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Skriven 2005-06-01 19:43:58 av Carol Shenkenberger (6:757/1)
     Kommentar till en text av Peter May (3:690/462.0)
Ärende: Re: Schapelle Corby Case - Bali Indonesia
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*** Quoting Peter May from a message to All ***

PM> The Australian public and media have widely condemned the Bali Distric
PM> Court's conviction and sentencing on Friday of 27-year-old Schapelle C
PM> for trying to smuggle 4.1kg of marijuana through Bali's airport in Oct
PM> Polls show an overwhelming majority of Australians accept her story th
PM> someone else had placed the drugs in her surfboard bag. 

such information as there is, shows this may well be true.  Very definate doubt
of the young lady having done this.

PM> drugs, on Friday took the unusual step of expressing sympathy for Corb
PM> The government has offered financial backing for her appeal, and two s
PM> Australian lawyers have agreed to work on the case for free. Tampoe ac
PM> the offer. 
PM> The case against Corby, a student beautician, has generated Australian
PM> hostility toward Indonesia and created a diplomatic balancing act for
PM> Howard's government, which has a fragile relationship with Jakarta. 
PM> Howard wants to be seen as doing all he can for Corby, but he also nee
PM> to show respect for neighboring Indonesia's legal system. 

I can understand that.

PM> Australia's Daily Telegraph newspaper contrasted Corby's sentence with
PM> that of militant Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir for his part in the bo
PM> that killed 202 people, including 88 Australians, in 2002. 
PM> "The justice system that gave a terrorist leader two years' jail for h
PM> part in the Bali bombing yesterday sentenced Schapelle Corby to 20 yea
PM> for smuggling cannabis," the newspaper said yesterday in a front-page
PM> story headlined "Nation's Fury." 

And that is even more understandable anger.  Cannibis is reaching legal status
in the USA and has already in many countries.  I doubt the lady was carrying
it but even if she were, it's *not* like bombing a nightclub full of
civilians, killing 202 of them.  Bali tourism has not recovered from it and
perhaps they need to look to a bigger problem and deal with that.

                                       xxcarol

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