Show NO MERCY to DRUG traffickers
Bishop Fulton Sheen once said that “Miscarriage of mercy is as much to be guarded against as miscarriage of justice.”
Almost every day, we see examples of miscarriage of mercy. A robbery victim readily forgives the weeping culprit who, as all thieves and robbers almost invariably do, claims that abject poverty forced him to commit the crime. Well, with the stolen item recovered, the victim finds nothing wrong in not pressing charges. With that, the culprit goes scot-free. Free to victimize other persons again? But this may no longer matter to the “merciful” victim. After all, he or she already recovered the stolen property.
Of course, robbery and theft are just common crimes. And a person does not get victimized every day. How about when the crime is drug trafficking? Should we seek mercy for the “poor” convicted trafficker who merely wanted to ensure a good future for his or her family? Or, is this a case of miscarriage of mercy?
A former congressman said his blood pressure goes up every time he hears of drug traffickers. “They almost destroyed the future of my son,” he told me. He said he wanted all drug traffickers eliminated so they could no longer victimize other children. I say, we should not wait for our children to be victims of drug syndicates before getting roused into anger against drug dealers and traffickers.
When Filipinos agree to become drug mules, I’m sure they are aware of the immense damage they could inflict on users and on society. But I bet they ignore this. They don’t care about other human beings, for the money that they could get from the crime is all that matters to them.
Call me insensitive, but I feel no pity for persons arrested and convicted for drug trafficking. If they are meted the death penalty, then so be it. I consider the penalty commensurate to the crime.
I’m in full support with the proposal of Senators Tito Sotto and Migz Zubiri for the reimposition of death penalty for the heinous crime of drug trafficking. You want to take revenge against the Chinese for executing our drug mules? Then do it on those convicted of drug offenses.
After all, most of them are Chinese. I’m very sure the Chinese government will even thank us for doing the dirty work for them in executing the criminal elements from their country.
I consider it an abomination that our government has been humbling itself before China in a bid to save the lives of three Filipinos condemned for drug trafficking. I say, drop the move. After all, our government had already made sure that the three were given due process. I believe that the government should stop there. That should be its only role on drug trafficking cases filed abroad against Filipinos. There has been no showing that the Chinese judges did not give a fair hearing to the accused and convicted them in accordance with their laws.
“Humanitarian” reason is readily invoked in asking for the commutation to life sentence of the punishment for Filipinos sentenced to die abroad. But, is life sentence really preferable to a death penalty. If our leaders believe so, then they should immediately provide more budget for the food of prisoners. They should also support the proposal of Sen. Chiz Escudero to regionalize our penal institutions to ease the congestion and keep the prisoners nearer their families. Unless life in jail is made more conducive for reforms, a lifer might even prefer to be executed by lethal injection.
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