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happeningthang · Joined: 26 Apr 2003

I think it's more showmanship than politics.

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

Someone imports drugs into a nation they know has the death penalty for such an offense and we should care?

Barking Mad Lord Snapcase · Joined: 04 Nov 2003

http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/lukemcilveen/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/bali_has_nobody_to_blame_but_itself_for_tourism_woes/

I don't know whether Corby is innocent or guilty. There isn't enough evidence either way. However, judging from the responses to the above blog, it seems that those against Corby seem to be coming from a the-third-world-is-more-beautiful-and-true-than-the-west angle, which I find puzzling in this context. Apparently an entire nation can be an "underdog", understandably; but the rules are reversed for individuals - so long as those individuals are decadent, consumerist tourists being made an example of by poor, hard-done-by 3rd world quasi-democracies who need to cut the cushy 1st world tall poppies down to size by any means possible. Would these anti-Corby gloaters condemn drugs in their own "decadent" Western nation? Have these people never accused their own country's laws of being harsh? I wonder.

Imagine if I designed a T-shirt emblazoned with the oh-so-witty logo "David Hicks: What a D!ck!" (Hey, it rhymes better than "Four Kilo Anti Hero"! That's called "sloganeer's cred"!) Methinks that the skies of Australia would suddenly be filled with a rising din of moaning, hollering and muffled warbling through lentil-encrusted beards.