Can we make some effort to take ourselves seriously? Why the fuck are we not celebrating the death of a convicted drug courier? We had a service in Melbourne to which “thousands attended, to commemorate the life of a fallen Australian” (news.com.au)
If you take the semi-literal interpretation of that comment – yes, he is a fallen Australian. But the implication is that it is a tragedy that he has “fallen”. There is no tragedy. The man tried to courier drugs, he tried to do it into a country that he KNEW would kill him. He deserved to die, and he deserved to have his death publicised to put people off doing it.
In my opinion, he did NOT deserve to have his death commemorated in such a way. Nor does he deserve any pity or sympathy. The absolute ludicrous suggestion that the nation should observe a minutes silence for him is disgusting. At least there are some people speaking out against this stupidity (and a lot more eloquently then I care to as well). De-Anne Kelly has spoken out against it – and I hope she can gather more support before this amazingly stupid plan can be implemented.
