Comments on: Piers: no elitism here

By: boredinHK

boredinHK — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 06:54:00 +0000

Interesting point but the same can be said of many investment funds.
I would think if we all bothered to look at the scope of their investments in many places many grubby deals would emerge but gun running , smuggling young girls -where does this fit in or is this added to spice up the story?
Profiting from investments overseas is always going to be open to such broad criticism. Apart from the one drug warlord mentioned who are the other people? Are you suggesting the top layers of government (in Singapor or elsewhere )are involved in the actual trading of drugs or laundering their profits?
And someone(smiths ) talked about corrupt judges - again where and who ?Are they saying Singapores judges are corrupt?
As an aside to all this I’d always had the impression Hong Kong was the commercial and business end of the heroin trade. The Triads are multinationals themselves these days and many large corporations
have very dark pasts. Of course that is the way it is up here ….

By: David Heidelberg

David Heidelberg — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 02:21:00 +0000

boredinhk,

The person who wrote one of the articles is a Singaporean politician.

He made the same points last week, here.

By: boredinHK

boredinHK — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 12:32:00 +0000

What has Jesus to do with this ?
The articles are really old . The facts may be true but are members of the Singapore Govt also gun runners ? Young girls smugglers -these days …?
Orang asks ” what is with these people?”
Well,what is it you don’t understand?

By: Wombat

Wombat — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 02:47:00 +0000

Excellent link David thanks

By: David Heidelberg

David Heidelberg — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 11:45:00 +0000

Jesus CB, Singapore's involvement with the Burmese regime is famous.

Also, I'm sure that you don't need reminding about how the CIA funded the overthrow of the Nicaraguan Government during the 80's.

By: CB

CB — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 11:07:00 +0000

“drugs run along the same slippery pipes as weapons, illegal oil and increasingly young girls, and the agencies paid to stop it are the cornerstones of the trades.”

Your proof?

By: dusty_buster

dusty_buster — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 10:40:00 +0000

Nang Dong Dang can go swing as far as I’M concerned!
At least they are’nt hanging gays for the ‘crime’ of sodomy huh…

By: boredinHK

boredinHK — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 09:27:00 +0000

A couple of people imply there are some Mr Bigs in the trade . Any indirect references available to explain who exactly ?
Just curious .
Corrupt judges in Australia ? Is there a consensus that this occurs
occasionally or is it rare?
Sorry for the questions -just trying to learn about Australia .

By: smiths

smiths — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 08:58:00 +0000

there is no war on drugs,
there is no war on drug dealers,
theres a repetitive attack on soft targets and petty criminals and a lot of noise covering up the real truth,
drugs run along the same slippery pipes as weapons, illegal oil and increasingly young girls, and the agencies paid to stop it are the cornerstones of the trades

By: Edward Mariyani-Squire

Edward Mariyani-Squire — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 08:20:00 +0000

Shabadoo said…
“I, for one, will be dining ….to celebrate our ally’s contribution to stamping out the global drugs trade.”

Shabadoo, how many state sanctioned murders have to occur before one starts to question this “solution” to the War on Drugs?

Hmmm. The same mental framework that justifies Iraq methinks.