Is Schapelle Corby Smoking A Joint?
June 22nd 2008 05:05
Schapelle Corby In Happier Times
These pictures show Schapelle Corby living on the Gold Coast in happier times. Taken at Christmas in 2001, it would be almost three more years before she made that fateful trip to Bali.
Are You Gunna Pass That Around?
Close scrutiny of the coffee table reveals what appears to be a baggie, a packet of oversized papers and a joint in the ashtray in front of Schapelle.
A marijuana user is not necessarily a drug smuggler, however and Channel Nine will tonight telecast part one of an explosive two-part documentary revealing the factual details of the October 2004 arrest, and subsequent trial and imprisonment of Schapelle Corby.
Nine Chief Executive Officer David Gyngell said Schapelle Corby - The Hidden Truth was the definitive work on the Corby saga, the most controversial Australian prisoner since Lindy Chamberlain.
‘It's a fly-on-the-wall, warts-and-all account of what actually happened at every step of the Schapelle Corby story,’ he said.
‘Forget what you've seen, read and heard about the Corby story - and take up an extraordinary eye witness vantage point for the first time, from which you can make your own informed judgment.’
‘This film will challenge all sorts of myths and beliefs the public has held until now, with amazing revelations of lies, rivalries, bribery, deceit, backstabbing and imploding relationships of key players.’
Caught on camera by award-winning independent documentary producer, Janine Hosking, over three and a half years of painstaking filming and research, the result is a powerful and emotional observational documentary.
Mr Gyngell said the towering strength of Janine Hosking's film was her unprecedented access to every major participant, from countless hours of filming with Schapelle herself, to her defence team and her whole family.
‘In its making Janine Hosking has neither sought nor extended any favour to anyone. Her sole undertaking to the Corby family was not to release her documentary publicly until Schapelle's case was determined, and all avenues for appeal exhausted,’ he said.
Janine Hosking said she was thrilled the Nine Network was telecasting her documentary.
‘This is an epic story which deserves to be told, and Nine has provided that opportunity. It’s taken more than three years of my life to compile and produce and I am delighted that the Australian public will now get to see it in its compelling and complete form.’
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I have a feeling that the show will be very skewed to prove her innocence but will indeed backfire on her as the book did and make her look very guilty.
Regardless, 20 years is a long time and I hope that she won't have to serve the entire sentence. Drug smuggling is a serious business and if you do the crime, you do the time, especially when you are within the laws of another country. I think, on the scale of things, dope is no worse than alcohol but they have a zero tolerance law. I would expect that if I went into Saudi Arabia and got caught brining in alcohol then the same would happen...and I would deserve it.
Interesting post!
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I saw the doco last night. Rivetting stuff. I've always thought she was guilty. There's too much damning evidence surrounding her family ...
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I love that sentence.
I think Corby's guilt is official, while before the media made zilllions saying she's innocent now it's clear, to make millions say she's guilty (which she conveniently is).
Just another day in tv ladn.
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But she's guilty.
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QUOTE ME NO QUOTES!
It is as misleading and defamatory as the various TV shows covering this unfortunate situation have been in the past.
While admitting I did not see the entire doco, I pose the following for careful consideration.
Firstly, if the above images had shown Corby puffing on a joint, or someone else doing so, which they do not, I would still say, SO WHAT!!??!! I used to smoke dope and whatnot, but I never became a dealer. It does not follow logic to assume because someone uses drugs, that they then deal them, or in Corby's case, smuggle them.
Another salient point everyone seems content ignoring, if it is actually true, that Schapelle knowingly smuggled the HUGE bag of dope into Bali, then she is a unique smuggler indeed!
WHY you ask?
Because the dope bag was HUGE, on top and in plain view, without any attempt to conceal it!!!!!
Doesn't that worry anyone, that in every other instance of smuggling, THROUGHOUT HISTORY, the contraband is well concealed, but just not in her case?
This means she is either the dumbest smuggler in history, or she has been set up, either intentionally by someone who wanted to damage her, or she was unlucky because the real smugglers, in the customs/secure area, missed finding the bag their counterparts in Australia had hidden the dope in.
Another fact forgotten is, the exposing, after her initial trial, of a dope smuggling ring within the baggage handlers at Sydney airport, (at the time of the trial and after requests by the Corby defense, any knowledge of such was denied by Aust. authorities).
Another point, baggage handlers have been allowed to waltz in to work, with their backpacks and bags, into the high secure areas, UNSEARCHED and UNCHALLENGED, and then leave again at the end of the day, UNSEARCHED and UNCHALLENGED...since we started using airports!!!
One of the TV programmes even showed that the security camera, trained on one area of the baggage handling, not all areas are in fact covered it appeared, had been turned to the wall, and this was after it was initially complained about, after the Corby trial, yet once again the camera had been turned to the wall. The camera is in a high position, so it could only have been 'knocked' on purpose, and only by people with customs security clearance.
Furthermore, two separate travellers had since stated publicly that when they reached their destinations and unpacked, one couple found a big block of hashish in their bag, they then rang the Aust. embasssy, who told them to flush it down the toilet! The other traveller stated, he too found a big bag of marijuana in his bag, and when he asked the embassy what to do, they also told him to get rid of it and not tell any authorities, plus, they knew this happened from time to time!!
Considering all that, and that the dope found wasn't tested, to establish if it was grown in Australia, instead the Indonesians destroyed it, it leaves one with the feeling that something is being protected here, and it isn't the Corby girl!!!! Also, no finger prints and/or DNA samples were taken from the dope and its plastic transparent bag. If Corby's prints and DNA had been found on the bag and the dope, or anyone in her family, then they would have had a fairly secure case, but none of that was established, even after Corby's counsel had asked for it.
I saw the last part of that doco, the insinuations about the dope growing neighbour, who grew for his personal use, and hid his addiction from his neighbours the Corbys, so he claimed, was made to look as if he was lying, yet the dope he grew was a poor quality, and the dope found in Corby's boogey board bag was hydroponic.
Some people can appear/seem guilty, and say/do things that seem to support that suspicion, yet in fact be innocent. Once this has happened, everyone believes the suspicion, instead of considering only the facts.
Just ask Lindy Chamberlain... at the time, even I thought she was guilty, as did one of her barristers, who retired from representation of her case, because he thought she was guilty!!! (yes, that is inside info and no I'm not saying who it was!)
no cheers here...
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Meanwhile, my thoughts are this:
Initially I was convinced for a long time that Schapelle was innocent. Who could possibly be that stupid? Then over time I became less convinced. But at the same time, I felt whether she was even guilty or not was irrelevant. Can't we bring her back here and decide what to do?
I think she has already served a hard sentence. Compared to criminals back here, for example, the gang of 9 men in Qld who pleaded guilty to gang-raping a 10 year old child and were sentenced to 12 months probation. Please.
I realise that was an extreme case, and don't get even get me started on OJ Simpson, but Schapelle - she's either innocent, or just very stupid. I know the evidence doesn't look good overall, but seriously, I think the Government should be able to have the power to bring back people that have been charged with offences overseas at will, and vice a versa.
Meanwhile, she makes a nice story for the media whenever hot stories are running a bit dry.
Feel free to criticise my thoughts. I'm intrigued...
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No, we can leave her to rot in a prison in the country she was caught comitting a crime. If you don't agree with the laws of a country don't go there, or worse, break those laws. It's that simple, it's not up to 'us' to do anything with her, she was caught in Bali and as such is held accountable to Indonesians not Australians.
You're just saying that because of the corby incident.
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BUT... having seen multiple cases where people get off so easy for horrific crimes, for example, speeding at 50 kmph over speed limit and killed 2 people = 4.5 years, and a brutal murder of 5 year old boy Cody Hutchings = 10 years....
I just find it different. Well I guess, if anything, this conversation suggests that Australia's Government needs to punish criminals much more harshly. No complaints here.
P.S. It wasn't just the Corby incident. I think David Hicks should've been dealt with back here earlier, and there's other cases overseas, if you're interested to hear.
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That said, I do think that it is fair for a government to try and broker a deal under certain circumstances. Many years ago an Australian woman was convicted and incarcerated in Greece for having a packet of panadeine in her handbag. Codeine is legal in Australia but wasn't at that time in Greece (I have no idea where they currently stand on that). There are two sides to that story, the first is that is was reasonable that she would have thought over the counter medication was OK and that is what our government argued and eventually had her set free BUT, it is every person's responsibility to check the laws of the country they are entering. When I went to Thailand you could buy valium over the counter with no prescription but I could not enter Thailand with one of my prescription meds without a doctor's letter because it was illegal over there without it. I had it stapled to my passport!
In the Corby case, I can see arguments for both sides. As I said above it was her book that convinced me of her guilt. I was very uneasy over the destruction of evidence. But she picked up that boogie board bag and didn't notice 4 extra kilos?!?! I pick up boxes at work every day that are exactly 4 kilos and trust me it is a weight you would notice. Could it have been a baggage handler or a bungled customs operation? Yes, there is room for reasonable doubt there. This story CLICK HERE proves it definitely happens and as recently as May this year.
I think she was a silly girl that had probably done it before and gotten away with it and got cocky and lazy but if I had been on a jury, no matter how guilty I may think she is, there is enough reasonable doubt under the definition of the law that I would have voted for an acquittal. She did not get a fair trial and for that reason I would be happy with the government doing a deal that had her finish out her sentence in an Australian prison.
The truth is, whenever you travel to another country you are subject to their laws whether you deem them fair or unfair. In some countries she would have been executed fair trial or no fair trial. It's a risk you take whenever you travel.
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Bryn & Johnny - Look in the ashtray behind the sunglasses. The original pic allows greater magnification, but i don't see a bong.
Morgan - That's a very naughty thought! ...Good one!
Fog - There's no need to shout. In the post I also draw a distinction between using and smuggling, so I guess you are agreing with me. The reference to Lindy Chamberlain was quite deliberate.
Heidi - I don't think a foreign government can interfere in the judiciary of another country. Aussies wouldn't like it if we were forced to relinquish a foreigner convicted of a crime comitted in Australia.
To All Respondents - It is easy to pronounce judgements from a safe distance but the weight of real responsibility takes courage and the wisdom of Solomon. What if you sent an innocent to death? What if you let someone get away with it? What would you have decided in Solomons case?
Comment by GlenB
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I understand there is no such provision in Indonesia and often the onus is on the defence to prove innocence rather than on the prosecution to prove guilt.
Schapelle Corby could not prove her innocence.
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There are actually many countries where the prosecution case is, in practice, believed by default unless the accused can prove they are innocent, a practice called presumption of guilt. That's why I said you really need to check the laws of any country you enter as they may differ vastly from our own. The onus is on the traveler to be aware.
Comment by Anne Tootill
I can't believe you people, you are like a pack of hungry wolves.
How would you go in a cell over there for four years?
This girl has sufferened enough - bring her home now.
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After watching the doco last night I 2 am left believing the Corby Family are guilty of something. One or more in the family know the truth.
Why you would agree to doing such a documentary when majority of peope i have spoken 2 regarding this believes the family did it. It did not paint a pretty picture of them. Some acting lessons would have helped.
What was with the brothers? Did anyone else find what they had to say rather odd!! So much for trying to help your sister out.
Maybe if they managed to keep their noses clean, then Australia wouldnt look down on the family. I dont believe in all the pics, bongs whatever I am sure everyone has had some criminating pictures taken, but that really doesnt have anything to do with it, that didnt make me change my mind. The fact of the matter is there is just to much information pointing at all.
If you were playing on smuggling drugs into a neighbouring country (in which you regularly visit and where your sister and husband live), large amounts as well why wouldnt you try your luck and place it on top of your bag, that way you can always say it was planted and wasnt yours and get away with it. Or can you.....nice try i say!!!
Oh and this baggage handler talk, why..why would they risk putting their money in a bag, that may potentially never see again! i think people watch far too many movies.
Australian government not helping?? Why?? Could it be that they may acutally know more than what you and i do.
We all know large families that are well known in the community for certain reasons......picture them and then ask the question why wouldnt the government be helping them!!!!
Comment by Pantathian
Schapelle and her family are liars, I know someone who witnessed her, with family members, smoking weed, yet they lie about it, who hasn't smoked weed? It doesn't make her guilty, so why lie about it?
During the documentary there was a interview by the Indonesian's on Schapelle that Mercedes was present for and when a certain question about Schapelles job in Japan came up, immediately Merecedes stopped the questioning, why? Because she had something to hide.
The two sisters used to work in Japan as 'hostesses' and I am sure there were no drugs involved (yeah right)
I have no doubt she is guilty and her family is 100% in on it.
The Govt would not intervene because they know she is guilty.
If (and I do mean a big IF) she is innocent, her family and their past dealings have made her look very guilty.
Sorry Schapelle, but suffer in your jocks
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As for earlier comments on Miss Coby being either the dumbest smuggler ever or being set up, to that person i say there are also other options and it is not as clear cut as you make it. Some people also suggest that she may have got lazy and cocky, with this i do not agree i think it was a young woman thinking she was being clever and had the view that noone would think she was stupid enough to do try and smuggle that much drugs in an unlocked bag. If you think about it , if your going to get caught with that amount of drugs on you then it would be best to make it look like they could have been planted on you...Having a locked on the bag and the key to the lock in your pocket would make the claim that it had been put in there during transport a pretty weak arguement. also like it has already been stated - would she not have felt the difference in the wieght of her bag or the shape of the bag.... That is of course unless like it has been suggested the bag was shaped to resemble a body board and if thats the case then there was some attempt to hide it!
What really annoys me about this country is that we are so patriotic its blinding....there was those two divers (one american and one british) that got left in the ocean by the diving company in cairns i think and all this country can do is blame the people involved and say they did it on purpose for the money or that it because their stupid...but when an aussie girl gets busted smuggling drugs into another country it cant possible be true. As for the government bringing her home forget it...imagine it the otherway round 'a foriegn person is caught selling drugs to children in Aus or convicted of rape or murder and just because the general public in their home country is to blind to the possibility they could be guilty Australia hands them over so they can go free....AS IF!!! Australia does not posses that power and never will!
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And for those who say she deserves to rot in gaol, God help you when it's one of yours that does something wrong, and it will happen.....punishment does not always fit the crime, and as nobody can prove who put the dope in the bag, and no forensic testing was done, she is entitled to be innocent until PROVEN guilty. Still waiting for that to happen.
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Anonymous, I think someone already pointed out above that in Bali the law is presumption of guilt not presumtion of innocence. Different country, different law.
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STOP CLUTCHING AT STRAWS.....SCHAPELLE IS INNOCENT.....FULL STOP......BRING HER HOME NOW...
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Tough enough sentence?? What prison in Australia allows you to
a) have visits from family whenever you like
b) Take day trips out of prison
c) make such TV shows within the prison
d) use the guards mobile phones to contact people
Come off it people....thats not tough.
Alright so they show pictures of a 'room' in which she sleeps in that has some rubbish and a hole in the floor as a toilet, play the violin people. Anyone that has travelled to places like this eg Bali & Thailand would know that in fact that is in better condition then what majority sleep in everyday but still manage to have a smile on their faces!! Harden up I say, its not meant to be a holiday or 5 star hotel. If it wasnt Schapelle that screwed up it was someone in her family. In that case I wouldnt feel pity for any of them, they know the truth!!
Anyone that manages to doll themself up everyday slapping on the make up cant be living 2 badly i say.
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He probably hashed out some plan with Mercedes on bringing her husband some weed and selling most of it for a very good profit.
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If she is guilty then she should just do the time she has left, as they say you do the crime you do the time, she should be lucky its not the death penalty like some of the bali 9 got..... Good Luck Schapelle Corby
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And btw, that looks nothing like a joint or a baggie of marijuana.
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So without the finger printing/ DNA testing of the bag of dope there is no way of determining it's origins, the whole trial was a farce.
Also it's alleged that in the above photo Schapelle is having a joint, the guy on the right of the photo is making a Masonic hand sign gesture, so does that make him a narc.
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They degrade the indonesians and the majority of australians.
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It should be law in every country that the media can not approach any closer than 20 metres for saftey reasons. It is all a bit ridiculous.
Comment by Karl
As for the yanks who are suddenly convinced of her innocence based on the very well manipulated doco on HBO. I suppose you all still believe in WMD in Iraq too?
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put yourself in Mercedes position. She is fighting for her family, why does she have to be lady like? She is not degrading anyone. Her husband is Indonesian, why would she ever go there? She is not an embarrassment, she is an extremely brave person. I know I would go to all lengths to save my family members from any kind of false charges.
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Still obviously a hot topic.
I agree with Karl.
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No drug smuggler EVER would try and import drugs in a huge bag, all sitting on top and open for inspection like they said she. they always hide it always!
That does not seem to worry any of the experts here
sorry to real experts, but I use the term here as a BIG joke
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put all of them to lie detector test
i'd bet my life that Schapelle and Mercedes would fail!!!
Mick's cousin and that SA drug dealer would pass.....
i hope they all take this challenge in the future though I know the Corby will refuse
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You have to remember, the Australian courts had nothing to do with her conviction.
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AND now to the verdict on the Schapelle Corby case. I find the defendant guilty of xenophobia, spite, boorishness and a self-righteous tribal hysteria.
No, I don’t mean Corby.
I’m referring to the weeping and bellowing mob that is demanding we do all it takes -- even starve the poorest Indonesians -- to free this convicted drug trafficker. “Our” Schapelle.
What a shock to see the beast of mob rule roar like this, and in support of a woman who seems on the evidence more likely to be guilty than she’s painted.
Yes, Corby may be as innocent as she says. But picture how she must look, and how we all now look, to an Indonesian, whether a judge or a citizen.
Here is a surfer girl who worked as a bar hostess in Tokyo’s nightclub area, flying into Bali for reportedly the fifth time in six years.
(Corby, a student beautician who’d scraped up cash from working at a fish-and-chip shop, told 60 Minutes she’d been to Bali “five or six times since I was 16”.)
Customs officials screen her bags and detect something suspicious. They watch her, and later tell a court she seems nervous. Her bodyboard bag is more than twice its usual weight, bulging with an extra something the size of a stuffed pillow.
Actually, she says later, she’d only dragged her bag, and had so much other luggage she couldn’t tell its weight was unusual, or that there was anything inside but a bodyboard and flippers. Yes, well.
Two police and two customs officials agree on what happened next. They say Corby’s brother James carried the bag for her to the customs area, where officer I Gusti Nyoman Winata asked her to open it.
Corby zipped open the front pocket. Now the main zip, demanded Winata.
“The suspect (seemed) to panic,” he later testified.
“When I opened the bag a little bit, she stopped me and said, ‘No!’
“I asked why. She answered, ‘I have some . . .’ She looked confused.”
ABC’s Lateline showed Winata re-enacting Corby’s lunge to stop him opening her bag. He seemed as honest as Corby does, and said he had no doubt of her guilt.
Winata looked inside and found 4.1kg of top-quality marijuana, stowed in two airlock plastic bags, one tucked inside the other.
What is it, he asked?
“It’s marijuana,” the officials heard Corby reply.
Keep thinking how this all must look to an Indonesian. Who would you believe?
Think how it seems when the marijuana turns out to be hydroponically grown, and worth anywhere up to $80,000 in Bali, where it is prized by expatriates who are sick of the weak local weed and feel safer buying from a tourist. Big profits.
Keep picturing. The Indonesians learn that Corby, although having no criminal record, comes from a wild and woolly family.
One of her brothers is in jail for burglary and stealing, her mother is on to her fourth partner after having six children by three men. Her father had a minor conviction some 30 years ago for possessing marijuana.
Sure, none of that makes her guilty, but how would all this make Corby seem to an Indonesian? Here’s a tip: Not like she came from the responsible land of the straight-and-narrow.
I T gets worse. Corby’s defence team is soon headed by a salesman who looks like a spiv and is a former bankrupt who still owes creditors plenty.
Her main defence witness becomes an alleged rapist flown in from a Melbourne jail to tell how he heard some crook who’d heard some other crook say Corby was unwittingly carrying drugs for crooks operating at the Brisbane and Sydney airport terminals.
With Australians like this behind Corby, it’s a wonder the whole country wasn’t tossed into the cell with her.
The judges are then asked to believe these unknown smugglers took the marijuana into a high-security area at Brisbane in easy-to-see-through plastic and popped it into a random bag to be flown to another high-security area in Sydney.
Why the smugglers would do that, rather than simply drive the drugs down to Sydney by car, all safe, no one can say. That they then let their valuable drugs fly off to Bali is another mystery.
No wonder our own Australian Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty dismissed Corby’s theory as “flimsy”. Corby’s judges must have thought her team took them for idiots.
Idiots? They soon learned plenty of Australians took them for far worse. And now it was not Corby on trial, and losing, but Australia.
In one heady spasm, hundreds of thousands of Australians became certain that Corby the beautiful battler was in fact innocent.
Suddenly she was the star of a reality-TV Perils of Pauline -- complete with cartoon-like big breasts, every-woman prettiness and more tears than a soapie. It helped the plot that she was repeatedly filmed hands bound and besieged, pale in a jabbering, jostling crowd of brown foreigners.
Damn those natives. “The judges don’t even speak English, mate, they’re straight out of the trees, if you excuse my expression,” raged 2GB Sydney fill-in host Malcolm T. Elliott.
“Whoa, give them a banana and away they go.”
Others screamed that the judges were lying Muslims out for revenge (in fact, the chief judge was a Christian, and the other two Hindus).
Newspapers attacked Indonesia’s courts as corrupt and their jails as temples of “gloating sadism” where there was “little sympathy of foreigners, for which you may perhaps read Christians”. Save “our” Schapelle from the demon heathen!
No surprise, then, that Indonesian officials here were bombarded with so many threats and insults that Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer had to plead for them to be left alone. What would we say of Indonesians if our own diplomats were monstered like this?
Now Corby’s defenders demand we boycott struggling Bali. Actor Russell Crowe, among others, even warned Indonesia to remember we gave money for its tsunami victims -- as if we only gave charity in exchange for passes out of jail.
Sick, but the feeling has grown. The Salvation Army, out on its Red Shield appeal, had to promise not to send donations to Indonesia. Let their poor suffer for “our” Schapelle.
Meanwhile, radio hosts insisted the Prime Minister call the Indonesian President to fix things in court for Corby, as if such interference wasn’t plainly corrupt.
Worryingly, even senior politicians lost their heads in the hysteria, with Justice Minister Chris Ellison vowing to try bringing Corby home in a “one-off” prisoner exchange. The other 150 Australians in jail overseas should get breast implants.
HAVE we lost our heads? Are we really such a vile rabble?
What must Indonesians make of this hissing mob that threatens their diplomats, vilifies their country, blackmails them with aid and treats their judges as the corrupt playthings of our politicians? And all this for the sake of a convicted drug smuggler who seems quite probably guilty, and only possibly innocent.
Even our whinges about their drug laws must seem bizarre. Guess who truly has the worst laws -- Indonesia, which gave Corby 20 years’ jail for having 4.1kg of marijuana; or Victoria, which meanwhile gave a mere 12-month community service order to a teacher found with 29kg -- and let her keep her teaching licence?
So how must we seem to Indonesians? Like barbarians, or even terrorists, and it’s hard at the moment to think them very wrong.
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Their ex lawyer summed them up "Trailer Trash"
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and baggage handler crims must be laughing now!
watch out next time you travle it could be YOU!
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Lets try a hypothetical here. Go to any country around the world with Australia as your final destiantion. Load up your bag with *******(insert drug of choice) and if busted by customs. Deny all knowledge of how it got there. Indonesia did NOTHING that Australia or New Zealand would have done under the same circumstances.
She's as guilty as sin... the only ones who think otherwise are of the same ilk that like to have a puff or two themselves.
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well of course because I dont watch TV I missed the whole thing, but it doesnt follow that I dont have an opinion, because I do.
I dont know the logistis of her family background although I had heard it was a little shady, but whatever her crime (and i am sure it is no worse than many people getting away with it), I think the government is not doing enough and is letting this be an example, jsut as they did with Hicks. I dont portend to know the reasons, but something feels wrong here from the governments point of view, from the word go...?
Lilla ...
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"I have read the book and everything. she isn't guilty" Give me a break what did you expect her to put in her book? Oh and as you are obviously very thick. The reason for taking mary J from Australia is two fold. One, the product is usually far superior, ie more bang for your buck and b, If you are an Australian over there you will be happier buying from one of your fellow countryemen than risk getting stitched by the locals.
Now just who is it that is so stupid?
BTW, what is the play going to be called? "Bogans Abroad", "Blame it on the Boggie" or my all time fave " The Four Kilo Anti Hero".
Comment by Anonymous
Here are the facts about Schapelle Corby's "conviction"
Schapelle's bag was unlocked and out of her control for 12 hours. Can anyone here explain how that much mj passed through Brisbane, Sydney Domestic AND
Sydney International airports without being noticed?
And what about the missing CCTV footage at each airport of her bags going through. I mean what are the odds of that? Why did Indonesia refuse documented requests by Schapelle for the bag to be fingerprinted and the mj DNA tested for origin? Guilty people doen't usually request additional evidence to be used against them. The entire Corby family has been cleared by the QLD police as to any relationship to drug trafficking so where did she allegedly get the mj? The presiding judge bragged about never finding a drug suspect innocent and the only witness against her spoke no English yet claimed to have a
conversation with Schapelle! It's called REASONABLE DOUBT people! And there's enough here to fly a 747 through! Enough is enough!!! BRING HER HOME!!
Unless you've got something intelligent to add and to back up with FACTS, save your breath.
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Here's a fact. As already discussed in these comments, under Indonesian law there is no presumption of innocence until proven guilty beyond reasonable doubt.
On the contrary, once charged, a defendant is presumed guilty. The onus is on the defendant to prove his or her innocence.
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She was never allowed to prove her innocence. Her documented requests with the Australian consulate to have the mj DNA tested for origin (if it came from Indonesia, it wouldnt be traffiking,and it would be obvious that someone had put the drugs in there) and the bag fingerprinted were denied. The CCTV footage at all the airports showing her checking in a "flat" bag went missing. How is that possible in a post 9/11 world?
Even the pope would have been found guilty under their system.