Briton faces execution for smuggling heroin in China

SuAside said:
How THE FUCK is using a pistol less barbaric?
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It won't blew his head to fucking pieces like it did with the girl in the pic?

I can see that Victor understands what i am saying.
 
Yeah yeah. Anyone asked any life time prisoners if they could choose death before lifetime in prison, what they would have chosen?

Personally I would choose lifetime in any prison, rather than death. And so would most here. Just incase there was a minor chance that you would make it out alive. Personally I would bet it all on that my familiy could bribe me a decent living in a chinese prison, while waiting and hoping for the demise of PRC/my government managing to bribe some commisar to let me do jailtime in a sweet norwegian prison. And then I would get my ass out.

And for those that wonder why china got such a strict policy on drugs take a look at mexico.
 
Nothing to do with Mexico, Loxley. China doesn't have the biggest drug market and weapon supplier on the planet at its northern border.
 
Wooz said:
Nothing to do with Mexico, Loxley. China doesn't have the biggest drug market and weapon supplier on the planet at its northern border.
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That is true. They do have one of the biggest drug supporters(afghanistan) pretty damned close and then there is the fact, that when one let drug syndicates free for a long amount of time, they aquire enough guns and weapons to be a challenge/pain in the ass to government power. Which was my point. Better keep them down the whole time than to have to risk it all on a big battle.

And as said earlier. China has bad experience with foreign drugs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars
 
Bah.

The only way to get rid of those drug cartels is by making substances legal. Making pot legal in the 'states would destroy most Mexican drug cartels outright.

Fat chance.
 
the biggest drug they import isnt pot, but rather opiates.

making pot legal inthe US would not destroy mexican or other drug cartels, but it would put a dampner in them after a while. they would still get money for a month or 2 while people started growing pot locally, and the cartels would have to shift their pot production to full on opiates.
 
the biggest drug they import isnt pot, but rather opiates.
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Source?

making pot legal inthe US would not destroy mexican or other drug cartels, but it would put a dampner in them after a while. they would still get money for a month or 2 while people started growing pot locally, and the cartels would have to shift their pot production to full on opiates.
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They wouldn't maintain the status quo by shifting production to opiates; the demand and consumer base for pot is astronomically larger than heroin and morphine combined.
 
Wooz said:
Nothing to do with Mexico, Loxley. China doesn't have the biggest drug market and weapon supplier on the planet at its northern border.
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No off course not. Russia is only the SECOND biggest drug market or what?
 
"Pot problem"
Yeah I hate when my bong gets clogged with resin.

And there are certainly more uniquely Mexican factors at work with their cartels there beyond proximity to the US. See: Canada.
 
something I do not completely understand though, but I am really not a professional, wasnt it said somewhere that mexico would get most of its drugs from the US ?

I could swear Hillary Clinton said in some interview that the US should help Mexico more regarding that situation or something.
 
No off course not. Russia is only the SECOND biggest drug market or what?
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And there are certainly more uniquely Mexican factors at work with their cartels there beyond proximity to the US. See: Canada.
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wasnt it said somewhere that mexico would get most of its drugs from the US ?
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Are you guys retarded or something?
 
Wooz said:
Nothing to do with Mexico, Loxley. China doesn't have the biggest drug market and weapon supplier on the planet at its northern border.
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It's a multifaceted issue, and a gross oversimplification to pin Mexico's cartel woes solely on geography. There are certain, uniquely Mexican (euphemistically speaking) factors at play beyond bordering a country that Canada does as well without the same issues, no?
 
Canada is an industrialized country.
Mexico is pretty poor compared to USA.
If Mexico was basically a second Canada, there wouldnt be trouble with direct drug smuggling from Mexico to USA.
 
Wooz said:
Are you guys retarded or something?
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Woooooz, that was some kind of question. If you have some source/informations I would be glad to read it and educate my self that way. ;)

*Edit. It would be nice, even if youre a moderator to not call me or others "retarded", but just saying :D
 
Sorry to bring this back, but he is going to die:

http://www.news.com.au/world/death-row-briton-learns-he-faces-execution/story-e6frfkyi-1225814253838

A BRITISH man on death row in China was told for the first time today that he's due to be executed in less than 24 hours.

Akmal Shaikh, from north London, is set to be put to death at 10:30am Urumqi time (2:30am GMT) tomorrow after he was convicted of smuggling four kilograms of heroin.
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Hm..., interesting. Does anyone know what is the legal precedent for executing another country's citizen for crimes committed inside his/her non-native country?

Well, I guess he is the chosen sacrificial lamb.
 
I hate when people say "West should do something" and similar expressions. USA & England are not Rohan and Gondor, goddamnit...

And off course, it's also holier-than-thou, self-righteous bullshit. IMO.
 
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