Silly young kid unaware he was going to kill by his actions?
Maybe but should he die for it?
His mum and dad dobed him in, to our federal police.
Who gave him up to Indonesia.
This country, ours knows fortunes are being made here and we can not make an effort to stop it.
Business men fund it police make cash out of it and we let another country kill our kids for it.
If we want to get hard with drugs lets do our own policing .

This silly young man is a victim.
Of his own youthful silliness.
His parents love for him.
Our police force and governments intention to export our law and order in this Field to another country.
One that kills without compassion.
Can we ever beat drugs, the hard drugs, if we can not enforce the laws ourselves?
Did we truly say, lets get them in Indonesia then have them hanged?
Why not pick them up at the air port here.
Think of the real life wasted ,yes users first but is this man to die because some thing we need to cuddle another country?

The law is the law and the police, our police, can't be seen to act, or not act, simply on which law is being broken.

Now imagine if he were carrying a bomb. Would you expect the police to wait until he lands here before taking action.

The fact is, he broke the law in a country that has very clear rules with regards to drugs and, he did it not long after the corby arrest.

I feel for him, however, what did he expect would happen if he got caught and, did he know about the consequences of being caught with drugs over there.

Now if he was aware of the fact that his actions could lead to the death penalty if caught, then he should die.

Belly,

As an opponent of the death penalty, I genuinely hope that Scott Rush does not face the firing squad, but also that the ring leaders are shown clemency.

My gut feel is that with the intervention of the ex police commissioner at his appeal the message to Indonesia is clear. However, I can't see why some support hasn't been extended to the other two.

As far as police responsibility is concerned, I do however, understand their reluctance to wait. They had an idea that a shipment was coming, but unless they acted on it, the plans might change, and the drugs would come into the country another way. Restricting their work would be paid for by the victims of drugs in Australia.

Scott and the others whilst being young and naive, are also largely responsible for their own fate. The pay off if they succeed is a huge sum of cash, and probably the deaths of a few addicts in Aus. The consequences of getting caught are no secret either.

I could not care less about this piece of garbage. They knew exactly what they were doing and now have to pay the price.

Just the same as that other Aussie that was hung in Malaysia or Singapore a few years back. Few would even remember his name now, I don't.

Plenty of kids around that deserve and need some assistance to get on in life. Ones that don't run drugs to make a quid.

I feel more compassion for an ant I stepped on today.

Schappelle is doing a 20 year stretch for a bag of weed, unarguably a significantly less harmful substance. 10 pounds of weed here, might get you a year or so if you are silly enough to use legal aid.
I feel sorry for the girl, but thats about where it ends.

Michelle was going to do a long stretch for having a few e's or something, but having wealthy parents and pretending to be a muslim allowed her to escape. Remember the pictures of two attractive white girls handcuffed together heading to court? well one got away with it and the other is paying twice as a result.

The Bali 9 were caught fair and square, with double the weight of a far more dangerous substance. The only sad part is the suffering of their parents, who genuinely tried to do the right thing. Some want to blame the feds, and reckon they could run the show better. Armchair experts they are called.

Drugs are a dirty business, it is just as possible the dealers put a few in to the cops so a few others get through. Some are sacrificial, to make the authorities look effective. The cops generally make the effort to do the right thing, but sometimes things go wrong. Like the poor cop that accidently shot the other cop the other week.

So, for mine yes. It should have been done much sooner so the family can move on with life.