..lobert......
Well, now that was a very bad point to make in this thread. Total non sequitur.
But to show you my good will (but don't you belive it!) I will look at that in a moment.
Come back with this argument when you can actually show proper proof of it! Statistics please, and I mean real ones, and not only from countries with the rest penality! You see if you take out a mule, there comes the next, if you take out a dealer there comes an other one, and even if you take out the big boss (which you of course never will, because he surely has good connections to the police and to the politicians in your government), the market will remain even more attractive to allow the compebreastion taking over the trade. I have been saying this for the umteenth time: if you want to stop the criminal trade ruin the market! To do that you must legalise the drugs and put it under tight government control. No market - no criminals! And then you can go and treat your addicts! Spend the money on medications and not on jails and hangmen.
The drugs are not from Iraq. And those so called WMDs were the last sporadic remnants of what Saddam had obtained from the West to fight Iran! What are we doing in Iraq? Supporting the US alliance, that is all. We could do otherwise without that silly war quite well!
Singaporean Businesses ListLDL Just to put your pro Singapore tirade into context: Of the listed countries only the USA has a not well but still functioning democracy! Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand are only...
I do not think that sending an army to stop the drug trade would do any good except making even more enemies for Australia. Think hard about Afghanistan! Western armies are holding that country in iron grip. (well, a very low quality iron grip). What is happening about the opium production there? Nothing good! LOL Too many bloody poppy fields! (Do you remember Columbia! Very similar problems, but with sugar).
So let us visit the Bali planting. Firstly it had nothing to do with the drug trade. Secondly, yes, the tourists were starting to forget that Bali was not Bondi Beach. Some had behaved in a way that was in a conflict with the customs of that land. Not just the Australians, but other visitors from the West as well. I'll give credit to the people of Bali for tolerating much foreign silliness. Thirdly there are political and religious tensions in Indonesia. The plants had a lot to do with that!
That planting was an act of political terrorism. An act of terror that was directed at no one in particular! (the first planting, that is). The mark of conservative and religious rightard fundamentalism at work.Those caught up in it were quite unlucky, that is the best I can describe it!
So my question is how Bali figures in our discourse over drugs and penalising drug mules?
Ordog Either the neocons go or civilisation does!
