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Bali drugs: Death sentence for Briton Lindsay Sandiford
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Posted on 01/22/2013 8:54:52 AM PST by JohnPDuncan
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To: JohnPDuncan
I'm sure she's a really wonderful grandmother, too.
Sitting by the fire, knitting sweaters, baking apple pie, giving her grandchildren catechism lessons and singing lullabies to them.
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posted on
01/22/2013 8:59:02 AM PST
by
wideawake
To: JohnPDuncan
that’s harsh. Especially when prosecutors only asked for 15 years which is all but a life sentence for her. It’s not the difference between the recommended 15 years and, say, 20 or 25 years. Stupid woman but don’t know that the death penalty fits.
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posted on
01/22/2013 9:00:34 AM PST
by
EDINVA
To: wideawake
Sitting by the fire, knitting sweaters, baking apple pie, giving her grandchildren catechism lessons and singing lullabies to them. With 5 kilos of blow she probably does all that stuff at the same time!
To: JohnPDuncan
Cocaine? Go ahead and hang Granny. They have my blessing.
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posted on
01/22/2013 9:03:18 AM PST
by
Cowboy Bob
(Soon the "invisible hand" will press the economic "reset" button.)
To: wideawake
She better hurry up that knitting.
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posted on
01/22/2013 9:03:38 AM PST
by
Berlin_Freeper
(Better safe than sorry.)
To: JohnPDuncan
They said Sandiford had damaged the image of Bali as a tourism destination and weakened the government's anti-drugs programme.but nothing says vacation getaway like a firing squad. The Indonesians should worry more about muslim suicide bombers if they really care about Bali's tourist image.
This is another great example of "Oops, I'm not in (fill in the home country) anymore." People leave places where they have certain expectations of justice and the court system and become surprised when they find out not all countries are the same.
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posted on
01/22/2013 9:04:19 AM PST
by
USNBandit
(sarcasm engaged at all times)
To: JohnPDuncan
You break their law, you suffer their consequences.
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posted on
01/22/2013 9:04:56 AM PST
by
DwFry
(Baby Boomers Killed Western Civilization!)
To: JohnPDuncan
In the U.S. a 56 year old person given a death sentence has absolutely no chance of being executed, with at least twenty years of appeals. In Bali, not so much. She’ll either have her sentence commuted or be dead by March.
To: JohnPDuncan
"APAIC reviewed drug use in Indonesia and found the following; between 2006 and 2010 the use of meth, barbiturates, heroin, and cannabis resin increased, while the use of ecstasy and cocaine remained about the same. APAIC also found that domestic production of meth and ecstasy is on the rise. Evidently the death penalty and decades long prison sentences are not deterring drug users or drug dealers." - http://reason.com/blog/2012/05/30/you-can-sometimes-reduce-drug-use-if-you
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posted on
01/22/2013 9:06:24 AM PST
by
JustSayNoToNannies
("The Lord has removed His judgments against you" - Zep. 3:15)
To: USNBandit
Hum, any chance we can get His Excellency to go back to his homeland with some bags I can pack for him???
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posted on
01/22/2013 9:07:58 AM PST
by
Mouton
(108th MI Group.....68-71)
To: JohnPDuncan
Sung to the tune of Grandma Got Ran Over By a Reindeer
Grandma got busted with some Cocaine.
At an Indonesian airport back in May.
Judge says she's going to meet her maker.
Will they even send her corpse back?
Who's to say?
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posted on
01/22/2013 9:09:42 AM PST
by
apillar
To: JohnPDuncan
The Ports of Entry of all of the countries in the region have big signs saying “Drug Smugglers will be Executed” most westerners think the sign doesn't mean them but they are wrong it means especially them..
To: wideawake
Always keep a close eye on your luggage, when traveling abroad. I would probably go use the washroom, to check on the luggage at the last minute, to be sure that nobody has tampered with it.
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posted on
01/22/2013 9:12:43 AM PST
by
Jonty30
(What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
To: JohnPDuncan
Well, if she’s a grandma then let her go! /sarc
To: JohnPDuncan
She should have just wore a burqa and blown up a niteclub....she would have been home by now
Drugs are bad....but Islam is much worse. People need to stop the political correctness about Islam.....and realize it is an evil cult that proselytizes a Pedophile Prophet. Do not vacation in Islamic countries...especially if you are carrying drugs or are a Christian. Islam is Evil
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posted on
01/22/2013 9:16:47 AM PST
by
SeminoleCounty
(The only automatic weapon is the one Obama uses to take your paycheck)
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
In the U.S. a 56 year old person given a death sentence has absolutely no chance of being executed, with at least twenty years of appeals.
Texas is executing a woman one week from today - the lib media hasn't got wind of it yet, apparently.
http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/death_row/dr_info/mccarthykimberly.html
That was supposed to be a hotlink, not sure what happened.
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posted on
01/22/2013 9:19:35 AM PST
by
dainbramaged
(Joe McCarthy was right.)
To: Jonty30
This is 11 pounds of the stuff, not exactly the 100 grams somebody might slip in without you noticing.
But you obviously give excellent advice.
To: Jonty30
Yup. On a flight from Lisbon to Sao Tome, I had some joker try to load his bags onto my luggage cart as I stepped up to check in. He was trying to get his stuff to Sao Tome on my ticket, and he wasn’t even going on the flight. A major difference of opinion and shouting match ensued in two languages, ending with a 40 lb. bag being shoved into the guy’s face. Forcefully.
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posted on
01/22/2013 9:25:39 AM PST
by
PowderMonkey
(WILL WORK FOR AMMO)
To: Jonty30
That's good advice.
The drug smuggler in this case, however, is not arguing that someone switched her luggage. I believe her argument is that she acted as a courier only because thugs were threatening to murder members of her family that were employees of the drugdealers.
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