Mule-Slang a person who is paid to transport illegal drugs for a dealer.(http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Mule)
Sa susunod na Linggo nakatakdang bitayin ang tatlong Pinoy na nakulong sa China dahil sa pagpupuslit ng pinagbabawal na gamot na heroine.
Maraming kababayan natin ang nalalagay sa peligro at kumakapit sa patalim dahil sa kawalan ng oportunidad sa ating bayan. Hindi nga naman natin sila masisisi kung mas pipiliin pa nilang mameligro ang buhay kesa sa makitang naghihirap ang kanilang mga mahal sa buhay. Pero dapat alam pa rin nila kung ano ang tama sa mali.
May sariling batas na pinaiiral ang China at ang batas ay ginawa para maging patnubay sa kung ano ang nararapat at ano ang daang matuwid.
Sa ating bansa, marami ding Chinese nationals na drug traffickers ang nahuli ngunit namumuhay ng marangya maski sa loob ng kulungan. Ang iba pa nga sa kanila nakakatakas basta malakas magpadulas. Meron naman tayong parusang kamatayan DATI pero dahil isa daw tayong Katolikong bansa kaya inabolish ang nasabing parusang bitay.
Tutal isa naman tayong Katolikong bansa bat hindi na lang natin ikulong ang mga nagkakasala sa simbahan. Tutal mukhang mas alam naman nila ang kanilang ginagawa eh..
Philippine President Benigno Aquino launched a last-ditch appeal Wednesday for China to show clemency to three Filipino drug couriers who face execution next week.
Aquino said he had tried in vain to contact China's leader over the case, and said he would send Vice President Jejomar Binay to Beijing to convey his personal request to spare the two women and a man.
The trio -- who would be the first Philippine nationals executed in China -- were convicted separately of smuggling heroin into China in 2008, the foreign department said.
"I am trying to set up a phone conversation with President Hu Jintao again to make an appeal for the commutation" of the death sentences, Aquino told reporters.
He said Filipino diplomats had been trying to patch him through to Hu since Friday. "As of now, they (Beijing) have not signified willingness to accept the phone call.
"But we think our request is very, very reasonable. It is time for them to demonstrate their pronounced statements of improved closer bilateral ties. This will be a test (of that)," Aquino said.
The condemned 42-year-old Filipino man and 32-year-old woman were both convicted in December 2008 while the third, a 38-year-old woman, was sentenced in May 2008.
The first two are scheduled to be executed on Monday in the southern city of Xiamen and the 38-year-old woman in Shenzhen, near Hong Kong, on Tuesday, officials said.
However, the Chinese embassy in Manila showed no sign of its government relenting.
"The death sentence on the three Filipino drug traffickers is the final verdict by the Chinese judicial authorities in accordance with law," it said in a statement Wednesday.
"As criminals (facing the) death penalty, their legitimate rights and interests have been protected in accordance with law."
The embassy would help relatives who may want to visit the three in prison before their execution, the statement said, adding that it hoped the case would not affect diplomatic ties.
Aquino said many Chinese drug traffickers had been arrested in the Philippines but could not face execution because the mainly Roman Catholic nation had abolished capital punishment.
"We'd like to see reciprocity, hopefully," he said.
The scheduled executions come after ties chilled over the deaths of eight Hong Kong Chinese in a bungled bus hostage rescue in Manila late last year.
Officials in Hong Kong were disappointed by Aquino's subsequent decision to slap minor criminal charges against several police officials involved in the fiasco.
The trio -- who would be the first Philippine nationals executed in China -- were convicted separately of smuggling heroin into China in 2008, the foreign department said.
"I am trying to set up a phone conversation with President Hu Jintao again to make an appeal for the commutation" of the death sentences, Aquino told reporters.
He said Filipino diplomats had been trying to patch him through to Hu since Friday. "As of now, they (Beijing) have not signified willingness to accept the phone call.
"But we think our request is very, very reasonable. It is time for them to demonstrate their pronounced statements of improved closer bilateral ties. This will be a test (of that)," Aquino said.
The condemned 42-year-old Filipino man and 32-year-old woman were both convicted in December 2008 while the third, a 38-year-old woman, was sentenced in May 2008.
The first two are scheduled to be executed on Monday in the southern city of Xiamen and the 38-year-old woman in Shenzhen, near Hong Kong, on Tuesday, officials said.
However, the Chinese embassy in Manila showed no sign of its government relenting.
"The death sentence on the three Filipino drug traffickers is the final verdict by the Chinese judicial authorities in accordance with law," it said in a statement Wednesday.
"As criminals (facing the) death penalty, their legitimate rights and interests have been protected in accordance with law."
The embassy would help relatives who may want to visit the three in prison before their execution, the statement said, adding that it hoped the case would not affect diplomatic ties.
Aquino said many Chinese drug traffickers had been arrested in the Philippines but could not face execution because the mainly Roman Catholic nation had abolished capital punishment.
"We'd like to see reciprocity, hopefully," he said.
The scheduled executions come after ties chilled over the deaths of eight Hong Kong Chinese in a bungled bus hostage rescue in Manila late last year.
Officials in Hong Kong were disappointed by Aquino's subsequent decision to slap minor criminal charges against several police officials involved in the fiasco.
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