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[winnie]

There is an online petition to get her home:

The link is:

http://www.schapellecorby.com/petition.htm


If you care to sign it.......just postin it.

[igotthisguitar]

>. Conspire to & successfully execute the bombing of a popular foreign nightclub killing hundreds ...

(Muslim cleric, Abu Bakar Bashir)

... and you receive a couple years. Find yourself with the "wrong plant" in your luggage & you're locked away for 20 years ?!?

If this is Indonesia's idea of "Justice", then true justice for Ms. Corby can only start by the WORLD ...

BOYCOTTING BALI ...

http://www.google.com/search?q=corrupt+indonesia+baggage+handlers



Even after that bombing i HAD thought of one day visiting Bali. Not any more.

Can anyone say email campaign ???

[shifty]

Was it packed in her hand luggage or the hold of the plane?

How do 4 kgs get into a lady's hand luggage? The notion that people get framed belongs in the movies, even in Indonesia.

We all know that an Indonesian jail is no place to be for a young lady to rot in and suffer so. It's just a juvenile mistake she made.

Maybe I don't understand why these "drugs" are taken so seriously. Is it because it is a stepping stone to hard stuff? All the kindly folk that I knew who did it (including myself) went unscathed.

As I write this, wonder how many sojus I've had.

I think we should try and get her outa there.

[waterbaby]

[Barking Mad Lord Snapcase]

I must confess that I had an emotional knee-jerk reaction to this issue. However, here is a fellow Australian who has had several emotional knee-jerk reactions to this subject for the exact opposite reasons:

http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic.php?t=69515

It isn't just the opinion that amazes me, or even his sub-adolescent manner of expressing it, but rather the fact that he states that he is sick and tired of all the publicity and media hype ... then refuses to shut up about it himself.



Honestly, how defective is that?

[yoda]

[crazylemongirl]

here would be a simple way to check her story.

all bags are weighed at check in at which point it left her person. If it weighted more when it came into custody then it wasn't hers but the customs officers didn't bother to do that and the judges have ordered the contents be destroyed.

Quite frankly I don't think even an australian would be stupid enough to smuggle dope into indonesia and risk death by firing squad.

Just because do you know everyone in aussie?

[komtengi]

[jaganath69]

I should have thought of this earlier, but those of you advocating a tourist boycott of Indonesia should stay away from Thailand and Malaysia as well. Both have corrupt court systems, use torture and forced confessions and have delivered massive sentences including the death penalty to foreign traffickers in the past.

[bucheon bum]

[Cthulhu]

For any of those who have had too much of Channel 9's cheerleading, here's a more even-handed editorial from The Australian:

Corby case not ours to decide

May 28, 2005

Many Australians are angry Schapelle Corby is sweating in a cell this morning. They say the evidence she owned the four kilos of marijuana found in her luggage at Bali airport was not conclusive, and it could have been planted by drug-running airport baggage handlers. They argue that elements of the case against her do not make sense, saying that taking marijuana to Bali is a case of coals to Newcastle. And they point to the unfamiliar noise of the courtroom and complain the Indonesian legal system is unfair. The anger unleashed by this conviction is understandable. Corby is an all-Australian girl. Parents around the country look at her, see a reflection of their own kids, and react accordingly. And so many Australians visit Bali, some of us forget the writ of our law does not run there. But what we think does not matter a hill of beans. Indonesia is a foreign country where they do things differently, just as they choose. Until we know the grounds for the promised appeal there is no apparent evidence that Corby did not receive a fair trial under the applicable laws. Despite the gratuitous comments of Australians who should know better, and the intrusive behaviour of Australian television crews, the Indonesian judges conducted themselves with care. Nor was the punishent outrageous compared with the death sentence that could have been applied.

The most important question is what happens now. Corby is just one of 155 Australians the Department of Foreign Affairs says are serving sentences in prisons overseas. Some 46 of them are in Asian jails. And she is far better off than the Australians facing execution in Vietnam and Singapore. There is nothing special our government could, or should, do to help her, beyond the assistance any Australian in her situation is entitled to. And while Corby has captured public sympathy, our greatest efforts should be reserved for citizens who are at risk of execution. Nor can Australia solicit an agreement with Indonesia to bring Corby home to serve her sentence here straightaway. That will require negotiation of a mutual prisoner return treaty. Certainly the prospect of a young woman trapped in the destitution of a culturally alien Indonesian prison is unsettling. But while Australia has a prisoner exchange program with Thailand no such arrangement is in place with Indonesia. It would be good for such a deal to be done, but not solely to suit the circumstances of a single prisoner. Many Australians feel the pain of this family, with a loved child in a foreign jail, but justice and sympathy are not synonymous.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,15425041%255E7583,00.html

[jaganath69]

Quite some time since I have seen something this balanced from the Aus. Well said, sums up what I feel.

[On the other hand]

Here's what I can't figure out:

According to Corby's defenders, the baggage handlers were smuggling drugs from Brisbane to Sydney.

[Barking Mad Lord Snapcase]

[SuperFly]

I'd love to see some good old boys from down under take up arms and bust her out while she's still young...and cute...well, it'd make a good movie anyway.