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Look, Singapore is its own country that sets its own laws and
punishments. Whilst we dont have to agree with them we have no
right to tell them what they should be. If they have a mandatory
death penalty then so be it. We should respect them for upholding
these laws and standing by their convictions. To my mind its a much
better system then ours that lets Rapists walk free with the best
wishes of the judge. Its about time we got tougher on criminals
like they are. Singapore has my total respect.
I wonder why the Singaporean govt does not consider executing all
immediate members of the prisoner's family too? Certainly that
would be a greater deterrent to all drug trafficking activities.
Maybe we can have the death penalty for chewing gum too, hey, don't
you REALLY want to end this menace?
Give me a break. Singapore is making a strong stand against the
trafficking of drugs and must be supported for doing so. Our
'limp-wristed', pro-injecting room advocates just encourage it! As
for the 'minutes silence' and Ms (wow, I've just had a baby)
Stott-despoja's outburst - back to the Student Union office at
Adelaide Uni with you.
Capital punishment is a barbaric practice, but then Nguyen knew the
penalty for being caught trafficking (or possessing) drugs. The
media is whipping up a frenzy with talk about having a minute's
silence out of respect for Nguyen, and John Howard's 'disgraceful'
behaviour in attending a cricket match on the day of the hanging.
This prisoner had no regard for the potential effect of his cache
of heroin on both users and their family members, and should under
no circumstance be hailed as some kind of hero. If you don't want
to be convicted of the death penalty in Singapore, don't travel
there with drugs. Simple.
Has anyone checked the Australian Institute of Criminology on the
drug related deaths stats recently?
There were almost 8000 Opiate overdose deaths since 1988!! Thats
more than 1 death a day and why is that so, its because people like
NVT who brings the drugs into this country.
Should we have a one-minute silence for every single person too? We
have to thank countries like singapore who stops people like him
bringing drugs in!!
