Posted on 05/29/2005 1:03:37 PM PDT by wagglebee
If she's guilty, she's guilty. As I think I noted, I'm not familiar with the details, but I'd hate to be accused, much less convicted if I were innocent. It just scares me because I have a young adult daughter who travels in Asia, and I'd hate to see her caught up in something like this. Fortunately, she travels light and only does carry-on. Also, fortunately, Indonesia isn't on the itinerary any time soon.
Just as you were not defending the 20 yr sentence, I was not defending the 6. Perhaps extend the benefit of the doubt next time.
>You don't need to be a drug user to be a drug peddlar.<
Yep.
I thought it was common knowledge that smuggling drugs in SE Asia is a death sentence.
All-inclusive vacations on Jamaica are very nice. You stay on a guarded compound and all food and drink is already paid for.
The punishment seems way to extreme to me also, but I am an American...where, there seems to be some semblance of common sense when charging and punishing people like her...
Like someone else posted---where is Bianca Jagger and Amnesty International? I want them to go to the poobahs in Indonesia and spout some of the crap they are spouting here in the USA!!!
They want the whole Bush Administration tried for war crimes, because of Gitmo, but if you heard Gen. Myers on Fox Sunday this morning, the lengths that America has gone to, to accomodate Muslim TERRORISTS is ridiculous, and yet those groups are ready to string Bush up!!!!
HER CRIME IS:Her true crime (guilty of smuggling or just a dupe) is the choice to visit a country with absurd penalties for banal crimes. and corrupt Gov officials;
I posted that I did not agree with her punishment also..but we cannot protect anyone from being stupid- travel to the 3rd world at your own risk a 20 something air head found out it's what you don't know that kills you
Indonesia is insane. Don't visit. It's a hotbed of Islam. I'm surprised they didn't genitally mutilate her like Islamics do all over the world.
Perhaps. :-}
... in somewhat humane, and usually survivable conditions.
The secret compartment was planted! ;-)
I hate to seem harsh but I don't feel any more sympathy for this stupid woman than I did for that American kid that got caned in China a few years ago. They have laws and they were broken. So now pay the penalty what ever it is. Even if having the drugs was a death penalty, duhhhh, don't deal in drugs and you have anything to fear.
Sounds good to me. 20 years for a couple of kilos, might be a little light sentence, although the prison sounds fairly tough. I would like to see US drug smugglers get at least that much considering how nice our prisons are.
I'd ask the moderator to pull that post if I were you.
..keep in mind, PR has a free PR movement, sHilllary's fiends got a "get out of jail free" (pardon for votes) card in 1999/2000...back in 1988, we were told to "keep our heads down", a few attacks were reported in the Commonwealth that year.
They already do.
Not just Singapore. Other countries with the death penalty for drug offences are Malaysia, Vietnam, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Brunei.
Life in Prison.
Lucky for her she wasn't caught in the USA.
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