Posted on 07/27/2023 7:46:39 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I love Singapore ! Been there a few times. I especially love spending time at Changi airport .. so much to see just in the airport itself.
Have you read 1984?
Muslims appreciate the inter-generational damage drug usage inflicts on a society. Western nations do not.
People who compromise with evil become its victim, then its advocate.
Drugs destroy people, families and societies.
You can see it everywhere in the US.
Child druggies in training are asked: “Sweetie, want do you WANT for dinner” “What do you WANT to do today”. Letting children choose what they want eventually becomes ‘What do you want more than anything’ and the answer is - fentanyl.
As per these groups, increasing evidence shows that sdealth penalty is ineffective as a detterent to reduce drug crimes.
Retribution is a valid basis for sentencing. As is ridding the society of people who violate its well-publicized laws regarding health and safety. If you can’t do the time...
Not like they have alot of natural resources
Might be the first woman in those years but they already excited a man this past week for drug trafficking......56-year-old man convicted of drug trafficking was executed in Singapore on Wednesday,- hanged for trafficking around 50 grams of heroin. The woman was trafficking around 30grams of heroin
Singapore has one of the most draconian drug laws in the world, and provides for the death penalty for a minimum of 500g of cannabis trafficking and 15g of heroi.
https://efe.com/en/latest-news/2023-07-26/singapore-executes-prisoner-convicted-of-drug-trafficking/
I flew into Singapore in 2008.
While on landing approach,the beautifully dressed Singaporean flight attendant gave the usual speech about fastening seatbelts, and finished with this, and I quote:
“...and remember, the punishment for possession or sale of illegal drugs in Singapore is death!” and she smiled when she said it.
The airport was immaculate.
So true!
When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to. —Theodore Dalrymple, “Our Culture, What’s Left Of It”
Good riddance.
The point of the article was, I took it, to talk about how inhumane it is that Singapore will execute a woman.
My point being, they haven’t had to use the death penalty (against a woman) for 19 years. So its hardly directed against women
They advertise their strict penalties and don’t have the side effects of dirty cities and hundreds of OD deaths.
Their policy is actually the HUMANE policy
Compare Singapore to San Francisco...
Sounds like an excellent solution to drug trafficking.
Just say no.
Singapore is 7 times (700% larger) the population of San Francisco. On average, about 16 people die of drug overdoses per year in Singapore compared to San Francisco that has averaged some 680 drug overdose deaths a year.
If San Francisco had the same population as Singapore, there would be 4,760 deaths vs. Singapore’s 16 deaths. Additionally, drugs cause homicides, violence to family members, robberies, and large part of tax revenues to solve drug addiction. So yes, San Francisco has an ENORMOUS drug problem.
Well, it certainly cuts down on recidivism 100%............
Laws are not a hint to avoid.
Too bad they won’t execute the biggest drug dealer of them all, Gyorgy bleeping Schwartz!
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