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scot47



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PostPosted: Tue Jan 22, 2013 11:18 pm    Post subject: Bali Death Sentence Reply with quote

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57565082/indonesia-sentences-to-death-u.k-grandmother-caught-with-8.4lbs-of-cocaine-sewn-into-suitcase/
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tttompatz



Joined: 06 Mar 2010
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Location: Talibon, Bohol, Philippines

PostPosted: Wed Jan 23, 2013 12:54 am    Post subject: Re: Bali Death Sentence Reply with quote

scot47 wrote:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57565082/indonesia-sentences-to-death-u.k-grandmother-caught-with-8.4lbs-of-cocaine-sewn-into-suitcase/


Like the signs at every gateway into the country say...
"Death penalty for drug traffickers!"

http://www.funnysigns.net/files/welcome-to-indonesia-death-penalty-for-drug-traffickers-400x209.jpg

It is the same for Malaysia,
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wwdjzpyTF1s/Tmyo893kMtI/AAAAAAAADN4/GMjWV7GDR5I/s1600/IMG_0100_TA.jpg

the Philippines
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3202/2761662209_40f6cd68bb.jpg

Singapore
http://www.flickr.com/photos/granteaton/6131781371/

And most of the rest of SE Asia.

Can't say they weren't warned.

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Qaaolchoura



Joined: 10 Oct 2008
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Location: 21 miles from the Syrian border

PostPosted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 9:58 pm    Post subject: Re: Bali Death Sentence Reply with quote

tttompatz wrote:
scot47 wrote:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57565082/indonesia-sentences-to-death-u.k-grandmother-caught-with-8.4lbs-of-cocaine-sewn-into-suitcase/


Like the signs at every gateway into the country say...
"Death penalty for drug traffickers!"

http://www.funnysigns.net/files/welcome-to-indonesia-death-penalty-for-drug-traffickers-400x209.jpg

It is the same for Malaysia,
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wwdjzpyTF1s/Tmyo893kMtI/AAAAAAAADN4/GMjWV7GDR5I/s1600/IMG_0100_TA.jpg

the Philippines
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3202/2761662209_40f6cd68bb.jpg

Singapore
http://www.flickr.com/photos/granteaton/6131781371/

And most of the rest of SE Asia.

Can't say they weren't warned.

.

True, but it's still perverse and disgusting. And I say this as a complete teetotal who's never touched an illegal drug in his life.

The US approach to the drug war is bad enough, and I'm opposed to capital punishment on principle, but nobody can argue that capital punishment for non-capital crimes is anything resembling reasonable or enlightened lawmaking. It's authoritarian prosecutors pandering to the bloodthirsty instincts of the populace, a modern version of the bloodsports of the Roman Empire.

Singapore's draconian laws (even though the only one that has any chance of affecting me personally is the ban on gum) on a number of points are the main reason I have no interest in visiting the place in the near future. I suppose that your point knocks the rest of Southeast Asia down on my list as well.

~Q
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