Catholic agency urges Govt to save Nguyen.

Catholic agency urges Govt to save Nguyen. :

"'He has the rights of all of us as human beings, he still has the dignity of a human being and he can play his part now, as he has been since the arrest, in building a better world. There would be no point in hanging him,' he said."

I fully support anyone trying to rid the world of drugs. I fully support strategies to stop trafficking. I support proven techniques for breaking down the network. Drugs are a commodity which bring in grand amounts of money for those running the organisation. The drug business relies on cheap labour, pyramid sellling and preying on human weakness. Addiction makes people behave in an insane way and it totally disrupts society. In the mean time, the people running the business make a lot of money. Killing the carriers will not destroy the empire and if you are serious about ridding your nation , your people and your world of drugs, you have to seek out the ones at the top who organise this. The ones at the bottom are easily replaced. Killing one of those will only encourage more compliance from those who are not at the top of the business and this is the bit I do not understand. Getting tough on drugs has to be a courageous act of fronting the top people, not sacrificing the ones at the bottom so that you continue to feed the fear which the drug business already runs on. We have to drug proof our children so they do not so easily succumb because no one forces anyone to take drugs, but it's like any successful business, it has the power of persuasive advertising. Take a young life and the old hands still exist. Take a young life and it has no chance to make good and recover.Sometimes the best speakers for the cause are those who have fallen from grace. If you insist upon a death penalty , hand it out to those who have demonstrated a wilful and long term commitment to the drug trade.