The Schapelle Corby Story

[Caitlin]

Ahhh... Miss Duce, To have ours minds shaped and moulded by those who can't do, but teach.

ppl... nope... got no idea what the heck that is

I have no idea what country your from, so I don’t know how familiar you are with my country, or our relations with Indonesia. You say in your profile info your from the best country on earth, so I’m going with the fact that your Australian then. Right Mate. But since you sprook US law, maybe your not.

To be fair, if anyone carrying a bag of weed and simply said "it's not her...someone put it there.", then millions of drug lord around the world would have walk free. The evidence is righ there in her bag, it's direct evidence.

If someone were to carry a bag of weed thru US Custom, caught, do you think that someone can say 'No...someone else put it there, it's not mine", and get away with it?

For RhondaLee and Miss Duce http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117...0-1702,00.html re: Customs report into drug smuggling at Australian airports

What overwhelming evidence points the finger at her? The evidence might be in her bag, but there is a high probability that it is not hers, and the Indonesian failed to prove that she was the only one to have had access to the bag, she had identified as being tampered with, and the Indonesians authorities had refused to fingerprint the bag.

A major important fact you are failing to grasp, is that drugs are smuggled out of Indonesia, not into it. It’s like either of you packing a bag full of drugs, and smuggling it into Columbia.

her defense fail to prove such existence of tampering with her bag

The prosecution failed to prove that the bag was not tampered with.

its not up to the prosecution in any country to prove someone's innocence.

That’s right. And your point is??

the taiwanese national cable that i get at home even suggested that austrialians were making a big deal out of this because she's white while austrialia has some 80 something other citizens in jail in other asian countries on similiar charges but most of them were asian. .

This may shatter your naiveté miss duce, but media and what they report are not without bias. Your right albear, the media is more often than not, skewed and biased.

The Bali nine caught for drug smuggling are a mixture of Asian and white, and none have the support by media, or the Australian public as Schapelle had, because it is so glaringly obvious that they are guilty. With Shappelle, there is a high probability that she is innocent.

Also, what has Australians riled, is that Abu Bakar Bashir, an instigator of the Bali bombings, where 100 plus Australians, and other tourist were killed, received a two year sentence, where Shapelle received twenty years, and may be facing the death sentence, because the prosecution is appealing on the leniency of the sentence.

another question that came up during the class discussion was the role of the austrailian govt. why were there no formal investigations into her defense claims of baggage handlers and corruption? instead the govt downplayed the situation of security risks at airports and ask ppl not to panic.

Just because the Government doesn’t publicly acknowledge what they are doing all the time, doesn’t mean that they are not doing anything. There is an inquiry into the handlers, cleaners, etc, and are overhauling security and hiring procedures. The fastest way to alienate someone and make them irritated with you is to jump up and down and point fingers at. Indonesia is Australia’s closest neighbour, handling delicate situations with tact and diplomacy is much a more mature option.

it seems that most austrailians blame the indonesians for their legal systems 'failure' and fail to look at the supposed orginal source of the problem. its pretty hard for the rest of the world to feel anything more than pity.

No, Australians don’t blame the Indonesians for their legal systems ‘failure’, they just don‘t agree with some aspects of their procedures.

Also there seems to be many problems about the whole affair. What is the original problem? You failed to enlighten us.

Anyhoo, what was her original purpose to Bali? Is it a vacation?

And your point