Australians who demanded clemency for Nguyen, wake up your ideas....!
It's getting ridiculous!!! Please tell me that it is a blown up exaggeration when the tabloids are giving accounts of Australians turning their backs against Singapore & Singaporeans just because their dear drug trafficker is given a death penalty.
Australians have kept their silence (which is also an implication of approval) when the bombers killed fellow countrymen holidaying in Indonesia were convicted and sent to the death row. But when Australians themselves are being brought to justice when they are in fact, putting other lives in dangers from drug trafficking, they put up such a huge fight, even amounting to boycotting, to condemn Singapore of the death penalty. What shows!?!? Double standards! As long as someone kills Australians, they are to die for it. But as long as Australians kill, they are to be spared on grounds of compassion?
Did too much beers get into their heads?
Or the media has not shown enough footage and coverage on the harmful effects and the victims of drug addicts? Did it not struck a cord in them when they witness how the drug mules/traffickers had directly or indirectly caused these drug addicts to come to these terrible ends?
Mr John Howard, I know 'It's not hypocritical, it's just human.' to feel this way. It's one issue to feel human, and another to reason out what's the right thing to do when emotions subside. If Nguyen was to be led off, and if this opens the flood gates to many other drug syndicates to look for Australians as drug mules, and if the social problems spun downwards in Australia, will you by then feel human enough and turn back to blame Singapore for sparing the rod on Nguyen?
If you ask the murderers why they kill, if you ask the drug traffickers why they traffick, 10 out of 10 will have their own stories to tell. Are you going to plead clement for all of them on grounds that their stories are colourful and touching enough such that justice does not need to be upheld?
If you ask all those sitting in the prison waiting for execution, if they had regreted what they had done, will you expect anyone to say a 'No'? Even if the answer is a 'No', this convict will definitely have another revealing and touching story to tell you why they need to kill!
Have Australians watched too much soap opera to feel for every offender? If it's your family members who were killed by drugs, will you be cheering Singapore on with the death penalty, and swear to be a firm believer that the death penalty may have helped in deterring your family members from reaching their painful end? Or will you be still empathising with Nguyen and his family with their ordeal and hoping that he will indeed learn his lesson in the future?
At least Mr John Howard is level-headed enough not to announce a boycotting. Nguyen's actions were indirectly causing hurt to the nation and the society. I'm glad that Mr John Howard did not put the country's economy growth at risk for this kinda convicts with his irresponsible actions. Yes, Nguyen is pitiful, but he is an adult, who must answer to his own actions. And sorry to say, he did choose a wrong path.
Australians have kept their silence (which is also an implication of approval) when the bombers killed fellow countrymen holidaying in Indonesia were convicted and sent to the death row. But when Australians themselves are being brought to justice when they are in fact, putting other lives in dangers from drug trafficking, they put up such a huge fight, even amounting to boycotting, to condemn Singapore of the death penalty. What shows!?!? Double standards! As long as someone kills Australians, they are to die for it. But as long as Australians kill, they are to be spared on grounds of compassion?
Did too much beers get into their heads?
Or the media has not shown enough footage and coverage on the harmful effects and the victims of drug addicts? Did it not struck a cord in them when they witness how the drug mules/traffickers had directly or indirectly caused these drug addicts to come to these terrible ends?
Mr John Howard, I know 'It's not hypocritical, it's just human.' to feel this way. It's one issue to feel human, and another to reason out what's the right thing to do when emotions subside. If Nguyen was to be led off, and if this opens the flood gates to many other drug syndicates to look for Australians as drug mules, and if the social problems spun downwards in Australia, will you by then feel human enough and turn back to blame Singapore for sparing the rod on Nguyen?
If you ask the murderers why they kill, if you ask the drug traffickers why they traffick, 10 out of 10 will have their own stories to tell. Are you going to plead clement for all of them on grounds that their stories are colourful and touching enough such that justice does not need to be upheld?
If you ask all those sitting in the prison waiting for execution, if they had regreted what they had done, will you expect anyone to say a 'No'? Even if the answer is a 'No', this convict will definitely have another revealing and touching story to tell you why they need to kill!
Have Australians watched too much soap opera to feel for every offender? If it's your family members who were killed by drugs, will you be cheering Singapore on with the death penalty, and swear to be a firm believer that the death penalty may have helped in deterring your family members from reaching their painful end? Or will you be still empathising with Nguyen and his family with their ordeal and hoping that he will indeed learn his lesson in the future?
At least Mr John Howard is level-headed enough not to announce a boycotting. Nguyen's actions were indirectly causing hurt to the nation and the society. I'm glad that Mr John Howard did not put the country's economy growth at risk for this kinda convicts with his irresponsible actions. Yes, Nguyen is pitiful, but he is an adult, who must answer to his own actions. And sorry to say, he did choose a wrong path.
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