What do you do if you don’t want your girl in jail? There are over 119 Malaysian women in prison worldwide for drug offences and
- I agree with Dr. Mahathir when he says: westerners don’t understand us [Asians] at all.
No I don’t understand the idea of Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim wanting all Malaysian women traveling out
of the country alone to have a letter from parents or employers…
Please explain to me how that will stop a person from drug smuggling?
- I agree with Prime Minister Badawi when he says: bloggers shouldn’t focus on the bad things but be constructive
How not to get your girl in jail
Analyse the problem and try out different simple solutions.
If you don’t smuggle drugs, you cannot get arrested. But there are people that put a bag of drugs in your luggage without you noticing it. All you can do here is: lock your bags with decent locks (not cheap locks) and hope for the best.
2 ways you get into being arrested for drugs: customs open your bags or a drug dog sniffs you out.
1. Customs opening your bags…
Happens to me all the time when I fly from Malaysia to Australia: they love to ask me if I packed my own bags and confiscate all my Chinese medicine, I mean really: if you want my Tiger balm, why don’t you just say up front…
2. Dogs sniffing you out…
This already is a solution to the problem: if a dog sniffs your drugs before you board in Malaysia, then that’s again a few girls less in jail.
Of course dogs in Malaysia could become an issue and pointing to another Islamic country where dogs wander freely in the streets like Morocco is not going to solve it (although Malaysian ministers do love to compare themselves to other countries when talking about problems like "The price of rice in Malaysia is lower by at least three RM per kilogramme compared to Thailand and Indonesia, and much lower compared to Singapore," said Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister Shahrir Abdul Samad yesterday." (See the food prices’ rise in Malaysia)
But 40% of the Malaysians aren’t Muslims, so at least you could use dogs on their luggage and having 40% less girls in jail already.
Education will help
It seems that some of the girls in jail got approached by a person saying: "you can fly for free if you can take these important documents with you"…
It would be easy for the Malaysian government who has lots of power over the media to educate people saying: "there is no such thing as a free meal, let alone a free flight".
Eradicate poverty will help
People living a hard life due to little money always love to gamble. Gambling for a quick gain in smuggling drugs could be prevented when people don’t have to gamble in order to sustain themselves. Of course this is a great theory, but not very practical to implement in a few days.
The other suggestions above are simple though and could be implemented whenever the government feels for it.
Conclusion
If I can in 10 minutes already give a few workable solutions to counter the amount of girls in jail, then why wouldn’t the government be able to come up with even better solutions in order to make sure Malaysia doesn’t get another Malaysian girl in jail overseas.
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