Parliament struggles with wording for death penalty clauses in illicit drugs bill
Friday, August 27, 2021 - 22:57
Legislation to introduce the death penalty for the most serious illicit drugs offences stirred vociferous debate in the Tongan parliament yesterday evening, 26 August 2021. Although a majority of members were unhappy with death penalty clauses, they proceeded to pass the bill without the changes they wanted being written. From the House by Pesi Fonua.
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So at the end did they vote
So at the end did they vote in favour or against the death penalty? In the way it is described in the article, those parliamentarians did not want and yet they did because it got so late. Sounds stupid to me. Is that why we select them and pay them?
Luckily the article ends with some more wisdom. I can imagine how those high commissioners told Tonga that civilised countries, such as they themselves, nowadays do not have death penalty any more and that Tonga should not descend to the level of China, and the USA and the like. Hypocrites. Educating, if you want to call it that, street education, our boys to become criminals. Especially USA prisons are good in that. And then not wanting to make their own hands dirty, send them overseas, back home to Tonga. It is their problem, is not it? And then saying: naughty Tonga why do you make your hands dirty? Right so that Samiu Vaiupulu told them that. - ʻOfa atu, Firitia