Thursday, December 01, 2005

ready to die a good death...in a rotten place

As his last hours of life ebb away, Nguyen Tuong Van stares down the hangman who will execute him tomorrow in Singapore.

His lead lawyer, Lex Lasry, QC, yesterday stood outside Changi Prison after seeing his client.

Mr Lasry, who has fought for almost three years to save his client, said Nguyen, 25, "continues to make us proud".

I was disgusted to hear the Singapore High Commissioner on the radio this morning justifying the unjustifiable. To hear his disingenuous bleat about saving lives of Australian drug takers made me nauseous. This is not about saving lives but about an obnoxious authoritarian state asserting control. Its rich to hear this individual claiming the majority of Singaporeans support this policy when we know they are served a daily diet of state controlled media propaganda that tells them how good it is to be a wage slave in an authoritarian monoculture, which has as its cultural emblem the almighty shopping mall. Thinking people with genuine concerns for human rights are discouraged at every turn. Keep telling us about the good life Mr High Commissioner because it makes me want to.....

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

"Its rich to hear this individual claiming the majority of Singaporeans support this policy when we know they are served a daily diet of state controlled media propaganda that tells them how good it is to be a wage slave in an authoritarian monoculture, which has as its cultural emblem the almighty shopping mall."

It's rich to hear Aussies like you playing the human rights bongo only when one of their own gets involved in the death penalty quagmire. Other times, they don't really give a damn, and yea, refugees and immigrants still get oppressed.. Separate the emotion from the fact, and do Nguyen really deserve a vigil or moment of silence like Mother Teresa and all those soldiers who died in WWII?? What has he done other than traffick drugs? But of course drugs is only an insignificant matter Down Under.

"daily diet of state controlled media propaganda?" Heard of broadband? We do read global news y'know, and have we read enough of hypocrites like you.

Alteregowunderband said...

Hi Phil. Thanks for taking the time to reaffirm everything being said on this blog. Keep reading and you will learn more. You don't solve complex issues like drug use and trafficking through state sanctioned murder - that is certain. And you don't stop people committing murder by putting to death the perpetrator. The US puts the lie to that myth.