Originally posted by robertteh:
[b]86 against death penalty as against 75 in favour of retention is
itself quite a sufficient international majority opinion or
norm. Being a member of international community Singapore
should at least learn to respect such majority interntional opinion
and try to review the death penalty particularly if it is found to
be not producing the efficacy against drug trafficking.
If by harsh death sentence, drug trafficking cannot really be
solved and all we do is to execute or terminate some runners who
got into the death webs due to some unfortunate personal
circumstances, what is the point of retaining such harsh
sentence.
Surely, two deaths do not make one life.[/b]
want to look at statistics? China, USA, Indonesia and India,
whose population add together represents more than half the rest of
the world, and they are in favour of retention. That is a clear
majority.
What international majority opinion?? that is total bull s h i t!!
The Americans went ahead and invaded Iraq when only two countries
(USA and UK) in the world agreed, and the rest of the world either
objected or abstained. it is a matter of who has the interest and
who has the power. 
as a sovereign country, we should never
subject our interest to outside pressure.
What is respect? another bull s h i t!! In East Asia, besides
singapore, china, taiwan, the koreas, vietnam, thailand, malaysia
and indonesia are all in favour of retention. do the OZs recognise
that? we are not asking them to understand, just respect.
Surely two b u ll s h i ts cannot make point. 
