Reply With QuoteI don't agree with execution, but when in Rome do as the Romans do or suffer the consequences. Maybe the next person(s) whom have ambitions of smuggling narcotics into China will think twice about doing so.
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Akmal Shaikh has been executed for smuggling drugs into China.
Gordon Brown said he was “appalled and disappointed” that a British person should be executed for smuggling drugs.
This shows that China is tough on crime, and that Britain is soft on crime.
I don't agree with execution, but when in Rome do as the Romans do or suffer the consequences. Maybe the next person(s) whom have ambitions of smuggling narcotics into China will think twice about doing so.
Draconian Monarch
Drugs do not kill many people (in the short term at least).
But the damage that illegal drugs do to peoples lives, is enormous.
Most burglaries and muggings are carried out by men, in order to fund their drug habbits.
Most prostitutes are on the streets to get money to pay for drugs.
Britain is soft on crime.
To see our Prime Minsiter standing up for the human rights of a drug smuggler is sickening.
Last edited by SteveUKIP; 29-12-2009 at 08:34 AM.
All of those people who do as this guy did should end up dead once caught.
Originally Posted by SteveUKIP
Thank you for that highly condescending post Steve. I'm well aware of what recreational drugs to do communities and families because I live in an area with a high usage of recreational drugs.
Isn't the argument here that the guy was duped into taking drugs, rather than being a full on drug smuggler?
I'm torn on this.
Because I don't accept drugs should be illegal. Making them illegal has just pushed it into criminal gangs hands and made the users fear getting help. The fact drugs are illegal, doesn't stop people from using them.
But, this is China we are talking about here and it's their country, so their rules. Personally I would be extremely careful about what I took into that country.
So that brings us to the real excuse they have tried to use here. The fact he was supposedly a mentally broken individual.
If he really was that bad, should he even be walking around in society? Never mind allowed onto planes on his own, or allowed to fly off to places like China?
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Draconian Monarch
You said you disagreed with the execution.
So may I take it you agreed with what Gordon Brown said about being appalled and disappointed, that a British drug smuggler should have been executed for smuggling drugs into China?
Not very "draconian" then, are you?
Good for the Chinese. They don't mess about with these people.
The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk. - G W F Hegel
mkdavies
Surely by definition almost every real drug addict is mentally ill.
If this is going to be a defence to drug smuggling, then we are never going to convict anyone of anything.
Unfortunately most judges do take this view in Britain, most addicts are treated as victims of crime, and not as not real criminals.
Being a drug addict is used in mitigation by defence lawyers, to show that the burglaries were not really their client's fault.
Lumping "drugs" with leisure and pleasure by calling them "recreational" does not, in any way, help.
Little Englander (bigoted)
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