20 years for Aussie heroin smuggler: "Nguyen told the court during the one-day trial that he was hired for $20,000 to smuggle the drugs from Vietnam to Australia, it said, according to the Associated Press."
The aircraft made an emergency landing and a good team of doctors obviously kept him alive. To that extent the authorities have shown compassion and done well. So who hired him. I'll still argue the point here is no point in punishing the small fish if the big fish are allowed to carry on with their dealings. So much money is made from drugs and we are getting better and better at picking up the couriers. The organisers? What about them? I am not feeling very sympathetic to anyone who makes money from drugs at the moment. I saw a lady in the supermarket at the weekend and it seemed like she was on heroin. We haven't seen heroin users around for such a long time so we were watching and we were worried for her. The person she was with was fit and healthy but she was so thin, so out of it, her eyes were so dull and she could hardly talk or move and sat slumped on the seat near the checkout and her face was just so pale and drawn. Then she got up and walked with surprising speed alongside the trolley and our mood lifted because we had all been so concerned. She was so thin and ill looking and the trendy word wasted applied to every bit of her. It was sad. Once you get on that stuff it it hard to get off. It eats you away. We have been getting something right because there are fewer and fewer sick looking people around the place so the police and the community have locked together to bring an end to this scourge...but we've cleaned it up before only to have it come back again. Money. Always money. We have to get the ones who are really profiting from it because there is enough misery in the world without manufacturing it for people.
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