Hanging some one, enough to make a site ban all users?

http://www.putfile.com/putfile-goodbye-to-singapore.php

Exactly what is the admins trying to achieve by doing that?

I'll copy and paste what I've wrote in the GameFAQs forums:

"From what I gather in their forums, the users don't agree with the admins.

Further more, the admins did NOT say why the aussie citizen was hanged. It's almost as though the Singapore government murdered someone in cold blood. The fact that the law has been around longer than some of the admins had been in the world was also NOT mentioned.

It's saddening to see the world going to such a step. What exactly are the admins trying to achieve by doing that? Gain more hits by the "pro-life" people? More donations by the Aussies? Make the world aware that Singaporeans are "barbaric"?

And, quoting from the forums, if the site is trying to act as a "site of justice", then why didn't they ban other countries which have death penality as well? Sure, you can say that USA uses the injection method, which is painless. Then what about China and Malaysia (Shooting and Hanging respectively). If the Aussie was caught in Malaysia, then would the hoo-ha be in Malaysia instead?

If the site was trying to act cool, I definately think it backfired on them."

First of all, Welcome to Singapore. The laws have been here since before I was born, and before my cat was born. It isn't going to change just because a government has pleaded so. If the Singapore government gave the offender Clemancy because the Australian PM said so, what would that prove? Tons of people, including Singaporeans, have been hanged for trafficking drugs, and Nguyen won't be the first one executed because he was trafficking drugs. People are warned by captains of aeroplanes, and pretty much before they enter singapore via the 3 routes (Land/sea/air) of the penalities of drug trafficking. This isn't a case where you can plead ignorance as a defense. You have been warned, and you still do it.

Second of all, I have been following the Australian Media (Long live the internet) because Singapore did not provide as much coverage on this issue as I would have liked. Sadly, I was forced to turn to places such as CNN or BBC because I found their views rather biased at times. I can't exactly blame them, but, they seem to make the 400g of drugs which Nguyen was carrying to be almost "small". Of course, since we buy sacks of rice at 5kg or 10kg, 400g is probably the numbers we see in Chemistry labs. However, that 400g of drugs can be almost equal to 400 shots, with a street value of over 25k. Do we want drugs to further destroy the society? Of course not, hence the strict laws. Are drugs actually so easily obtainable in Australia, that the people (according to the media, of course) are condamning Singapore because someone is trafficking drugs? I seriously hope not, because I had always believed that Aussie is a rather clean country.

People have talked about using Life Sentence or rehab as a form of..."punishment" for the offenders. It might, just might, work in other countries, but Singapore, according to the cia fact file,

as a transportation and financial services hub, Singapore is vulnerable (to Illicit drugs) , despite strict laws and enforcement, to be used as a transit point for Golden Triangle heroin and as a venue for money laundering

Hence, think, do we want people selling drugs on our streets? Do you want people hiding in some room, smoking weed, or 18 year olds snorting Cocaine during parties? Do you want to see teenagers wasting their lives thanks to drugs?

I think not.

Besides, as we have discussed in our General Paper discussion before, why should tax payers pay in order for people to stay in prison because they brought in drugs? This isn't the olden times, where we can put people to work on the pyrmids. I'm really not for life imprisonment myself, since I believe that it is worse than the death penality. What's the point of keeping a person inside a 4 by 4 box, with the knowledge that he is guilty? Sure, he could be NOT guilty, but what's the chance of that? 1 in every 1000 prisoners?

The Aussie media has also said that one reason why Nguyen was trafficking drugs was because he was "trying to repay the debt of his brother". That very brother was also a drug addict, and he should know better than to traffick drugs. First was the Bali thingy which they blamed the airport couriers, now they say that he's trying to "repay a debt". Please, do try harder. It isn't as though drug trafficking is the ONLY way to earn money. Yes, it's one way, but it's just like saying that you are stealing because you cannot afford to buy the item you want.

Bottom line is, respect the country's laws. If the Aussie government is going to be bitter over this issue, it shows the attitute of the government towards respecting other countries. Yes, the guy has been hanged, and no, he should notbe tried under Aussie laws, because then, any Tom Dick or Harry could come here and murder someone, and get away scott free because his country does not recognise "Murder" as an offence.

Life goes on. Deal with it.
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