Yong Vui Kong’s appeal hearing takes place at 10am on Monday, 15 March 2010.
By Andrew Loh
Yong Vui Kong was 12 when he left his grandfather’s palm oil estate “deep in the forests of Sabah” in Malaysia to strike it out on his own. He had had enough of watching his mother being abused by his grandfather and her relatives. He wanted to help her escape what he now calls “that place of pain”. And so, he made up a story. He told his mother that he had found someone who would take him in as a godson. But the truth was, his “godfather” ran an illegal gambling business. Vui Kong went to work for this man, hoping to save up enough money so he could rescue his mother.
He was eventually thrown out by his godfather. Vui Kong thinks it was probably because he was too small and skinny to be of any use. He ended up washing cars to survive, making about RM$3 a day. It was hardly enough to pay for food, let alone accommodation. He would often pester his friends to put him up for short periods of time. He lived like this for three years.
At 15, he made his way to Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia, hoping to find a better job. But things didn’t turn out the way he planned. He faced discrimination because he came from a small town and was often beaten up. He found work in a Chinese restaurant but was paid far less than his colleagues.
A local gang recruited him to hawk illegal video compact discs . Soon he was told to help collect debts. He was later given a more “important” job by his “Big Brother”, who promised to pay him handsomely. The man had treated Vui Kong well – feeding him, clothing him and taking him out to fancy restaurants. Vui Kong felt compelled to do anything “Big Brother” said. More importantly, he needed the money. His mother was suffering from severe depression and he wanted to help pay for her treatment.
He started delivering“gifts” to various clients. He did not know it initially, but the colourfully gift-wrapped packages contained drugs.
In 2007, Vui Kong was caught while making a delivery in Singapore. The police found 47.27 grammes of heroin on him. A judge eventually handed him the mandatory death sentence for drug trafficking.
Harsh Reality
In Singapore, hangings take place at dawn on a Friday. Prisoners are only told about their impending execution on Monday. Vui Kong broke down when he was informed that he would be put to death on 4 December 2009. He hadn’t seen his mother in more than two years. She was still battling depression and all through this time, the family had decided to keep the truth from her. But the thought of not saying goodbye was too much for Vui Kong to bear and his siblings decided to fly her to Singapore.
They finally met three days before the scheduled execution. It was an emotional reunion. Vui Kong knelt down before his mother, bowing to her three times. He then begged for her forgiveness and told her he had to “go away forever” to do “penance” for all the bad things he had done. He told her she would never see him again.
Did she understand the meaning behind his words? Perhaps we will never know. What must have been clear to her though was that her son had undergone a dramatic transformation. He had embraced a new way of life in prison and was now a devout Buddhist. He would wake up at 4am every morning to meditate and he eagerly sought the advice of the Buddhist monks who visited him regularly.
For the first time in his life, he was taught to discern right from wrong. He also realised that contrary to what he was told as a child, cigarettes were not the same as drugs. “If I knew they would harm anyone, I would surely not do the job,” he said in his clemency appeal to the President in 2009.
He found a friend in prison – a 22-year-old from Malaysia, who was also received the death penalty for drug trafficking. The boy would die just three months before Vui Kong’s scheduled execution. He was a trembling mess the day before the hanging. Vui Kong would later tell his brother that he stayed up all night comforting his friend, urging him to meditate so he could face his final moments with inner peace.
The next morning, the boy had to be dragged from his cell to the execution chamber, crying, wailing and begging to be freed and to be forgiven.
For himself, Vui Kong continues to hope for a miracle. He’s even started to learn English so he can better communicate with his lawyer.
“He is remorseful and feels he should be severely punished,” his brother Yun Leong explained, “but he wants to live so he can continue seeing us, seeing our mother again. He wants to keep learning and meditating and being a better person.”
When the court granted him a stay of execution in December, one of the first people to pay Vui Kong a visit was his lawyer. During the meeting, Vui Kong presented him a gift – a picture that had taken him weeks to complete.
“He would kneel for hours as he drew,” his lawyer said.
The picture is a colourful interpretation of one of the manifestations of Lord Buddha – he is standing at the gates of hell, saving souls from eternal damnation.
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Photos courtesy of The Death Penalty in Singapore
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and their inmates have laptops, internet, drink tea, play psp etc.
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Oh this is just rich. Criminals get laptops and psp while hardworking but poor families cannot even afford such luxuries. I find it grossly unfair and disgusting that taxpayer money is used to benefit and reward the very people who harmed society.
no i am not. i was merely using general terms that would apply to singapore as well. the different degrees of murder in a common law jurisdiction like singapore would be murder, culpable homicide, manslaughter, causing grevious hurt etc it is the same. similarly, by life imprisonment, i mean imprisonment for a very long time.
and you keep missing the point. his stories about how poor he is etc normally has little mitigation value in court (depending on the judge). but HIS AGE DOES HOLD A LOT OF MITIGATING VALUE. KID IS ONLY 20 YEARS OLD. NOT AN ADULT. what i am talking about is the sentence for drug trafficking is excessive, manifestly excessive by international norms. a 10 year bid should suffice. no need to hang the man or feed him to the lions in singapore zoo.
there is a something called live and let live. singaporeans should learn that phrase. even obama was a heavy drug user when he was around this kid’s age. lucky obama stayed away from this shitty merciless country called singapore. else he would have been pinched and depending on the amount of drugs of him, he could have been charged for trafficking even if he has no intention to traffic.
and their inmates have laptops, internet, drink tea, play psp etc.
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Oh this is just rich. Criminals get laptops and psp while hardworking but poor families cannot even afford such luxuries. I find it grossly unfair and disgusting that taxpayer money is used to benefit and reward the very people who harmed society.
-> it is only the well behaved and minimum security inmates who get these priviledges. yes true some poor families cannot afford this. but these poor families are not locked in a coffin like cell the size of two ping pong table, sleeping on the hard floor with 4 other strangers, facing the four walls 23 hours a day, with zero personal belongings, for what can be up to a few years! these poor families also do not have a criminal record and won’t have to face a lifetime of discrimination when finding employment.
these poor families also can switch on and off the lights in their house at will. they can go to kfc and buy a nice kfc meal. they can go outside for a leisure stroll and breathe in fresh air. they can step out of their house without stripping naked and spreading their asses for a warden to look inside their assholes.
the inmates cant. even they 1 hr daily leisure activities for the inmates are indoors, in an indoor basketball court. they dont get to go out into open air for the entire duration of their prison sentence. they dont get to see greenery etc.
Kind of stupid to compare Singapore with other countries. Each country is unique and each country has its own socio-political-economic issues. What works for one country may not work for another.
Cipher is correct. My thoughts exactly.
Ignorance should never be an excuse to commit a crime. Majority people who commit crime will feign ignorance in the hope to get away with it or if they are caught, hope to get a lighter sentence. They will never admit to the full gravity of their crimes.
Do not be fooled by their sob stories.
you and cipher dont get it. no one is saying that we let these people off scot free. what we are saying is the death penalty is too harsh (layman’s term for you). a ten year jail bid will suffice.
and cipher talks about prison as if it is a holiday chatlet. let me try and describe a typical day in changi prison.
breakfast at 8am. lunch at 12pm. dinner at 6pm all in your cell. no metal fork and spoon only plastic ones. your cell is two ping pong tables big and you share it with 3 other men, hence, it is extremely squeezy. you shit and unrine and bath in your cell with 3 other pairs of eyes watching you while you shit. there is only a small window very high up. you have nothing with you except 3 story books. even family photoes are not allowed unless speicial permission is given. everyday you spend 23hours in your cell staring at the walls and at each other with nothing to do. sweating like dogs since the weather in singapore is so hot and humid. the remaining one hour is exercise time. exercise is in an indoor basketball court. you get to run around the basketball court like a dog. before you go for your exercise, you have to strip naked and squat like a dog. they will peer up your asshole and you have to open your mouth for them to see.
you need to squat and stand on command. if you fail to do so, you can be punished or sent to solitary confinement etc.
you dont get to go outdoors at all for fresh air, for years. at night, you sleep on the hard floor with no pillow or bolster. only blankets are provided. it is hard to fall asleep because it is so painful.
will you want to go in for your free meals? i think most inmates feel lucky to come out a sane man. and when they come out, they have to face a lifetime of discrimination from their friends, family and employer.
holiday chatlet? more like modern day torture chamber. totally out of line with prison standards in other developed countries such as hong kong and japan.
hansen, you’ve missed my point w.r.t. the luxuries. it’s not about how ‘bad’ or ‘inhumane’ Singapore prisons are, it’s a simple question about why prisoners DESERVE those things? when a crime is committed, society is the victim. Isn’t it perverse to make victims pay to give those who have wronged them such luxuries? why are innocent taxpayers being punished? sure there are minimum standards like adequate food, no torture etc. but actually making their lives comfortable, to make prison anything at all close to resembling a home, is ridiculous. they are meant to SUFFER in prison.
I agree with you about the MDP if it’s framed in terms of judicial discretion. I’ve faith in our judges and I think they should be allowed to weigh mitigating factors. What I’m worried about is that those abolitionists will hijack this campaign to push for a abolition of the death penalty entirely.
“The MDP for drug offences is in BIG BOLD PRINT on custom cards, it’s printed on signs. If you fly in, the airplane crew will freaking announce it before you leave the plane. All these warnings are shown before you enter our jurisdiction.”
Err. Are they in English? Or Chinese? Or Tamil or Malay? In Dutch? In every dialect of the world (which numbers in the thousands, by the way.)
Here’s a simple thought: Not everyone understands English. Not everyone can read, write or understand our four official languages.
Now, think about this a little.
As for the DPP having proved Vui Kong’s guilt, there is no question about it. No one is arguing that he is not guilty. He is. What is at question is however: Should the punishment fit the crime and not the criminal?
It is like this:
A boy of 14 rapes a girl. The law, as some here have asserted, should fit the crime. So, rape is rape. This 14 year old boy then should be given a jail term of 20 years, and also 20 strokes of the cain.
Insane.
I would like to see someone justify this.
It is what we mean when we say the punishment must fit the crime, right?
Nah. The punishment must fit the criminal.
Tan Cheng Hua , yes.
there are different principles in criminal justice. the idea that you are talking about, ie ” The punishment must fit the criminal” is called restorative justice. canada is one country that follows this principle and the reoffending rate in canada is same as in singapore, both around 25%. and yes, they have computers in canada for well behaved inmates. along with fans, tv, sofa, nice beds etc. but the reoffending rate is same as singapore. in fact, it is much lower than singapore for the past few decades.
singapore believes in hard, harsh heavy. deterrence deterrence. maybe we should start chopping off people’s hands like saudi arabia. i am sure that would be a good deterrence.
and i will be on the first flight out. while cipher will probably like that best. i just hope his hands dont get chopped!
it is a hard judgement, but shall we not looking harder a the rich living of the drug ring leaders who deserved to be hung 10 times, a friend of mine who once suggested, send the chidren of these drug ring leaders to do hard labour and force sell their asset , that sounds extreme but it does make some sense.
If u r rich, get a lawyer to defend even if u are involved in buying organs, if u r poor, too bad and be scape-goat
@hansen
Way to dodge the simple question. Why should taxpayers, who are victims of criminals, be forced to pay to make the lives of criminals comfortable? Bleeding hearts like to cry about criminal “rights”, what about the rights of victims to see criminals punished? If I got robbed, I sure as hell won’t be happy to hear that the guy responsible is comfortably playing with laptops and PSPs AT MY EXPENSE. How many times must the victim be “punished”?
I did not even talk about deterrence. I am just making the simple logical point that crime deserves punishment. Punishment entails suffering, not comfort.
And as for the immature little comment that I better be careful not to get my hands chopped (when I never suggested such a punishment), don’t worry, I know the law and I won’t break it. If I do, it’d be a bloody coward who doesn’t face the consequences.
You, on the other hand, better pray you never become a crime victim. If you do find yourself in that unfortunate situation, I expect you to provide a comfortable bed and a laptop for him.
i have been a victim of crime(S). my home has been vandalised before, my window broken and my car window damaged. i have been pickpocketed before as well.
but i do wish that the state respects the human rights of offenders by providing them with a bed and tv set (but not a laptop unless he is of good behavior in prison). unlike nut cases like yourself, i dont wish for them to sleep on hard floor and drink water from the toilet bowl, as in the case of Singapore.
of course crime deserve punishment, you seem too dense to comprehend that i and everyone else have acknowledged that. but the punishment must be proportionate to the crime. the simple fact is that hanging someone for drug trafficking is too harsh.
kaka savages like yourself insist on stoning petty shoplifters and torturing petty criminals in prisons. punishment you say. i say plain barbaric torture. go ahead and lock up the recalcitrant violent criminals for life but spare the petty crims.
Welcome to the wonderful world of the bleeding heart liberals, where criminals are angels and law abiding, productive citizens who, for some shocking reason, do not want to give criminals hugs and kisses, are savages.
1. Nothing is right or wrong but thinking makes it so.
2. Legalize drugs. Cigarettes and alcohol (even petroleum products) kill more people but are controlled by the rich and politicians.
liberal? come on, dont use a word you dont understand.
hugs and kisses? i would not call giving someone a bed to save him from physical pain hugs and kisses! neither is giving someone a tv so he wont have to stare at the wall all day long hugs and kisses as well.
even malaysia gives their criminals mattresses!
OMG
Don’t you all rationalized what he is going through? (For those who agrees that he should be hanged!!)
This boy grew up without one good guidance to truly understands what life means. He only knows the meaning of survival.
What I meant is, it’s natural instinct to be in a survival mode when one has to face it in their lives but this boy really hasn’t learn what life means (given the age that he was caught). He isn’t given a chance to truly understand the meaning of life until it’s too late. And he did literally learn the meaning of THE VALUE OF LIFE only now. Not given a second chance to fully enjoy it because he is going to be deprived of his own life!!
Because despite having an instinct of being survival, one has to become selfish. And being selfish is an initial of an ignorant act. It is better to know that the boy is an ignorant and a naivete. Then, the guilty party will be those who are unscrupulous in their judgement.
I must say, MDP is an ignorant law against mules too. MDP should be abolish.
How do you feel it this happen to your brothers or sisters?? What if someone dupe them into carrying gifts? Or someone plant drugs into their homes?? Or worst if a ‘bad’ cop that screen you takes out a small plastic from his hand and acted as if he has picked it from your car boot?? No, You can’t imagine that, right? Sadly, these things are possible. Can happen anytime.
Obviously, the prosecutor would try his best to show evidence against this boy (to proof his crime)… we won’t know from Vui Kong himself. Police tend to exaggerate sometime.
I agree with Alvin and Hansen (about prison condition/sentencing)
AnnA
“Reminded this is not the first time he has done this, according to the statements he had trafficked about 10 times. Imagine the damage all those would had harmed.”
Jack, doesn’t that shows he didn’t know that by confessing all those previous acts will hang him?? Obviously, there’s a promise of getting a lighter sentence to get a confession like that!! Doesn’t that show he is still an ignorant when caught???!!
“…. according to the statements he had trafficked about 10 times. Imagine the damage all those would had harmed.”
This only makes you question the competency of the authorities more, doesn’t it? How did a boy traffick drugs into S’pore 10 times before he was caught? (Assuming that the alleged 10 times were all done in S’pore.)
Perhaps we should hang custom officers who fail to detect such trafficking. After all, their incompetency results in lives being ruined by drugs.
Amazing how one does not see the insanity of such a law when taken to its logical conclusion.
Jack, what you called rubbish, happened to people.
And yes, Vui Kong is not innocent BUT he should be given a chance, a second chance to make amends. Don’t tell me if you have a child, you will punish him right away without giving him a chance to improve? We need reasons and the reason to take Vui Kong’s life for what he did despite the his age is doing an injustice on humanity. Even God, is Gracious.
“Minors are tried in the Juvenile court in Singapore. Sentencing is not the same.”
You have proven my point exactly.
The punishment must fit the criminal.
@hansen
Yes, thats why those in other countries love to commit crimes so much because going back is a hell lot better then being outside. Already ex criminals say free lodging free food in Changi, if no choice go back. Wow, now got PSP lagi better!
-> i think you will be surprised that people in those “crime filled” coutries are 100 times more pleasant than your average singaporean.
and those people are happier and many of their cities are very safe, as safe as singapore or even safer.
really? i haven’t met a criminal who wants to go to jail seriously. you’ve got to show me just one who can’t wait to go to jail…even in denmark where prisons are better than the NTUC chatlets no one wants to go to jail.you are quite stupid stupid, dont you realise that?
murderers normally deserve death/life imprisonment or 20-30 years in prison, that is the international norm of developed countries. drug traffickers normally get 6-10 plus years and they are out much earlier on parole.
all i am saying is singapore deviates a lot from the international norm developed countries such as in korea, taiwan, hong kong, macao, japan etc. prison conditions in singapore are also a lot worst than in these countries.
these are asian countries. i haven’t talked about european ones yet.
something tells me you are uneducated and working in a low level job. people your kind always think like that. typical hardwired lowlife mentality that really dont make any sense whatsoever.
NEWSFLASH: Everyone who disagrees with hansen is, inter alia, an uneducated, savage lowlife.
How appropriate that someone like that who can’t argue without slinging personal insults around should be taking the side of the criminals. Don’t forget, you’re the ones who bear the burden of changing the status quo. Your attitude is sure doing the pro-criminal side a big favour, champ.
You know what this is about? Its about the policing being made so much easier while appeasing Singaporeans. With this supid law, the police does not need to go after the big boys, no need to spend on detectives, less legal cost (prosecutors time etc) pinning down the little guys, etc etc.
Mandatory sentence on anyone FOUND in possession of drugs means everyone is responsible to PREVENT drugs getting into your belonging. You will be punished for your irresponsibility to safeguard your belonging, your guilt is not so much for possessing the drugs but for ALLOWING someone to plant it in your belonging.
Policing has become more of a joke these days. Even landlords will be jailed and caned if any of their tenants are found to be illegal worker or immigrant. So it is the landlords responsibility to make sure the tenants do not make false declarations or use false passports.
Not only was Yong barely 18 when he was arrested, his mental ability was also in question. I understand that even a murderer cannot be convicted of guilt if he or she is proven to be of unsound mind. Not saying Yong is of unsound mind but IQ does play a part in this instance. Some argue that he has done it out of greed, for money yet no one could put a figure up. Was he offered millions? If he has done it for easy money, it is hardly easy is it, as the risk is his life. Whatever and however people say Yong deserves death, there is not a single good enough reason why deserves death.
sorry?
The judge in Vui Kong’s original appeal apparently did not think even the charge fit the crime.
So there.
Mandatory life sentence, death sentence and caning are all barbaric acts which Singapore should not adopt. Life in our Singapore prison is primitive except for food which is basic but clean. Hard labour is still the best punishment – we can cut down on foreign labour.
“There was a case previously, when a woman peddled drugs in, she was let off the MDP because the drugs she traffick was not of pure aka market drugs, and after refining, it would be below the limit.”
Yes, and that is indeed the worry. The arbitrary reduction of grammage so much so that, for example, the amount of heroin could be reduced to 14.99g, allowing the trafficker to escape the MDP.
Death is mandatory if the amount was 15g or more.
You have, again, proved my point – the problems with the MDP.
eh, i dun take drugs. but is 15g a lot?
Jack .. Please understand this:
Lack Of Guidance To Understand Fully The Value Of Life. Hence, Never Look Forward To Strive Prosperously. I am sure he sees a day everyday by each day.
Comprendhe? No, I don’t think so.
LoL @Jack
“Amazing, you’ll be shocked at how u deviate with my background, but lets not get to mudslinging because as chiper said, you just insulted all the low income family groups having “low level jobs” and “uneducated”, so all with low level jobs and uneducated are hardwired and lowlife. Tsk tsk, and you are for human rights? Obviously agenda for yourself. And all you talk about is democracy, equality and what nots.”
What an exaggeration, hansen didn’t mention “ALL”. No wonder I’m not offended.
Objective,
I think you did not understand my point.
Wah Handsome! You impress me man. Way to go. I am with you on this.
for people who says that he should be given another chance…
well, he technically had 6 chances, getting away with smuggling prior to getting caught.
(see first few posts)
each time he gets away with smuggling, he comes back to do it again.
there is a distinction between first-time offender and first-time being caught.
he’s definitely not a first-time offender.
how many chances should he be entitled to?
7, 8 chances or whatever plus one additional chance?
i’m sorry he lucked out on the 7th time. But then again, he did had 6 free passes- so there is a limit on how much sympathy he can get.
I have a few experiences about drug abusers (in fact 3 people) who can truly make amend. I had personally made sure that they were not send to police and guaranteed to those (who wished to apprehend them) that they will change if GIVEN A CHANCE. And they did, after knowing what it will be like living in future with police record etc. Now these 3 people are happily married and have healthy children plus no ‘criminal’ record.
Knowing your life is at stake after getting caught, just because of ‘easy’ money being a mule, don’t tell me that this boy will not appreciate the value of life IF GIVEN A CHANCE. (Realization dawns when it’s too late on anybody but I hope it’s never too late for him) If he is given a chance, I’ll put my bet on him that he will make amend!!
I agree with Tan here, that it is all due to being complacent that mules smuggled umpteenth times into Singapore. And it is also due to complacency that Mas Selamat Kastari managed to getaway, OUT of Singapore. There’s no need to remind of him smuggling for 10th or 20th time. There’s no evidence against him on that accept for a ‘confession’ of a naive boy!!!
Corrections :
I have had a few experiences about ‘heavy’ drug abusers (in fact 3 people) whom had truly mend their ways of life.
AND
There’s no evidence against him on that *EXCEPT* for a ‘confession’ of a naive boy!!!
We;ll never know what goes on in other countries because in sg, we are all pampered. Most of the people who read this blog do so from their offices or homes. Read: in comfort. Most do not worry about where their next meal would come from.
This boy is young. Put him on remand. Put a tracker around his ankle. But please do not put him to death. Rich people get away scot-free but the poor never do. Too many children are driven to do things that they should never do.
At age 17, I was married but I didn’t know what marriage means. I asked for a divorced when I was pregnant @7months. Granted. Still don’t know what marriage means.
At age 21, I remarried for the sake of my child. Yet, I didn’t know what marriage means. Until I gave birth to my fourth child that I realized I was actually committed to a man @26. 4 years later, he’s history.
‘COMMITMENT’ is a big word to me. And so does ‘HANG TO DIE’ by Vui Kong.
See how naive and ignorant a person can be at those ages??? (Due to lack of guidance about commitment in marriages)
Same goes to Vui Kong’s lack of guidance to value life before he was caught.
Enuff said.
i say go find the “Big Brother” and hang him … by the balls for a slow and painful death.
Hear hear!
Corrupted politicans that caused the people to be poor by taxing these people should be hang, am i right?
AnnA
Mar 14, 2010 21:57
And he did literally learn the meaning of THE VALUE OF LIFE only now.
Hmm.. food for thought. Without the MDP, would he have realised the VALUE OF LIFE if he was caught and simply sentenced to imprisonment?
AnnA
Mar 15, 2010 9:03
I had personally made sure that they were not send to police and guaranteed to those (who wished to apprehend them) that they will change if GIVEN A CHANCE. And they did, after knowing what it will be like living in future with police record etc.
Same thing.. without the ‘promise’ of punishment, would giving them a chance made any difference?
Why must every abolish MDP issue get muddled up with a no death penalty issue. They are not the same!
Without MDP does not mean that Mr Yong will not get his deserved punishment. I don’t see how some people can think that it is better to put more power into the prosecution than the judiciary to decide on death sentences. How can the prosecution be objective in meting out sentences when they come from a biased perspective? It is not bad that they come from a biased perspective, just that it is for a neutral judge to balance the views — they are trained to do so.
Why don’t we make all crimes have mandatory punishments (not necessarily death) so that the judge only needs to say yes or no he did it? Isn’t this the real issue of abolishing MDP? — whether or not the judiciary should be the one to decide on the severity of the sentence or it should be a fixed one size fits all.
As for the case whereby there’s a miscarriage of justice. Mistakes do happen. One wronged dead person is one too many. Surely we should not kill some innocent people just so that we can kill all the guilty ones. How about we kill some of the guilty ones but none of the innocent ones, or even none of those that fit the grey area.
lobo76
“Hmm.. food for thought. Without the MDP, would he have realised the VALUE OF LIFE if he was caught and simply sentenced to imprisonment?”
Yes, he will. Staring at the 4 walls for 23 hr with 1 hr of yard daily? With Singapore prison’s condition & regulation? He will, minus the depression of knowing he is going to die.
“Same thing.. without the ‘promise’ of punishment, would giving them a chance made any difference?”
You don’t get it do you? Why would there be ‘CHANCE’ when the ‘NEED’ does not even exist? Why would there be ‘GUILT’ if there’s no ‘CRIME’ made? Why would there be ‘PROMISE’ if there’s no ‘CONFIDENCE’ on someone? Why would there be ‘PUNISHMENT’ if there’s no ‘DETERRENT’ on it?
The only difference is, he wasn’t given a chance but was given an ultimatum punishment = MANDATORY DEATH. Who are we, mere mortals in the eye of God to take away a boy’s life? Unless if we are that murderer.
AnnA
Mar 15, 2010 12:35
Yes, he will. Staring at the 4 walls for 23 hr with 1 hr of yard daily? With Singapore prison’s condition & regulation? He will, minus the depression of knowing he is going to die.
Somewhat a rhetorical question (hint was ‘food for thought’)…though I am surprised you can decide how Others should think, saying ‘he WILL..’ so confidently.
You don’t get it do you?
I really don’t… understand the words after this sentence. Speak plainly…
Who are we, mere mortals in the eye of God to take away a boy’s life?
no. we are just mortals, talking about mortal issues. Remove your God from the equation please.
I don’t think anyone deserves to die in this way. Two wrongs don’t make a right.
Here’s online petition for those who support to give this boy a second chance:
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/yongvuikong/
aiya, lobo, cipher etc are nutcases. they talk about prison as if it was a pinic with free meals. 10 years jail is nothing to them because in the universe they live in (ie alpha centuri)everyone cant wait to go into prison for free food. according to them, only a death sentence will suffice.
they tell you all their stories but they don’t make sense at all. when you call them idiots they say you are “slinging mud” at them.
but they are idiots. they are nonsensical and unreasonable. totally devoid of any form of logic. calling them idiots is not “slinging mud”, it is the truth. you can’t argue with idiots, you can only identify them and avoid them.
have you ever tried talking sense to a rabid dog who barks incessantly 24hours a day? no matter how much sense you make, the dog will still bark out noises that are devoid of meaning, logic or reasoning. you would need a brain transplant for these people to think logically and reasonably. since a brain transplant is not possible, we just brand them as inferior goods and avoid them.
Alamak! Handsome, not with this kind of language, I cannot support you. You must stop speaking Alien lingo – your engerish much better. I hear, I feel so educated … I am still with you on this thingie though …… meow! meow! ……
Huh.. thank you hansen. :)
But this one I really need to add.
“Who are we, mere mortals in the eye of God to take away a boy’s life?
no. we are just mortals, talking about mortal issues. Remove your God from the equation please.”
God, The One = Siva(by Hindu), Eliyah(by Jew), Eli(by Jesus), Allah(plus 99 other beautiful names by Islam)
“Remove your God from the equation please” For what? So that you can be seen as a mortal on a higher level? Nah… we are MERE mortals. LoL
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gemami – you sure our learned friend know the meaning of the words “alamak”, “engerish” ??