Belly,
Why should Rush be treated any different to any others caught overseas carrying drugs? He did the crime!

Obviously you haven't remembered the Aussie blokes name that was hanged in Malaysia or Singapore a few years back. I don't recall either and won't bother looking it up.

See they arrested another Aussie bloke in Bali today, allegedly carrying drugs. If he is guilty then too bad, if they shoot him I couldn't care less. Saves feeding him for 20 years. You gonna go into bat for this bloke too?

Bali,

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/world/bali-arrest-of-australian-carrying-17kg-of-ice/story-e6freoox-1225932943343

I am aware an idiot was caught in Bali yesterday.
Wearing a shirt that said criminal in that country's language.
He will die for it unless he is actually insane, no difference.
I dislike the death penalty but he was taking it into another country, almost seems like,on first look, he has mental health issues.
Scott Rush however is different, we gave him up, we have weak laws and weaker federal police and let another country kill for us
RECHTUB! clutching at straws? is the world you inhabit one that allows only one opinion? are you alone right, always?
If we kill this kid by letting our national duty's be rented out we are in fact killing him our selves.
Do not tell me other white collar crimes that see lenient or not sentences can not be compared to poor men dieing and rich men prospering by drug trade.
Sit quietly gentlemen put your self in his mum and dads place the morning he is lead out to die.
They did not want him dead they wanted to save him, yet via our federal police they killed him.
Hopefully Indonesian courts have more understanding and compassion than some here, he should not die.
He should not be compared to the idiot from yesterday.

>>>I dislike the death penalty but he was taking it into another country,

Belly, had he been caught here instead, before be arrived in Bali, he would not be facing the DP. That's the ironic part about it, but, it is their law and we must obied by it.

Now someone mentioned him being very your and perhaps not mature enough, Fair call, So what about his parent who apparently gave him up. Were they also to immature to realise the consequences of their actions?

And belly, we are all entitled to our opinion and I respect you for yours, however, this is different in my view as Bali has strict laws when it comes to drugs.

I quite like the reference to gaol in Bali being, 'a hole in the ground' .

I would sure like to see more of that here, but I must stress once again, gaol in my opinion should be for hardened criminals only. Not fine dodgers or petty thieves.

Meanwhile we have people offending just to be locked up and provided for, many of whom are better off, and they know it.

It just comes to show how powerful media stories are at emotional manipulation simply by choice of portrayal. Scott Rush is exactly the same as this new idiot- it's only because he's young(ish- despite being a legal adult and old enough to join the army) and has a Cherubic face that the media instead decide to make it a sob story, focus on his poor parents etc, his "I'm sad about this please help" and particularly "I didn't mean to, I was tricked" etc.

This ugly mean-faced tattooed middle-aged man, on the other hand, probably won't be treated so fairly. We probably won't get anywhere near even the amount of quotes off him- just a few distant pictures of him in scowling in handcuffs.

Who talks about privilege now?

Anyway, I think Rehctub and I are actually wasting our time actually asnwering the "what if it were your kids" and apparent void legal equity hysteria because we DID answer these, just to find them being asked in exactly the same way again.

That and the "If we fall short in some legal area, then we should fall short in others so its fair" argument isn't working- how about WE simply pull our weaker enforcements in line to be as tough?

To be honest this issue is becoming so blatantly obviously driven by emotional hysteria void of logic it's not funny.

KH is it a surprise to you that I disagree with most things you say.
Both you and rechtub should understand yesterdays idiot, we do not know yet if he truly is,was caught in another country.
Rush? his mum and dad surely thought they may save him by dobbing him in?
Now please debate but refrain if you can from belittling my view parents who say awful things about others kids rarely say it about their own in the same circumstances.
Rush was not the prime dealer the fool if thats what he was seems to have been we do not yet know.
In a week or a month we could find out why he wore a shirt saying he was a criminal while importing drugs.
Just maybe he never knew the shirt said that just maybe he did not know he was carrying drugs you convict and want to kill him on a newspaper headline?
Scott Rush should not die, the woman on her second trip at least will not he should not die.