Domino drug effect

I cannot believe I have to write this letter to bring some sanity to the past few weeks regarding the Nguyen Tuong Van affair.

Can I first pose a few questions that none of the Australian media have asked?

1. What was the debt of his twin brother, how much and how was it incurred?

2. How did he know where to buy the drugs?

3. How much did he pay for those drugs?

4. Apparently he had enough grams of heroin for 25,000 hits. Can you conceive how much damage and how many deaths this number of hits would have caused?

Twenty years ago I witnessed what heroin could do. It was horrific, resulting in a father uprooting his family, selling his business and house and returning to Perth.

His 15-year-old daughter was prostituting herself while at high school for drug money.

She also stole money from her parents' purse and wallet. She stole and sold family items.

How many stories do other readers have of similar cases? How many families would have been devastated by 25,000 hits of the drug? When it happens it has an enormous "domino effect" on family, relatives and friends.

I applaud the Singapore Government for not wavering in enforcing the laws of its country. There has been too much whinging over the affair. By his deeds, this man was a potential murderer and a wreaker of havoc and despair.


Newshawk: http://www.napnt.org
Pubdate: Fri, 9 Decenber 2005
Source: The Northern Territory News(Australia Web)
Author: Letters to the Editor
Website: http://www.ntnews.news.com.au