Posted on 11/28/2005 9:25:27 PM PST by maui_hawaii
Midnight Express:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077928/
We should be executing heroin and meth dealers here. Give a fair warning on the hew policy of course
Ooooh. Turkish prison. Enough said.
A fellow thought he could smuggle two kilos of hash out of Turkey. Got caught and ended up spending some quality time in a Turkish prison. The story was made into a movie in 1978.
What's the word I'm looking for?
CARE. That's it.
I don't CARE.
Lefty university types? Thats a redundant comment.
Fair point. No argument here :)
He's probably one of the few people I know of who are famous for getting an @ss whoopin'
I bet THEY have won their war on drugs. This how you fight a war you want to win, if you are serious about it.
While I understand how people could be against the death penalty, these same people don't seem to care nearly as much about the destructive consequences of certain illegal and usually heinous activities that give rise to the death penalty.
LOL!
Billy Hayes: Yeah, but how?
Max: Catch the midnight express.
Billy Hayes: But what's that?
Max: [laughs] Well it's not a train. It's a prison word for... escape. But it doesn't stop around here.
They asked a Singaporean official once about the death penalty and how many people were executed. His reply was something like, "we don't know how many, and don't care...keeping track of such things is a waste of paper"
Maybe I will watch it this Friday night in commemoration of the memory of this guy.
I have been to Singapore many times and think it is a great city to visit. It is clean, safe and modern. The people of Singapore have the government they want. The list their freedoms in two ways "freedom to" and "freedom from".
Someone could make some money writing a comprehensive travel guide for westerners, who have more adventuresome spirit than worldly understanding - of what can most easily get one into serious trouble around the globe.
Suggested title: "Things you absolutely must not do".
There are really a lot of things which you can get in serious trouble in other places which seem relatively trivial back home - and they're important to know. In the Philippines don't tear up a Piso at the airport tax window. In Thailand don't climb onto a Buddha, or insult the King. Stuff like that. (this poster's understanding is the situations above have gotten tourists arrested and jailed)
Someone actually wrote a (quite informative) book on how to use squat toilets around the world - there's really a need for some information like this on a broad scale.
I don`t know, I read something a while ago that they whip your butt for that, but I`ve never been there before nor do I intend to. Can you imagine that happening here, butt whipping for grafitti or whatever it is? Forgeeeet it, you`d have ambulance chasers blocking up the courts for decades not to mention liberals going into seizures. You can`t even whip a serial killer in the US! Matter of fact, not only do we not whip them, we (Hollywood) makes movies about them and celebrates them on Oscar night.
Sane people realize that executing the nonviolent doesn't exactly lessen the amount of destruction.
They haven't won their war on drugs, they've simply driven it further underground, driven the prices up, at the cost of human lives - people who didn't need to die, who less "ruin lives" than a beer distributor.
This guy wasn't even staying in their country - he was just passing through. This is a totally gratuitous execution.
"He knew what he was doing and the consequences of his actions."
Hang em
Too bad for him that Singapore's law does not mention a "dumb ass" exclusion.
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