Judica Me, Deus

Give judgment for me, O God





 

7 November 2005

By what right did Singapore's killer government snatch for the hangman an Australian in transit?

It is a fact hardly broadcast in the media that Australian citizen Nguyen Tuong Van was snatched by Singapore's police while changing planes at Singapore's airport. What are we to conclude from this? It's simple really.

1. Melbourne man, Nguyen Tuon Van, had no intention of bringing his relatively small amount of heroin (396 gms) into Singapore.

2. Thus not one single Singaporean citizen was threatened by one dot of heroin from Nguyen Tuon Van's plastic bag.

Given that Singapore's government of cruelty makes laws only for Singapore and not for any other of the surrounding countries, including Australia, then how can these ministers of killing justify scooping up a passenger for the noose on his way through their airport?

The answer is: they can't justify it in terms of their own legislation and their constantly proclaimed intentions of keeping Singapore clean of drugs - at least not according to the normal rules of reason.

Being acquainted with what passes for reasoning in that select group, one may be inclined to think they want to ensure their grotesquely obese hangman keeps busy, thus providing an ongoing spectacle for their gratification.

Perhaps the blood-lusting ministers of Singapore's government think they are doing Australia and Australians a good turn by protecting us from '26,000 street doses of heroin' - a number cited unchallenged by Singapore's Foreign Minister, clearly as a defence for their hanging mania.

Again, according to the line of defence they constantly run (Singapore has rules regarding drug possession and no one has a right to mess with them and Singapore's sovereignty) this is no defence at all. Indeed they contradict their own policy by openly interfering in Australia's similar right of deciding the parameters of its legislation and policies for handling incidences of drug possession. There is thus a message for Singapore's cabinet:

DON'T OPERATE A DOUBLE STANDARD. RESPECT AUSTRALIA'S LAWS AND ATTITUDE TO CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.  AUSTRALIA WILL DECIDE WHAT THE PUNISHMENT WILL BE FOR DRUG POSSESSION. RELEASE NGUYEN TUONG VAN WHOM YOU HAVE  SEIZED WITHOUT GOOD REASON.