Posted on 05/29/2005 1:03:37 PM PDT by wagglebee
One of the brats on my round the world cruise in 1970 got 25 years in a Dutch prison for trafficking in LSD. He and his wealthy Daddy were horrified to find out that there is NO BAIL in Dutch prisons, or was not back then anyway. We were all told before we landed in every country that we were subject to the laws of the country we were going to and the American Embassy could only call our parents and get us a lawyer. That was IT.
But of course all teenagers and college kids think The Man is only trying to spoil their fun ...
It was hydroponic?I couldn't understand why anyone would risk smuggling 9lbs of M into Indonesia.Probably a very substantial profit involved if the customers are expats and tourists.
You seem to have far more appreciation than I do for the idea of sending a young woman to her death - which is exactly what will happen the first time this girl gets raped by some HIV-bearing inmate - in a pesthole for possessing pot.
I'm hoping that if the Diggers conduct a rescue raid to free Corby, they will also take the time to kill the Bali bombers, also incarcerated there and due to be released in three years.
Maybe she's too stupid to know that.
Yes. She knew what she was doing.
This was a long thread by the time I got here, so if I'm repeating someone else I apologize in advance.
Apparently, her claim that the drugs were planted is bolstered by the fact that it is a known tactic of drug traffickers in Bali to plant drugs in someone else's luggage.
Also, the Bali bombers were sentenced to two and one half years for murdering people. Of course, they were Muslims acting according to her faith.
I agree it is absurd considering one of indonesia's own citizens bombed a building there killing many many people and he ONLY got a two year sentence. I think it's a politcal shot from Indonesia to Australia. Is there an epidemic of Aussie's smuggling dope to and from indonesia?
It wasn't. Those wrist-slap sentences for the Bali bombers had already done it.
An earlier post mentioned two others were beheaded previous to this?They may be serious about the 20yrs.I assumed the 2 governments would work this out diplomaticaly.She won't last.
Goodness, didn't this woman ever see "Midnight Express"? These foreign countries don't fool around with drug smugglers, esp. dumb Westerners who may or may not have been set up.
This is why I don't ever care to travel to third world countries. Shoot, if I want to see rural or inner city squalor(sp?) I can go in any direction in America.
As Confucius say... "Young woman with many years of always getting what she wants and manipulating situations around her for her own advantage, and who also is charming may have overreached this time."
It's a fairly common tactic by drug smugglers. You plant the dope on an innocent traveler, and if it's not found, it's retrieved. If it is found, the traveler is charged and not the smuggler. That's the gain.
Yes, I am aware of that.
However, the mule scenario is far more likely and more common.
BTW, that is NOT the innocent traveler mule scenario either.
We don't know if this woman was set up or not; maybe her traveling companions set her up and she was naive and in over her head.
From another website...
"On Schapelle Corby - One piece of information which has not got into the media is that Miss Corby was under surveillance by Australian Customs for a considerable time before being arrested in Bali.
Her mum "talks the talk" of crims, and it would be interesting to know, but for Privacy Laws, what mum's past is, too. Suggestions that the drug smuggling ring among airline baggage handlers had anything to do with the marijuana found on Corby are ludicrous. First, it has not been suggested that they ever trafficked in marijuana.
Second, it is well known that the locally grown marijuana in Bali, fine for hippies in the 70s, is now very inferior to the hybrid forms - skunk - growing under lights in double garages all around Australia, where it is being used by many to pay off mortgages.
Consequently, there really IS a demand up there in Bali, among Australians, for some "decent grass".
Which puts paid to the lie we are asked to believe by those who ask the "why would Schapelle risk all taking coal to Newcastle" argument.
She was carrying a very superior "coal" you cannot obtain up there, but which she could have sold up there for a handsome profit.
Lastly, after watching a couple of local TV shows painting Miss Corby as a modern day Joan of Arc, I noticed that not one of these shows addressed the critical evidence against her, which, to my mind, is that when she produced the bag to the Customs Officer, and he made to open it, she placed her hands on his, as if to prevent her bag being inspected, and said "No". This is on videotape. This is potent evidence that she knew there was contraband in that bag, and therefore evidence of mens rea, & all but conclusive. Notwithstanding that I believe she is guilty as sin, I hope she gets acquitted. But that is not going to happen anyway. regards, HH"
Yes it is going down.
Also we are self destructing from WITHIN - people in DC and out lovely activist judges.
I don't understand it.
It's crazy out there.
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