British Grandmother Prepares for Execution in Indonesia

Jakarta Post ^ | Mon, May 04 2015,

[nickcarraway]

A British grandmother on death row in Indonesia is writing goodbye letters to her family and believes she could be executed at any time, she wrote in an article on Sunday.

Lindsay Sandiford, 58, said she was expecting to die shortly, after seven foreign drug convicts were executed last week, causing a storm of international protest.

"My execution is imminent and I know I might die at any time now. I could be taken tomorrow from my cell," Sandiford wrote in British newspaper the Mail on Sunday.

"I have started to write goodbye letters to members of my family."

Sandiford, originally from Redcar in northeast England, wrote that she planned to sing the cheery popular song "Magic Moments" when facing the firing squad.

"I won't wear a blindfold. It's not because I'm brave but because I don't want to hide -- I want them to look at me when they shoot me."

She said her greatest sadness is that she may never meet her two-year-old granddaughter, who was born after her arrest.

[kaehurowing]

When the British tried to addict the Chinese to opium in the 19th century in order to trade drugs for Chinese goods, eventually the reaction of the Imperial Chinese government was execution of all drug dealers. A lot of people got executed but it dealt with the problem. And that is the genesis of similar drug laws in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and other Asian countries today.

[DiogenesLamp]

I hate the “War on Drugs” and the resultant loss of freedoms by innocent citizens. I guess I just hate losing wars.

Blame your loss of Freedoms on the drug dealers. Just as Terrorists have caused us to undergo indignities whenever we need to fly, so too are drug dealers responsible for the suffering of the rest of us.

Direct your outrage at the real troublemakers.