Briton executed in China

It isn't very humanitarian, but then neither is drug smuggling. I understand why people get roped into drug trafficing, but they should think about what it does to people.
 
I know a woman who got caught in Sao Paulo with coke she was muling for a Nigey.

Her parents paid big bucks to get her out. And it took them about a year and a half.

This thing almost ruined her life. Fscking drugs!:D
 
Assuming that the evidence is solid & prosecution is fair then sure. Selectively apply the laws would be even worse.

JHatman said:
Hell they even execute business men for corruption.
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Maybe they could do that here too. Plus add corrupt politicians to the list.

JHatman said:
Imagine how less regard they have for foreigners!
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Quite the opposite. They are fairly careful because they don't want to piss off trade partners.
 
AnomalyNexus said:
Assuming that the evidence is solid & prosecution is fair then sure. Selectively apply the laws would be even worse.


Maybe they could do that here too. Plus add corrupt politicians to the list.


Quite the opposite. They are fairly careful because they don't want to piss off trade partners.
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We'll have elections too often then.:D
 
daveza said:
How do you give a legal dose of alcohol ?
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My favourite is Glenfiddich but because of the cost I cannot afford illegal doses.

If any forumite wants to provide me with Glenfiddich in illegal doses I will be only too happy to accept his largesse.

Maybe Shabby Shake can hold out a helping hand???
 
Muling drugs to pay for his drug habit - hence strange behaviour ?
Rabbits are linked to LSD and if I remember correctly a decade or so ago some e-pills were called little rabbits.

I've known a few bipolars, and would not consider them unable to understand exactly what drugs are or what muling is, none of them took heavy drugs or muled, the ones I know are highly intelligent and very capable (most of the time ;) )

Till later, I'm off to China hoping to get a contract to publish my afrikaans poem.
 
Morgoth said:
a few glasses of pure ethanol should do the trick.
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You hit the nail on the head. The excerpt below refers to Kenya but could quite easily refer to South Africa where hundreds of township dwellers die each year from illegal brews.

........Distillation has spread partly because spirits are seen to be modern and potent, but also because the Kenyan Government effectively banned the trade in traditional fermented drinks in 1979.

People still do make and sell drinks like grain beer and palm wine, but it is a risky business; distilled drinks offer higher profits for the risks involved, and are easier to smuggle.

So people who cannot afford expensive, highly taxed bottled beer turn instead to illicitly distilled liquor.
This has become a huge business; the trade in these informal-sector drinks - fermented and distilled - is probably five times as large as the legal trade in bottled beer, wines and spirits.

Corruption
It is of enormous economic importance to many, from those (many of them women) who produce these drinks on a small scale to the bigger operators who arrange the transport and marketing.

It is a trade which breeds corruption, as administrators and police turn a blind eye in return for a share of the profits.
And the trade has also bred its own, lethal, hazards.

Fermented drinks - grain beer, palm wine, and so on - offer quite limited health risks.

Industrial spirit menace
But there is one real, deadly, menace: the diversion into the drinks market of alcohol intended for industrial use.

This spirit is very strong, and it often also contains forms of alcohol which rapidly cause poisoning.

It is also cheap - as it is virtually untaxed - and is in ready supply from the sugar industry in western Kenya.

In the 1980s, its production was encouraged, as it was blended with petrol to provide vehicle fuel.
Tankers bring it to Nairobi from the west; on the way, some of them stop, and some of the contents are siphoned off.

'Power' peril
This industrial alcohol enters the illicit drink market in a variety of ways.

It may just be diluted and flavoured a little with sugar and caramel; it may be added to fermented drinks to make them stronger; the most sophisticated traders may even attempt to re-distil it.

But it is always dangerous.

It is these drinks - which Kenyans sometimes call 'power' drinks, in ironic reference to the role of industrial alcohol as a motor fuel - which have been responsible for the tragic poisonings and multiple deaths of recent years.

So large is the trade, and so extensive the corruption involved, that the law is powerless.

Indeed, the law has encouraged these deaths, through high taxes on bottled beer and through the banning of less dangerous forms of informal sector alcohol.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/1039582.stm
 
He brought 4KG of heroin into China, enough to give 4000 junkies a gram of uncut which would have killed probably at least 2 people. I say rather kill the mule. Death penalty serves a good purpose.
 
4KG Of the stuff!?!?

And of course if it gets cut many more junkies would get and maybe even more die. But is the death penalty really such a deterrant?:D
 
Where did he hide that 4kg? up his @ss? :D

In all fairness, hard drugs (smuggling, dealing, supplying) should carry the death penalty. How many people die from these drugs every day? I mean normal drugs pick off enough by themselves....
 
Frankie said:
I support China's execution of drug smugglers, and the smugglers are well aware of the risk when they chose to operate in these countries that have the death penalty for this type of crime.
In this case the family of the smuggler claim that he had mental health issues, but isn't this the defence in most cases like this?
Of course the ultimate would be to take out the drug lords, but that's easier said than done.


Briton executed in China
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He prolly thought the British passport would save him. Of course if he was an enthnic Briton, they probably would have happened.
 
I don't even know why this makes news - you know the law in these countries. If you try to smuggle in drugs and get caught then you die. Simple.

They need to implement that here for druggies, murderers, rapists....oh wait - we won't have anyone left in gov't then!
 
Ronjay said:
Also, what of all the families that might have been affected by those drugs being on the streets. China have the right idea for once.
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Naturally they also execute people for alcohol, cigarettes and coffee. They do right? Think of the families negatively impacted by those drugs.
 
happychappy said:
How many people die from these drugs every day?
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Very few in fact.

Sensorei said:
He brought 4KG of heroin into China, enough to give 4000 junkies a gram of uncut which would have killed probably at least 2 people.
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Even were that true (doubtful), you'd have more chance of dying from an accident. I say we ban accidents.

nightjar said:
Drug dealers should be executed.
Addicts should be given free drugs - one lethal dose.
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That's a good idea. Both the local cafe and liquor stores look like good places for me to start a business. Just need to have those evil drug dealing owners executed first.

Maybe Gordon Brown should look at reforming his own country's drug laws before he criticises those of another country. Afterall China's laws are merely a slightly more extreme version of Britain's own idiotic prohibition laws.

I'd like to see drug smugglers get more organised and vicious. They need to make sure those trying to enforce the laws get killed doing so. There is really no reason major drug smugglers should not be hiring the best killers in the world to protect their operations and ensure supply.

I'm also completely in favour of executing supporters of prohibition.
 
All you guys saying this dude deserves to die - I hope you don't drink or smoke.
 
Live by the sword, die by the sword. If his friends and family were so concerned when he was arrested and claimed he was mentally unstable, then why did they allow him to travel alone to China in the first place? Surely they must have been suspicious?

For a change I support the Chinese stance.
 
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