Let mum hug Nguyen, Australia asks.

Let mum hug Nguyen, Australia asks. :

"Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer says Australia will ask the Singaporean Government to allow the mother of Van Nguyen to hug her son before his execution.

Mr Downer says it appears the hanging of the 25-year-old will proceed on Friday."

According to what I read last night on my searches, it is customary to execute people before dawn on a Friday in Singapore. I also worked out that we have been making requests to the Singapore Government for quite some time about van Nguyen. It also appears they have granted clemency only to two women before. From the way he writes and the kind and tranquil inspiration his friends give when we see them on the news after they have seen him, I should say he should be given to a monastery. He appears to be able to give such peace and direction to people the like of which only comes from monks. It has been really very obvious how inspiring he is and therefore really very puzzling, when you see and hear his friends, how such a person could be carrying drugs. It doesn't really make any sense to me at all. I am glad that people like Mr. Downer have contined to ask for what will help the mother to withstand the terrible blow she will receive and I am glad he is allowing his position to lend her some dignity in this. I can remember from my history lessons that in medieval England people were given the choice of the gallows/chopping block or going to a life in the nunnery or the monastery if they incurred the monarch's wrath. Now I have thought about it, democracies don't actually have much flexibility.