Steel “You're letting your emotions and personal concern for the mother cloud your judgement, Col Rouge.”

And you are making armchair judgments of me based on completely insufficient data, how really average of you.

I will endeavour not to do the same to you.

Antiseptic “LOL. Good old hysterical Col.
Always looking for a bogeyman.”

http://www.geelongadvertiser.com.au/article/2007/09/11/6764_news.html
“suffered from drug-induced psychosis and chronic paranoid schizophrenia”

Her drug of choice was marijuana which, according to her parents she took excessively over a school excursion when she was away from their care for a week. One of the earlier consequences of her drug induced problems was to tear her parents marriage apart. Her father, to his credit, spent two years trying to get her committed.

I could say more but choose not to.

Now I suggest you take your “hysteria” and stick it up your scotch bottle.

Or would you like me to shoo away your the flying green elephants of yor dreams for you too, septic?

Col Rouge: "http://www.geelongadvertiser.com.au/article/2007/09/11/6764_news.html"

From the article:"Ms Penrose, who has a history of mental illness was also undergoing psychiatric treatment at the time"

Have another Scotch, mate, it's bound to make you feel better.

Judy

Yes, in order to secure the return of Corby, we may well have to accept the return of an Indonesian that has committed a heinous crime in Australia. If that has to be part of the deal, well so be it. If it can be limited to a one-for-one arrangement, with the first offender getting the benefit of the deal, then I could live with it. If SBY (Yudhoyono) insists that it should be an ongoing arrangement of all offenders being returned, then it would be a bit more difficult to accept.

But firstly Rudd should be pushing for Corby’s release on the grounds that her guilt is very much in doubt, as a special one-off event. Perhaps it could be requested as a returned favour for the billion dollars promised by Howard for tsunami victims. He could emphasise just how much publicity Corby has received in Australia and how much support she has in the general community, and that any such favour would resonate very strongly throughout the Australian public.

Ludwig: "her guilt is very much in doubt"

How do you figure that? She owned the boogey board, she was carrying it through customs, it weighed 4.5kg more than it should have and had a bulge where it shouldn't have. Who the hell was responsible if she wasn't?

What everyone has to realize is that when in another country, we are subject to their laws and their interpretation of them. Whether we agree or not and whether or not we think they are fair.

I understand it was not the first time Corby had been to Bali and that there are signs at the arrivals section telling about the importation of drugs and the serious penalties. This being so, it is not as though she was ignorant.

She has been found guilty and pay the penalty imposed. I don't think our Government should run around and rescue stupid citizens from their own stupidity.

I do not think there is much doubt about her guilt. The drugs were in her bag. The plastic bag that the drugs were in was chosen to fit her bag. No one would try to smuggle drugs by air from Brisbane to Sydney when one can easily take them by road or send by legitimate transport. Stupid people do stupid things and Corby is a classic object lesson.

Banjo,

“I understand it was not the first time Corby had been to Bali and that there are signs at the arrivals section telling about the importation of drugs and the serious penalties.”

Yes. She was aware of the penalties directly pertaining to aerial importation of narcotics into Indonesia. So it would have been extremely stupid to try and smuggle such a large package, that was so poorly hidden, into the country. Does Shapelle Corby really strike you as being that dumb?

Antiseptic,

“…it weighed 4.5kg more than it should have and had a bulge where it shouldn't have…”

Yes. And don’t you think that a person who had been through that customs route before and who had any intentions of smuggling drugs would have known that they’d be instantly busted for this?

But a person who is entirely innocent and who doesn’t for one moment suspect that there is anything wrong with their luggage, wouldn’t have noticed the extra weight or the apparent small bulge.