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UnholyMudcrab
10/12/21 3:11:37 PM
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https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7emg8/singapore-cannabis-execution

Arrested at a traffic stop for having 1kg of cannabis in the car, coerced into admitting to drug trafficking because they threatened to execute his father if he didn't, sentenced to death, and then had his appeal thrown out by the Supreme Court.

I feel like we don't talk nearly enough about how disgustingly authoritarian Singapore is. This is some serious Duterte-type shit.
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MedeaLysistrata
10/12/21 3:12:20 PM
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c_c

Seems excessive

And idk about authoritarian, isn't East Asia broadly against drugs?

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coolboy11
10/12/21 3:14:17 PM
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Singapore is a stable well run country but Jesus they are in 1902 with their drug laws (not that the surrounding countries are much better at all)

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Nacen
10/12/21 3:14:50 PM
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MedeaLysistrata posted...
c_c

Seems excessive
Just a bit yeah

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Nemu
10/12/21 3:15:38 PM
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Ill never understand people who will perform petty crime in places like that where the punishment is so insanely overboard. Unless that 1kg is worth somehow worth a million dollars in that country, no amount of compensation would be worth that risk.

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RiKuToTheMiGhtY
10/12/21 3:16:10 PM
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It is no ones place to tell them how they run their successful mostly crime free country. They do have harsh punishments but notice how they also have a low as fuck crime rate.

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DeadBankerDream
10/12/21 3:16:22 PM
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It's not that I don't believe it's likely, but I think you really should note that what you're claiming happened is just what the accused says happened.

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divot1338
10/12/21 3:16:53 PM
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coolboy11 posted...
Singapore is a stable well run country but Jesus they are in 1902 with their drug laws (not that the surrounding countries are much better at all)

UnholyMudcrab posted...
they threatened to execute his father


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Flauros
10/12/21 3:18:13 PM
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Did he not know how they felt about drug crime over there?

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Doe
10/12/21 3:19:03 PM
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RiKuToTheMiGhtY posted...
It is no ones place to tell them how they run their successful mostly crime free country. They do have harsh punishments but notice how they also have a low as fuck crime rate.
I bet you wouldn't say that if it was China

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gunplagirl
10/12/21 3:20:28 PM
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RiKuToTheMiGhtY posted...
It is no ones place to tell them how they run their successful mostly crime free country. They do have harsh punishments but notice how they also have a low as fuck crime rate.
Nah the thing about those rates is it's only low because people get good at not getting caught. Or there's tons of police corruption that lets crimes sneak through the cracks.

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DeadBankerDream
10/12/21 3:21:20 PM
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gunplagirl posted...
Nah the thing about those rates is it's only low because people get good at not getting caught.
That sounds like an absurd thing to actually believe.

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PatrickMahomes
10/12/21 3:21:32 PM
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Singapore looks so fucking cool but reading about shit like this and the gum laws and the party laws is just wack

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brestugo
10/12/21 3:23:19 PM
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When you fly in - or at least when I did - when they hand out the immigration card the airline tells you about most drugs being punishable by death, along with fines for chewing gum and not flushing toilets.

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Mareen
10/12/21 3:24:31 PM
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Hanged??? For possessing weed? I thought Singapore was relatively modern.

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brestugo
10/12/21 3:25:30 PM
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Mareen posted...
Hanged??? For possessing weed? I thought Singapore was relatively modern.
They still have caning on the books. A relic from the colonial era.

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MiIkMan
10/12/21 3:27:29 PM
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I'm in favor of the death penalty for heinous crimes but this isn't it. This is just disgusting and ignorant.

Shit outdated country.

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Gamerguymass
10/12/21 3:29:56 PM
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RiKuToTheMiGhtY posted...
It is no ones place to tell them how they run their successful mostly crime free country. They do have harsh punishments but notice how they also have a low as fuck crime rate.

That tends to be more from culture then law. Asian cultures in general tend to be more conformist. "Do this because that is what you are supposed to do." Where as western cultures tend to be more individualistic and questioning. "Why should I do that?"

You can have the same exact laws in America if you want, people will still do that stuff. You can get rid of all those laws in Asia and most people still won't do it. Look at Japan, just smoking a joint once gets you fired and shunned from society. Doing drugs is a big fucking deal over there.

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b_hamnite
10/12/21 3:43:46 PM
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RiKuToTheMiGhtY posted...
It is no ones place to tell them how they run their successful mostly crime free country. They do have harsh punishments but notice how they also have a low as fuck crime rate.


UnholyMudcrab posted...


Arrested at a traffic stop for having 1kg of cannabis in the car, coerced into admitting to drug trafficking because they threatened to execute his father if he didn't, sentenced to death, and then had his appeal thrown out by the Supreme Court.

Yeah, those ends justifying the means, huh?


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RiKuToTheMiGhtY
10/12/21 3:44:05 PM
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Well I dont do drugs and I support the way that Singapore handles things.

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masterpug53
10/12/21 3:45:44 PM
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RiKuToTheMiGhtY posted...
It is no ones place to tell them how they run their successful mostly crime free country. They do have harsh punishments but notice how they also have a low as fuck crime rate.

Ave, true to Caesar.

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TheLotusEater11
10/12/21 3:46:15 PM
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RiKuToTheMiGhtY posted...
It is no ones place to tell them how they run their successful mostly crime free country. They do have harsh punishments but notice how they also have a low as fuck crime rate.

The fact that cannabis is illegal in the first place is fucking stupid.

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RiKuToTheMiGhtY
10/12/21 3:48:35 PM
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TheLotusEater11 posted...
The fact that cannabis is illegal in the first place is fucking stupid.
They do not like drugs and honestly there is nothing wrong with their hard stance against drugs. No one is forcing you to live there, respect that their country does things their way.

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Zikten
10/12/21 3:49:09 PM
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RiKuToTheMiGhtY posted...
Well I dont do drugs and I support the way that Singapore handles things.

This guy is a victim. He was forced into smuggling. His father would have been killed if he refused. Now instead his father will watch his son hang. It's fucked up. And nothing will happen to the people who caused all this
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Axiom
10/12/21 3:49:41 PM
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RiKuToTheMiGhtY posted...
It is no ones place to tell them how they run their successful mostly crime free country. They do have harsh punishments but notice how they also have a low as fuck crime rate.
Shut the fuck up. It's everyone's place to criticize a shit country that does this
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FL81
10/12/21 3:50:14 PM
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Singapore is ruled by an authoritarian dictatorship

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Blue_Inigo
10/12/21 3:50:51 PM
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Killing someone over a fucking plant is insane

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masterpug53
10/12/21 3:51:14 PM
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Xythris posted...
Wow that's quite brutal. If someone asks if I want to travel to Singapore I'm going to say no thanks.

90's kids have known this ever since that infamous caning incident.

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Smackems
10/12/21 3:53:29 PM
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Shit country

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TheLotusEater11
10/12/21 3:54:12 PM
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RiKuToTheMiGhtY posted...
They do bot like drugs and honestly there is nothing wrong with their hard stance against drugs.

.. except, you know the fact that they execute people for fucking weed.

RiKuToTheMiGhtY posted...
No one is forcing you to live there, respect that their country does things their way.

Say that to the people who live in Singapore and can't move away.

Respect that North Korea does things their way.

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s0nicfan
10/12/21 3:56:47 PM
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RiKuToTheMiGhtY posted...
It is no ones place to tell them how they run their successful mostly crime free country. They do have harsh punishments but notice how they also have a low as fuck crime rate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiyfwZVAzGw

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UnholyMudcrab
10/12/21 3:58:43 PM
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Humble_Novice
10/12/21 4:04:24 PM
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Malaysia and the Philippines are hardly any better when it comes to their drug laws. The only Southeast Asian that's lax on medicinal marijuana is Thailand, though recreational use is still illegal.
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brestugo
10/12/21 4:06:48 PM
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People like to tout Singapore's harsh hand in policing but back when HK was independent, Interpol would compare Hong Kong & Singapore crime rates and Singapore wasn't much better, if at all. They're just harsh. Some people like that I guess.


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RiKuToTheMiGhtY
10/12/21 4:06:50 PM
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Maybe just follow the rules/law and you wont have this happen to you. Unlike North Korea they are only punishing someone who broke the law, the people are not starving to death, their economy is great, the standard of living high, and the country is mostly safe.

Sorry so many of you drug users hate a country that is anti drugs but again no one is forcing you to go there.

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Funkydog
10/12/21 4:07:59 PM
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If any one actually responds to Riku you will have my eternal disappointment.
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One_Day_Remains
10/12/21 4:14:05 PM
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coolboy11 posted...
Singapore is a stable well run country


Somehow I don't believe that
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One_Day_Remains
10/12/21 4:15:18 PM
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Funkydog posted...
If any one actually responds to Riku you will have my eternal disappointment.


For some reason I thought this was about Rika_furude and I was like "nah, he's not that bad". But yeah Rikutothemighty is absolutely awful.
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coolboy11
10/12/21 4:16:15 PM
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One_Day_Remains posted...
Somehow I don't believe that
it has literally one of the highest standards of the living on the planet lol

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