Singapore executes Australian

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http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/heritage/changi/war/hackblackburn.html
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on edit; link corrected

How terrifying ... the death sentence is a tool of oppression and anyone could be railroaded by a government. I wonder if this poor soul had spoken out against Singapore or if he was at all political?

masterminds must be celebrating today. Hanging a small time courier takes all the attention of their thousands of other couriers in another phoney war.

There's at least a couple of countries more barbaric than half of this one.

How tragic for this poor young man and his family. He was only 25 and probably made one stupid mistake.

When he was caught, the Singaporean authorities told him he could
help his case if he named the people above him, which he did. Then
they told him he was going to hang anway.

Extenuating circumstances, but the sentence is mandatory in
Singapore. The Howard government did very little to try to help.

It's caused quite a stir in Australia though, which is unusual for
such a case. Church services and vigils in most capital cities.

I sit here, looking at the clock as the minutes tick away to another execution in this country. At very least, this man killed two people. There is some some twisted logic in his execution. It enrages me, but not nearly so much as when I read about that poor young man this morning. I just hope his parents and family find a way to find peace with all this.

Damn George Bush and his buddy John Howard. What is this, the age of the Anglo Saxon Bully? :cry:

to the Singaporean Prime Minister.However during the last occasion the Singapore Government sent a letter to the mother of the condemned man setting out the date of his execution and asking her to make funeral arrangements for her son(She received the letter at same time as Howard was meeting with Lee).Howard wasn't aware that a final decision had been made regarding the execution and that the Singaporean PM knew that the letter had been sent before he agreed to see Howard.

After the meeting Howard was furious at having been humiliated, but still he pleaded that the execution shouldn't interfere with our economic relationship with Singapore.

It was as if the Singaporean Government sensed Howard insincerity.

Today when asked in Germany at a press conference about his reaction to the Australian Attorney Generals description of the punishment as "barbaric" the Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong tried to make a sick joke out of the question by accusing the Australian Press Media of being 'colourful'.

Lee Hsien Loong is a heartless sick pup just like his father Lee Kwan Yew.

When asked by the press whether he supported the death penalty for Osama bin Laden or the Bali bombers, he said that he did. That comment was not missed by the Singaporean media, so his pleas in this case rang hollow to them.

I'm guessing we occasionally execute someone for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. But hey Singapore is far more barbaric, North Carolina executed it's 1000th prisoner today. This was the first Australian executed in 12 years.

I'm against ALL death penalty. ALL. The other comment was made tongue-in-cheek, which I thought was obvious with the "".

I don't consider half my country at all barbaric. I live in the great state of California which now has a majority leaning against death penalty and where there is a significant attempt to sway our horrific "governor" to do the right thing.

No Australian was executed. That was an Australian who was murdered by a foreign government for reasons that NO civilized society would accept, not even mine.

this has been bothering me all day. how senseless.

FUCK SINGAPORE

FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK!

The kid was an idiot, but that's not an offense punishable by death! And why wasn't this covered in the US??? CNN has a 1-minute video package by Carol Lin. You'd think they'd spend more time covering this, yet they covered follow Biblically-Correct tours around!

FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK!

The cleanest, safest place you'll ever find. But extremely rigid in its laws and rules. It's amazing that they don't execute people who forget to flush in public restrooms.

You would think that in the interest of good relations they could offer to commute the sentence and expel him if Australia would agree to jail the defendant for life. What harm would that do to Singapore?

They wouldn't even allow his mother to hug him at the end. She
could only touch his hands through a grille, and that was allowed
only at the last minute.

And this in a country whose regime is totally corrupt.

Lee Kwan Hew defeated his political rivals by suing them for libel. Simply questioning the leader's honesty on any matter normally costs you your house.

Behind the shiny veneer, a very sad place - the population is one of the most brainwashed in the world.

That atmosphere comes with a heavy price.
Keeping a people enslaved with fear. No thanks, I'll pass.

SMRT SAFE CLEAN FAST!

At the time I thought WTF!?

Sort of appropriate now.:spray: :spray: :yoiks:

One place I have no desire to see. What animals.

but Singapore definitely has to top the list of places to stay out of!

but I dont sanction their actions.

Apparently they are unaware of the world war that was fought against fascism last century. Someone needs to send that country a history book, because they apparently don't have any. Or perhaps they don't know how to read. Or maybe their reading comprehension skills are lacking.

Something is fucking wrong with that country.

I still cant get over that jibe Lee Hsien Loong the PM of Singapore had against Australia's reaction to the hanging, expecting the audience in Germany to laugh with him, instead all he got was stony silence and stony looks.

fascist jokes funny.

Sheesh. That's about as stupid as something our Chimp in Chief would pull.

The US and Australia should push for regime change to democracy in Singapore.

I agree that they should push for regime change, and that this was definitely a barbaric act, but lets look at it in reality. If you go to a counrty, you should know their laws and follow them. This guy knew what would happen if he was caught. He should have used common sense.

Too much $$$$ to be made.