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30 November 2005
A Singapore journalist confirms our views of that country
This morning on the Today Show news on Channel 9, the viewer was confronted with Singapore's attitude towards killing people to solve social problems. Andrew Ho, a journalist from The Straits Times, scarcely able to control his incomprehension, was loudly exclaiming about the deluded attitude of people in Australia to the execution of Australian Nguyen Tuong Van. Why did they not understand that smuggling 396 gms of heroin, not into Singapore, but into Australia, merited the death penalty by Singapore's government? He then repeated the misinformation about the dangers of heroin that I have dealt with in previous comments.
One can only return this Singaporean journalist's incomprehension with an equal measure of incomprehension. But you add to that incomprehension disgust and revulsion. One is appalled by the equanimity with which these people talk about killing people.
Then there was the sickening pictures of Singapore's grotesque hangman talking jovially about his task of killing people as if he were getting rid of some bothersome insect.
Singapore is a country that is morally deluded. They demonstrate by their action and words that they are outside the boundaries of civil society.
The following is the last sentence of a letter written to The Straits Times
criticising Singapore's opposition leader for objecting to the execution of
Nguyen Tuong Van:...Singaporeans
are a pragmatic lot. If you cannot look after their interests, they will not
give you their votes. Seow Kiat Heng
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