Australian PM Howard warns Singapore of resentment over hanging

I like this post. From here: http://happycitizen.blogspot.com/2005/11/australian-pm-howard-warns-singapore.html

Many Australians feel resentment towards Singapore? I was wondering why can't PM John Howard just ask the Australian media to portray Nguyen as a greedy drug trafficker who gambled with his life and lost....so Australians wouldn't feel so bad when he is hanged. They should learn how to write these type of articles from the Straits Times. Singaporeans are lucky, we don't have to deal with a guilty conscience when Nguyen is hanged, we will all sleep well thanks to the Straits Times who did not humanise him - to Singaporeans he is just a drug trafficker.

What is wrong with Australians anyway? Just one small time salesman, they whole country stands up for him. When Singaporeans get death penalty, everyone goes on with their lives like nothing happened, just like that Shanmugum feller who was hanged for 1 Kg of cannabis. Cannabis itself does not kill. The logic is cannabis can cause a person to like drugs, then move on to hard drugs, then become hooked on cocaine afterwards risk death by overdose - therefore the cannabis trafficker must hang. For that reason, I support death penalty for gambling den operators - they cause the gambler to be hooked and then commit suicide when they are finacially ruined. I'm sure the intellectually superior PAP govt done their due diligence when they decide to allow the casino, they are confident no life will the ruin or lost otherwise the death penalty logic has to apply.

We are lucky to be Singaporeans, we have a govt that has applied cold logic consistently to ensure that our safety is never compromised. We should therefore resist the influence and flawed logic of those Australians who are emotional and can't see our pure rationality.