Further to my last last post....

So many crucial questions.

SO MUCH fundamental doubt about her guilt!

The Indonesian courts didn't have any doubts Ludwig. That's all that matters.

I wonder why 'Australia' is SO concerned with the welfare of this chick?. Why aren't they just as concerned for others that are locked up there. There are a few asian Australians locked up there at the mo but you don't hear a peep outta anyone. You only hear about white Australians there.

Hotels rooms, beauty spa's and day trips for a convicted trafficker. Tough gig that. She's lucky she didn't try it in Burma.

Keeping Shaps there serves as a good reminder to others not to stuff around & do drugs, & to show some respect for the laws of other countries. And bending the laws for "white" people sucks. I thought lefties, of all people, would appreciate that point. Clearly not. To them, David Hicks & Shaps are white and therefore, more save-worthy.

StG, love that point about the Asian Aussies gone-but-not-missed by the bleeding hearts.

But I cringe to think of the money she will make when she's free to sell her story to 60 minutes & the longer she's there, the more her cult-hero status (among the white left at any rate) will rise.

Ludwig: "So many crucial questions.

SO MUCH fundamental doubt about her guilt!"

Not according to this bloke : http://www.theage.com.au/national/convicted-drug-dealer-tells-of-corby-smuggling-racket-20080712-3e6h.html

A quote from the article: "Malcolm McCauley says he and Corby's late father, Mick, were involved in a long-standing drug-running racket in which he supplied the marijuana and Mick organised for it to be smuggled into Bali, accompanied by $US1000 in cash to bribe Indonesian customs officials.

He says Schapelle knew all about the trafficking, and, while he doesn't know if she put the drugs in her boogie board bag she certainly knew about her father's drug-smuggling racket.

"The truth is, she always knew her Dad was a drug dealer. She knew about the trips to Bali, she knew about the system, the bribes. She knew the lot," the Adelaide-based McCauley claims."

Still have doubts? This bloke is not just making allegations, he's confessing to being part of it. Either he's telling the truth or he's mad...

She has said she does not want to serve her time in Australia.
Our prisons do not allow some of the freedoms she has now.
The guilt?
We must understand she looks very guilty, her family has much form.
At the airport, on the day she was arrested asked why she was there she answered this way.
I am here because I love my father.
I think it was clear then who owned the drugs, her father was fighting against his cancer, but she must have known surely?
We can not avoid the evidence of family convictions involving drugs.
Yes it is a long sentence , and yes the Bali nine should not die for their crimes.
But have you been to Bali?
Tourists seem to believe they can do what they want, that separate laws exist for some of them.
Indonesia is not trying to hurt Westerners the crime brings death to many of their own too.

I'd like to Thank You all for contributing
so openly and honestly to this thread.
Opinions are many and varied.
It is a controversial case.
And many of us will never agree.

I've been scrawling through various sites on
the web and the facts that arise out of this
case are as follows:

Most of the people currently held in Indonesian
jails are foreigners who in addition to their
jail sentences are also required to pay heavy
fines.

In Corby's appeal documents there were many claims
made by her lawyers of the mistakes and discrepancies
by the judges who convicted her.

Her lawyers argued that the prosecution could only
prove that Corby was in possession of the drugs,
not that she was importing them. The judges did not
distinguish between importing, owning and using
marijuana. She should be acquitted.

The lawyers also argued that the sentence was too harsh
compared with punishments handed down for similar
offences elsewhere in Indonesia.

Corby has no past record of drug smuggling. What her
father did or did not do - should not be her problem.
Sins of the father
should not be transferable onto the child.
Because the entire legality of the case is in question,
Australia is within its rights to plead for clemency on
Corby's behalf.

In any other civilized country - this
case would have been thrown out of court a long time
ago.