😡 😡 Well, this news has widely been reported all over the world. I am 100% contra-DP, but the case of Singapore is just rediculous (drug traffic not even murder). This is murder in the first degree! I think it would be best if the EU, Australia and every country that concerns human rights should put an economic embargo upon Singapore. A couple of years ago a Dutchman was also executed over there, the Dutch gov’t could not prevent Singapore from doing this. No state has the right to take one’s life away, and most certainly not if he’s a member of another state.
By: F-18 Hamburger - 9th December 2005 at 10:22
And I forgot to add, if all drug traffickers were dealt with in this way, then many pensioners would not have been beaten to a pulp and robbed of their pensions just so some crazed smackhead can get the money for its next fix 😡
hmm personal experience? seems like it’s happened to 1 too many of our members here.. 🙁
By: Canpark - 9th December 2005 at 09:46
And I forgot to add, if all drug traffickers were dealt with in this way, then many pensioners would not have been beaten to a pulp and robbed of their pensions just so some crazed smackhead can get the money for its next fix 😡
Very true. 😡
By: Comet - 8th December 2005 at 18:46
And I forgot to add, if all drug traffickers were dealt with in this way, then many pensioners would not have been beaten to a pulp and robbed of their pensions just so some crazed smackhead can get the money for its next fix 😡
By: MINIDOH - 7th December 2005 at 23:06
If he is willing to kill others then he should be killed himself.
By: Canpark - 5th December 2005 at 14:46
Drug trafficking not murder, tell that to people whose relatives have died drug-related deaths! Those people who knowingly carry drugs into Singapore know the penalties if they are caught, they are hardly innocent victims. I fully support Singapore’s use of the death penalty, after all, they don’t have the same out of control murder rate as the West, do they? I don’t give a sh*t about the rights of criminals, it is time that the victims of crime had their rights thought about for a change instead of do-gooders falling over backwards to excuse criminal behaviour all the time.
Good on yer Singapore!
Damn straight!!
By: Comet - 5th December 2005 at 13:42
Drug trafficking not murder, tell that to people whose relatives have died drug-related deaths! Those people who knowingly carry drugs into Singapore know the penalties if they are caught, they are hardly innocent victims. I fully support Singapore’s use of the death penalty, after all, they don’t have the same out of control murder rate as the West, do they? I don’t give a sh*t about the rights of criminals, it is time that the victims of crime had their rights thought about for a change instead of do-gooders falling over backwards to excuse criminal behaviour all the time.
Good on yer Singapore!
By: Canpark - 5th December 2005 at 08:17
eh? since when was Singapore democratic? I always thought it was an authoritarian capitalist state?
I always think Singapore as a police state.
By: F-18 Hamburger - 5th December 2005 at 07:46
We must recognise that government sanctioned executions happen in democratic countries. Capital punishment is legal in many states of the US, in particular Texas where a certain Governor George W Bush presided over many deaths
eh? since when was Singapore democratic? I always thought it was an authoritarian capitalist state?
By: SOC - 5th December 2005 at 07:29
perhaps if the west adopted a tougher stance then we might start to make a difference.
If you really want to make a difference, go after the source. The cocaine fields and whatnot.
By: paulc - 5th December 2005 at 07:18
The severe penalties for drug trafficking in many asian countries are well known – perhaps if the west adopted a tougher stance then we might start to make a difference.
In Changi arrivals areas there are big bold signs saying the penalty for drug smuggling -he knew this and yet still took the chance. How many people would have died as a result of him getting through?
By: steve rowell - 4th December 2005 at 23:30
For most Australians his execution was a shamefull moment. But let’s not take the high moral ground. Talk of trade bans and other reprisals are foolish and reactionary, reprisals can only increase the problem not solve it. We must recognise that government sanctioned executions happen in democratic countries. Capital punishment is legal in many states of the US, in particular Texas where a certain Governor George W Bush presided over many deaths
By: Canpark - 4th December 2005 at 15:50
Can’t argue with that, very much a case of each to their own I’d say and if you don’t like it the answer is don’t go there.
Yeah, and people who commits the crime know the consequences, if they choose to do it than they must be punished.
By: mike currill - 4th December 2005 at 15:45
Can’t argue with that, very much a case of each to their own I’d say and if you don’t like it the answer is don’t go there.
By: Canpark - 4th December 2005 at 15:31
That’s the biggest piece of cr*p I’ve ever heard. respect their culture? No way, human rights are more important than traditions. Should gays/women be thrown stones at just because it says so in the Quran? Singapore benefits from the international trade, so it can also adopt international standards regarding human rights. I have no respect for cultures where people are being tortured. I’m sick of all these relativist anthroplogist BS!
The so-called ‘international standard’ is shaped largely by European/white ideas, and trust me, not every nation desire to adopt European/white ideals.
By: Ben. - 4th December 2005 at 15:24
That’s the biggest piece of cr*p I’ve ever heard. respect their culture? No way, human rights are more important than traditions. Should gays/women be thrown stones at just because it says so in the Quran? Singapore benefits from the international trade, so it can also adopt international standards regarding human rights. I have no respect for cultures where people are being tortured. I’m sick of all these relativist anthroplogist BS!
By: Canpark - 4th December 2005 at 13:58
Yeah lock him up but don’t execute them. Every country that still executes people is IMHO a barbaric one, not even medieval, but stone age!
Hey, every nation and culture have their own believes and you must repspect that. Executtion maybe barbaric, but its Singapore’s system no one can do anything about it.
By: Canpark - 4th December 2005 at 13:53
I couldn’t agree more. If foreigners come to this country we expect them to abide by our rules, why should anywhere else be different? Just because they have different laws to ours doesn’t mean that we should break them.
I couldn’t agree more.
By: mike currill - 4th December 2005 at 13:34
You enter a country,you abide by THIER laws 😎
I couldn’t agree more. If foreigners come to this country we expect them to abide by our rules, why should anywhere else be different? Just because they have different laws to ours doesn’t mean that we should break them.
By: Ben. - 4th December 2005 at 13:16
Yeah lock him up but don’t execute them. Every country that still executes people is IMHO a barbaric one, not even medieval, but stone age!
By: Canpark - 4th December 2005 at 03:30
He knew the consequences of his actions, even though he claims to have only done it this once to get his brother out of debt. His brother is a convicted drug trafficer who once attacked a man with a samurai sword almost killing him. Although i feel terribly sorry for the lads mother i feel no remorse for drug trafficers or drug users i’m afraid.
I agree with you 100% and I think the story about his brother’s debt is just a load of crap.
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