samedi, août 28, 2010 Free Speech: Whose Right Is It? When is free speech not free speech? When one side is perceived as the underdog, poor and persecuted. With all the brouhaha surrounding the death penalty in Singapore, I am fairly certain that anyone who stands up and speak out in support of the death penalty on principle, would be condemned by these vocal public (they are not the "general public"). Why is our right to living in a drug-free and crime-free country less than someone else's life - someone who willingly and wilfully committed a crime, as defined by Singapore law? We are famous/notorious for a reason - and yet drug runners persist in breaking our law. I do not dispute that it is a hard law. It is a cold law. It is a law which brooks no argument, and which has no wiggle room. It doesn't matter if you're a drug lord or if you're "just" a runner - you were caught, and Lady Justice is blind. I treasure life. I love living and breathing and enjoying the earth God gave. I love my family too. I love my future family, my children unborn, my nephews and nieces, my friends and loved ones. For their sake, may I support this absolute zero-tolerance deterrent? It's really simple - you break the rules, and you get punished. Conceptually, how is that so hard to understand? Why should we bow to international pressure when I live in a democratic country, and my country is exercising its sovereign right to choose how we punish crimes as defined by us? We are hardly North Korea (don't confuse the issues). Libellés : current affairs, singapore [Free Speech: Whose Right Is It?] |
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