Originally posted by pikamaster:
... And remeber, every traffciker left alive gives you one more
chance to locate the druglord.
u mentioned before that the druglords are smart enough NOT to
get caught and will use dispensable individuals to do their dirty
work... and since the dispensable individuals won't know who the
big boss is, but have wilfully brought in dope fully aware of the
consequences, u're willing to just let it pass and give them a slap
on the wrist?
so we won't get any useful info, and we if don't show our resolve
against such "acts of desperation", u will see a lot more
"desperate individuals" coming in with packets tied to their calf,
their back, in packets wrapped in condoms and swallowed, etc etc...
in whatever creative ways they can think of.
also remember that willingness out of desperation and
willingness in a normal sense are two different things. Imagine a
poor person in Cambodia who steals food because he or she is
desperately hungry. surely, they are "well-acquainted with teh
risks involved" but food outweighs all other concerns. SImilarly,
drug addicts in THailand. Sure, they know they can get shot if they
are caught with teh drugs, but to them the desire for teh drugs is
too strong, and it pulls them on to get the drugs no matter the
cost.
i told u before. your refusal to understand the full complexity
of the situation is sickening. an addict is an addict by choice. u
can't force them to quit. they'll go right back to it. so the
people who are taking part in this evil trade, are those who do it
for profits, or to fuel their sickening addiction at the expense of
a hundred, if not thousands who may die or suffer fates worse than
deaths because of the noxious substance they smuggle in. i have no
sympathy for this.
These addicts are desperate for the drugs. of course, they are
also "well-acquainted with the risk involved", since Thailand has
made great publicity campaigns on the new penalty, but sheer
desperation overrides desperation. oh, and the druglords can still
snd more our way, whether or not we execute their little henchmen.
After all, they ar enot getting hurt in any way. What happens to
the traffickers is of no concern to teh lord- there is a limitless
supply of recruits available.
if the druglords can afford to keep sending several kgs at a
time to get captured since u acknowledged earlier that the drugs
have value, but not the henchmen. my point is still that the
position of the henchmen do not deserve sympathy.
I hate it when pple try to be smart-alecky and start throwing
out things like "urban wisdom". SO you think that just because Ms
Poon lacked this so-called "urban wisdom", she should be killed by
the state for possessing some item she did not even know was
possesed by her? You are beginning to sound even more cruel. THe
world is unfair, so we should try to make it more fair.
If i had added in that Ms Poon was a down-syndrome girl (this is
juz hypothetical), would you still harbour this same opinion?
i do not have ALL the facts relating to this incident, but i kid
u not when i tell u, that if u're on a guided tour, the tour guides
are at pains to tell u NEVER carry things for pple past customs.
carry your OWN luggage. don't offer to help, don't accept payment
in exchange for helping, etc etc...
incidentally, if your subject was a retard, there would've been a
stronger case for proving that the drugs do not belong to her. but
because she isn't bringing it up serves no purpose. hypothetically,
there is a simple solution for all of the world's problems.
unfortunately, thats not how it works in reality.
and like i said, if u've flown around, you DO consciously take care
of your own things... so u don't lose them and so u don't "gain"
something.
i've heard stories of friends who've gone to moscow for a business
trip... they brought laptops and a portable projector to give a
presentation... those were designated hand luggage because they
were expensive and fragile.
they left their stuff unattended for a few minutes and when they
got back to Sg, they found a nice laptop-sized (and laptop weight)
brick instead of their laptops... the projector fortunately was not
stolen.
smart thieves... if the bags had just disappeared, there would've
been a big fuss and they might've gotten caught... this way, u were
halfway across the world before u realised your stuff was
stolen...
but instead of focusing on a few cases of exceptional nature, why
not focus on those that are more characteristic: mules engaged by
traffickers to bring it... in the circumstances described above.
addicts, greedy profiteers, irresponsible individuals getting rich
and feeding their addiction at the expense of society.
you really seem to believe in injustice.
on the contrary... i believe in no nonsense justice.
