In the 24-minute podcast, British journalist and presenter Stephen Sackur quizzed the minister on Singapore’s model as an “economically open, socially conservative and highly politically controlled” country.
He, you know, is damaging the lives of drug users, their families — damaged, often seriously destroyed. You look at the devastating impact of drugs worldwide. But the fact is that one of those high-profile cases that your system has dealt with in the last few months is that of an individual from Malaysia, Nagaenthran Dharmalingam, who is caught with the equivalent of three tablespoonfuls of heroin as he entered Singapore.
Mr Sackur, this depends on whether you are to accept everything that is said by someone. My point to you is — what's the difference between Mr Nagaenthran and the two persons executed in the US in October 2021, in terms of IQ?Surely you should be holding yourself to a universally high standard? You are a minister who has talked about making sure that compassion is at the centre of the judicial system in Singapore.
We are a logistics centre. We would be completely swamped. The UNODC said that this place is swimming in meth and a record haul of one billion meth tablets were seized in Southeast Asia. We are in that situation.You keep painting this apocalyptic vision of what Singapore might face. In the end, you are going to be challenged by the international community on the standards that you have set in your judicial system.Let me ask you which is better? You look at the Netherlands.
Why are we taking this approach? Because a significant proportion of our population, the middle ground as it were, don't want that law repealed. But our approach to deal with these issues in Parliament, and I've said earlier this year that we are relooking our laws, and our laws have to change and keep pace with the times. And in a Singaporean way, we are engaging in a wide set of consultations to try to arrive at some sort of landing.Minister, I'm listening very carefully to your words. They're very interesting.
When it comes to the workplace, often jobs are advertised which say “Mandarin essential”, when it is quite plain that Mandarin actually isn't essential, but it's a way of ensuring that ethnic Chinese people get the job. That happens. You live in Singapore; you know it happens!Let me explain to you, let me tell you. First of all, no one will deny that racism exists in Singapore, just like it exists in most other societies which are multiracial.
This is still one of the best argument till date..... For the drug dealer, 'one death is too kind'. Well said.
BBC and UK Journos in general:
Bbc still assumes the interviewee is always dumb. And they still think Asians will be so much better if they become like the west
Lee Kuan Yew Explains Death Penalty For Drug Traffickers In Singapore via YouTube
Take that, u distinguished good looking British journalist!
If Shanmugam said, ‘I can imagine people from the West in finding S’pore handling of these matters in a non-raucous, non-rambunctious manner, as compare to their liberal modes of many ideas and arguments, the situation is throughly discombobulating.’ I’m gonna lose it!
Hah he picked the wrong guy to debate BOO
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K sham is LKY's intellectual successor
As long as the sheeps are happy, why would the people in power change anything?
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