Posted on 12/01/2005 4:05:42 PM PST by bloggodocio
I read on another thread that there are big signs up in the air port in Singapore stating clearly the penalty for drug smuggling. If I were a smuggler I would certainly stay out of Singapore with my drugs.
I wonder if anyone could be "scared straight" if they were forced to watch "Midnight Express". A tragedy, but it's just dumb to not understand that other countries are very serious about drug running.
Looking at the hang man's noose will completely focus most anyone.
If you don't like the drug laws in Singapore, the solution is VERY simple. Stay out of the country, especially if you're carrying drugs.
The Pope had some influence a few years back with the Governor of Missouri. He influenced the Gov. to commute a death sentence. I'm neither Cathloic nor a Missourian but I was touched by the events.
The poor schmuck claimed that he was a reluctant mule for a loan shark whom his brother owed $10 grand or so. If Australia had any sense of justice it would have offered to exchange the loan shark/drug dealer for this poor guy.
There was less outrage in the Australian press over this execution of their citizen in Singapore than there was over their citizen David Hicks getting cold dinner at Gitmo.
Thats not even in the same ballpark as this story. The pope had no business talking to Carnahan about that. The very next week Carnahan did not issue clemency and put a 'real possibly innocent' man to death.
The pope lost a lot of appeal among Missourians that week.
The East has harsh rules and harsher punishments. More power to them. Bring back public hangings in the US and watch crime plummet.
Huge sign and a giant skull and crossbones at the airport Immigration hall.
And Taiwan, and Malaysia...same signage there, and also announcements over the airport terminal loudspeaker.
I don't quite understand it. Another smaller country, Israel, seems to have better luck.
The KGB also had better luck in such situations. You have to be willing to fight dirty ... "you kill one of ours, we'll kill some of yours" ... or just go in and grab and waste anybody who defends (witness Kampala).
Yes ... the signs discussing the death penalty for drug dealing are in view actually BEFORE you enter the country proper ... you see them as you are coming through customs. Here are all these beautiful orchids growing everywhere, then there's those signs.
Silly that this man would risk so much to smuggle drugs into a country where no one would want any.
/sarcasm
They did want to do a prisoner swap ... but Singapore turned it down.
Interesting comparison. A white guy who got the wrong religion "oppressed" by multihued Gringos vs an asian strung up by asians. Might the white Aussies be racists, in that they seem to care less about their late druggie asian fellow citizen than their Islamofacist white compatriot?
Sand nazis (of whatever color) are far more harmful than druggies. After all, with druggies, you have to volunteer to be harmed!
It's posted everywhere, including on the Immigration Forms you fill out upon entering or leaving the Country. Plainly put "Death to Drug Smugglers" as well as other unmistakable warnings and admonitions.
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