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  1. truthvigilante

    truthvigilante Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I couldn't think of a title, but reckon Schapelle will do the trick.

    I haven't followed this latest part of the saga, which is the home coming but story is seriously in ya face!

    Is she getting too much media attention? I mean what is the fascination people? Do Aussies adore her or are we just interested in her story because we have mixed emotions about her guilt as a convicted drug smuggler?

    The Australian media has people interested in story and probably saw it coming, uniquely on the basis she was your quentissential aussie but with good looks maybe?
     
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    Diuretic Well-Known Member

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    I'm hoping it will be over when the chequebook television interview doesn't win the ratings.
     
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    LeftRightLeft Well-Known Member

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    Mate television news has become a circus and Channel Nine are the ring masters
     
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    Sallyally Well-Known Member Donor

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    I can't understand why the Indonesians have been such enablers of this woman. She is a criminal who has done her time and can't make money from her story thank goodness.
    I wonder if there will be any recriminations at home." I thought you said they don't check incoming baggage", for example.
     
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    m2catter Well-Known Member

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    Corby is a hard one.
    Most people in my town reckon she knew and carried deliberately.
    In that case far too much attention.
    But there is always the unknown. If she is/was innocent, my hat goes out to her.....
    Cheers
     
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    truthvigilante Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Yeah I wonder if people really care that deeply about what she does from here on in. At the end of the day she is a convicted criminal. I think any interview from here on in will be more ammunition for belittlement and scorn.
     
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    truthvigilante Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Daily Telegraph lead the pack for sensation and hysteria. There ain't too many positives coming out of that outlet.
     
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    truthvigilante Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    They will circumvent somehow in terms of any proceeds from interviews you'd think.

    I heard a joke the other day: She missed out a lot on technological advances in her 10 years. Imagine Shappelle using self serve checkout at woollies for the first time!...."unexpected item in baggage area".

    F@&k not again!
     
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    truthvigilante Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    She either was personally responsible or took the fall for her brother is my thinking. Other theories about baggage handlers just doesn't quite cut it in my thinking. Hey I could be wrong!
     
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    scarlet witch Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    ugh you did not start a thread about Schapelle... so over her
     
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    Bowerbird Well-Known Member

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    There was one and only one positive from the whole Corby case. It highlighted the fact that you cannot smuggle drugs INTO SE Asia without consequences
     
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    She is certainly making fools of the media
     
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    I reckon Barlow & Chambers settled that a while back. I see a few different positive lessons:

    *Hard drugs aren't the only thing Australians smuggle into Bali
    *Pretty white girls tell lies
    *Australians are finally getting over their instinctive assumption that the little brown people to our north are necessarily less trustworthy or incapable or running a trial
     
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    I don't think anyone, for a split second, imagined she might be innocent.
     
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    What are the chances. She's trashy as hell, from a seriously trashy family with known drug connections.
     
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    truthvigilante Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Well said, that was a clear attitude for a while!
     
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    Indofred Banned at Members Request

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    I tried to post this a couple of days ago but the forum was down so it got lost.
    The boogie board's weight was roughly doubled by the weight of the weed, so customs would spot it a mile away meaning she was bloody stupid and her excuse just doesn't hold water.

    Drugs, even weed, are seem as strictly bad news here so she was very lucky not to face a firing squad.
    I will be totally honest and say I believe they should have executed her as the messing around makes the Indonesian government look soft and dealers like that a lot.
    I come from an area that is infested by dealers and life was a ruddy misery but Indonesia has only a tiny drug problem and that means very little crime.
    Indonesia should shoot all dealers who attempt to bring drugs in this country and dish out the same to anyone manufacturing drugs here.
    The last one I saw got life, but that should have been a very short sentence, about a week after conviction would do.

    I took this in a drug factory a while ago. The git gets out of prison feet first.

     
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    m2catter Well-Known Member

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    Well,
    death penalty what for, for dealing with drugs? Is it a deterrent? No its not.
    And whom does it serve? Most countries with the death penalty enforced have the same problems as those without the death sentence.
    It doesn't stop people from taking or dealing in drugs.
    The death penalty belongs to countries, which in terms of ethics and values haven't made it to the top, sorry to say.
    Or to be more blunt, highly sophisticated nations with strong ethics and values are opposing this kind of final act.
    Sorry mate, no hard feelings, it just doesn't work and it is inhuman,
    regards
     
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    m2catter Well-Known Member

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    Yes,
    I cannot deny it. But I think her prison sentence was long enough...
    Regards
     
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    Indofred Banned at Members Request

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    Convicted pushers never re-offend after a death sentence has been carried out. Good enough.
     
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    Indofred Banned at Members Request

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    So, how is the drug problem in civilised America and how many people are killed in the drug gang wars?
    That highly sophisticated nation is a mess whilst this inhuman country has a tiny problem.

    If sophisticated is allowing dealers to push death, I'll go with inhuman so my kids can grow up without that vermin on the streets.

    Thanks for your insight, but it's a load of old bollocks.
     
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    truthvigilante Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Well, one of her defences theories was that it was baggage handlers. The weed after deoxygenisation was the perfect shape of boogie board apparently as well, obviously bulkier than boogie board. Her sister owned a surf shop that leases and sells boogie boards.....you know!

    If it was significant enough by Indonesian law, then yeah, she should have been put before firing squad. Not a fan of death penalty but fair is fair.
     
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    truthvigilante Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Yeah, people did for awhile, but soon realised the realities.
     
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    m2catter Well-Known Member

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    Yeap,
    and for every one killed you have two others stepping in, it doesn't work!!!!
    Regards
     
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    I wonder if Singapore, with its hard line law and order regime has a drug problem?
     

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