Guess who made this statement with conviction: “If we could kill drug traffickers a hundred times, we would because they are destroying whole families.” The statement associated with former President Rodrigo Duterte, now detained at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, was not even originally his as it was frequently said in interviews by the legendary Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew. Lee, who died in 2015, left an unmatched legacy of development as Singapore was turned into a nation that is among the most prosperous and peaceful in the world. In Singapore, before you land, the airline hostess will announce that there are very heavy penalties if you are found with more than a stated number of grams of certain prohibited drugs, and if you still come in with a few kilos which will destroy hundreds of thousands of families, one death is too kind,” Lee said. In a BBC interview, Lee said that a single trafficker’s actions could destroy thousands of families by spreading addiction, emphasizing that the execution of one trafficker was a necessary trade-off to prevent widespread societal damage. He said, “If we don’t act decisively, drugs will flood our society and we’ll lose an entire generation.” Lee stressed that the death penalty was a deterrent, pointing to Singapore’s low drug abuse rates compared to Western nations with more lenient policies. We won’t let that happen here.” However, the two leaders’ identical positions resulted in Duterte falling into the hypocritical hands that Lee loathed because of the vicious politics that Singapore fortunately does not have.. Read Full Story
