“It's very much an individual choice I think, whether one executes.” (Peter Cook)They are hanging Nguyen Tuong Van in the morning. I am not myself in favour of hanging Australians. I’m in favour of beheading them, but hanging is oafish. The government of Singapore has come in for a lot of criticism for this unpleasant fetish of theirs; but as long as they are sure, beyond all reasonable doubt, that he is Australian... As David C says in the comments, which of us can honestly put his hand on his heart and say that we haven’t at some time wanted to hang an Aussie? I know I have.
Let he who is without motes in his eye cast the first beam.
I don’t know why the government of Australia doesn’t string up a couple of Singaporeans in retaliation. That’s what I would do. It’s idiotic, but sometimes idiocy is all we have left.
I hope you are a foreigner, for no true Englishman would prefer the French method of dispatch to the sturdy, bloodless rope. I can vouch for the Crown that not one of the Antipodean convicts (or "Australians" as they are now called) had cause to regret being hanged. The rope, when expertly administered, is as painless as a lightning bolt to the primal cortex. Every nation has its customs, and those of England are held in no less affection by its people than those of other lands.
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