I was talking with a friend about this the other day, and read
an article on the corpun website. It seems that the Singapore
government likes to cane people, by bodybuilders trained in martial
arts, leaving scars for life, and excruciating pain. Now, you
might argue that these people deserve it because they commit
horrible crimes like rape, but I have a lot of questions:
(1) First, is it true that you can not only get the cane for
serious offences, but also relatively minor offences such as
graffiti, shoplifting, and overstaying your visa? I read that
there are over 3000 people caned for overstaying every year, which
would add up to about half of the entire caned population.
(2) While several blue-collar offences such as drug dealing and
minor crimes like graffiti are targeted by caning, why is it that
Singapore doesn't cane offenders such as spammers? Or white
collar fraudsters that rip off the poor? It seems the caning
unfairly discriminates against the underclasses.
(3) With regard to the caners themselves, what is their typical
age and background? How do they get selected? How young
(or old) do they have to be? I heard that persons as young as
16 can be caned, is it true that persons this young can become
caners also?
(4) Singapore prisons are pretty horrible. So for example,
if someone is caught dealing drugs, wouldn't 10 years in a
Singapore prison be enough punishment, rather than making them
undergo this additional agony?
Just curious and asking some questions, I hope you can respect
them.
Cheers.
1) You will get caned for graffiti, but not overstaying. Caning
in school for shoplifters who are students.
2)You must understand...*clears throat*, they are
rich.......don't want to tranish the reputation of
company..
3)I don't know, I also got see school caning before.
4)Singapore prisions are horrible?? Go India or Bangladash, you
see for yourself...Must wack the drug dealers to ensure that they
wouldn't do it again...cos cane will break those hardden
criminals..
