Death by Bureaucracy

In 2019, in a very different situation, I was worried about the hospital bureaucracy that almost killed my mom. My mom was struggling with pneumonia and the antibiotics were not yet having any effect, but they scheduled her for surgery on her eye, and once the surgery had been scheduled, it was very difficult to try to stop it, the momentum to stick with the schedule was incredible, even though it seemed unlikely she would survive the surgery. I kept asking, can&#x27;t we wait a week and do the surgery when she&#x27;s recovered from the pneumonia? But there was a feeling, no, we must operate on her eye now, even though there was nothing to gain from the surgery, as they said they were unable to restore her eyesight. But I was able to stop the surgery and my mom is still alive today. I wrote about this in some detail in Regarding The Death Of My Father:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Regarding-Death-Father-Lawrence-Krubner-ebook&#x2F;dp&#x2F;B08NV1WFXS&#x2F;ref=sr_1_1?crid=3ASY1FNB1TQAC&amp;dchild=1&amp;keywords=regarding+the+death+of+my+father&amp;qid=1635652173&amp;qsid=133-3563921-1189561&amp;sprefix=regarding+the+death+of+my+father%2Caps%2C204&amp;sr=8-1&amp;sres=B08NV1WFXS%2C1734297719%2C0306921464%2C1614685398%2C1555719856%2C1950948617%2C0393245586%2C178623615X%2C0679762051%2CB00OZ0TM32%2C1501168398%2CB004P5NXVO%2C0717181286%2C1785357646%2CB01GW2FJUA%2CB06X18BPR6&amp;srpt=ABIS_BOOK" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Regarding-Death-Father-Lawrence-Krubn...</a>

I didn’t know you could be put to death for non-violent crimes. Article says he was only charged with drug possession. This happened in Singapore, but according to Wikipedia “large-scale drug trafficking” is a capital crime in the US, too. Transporting 42g of heroin doesn’t sound even close to large-scale, but I can imagine getting swallowed up by a legal labyrinth anyhow, especially if you’re disadvantaged.<p>I don’t understand why more lawyers aren’t up in arms about the severe sentencing happening in the US. Guess it’s a similar situation to engineers being paid through the nose while pretending Big Tech is working for the greater good.

It&#x27;s a bizarre world. How can a person get a death sentence from 50 grams of cocaine. What an idiot regime and or public moral you must have as a country.

Whenever I read articles like this one, I try extremely hard not to view it through an Orientalist lens. But sometimes it&#x27;s extremely hard to do. I was born in the US, but whenever I&#x27;d visit Asia or relatives in India, I couldn&#x27;t help but notice there is something &quot;broken&quot; about the psyche of Asians. The upper echeleons of society are typically the most degenerate, at least from what I&#x27;ve observed. They like to drink, gamble, do drugs, etc...but God forbid if the lower classes even do a fraction of what they do. They will thrown down the hammer of social and moral superiority. The modern Asian is still chained by the shackles of colonialism.

This could be racism driven, even though SG is known to be heavily authoritarian against drugs regardless. East Asian countries tend to be very racist towards brown Asians (South East Asia and South Asia).<p><pre><code> &quot;His IQ is only 69&quot; </code></pre> Never had a chance

I was kind of waiting to hear the guy had killed someone, so that I could invalidate the whole article. But then it’s 42g of heroin on someone that was undoubtedly suckered into doing it.

God bless all of these activists. They&#x27;ve made it possible for this family to visit their son, whose death is so capricious, and so capriciously scheduled. I&#x27;m in tears.

Wow- reading this I was like- well he shouldn’t have murdered his victim then. And then I realized he was being killed for possession of drugs. Wtf the headline should read- death for possession not the stupid complain of the bureaucracy involved in killing him

Reminds me of the timeless piece by William Gibson on Singapore, “Disneyland with the Death Penalty”.<p>ref : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;1993&#x2F;04&#x2F;gibson-2&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;1993&#x2F;04&#x2F;gibson-2&#x2F;</a>

Drugs should be decriminalized and later legalized with varying degrees of regulation.<p>It&#x27;s happening with Cannabis now, but there is still a long way to go with drugs such as Heroin and Cocaine.

Killing people for possession of drugs is a sign of having sociopaths running the place. Big pharma propaganda is largely responsible for much of this