, had responded to critisism
about human rights violations of that law, by saying, yes....the
rights of the greater public must be placed above the rights of the
individual. And he, and his parliament in that nation, has passed
the law. They recognize tough law is needed. Especially to respond
to extraordinary crimes like terrorism. Even though it may violate
individual's human rights.
The Australian nation can see it very clearly.
Yet on this instance, they choose not to apply the same principle.
They place an individual's rights above the greater public's
rights. That of a Mr.Nguyen.
They want a family-mitigating factor to be considered. They want
the law to be applied selectively.
For one of their citizens, a single Mr.Nguyen, they are willing to
put thousands of Singaporeans at risk as a result of wrong signals
and weak safeguards.
My friends, Australians fear terrorism. However, their attitude
towards drugs is lax. They will keep terrorism out but keep drugs
in as a result.
Singapore is different.
This is a neccessary tough law. Don't blink or you lose to the
criminals.
