Posted on 05/27/2005 1:46:31 PM PDT by Banagor
Here's a wonderful little tidbit from Indonesia:
(CNN) -- Many Australians reacted with anger and shock after a Queensland woman they believe is innocent was found guilty of smuggling drugs into Bali and sentenced to 20 years' jail.
On Friday Indonesian judges found Schapelle Corby "legally and convincingly" guilty of smuggling marijuana into Bali in a case that has generated unprecedented interest among Australians and a diplomatic balancing act for the nation's leader.
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The case has galvanized public opinion in Australia, with a recent survey showing 90 percent thought Corby was innocent, believing her defense argument that the drugs found in her possession were planted by baggage handlers in Australia.
Corby's defense team was buoyed by news Australian Federal Police and Qantas Airways were investigating the role of baggage handlers in a cocaine smuggling operation.
Twenty years for what appears to be something which she reallly didn't do. And even if she did, she would have received a lighter sentence if she had been one of the leaders of the Islamic Idiots who bombed the Bali night club which killed around eighty-eight Australians, and a lot more Indonesians as well.
Is it any wonder why we think that Muslims aren't actually serious about terrorism?
What would they give Bin Laden? Five years, perhaps? Better be a terrorist than an innocent and framed Western "drug smuggler" if you happen to get caught in a Muslim country.
Even in the US people get longer sentences many times for non-violent drug-related offenses than people have for terrorism.
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