China Executes British Drug Smuggler Despite Outcry

So a drug smuggler gets executed ,good. Of course you always hear how a criminal on death row is mentally challenged.

You can't overlook the irony here. The British went to war with the Chinese in the mid-19th century, over the right to import opium into China, which was banned. After winning the war, the British not only won the right to be the sole drug pusher of opium, they also won Hong Hong, and several other Chinese ports (as hostages). The British also nearly depleted the entire country of silver, in exchange for opium, and caused the Chinese economy to collapse, setting up years of heavy taxes and revolutions. To execute a British citizen for drug smuggling is truly ironic. In another ironic twist, America was saved from becoming as "conservative" as China, by the election of Barack Obama.

8.3 pounds of drugs that can destroy a lot of lifes,More Drug Smugglers need to get the same.It is something how right away when a criminal does something really bad any more someone wants to say that the person is a mental case.Of cause there has to be something Mentally wrong with them to even do the things they do.But it is not a excuse.

China isnot the only country that uses htis type of punishment.There are others and most know perfectly well what their outcome will be if caught attempting to smuggle drugs.He may have a had a slight mental condition but he wasnt to mentaly impaired to try to smuggle kilos out of there

The British Government did what it needed to do regarding this man and the Chinese Government did what it needed to do. You can't argue that he was sane! He was not! A sane person does not take drugs into a country that has the death penalty for doing so! That's why they bring so much into the U.S.

Drugs are epidemic in the USA and cause the death of more than 100 thousand people yearly. Some of the biggest offenders today are doctor's that are charged with the responsibility of saving lives but instead get people hooked on drugs as Xanax, Oxycontin and Percocet as they are overtaken with greed $$$$. When is our goverment going to step in????? Maybe they are to caught up in focussing on terrorism. Do the math, what are Americans dying from? It should be very clear that there needs to be focus on the drug problem. Homeland security definetly needs our governments focus too but. The epidemic drug addictions needs equal focus.

So without stretching this out to tell how deeply disturbing the drug problem is to me. Even though the Chinese have a lot of issues within their country. I am glad to see that they are not afraid to carry out their law without being trumped by public outcry or political pressure. Give the suspect a chance to get his heart right with a just God and then let him go meet him.

We can only pray that this country will take some steps to protect it's citizens from a drug induced epidemic. If a few of these doctors at the pill shops and clinics would be executed; I bet a few others would take the hint. We certainly don't have any trouble looking at the petty drug pushers who are usually drug addicted, to try to put them in prison. What a messed up country. What does it take to get our attention. A couple of jets into the twin towers???? Our government needs to wake up. It is far to big for state and local law enforcement to deal with.

THIS FOOL MAN ENTERS FORBIDDEN TERRITORY TO CAUSE AND ENTICE DEATH, VIA SUBSTANCE ABUSE. HE GOT CAUGHT. THEY KILLED HIM FOR TRYING TO KILL THEIR PEOPLE. SIX IN ONE HAND, A HALF DOZEN IN THE OTHER. AT LEAST CHINA WAS FOLLOWING THEIR LAWS! KEEP THIS STUPIDITY UP, AND YOU'LL BE LETTING THE RAPISTS GO AFTER THEY RAPE YOUR MOTHER AND DAUGHTERS. YOU'LL BE REFUSING TO KILL THE MAN WHO JUST KILLED YOUR SON. YOU'LL BE GIVING PERMISSION TO ANYONE WHO WANYS TO FALL BACK ON, "OH, I LOST MY MIND," WHENEVER THEY DO SOME HORRIFIC DEED. GROW THE HECK UP! IF YOU PLAN TO DO DIRT, SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES! SOUNDS TO ME LIKE THIS FOOL SHOULD HAVE TAKEN THE DRUGS AT HOME; THEN HE MAY BE ALIVE TODAY. ONLY A CRIMINAL A MOTHER COULD LOVE. ONE LESS PIECE OF TRASH.

This execution really sent the message around the world. I believe it will protect the Chinese society longer than many other countries that are struggling with the drug trafficking crime. What China did is "perfect". Don't mess with China. I can't complain, really.

It is very sad, even disgraceful, that Mr. Akmal Shaikh was executed for drug possession. But, British puppet Prime Minister Gordon Brown hasn't a square inch of moral high ground from which to bleat his pleas for clemency, and the Chinese have nothing but contempt for him.

I applaud the Chinese government. They and the Islamic nations have got one thing down right, and that's dealing properly with those who deal in the hard narcotics trade. The trade in opiates and cocaine derivatives, and meth, etc have a devastating effect on millions of lives in so many ways, Everyone knows how drug abuse ruins lives and families and adds up to billions when you figure in the cost of violent crime associated with the drug trade. But you also must figure in the money pipeline that the drug trade creates for terrorist organisations around the world, the PLO,Al-Qaeda, Taliban, FARC, and too many others to list. Any dent we can make in the drug trade is potentially a blow struck against terrorism.

So he had a mental illness that drove him to be an international drug smuggler? LOL He was a criminal, plain and simple, and he got caught in the wrong place. Two places (among many) that you don't want to mess with - China and North Korea. And don't forget Iran. Stupid is as stupid does.

Dittoheads - they call obama a communist, but they LOVE real communists.