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CORBY SOLUTION REVEALED
The Bulletin’s Paul Toohey and Eric Ellis report on Schapelle Corby’s ordeal, and its implications beyond her Bali prison cell. The entire Corby debacle is easily solved, by the way, were our government sufficiently creative. Also in The Bulletin:
* Photographer Mick Toal has exclusive images of Australia’s latest deployment of troops in southern Iraq;
* And John Mangos remembers Australian comedy great Graham Kennedy, shown below standing tall in Times Square four decades ago:
Just be thankful that if everything goes to shit, Mick knows his way around a rifle - he’s a former Australian serviceman and a current sporting shooter with the sort of ‘military’ rifles that our pitifully paranoid Federal and State Governments allow trained civvies to use.
Posted by ausdiplomad on 2005 05 31 at 06:20 PM • permalinkIf the implications of the Bulletin Corby story is that Australians should “shut up ” over the case so as not to affect relationships with Indonesia, by casting us as racists then i would like to throttle the writer of that article.
Just because some poor unglamorous Balinese woman got 15 years for possession of 15grams of weed, is not justification for Corby’s sentence,Gray Gray,stand tall!
o/t
W.A. Opposition leader Lib Matt Birney has been victimised by the Police Minister after being followed to his home by police and breath tested for alcohol.
Murky case - he was drinking lite beer at a hotel and his breath test was innacurate.On a further check he was found to be WELL under the limit.
Hearing or being informed of this,police minister is given the chance to lecture him on Abc news at 7pm.(informed by police commisioner including the exact blood alcohol readings). The next night on same news the premier Gallop also lectured Birney at length.
The following day the story ran on radio news all day including blood alcohol levels and now this morning it is STILL running,including blood alcohol levels.
This 2 days after community anger expressed on the breach of privacy laws and the use of public broadcaster to vilify Lib leader, who is not guilty,well under the limit and not charged.Media watch where are you now?Watching your back?The implication that President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono should be humiliated, while accept that it is to make a point, I want to reiterate my belief that this man is doing a great job and deserves credit.
Again I am impressed with the way he carefully steps his way through the threats to this fragile democracy. The founding fathers of the US were of the view that they could not be comfortable about their new democracy until it had hit the twenty year mark.
He has managed the loonies at the time of the tsunami adroitly. he has manged to move some of the really bad characters left over from totalitarian Indonesia. He has visited Australia and both honoured and mourned our servicemen and women.
He is promoting the idea of an independent judiciary. He is building Indonesia’s relationship with the US. He openly supports our participation in the forums and institutions of ASIA.
He is at this point refraining from attacks on Australia for its abuse of his country.
At the same time there are many in Indonesia, still poweful and dangerous, who would have him gone. If he has to make a choice between his ability to stay as President for the betterment of the Indonesians and Schapelle, I don’t like Schapelle’s chances. But he shouldn’t have to make that choice. We are being our own worst enemies in this matter.Why would we want to assist in his downfall. A long stretch but we are certainly forcing him to have to take a position that will benefit neither Indonesia, or Australia and Schapelle.
Actually I find the tone of the article quite juvenile and after having to put up with the ravings of the lunatic fringe on Margos web diary I’m quite disappointed to find the same type of juvenile thinking here.
Obviously as Australians we have graduated to the point that we now think that we are superior to all other races.
The other day on Alan Jones some racist came on decrying how dare the Indonesians not believe an Australian under oath.
I guess we’ll just have to release all those Aussies in our own prisons as they all must be telling the truth when they’ve pleaded not guilty.
I find it ironic that we are so critical of the same court system that we applauded when they condemned Amrozi and his mates to death. Guess it must be OK when it’s in our favour.
Critics who cite that the judge wasn’t listening when Corby made her plea are probably under the impression that our judges are multi linqual when we sentence non English speakers in our own courts.
How dare the rest of the world not be able to speak our own language.
Ain’t that right cobber?
Hey Tim, why do you continue to buy/peddle the line that Corby was unlucky enough to be the victim of conspiracies at both the Australian and Indonesia ends. Ain’t that a bit of a stretch?
Posted by Big Johnny on 2005 05 31 at 09:20 PM • permalinkWhat do the Aussies use on the LAV? A 25mm or a 30?
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 05 31 at 10:41 PM • permalinkAlso, Bakir’s true motives revealed, for all those who were wondering:
http://52nd.blogspot.com/2005/05/bakir-for-mp.htmlASLAV has 25mm gun on it I seem to recall - would that be the same as the Bradley?
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I see that pompous twit Paul Kelly was in the Australian lecturing us all on how immature we are to have talk back hosts who dare to criticise the Indon legal system. (For someone who can manage such a grave and sober expression, he’s as dense and unperceptive as the rest of the journalistic rat pack.)
Personally, I think Schapelle probably did do it, but I still hate those stinking corrupt Indon fascist muslims—blowing us up, persecuting us, holding giant rallies screaming ‘kill all the whites and Jews’, not caring enough to look after their own people but expecting us to give them aid—and all the while insulting us with their smug smirks and feigned victimised indignation.
..which country was immature again…?
I hate them. I think our Government should be trying to break up Indonesia and return it to the multitude of independant states it was meant to be.
Plus, forget their legal system - they’ll never seriously to a stop terrorism. From top to bottom of that vile country they love OBL and they hate Christians, whites and Jews. Send in the special forces to kill the bad guys direct, and include a few of their more repulsive politicians just to get some respect.
...and bust out any Aussie prisoners at the same time. If there’s real evidence we can try them back here - those fascists have got no right to judge us…
The nutbags are out in force:
Security scare closes Indonesian emabssy in Canberra
Bio hazard posted in, it seems.
Posted by Villeurbanne on 2005 06 01 at 02:10 AM • permalinkI’m also surprised at Tim’s line on Corby. He’s normally so logical and rational. It’s quite clear that under Indonesian law she is guilty. The punishment might seem severe under Australian law, where even murderers can get off with a few years, but thos is Indonesia.
Australia’s international interests are being hijacked by a bunch of redneck racist cane toads.
Mr Magoo - the punishment is severe under Indonesian law too. In 2001, a Mexican woman who smuggled 15.22kg of marijuana got a 7 year sentence. An Italian got 15 years for smuggling 5.3kg of cocaine - unlike marijuana, cocaine is a narcotic.
Why did Corby receive a 20 year sentence? Is there some good reason besides a perceived slap in the face for Australia?
Also, although I certainly dont agree with the loud-mouthed ‘we-demand-our-donations-back’ crowd, there are some legitimate concerns regarding the Indonesian justice system when a young woman gets 20 years for pot, and a terrorist gets two and a half years for helping to plan mass murder. In fact, the murdering terrorist scum who had their death sentence cancelled will probably be out of prison before Corby.
As for labelling Australians racists, bigots, neo-colonialists etc etc - do these descriptions also apply to the many Indonesians who were delighted at Australian deaths in the Bali bombing? And those who supported, and still support bin Laden?
Do Indonesians think we have forgotten the shrieking terrorist supporters in their bin Laden t-shirts? Or being told to leave our tsunami aid money there and go home, in case we convert ‘good Muslims’ to Christianity?
#16 kisdm001:
I wonder what the Indonesians thought was the bio-hazard ... a jar of vegemite? Seriously, the MSM also have a lot to answer for over this disturbing revelation ... people are committing crimes regarding something that should’ve rated a couple of column inches on the inside pages ... hmmm ... not good ...Unbelievable.
The plight of Schapelle Corby has inspired new parents across the country to name their daughters after her.
The Herald Sun has confirmed at least three girls across the country have been named Schapelle this year.
Posted by walterplinge on 2005 06 02 at 05:55 PM • permalinkCorrect me if I am wrong but didn’t Bakir get acquitted of the main charges and was only found guilty of one minor charge? All this crap about him being convicted of the Bali bombings and getting only 2 and a half years is getting on my nerves. If he had been convicted of the same charge as Amorozi (sic?) and Co and got that sentence then there would be something to bitch about.
Corby ran about the worst defence since Oscar Wilde, the innocent victim of not one but two conspiracies, the first by unknown drug smugglers and the second by gungho Indonesian Customs officers. For Christ sake, give me a break. She is pretty with nice breasts and great eyes but really, for all of you who “know” she is innocent I have a great range of bridges going cheap.
Posted by Just Another Bloody Lawyer on 2005 06 04 at 04:00 AM • permalink
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