Australia should be thanking Indonesia

What is a drug dealer? It is a person who has no sympathy, compassion or feeling for those that they sell to. They know that a percentage of those that use their drugs will end up dead from an overdose and that most of the remainder will end up non-functional – yet they sell the drugs anyway. They are simply looking for profit. 

What is a drug user? It is a person who either lives to have fun, can not face adulthood or responsibility, or is susceptible to peer pressure because of a need to “belong”. Once someone has made a decision to begin using drugs, they begin a slow descent down the ladder of humanity until they have no loyalty to anyone or anything other than the drug. Thus their families are also afflicted by the drug use. 

The two biggest threats to world stability are drugs and terrorists, and the two issues are related. Drug money fuels terrorism, so when you get right down to it, drugs are the biggest problem we face. 

Indonesia is trying to do something about it besides slapping dealers and users on the wrist, and Australia is upset about it. The Australians want their errant children returned so that they can slap them on the wrist again and allow them to go back doing what they have been doing all along. 

I know that it is the duty of any government to protect their citizens abroad, but Australia should recognise that once someone elects to become a drug dealer, they relinquish their citizenship. They relinquish their right to sympathy or compassion. In fact, Australia should be thanking Indonesia for taking care of a problem that Australia does not seem to know how to handle. 

Until most of the citizens of the world begin to understand exactly how serious the proliferation of drugs has become, we will have well-meaning but totally mistaken governments refusing to unite to end the insanity. I congratulate Indonesia for showing us the way forward.

John Arnone