I am more for letting them understand what’s living hell for life imprisonment, then to be hanged. We really should give the guy a living chance – a lifetime for him to reflect on how many people he could have killed with the 396kg of heroin.

That would have been much more torturous then dying in the gutters.

The argument that the Australian government should not intervene because of hypocrisy, is flawed. Which of you dare say that you have never been guilty of hypocrisy? Does that mean that we should not then advise others the right course of action, even if we believe it to be true? Does that mean that we should not articulate an argument about our beliefs, even though as humans we sometimes fail to live up to our ideal self?

If that is so, there would still be slavery, and in Australia the White Australian policy would still be in place. Most people are by nature conservative and prefer the status-quo. Without the few in society and in Government articulating a better future, we will all live in a stagnant society.

If people are not able to articulate an ideal vision and governments are unable to put pressure on foreign nations, communism would not have fell so quickly, if it fell at all; apartheid would not have receded as quickly as it did in S. Africa.

It is important to dare to articulate your beliefs and world-views even if sometimes you are unable to live up to it sometimes. After, that’s why they are called ideals. There is, and will always be a gap between our true self and our ideal self.

Regards,

Thaddeus Lin

Australian Young Labor

National Executive

No one’s talking about human rights in the USA. If hanging in Singapore is wrong, so it is in the States. Amnesty is trying hard to end the death penalty there as well, just as it is trying to appeal against the death sentence in Singapore. Why bring in the States, where hundreds have been found to be wrongly hanged? We’re talking about Singapore here.

Our good man, Johnnie boy (i’m a leftie here btw) has already stated that Bali is a sovereign state and he will not intefere with whatever happens there. The matter at hand is the death penalty and Singapore’s unwavering stance on legalised murder. Death. It’s about death, not punishment. Has it worked? For the last 15 years or so, over 400 people have been hanged in Singapore. That number is huge by any standards but has it stopped criminal activity from occuring?

the death penalty isn’t humane, that’s for sure, but that is not to say it doesn’t work. i think compared to other countries, the rate of drug trafficking in singapore is significantly lower, and to be honest, i wouldn’t want to stay in country that doesn’t take crime seriously.

i hate the hypocrisy of the australian media when it comes to issues like this, especially after the whole schappelle corby incident in bali. bali, for one, isn’t under australia’s govern, and australia does not have every right to dictate how other countries rule, simply because it sees itself as a white/human rights power.

what’s even worse is the public’s response to the issue, fancy wanting to cancel their tsunami aid donation.

i wonder if anyone remembered chika honda, and how the australian government treated the whole issue. what about human rights to citizens of other nationalities then? do i even have to bring up how australia refused entry to refugees seeking for asylum? hypocrisy sure stinks.

7th November – Monday

7pm – 11pm

Hotel Asia – along Scotts Road

There will be speakers there…

What a crock of bull. All they care about is that we agree entirely with them.