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Execution of British drugs smuggler shows no one is exempt from law
By Jin Dou |
December 30, 2009, Wednesday
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IF you bend the law to show mercy to a criminal, you break the hearts of crime victims.
China yesterday executed a British drug dealer who was arrested in 2007 for having smuggled about 4 kilograms of heroin into China.
China's Criminal Law says that anyone found to have smuggled, sold, transported or manufactured more than 50 grams of heroin shall be sentenced to 15 years in prison, life in prison or death.
It doesn't matter where you're from. The law doesn't exclude foreigners and China doesn't execute only foreign drug smugglers. If the law applies only to foreigners and exempts Chinese criminals, you may say the law is unfair.
Now, there's no question about the facts of Akmal Shaikh's crime and there was no evidence he had a mental problem which prevented his knowledge about carrying the 4kg of heroin into China.
And yet some British politicians and media outlets were quick to "condemn" China for not having shown mercy to this drug dealer.
Did these British politicians and journalists have the least sense of the English word "fairness?" If China distorted its law to "pardon" the British drug dealer, who would show mercy to drugs victims?
If China or another country was unable to execute a drug dealer because he was British, would Britain not become a haven for the world's drug dealers who would try every means to buy British nationality?
Under the guise of "human rights," it's rather a shame for those British politicians and journalists to push China to show clemency to a criminal. Not a word is heard from those British people that sympathizes with any drug victims.
Just because you have no death penalty doesn't mean the death penalty is wrong in itself. If Akmal smuggled that much heroin into Britain, China wouldn't push Britain to execute him. We respect Britain's law.
We respect Britain as a nation and a people. There are sober minds in Britain. Not every Briton is as skewed as many British politicians and journalists.
Heed what a Netizen named "markm99" said on the Website of the The Independent yesterday: "One thing I respect them (Chinese) for is that they apply their laws evenly and consistently no matter who breaks them. Their laws may seem 'barbaric' to the wet-liberals here in the UK because of how WE'VE watered down our laws."
China yesterday executed a British drug dealer who was arrested in 2007 for having smuggled about 4 kilograms of heroin into China.
China's Criminal Law says that anyone found to have smuggled, sold, transported or manufactured more than 50 grams of heroin shall be sentenced to 15 years in prison, life in prison or death.
It doesn't matter where you're from. The law doesn't exclude foreigners and China doesn't execute only foreign drug smugglers. If the law applies only to foreigners and exempts Chinese criminals, you may say the law is unfair.
Now, there's no question about the facts of Akmal Shaikh's crime and there was no evidence he had a mental problem which prevented his knowledge about carrying the 4kg of heroin into China.
And yet some British politicians and media outlets were quick to "condemn" China for not having shown mercy to this drug dealer.
Did these British politicians and journalists have the least sense of the English word "fairness?" If China distorted its law to "pardon" the British drug dealer, who would show mercy to drugs victims?
If China or another country was unable to execute a drug dealer because he was British, would Britain not become a haven for the world's drug dealers who would try every means to buy British nationality?
Under the guise of "human rights," it's rather a shame for those British politicians and journalists to push China to show clemency to a criminal. Not a word is heard from those British people that sympathizes with any drug victims.
Just because you have no death penalty doesn't mean the death penalty is wrong in itself. If Akmal smuggled that much heroin into Britain, China wouldn't push Britain to execute him. We respect Britain's law.
We respect Britain as a nation and a people. There are sober minds in Britain. Not every Briton is as skewed as many British politicians and journalists.
Heed what a Netizen named "markm99" said on the Website of the The Independent yesterday: "One thing I respect them (Chinese) for is that they apply their laws evenly and consistently no matter who breaks them. Their laws may seem 'barbaric' to the wet-liberals here in the UK because of how WE'VE watered down our laws."
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