http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/books/the-downfall-of-the-daughter-20111112-1ncnw.html
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Indonesian anger at grant of clemency to white girl
lawsuits-jeopardize-corby-clemency.html
http://media.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/world-news/schapelle-corby-granted-clemency-3318018.html
http://www.couriermail.com.au/ipad/schapelle-corby-from-a-dirty-cell-to-bali-paradise-but-still-miles-from-home/story-fn6ck55c-1226364428200 Foreign Minister Bob Carr - same morality as liar MP Craig Thompson
http://www.smh.com.au/world/corby-eligible-for-parole-from-monday-prison-chief-20120525-1zal9.html
Yahoo Schapello
Schapelle, you must be over the moon at the news of your release from Bali jail five years early.
We're not.
We realise that on occasions your late visit to Bali, Indonesia must have been hell. Food in third world jails is poor and many times family and friends have to bring food into the prison.
But you were white and 'better' than native prisoners.
You knew the consequences of drug use in Indonesia. You must have seen the government ads featuring a noose. You travelled widely in Asia and worked and played in Japan. You and Mercedes Corby, your drug-using sister, were fully aware of the unintended consequences of your love a affair with Cannabis Sativa and other illegal toxins.
We know that you are/will be beseiged by offers for interviews, talkback and books. Cuorrupt current affairs pulp fictionist A Current Affair must be salivating at your release. Your saga has been skillfully stage-managed by public relations managers. They ensured you were rarely out of the public eye.
With your release, we see Australia and Indonesia (and thus Siamese twin Malaysia) are friends again. The apathetic masses of Australia sing out: A credit to Australia was the wild colonial girl.
Four (4.2) kilograms of marijuana. Schapelle Corby, Julia Gillard, Bob Carr, Indonesian decision-makers, you all stink to high heaven.
Schapelle Corby, your ilk - Backpackers, good-time flappers, medical marijuana myth spreaders, etc - play loose with ethics and morality. It's doubtful they add anything to any nation they visit. They hover for a few days or weeks, eat/drink/smoke/mate, sometimes work, often in alcohol joints, then move on. Like randy mosquitoes.
For example, there are certainly lots of Irish mosquitoes in Australia. Ireland can only benefit by their absence of these degenerate alcoholics. One would never know that Ireland has a fine history in literature and was even a Catholic country.
Miss Corby, see you on the front pages, you poor poor poor little white girl ...
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Diane Frola is right. Schapelle Corby is almost certainly innocent, there was never enough evidence to convict. Even for Indonesia's standards. It has nothing to do with white versus other races.
ReplyDeleteEven is she was guilty; the sentence was ridiculously brutal, and not fitting the crime at all, even for Indonesia's standards. Other convicts for similar crimes get lower sentences, a fact which has been widely publicized and criticized, also by Indonesian journalists and human rights activists.
So if you want to play the racism card: It's the Indonesian courts that have been racist, against Ms. Corby: a sentence of 1700 days per kg marihuana versus an average sentence of 200 days per kg marihuana for native people. Who is the racist here?!