I havn't really been keeping up with the entire incident with her and I'm not sure if it was acknowledged whether she actually did try and smuggle marijuana or if she didn't. Personally I think she did.
Any one know?
Hi rogue -
Schapelle was sentenced to 20 years in prison. I've been following this case for some time now and 100% believe that she is innocent. Here's why:
1) There would have been absolutely no way for her to get a pillow case size bag of pot through two major Australian airports without it being noticed.
2) Why did the Indonesians not check any of her other bags or her companion's bags?
3) Why would the Indonesians refuse to test the bag of pot for it's origins or test it for fingerprints. It's on the official court documents that she begged to have it tested. Why would she do that if it would confirm her guilt?
4) Why was the evidence destroyed before all her appeals were through?
From my perspective there was more than enough reasonal doubt to set her free.
For more information you can go here: http://www.freeschapelle.net/
Just saw this documentary and I have to agree with you, especially number 2.
shareHello Rogue. I think it is appropriate in the first instance to get an understanding of the laws in any individual country first. I am in Australia, you could be in any country. Every country anywhere in the world has their own laws as to drugs, border invasions, terrorism and whatever. In this case, with Schapelle Corby, the laws of Indonesia - as they may exist - are not sacrosant as far as the judiciary and ancillary forces exist. That is very well documented if you want to search that information. It has been documented within the last 2 weeks in fact that Indonesia is considered one of the very poorest countries in the world. Hard to believe? Yes it is true. Therefore graft and corruption is rampant. And sadly so, becomes intrinsic to the lifestyle of young children and certainly teenagers, to say nothing of adults. This, you can readily find on the internet if you choose to look there. The country itself is almost in 'bankruptcy' also reported in financial news in the last week or so.
http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=Article_C&cid=1157365868395&pagename=Zone-English-HealthScience%2FHSELayout
There are numerous reports of people 'buying' themselves out of situations. These are always and only 'for self use'. Schapelle Corby WAS drug tested and CLEAR.
Also, Bali 9 (do you know of them?) admitted guilt when caught.
You don't take tea to China. You don't take coal to Newcastle as we say here in Australia. And you don't take COMMERCIAL drugs to Indonesia when it/they are readily available on any street there.
Kids beg you to buy them so they can buy rice for their family. Not 4kgs btw.
As you say, you are not cognisant of the whole incident/situation. I suggest to you that you make yourself aware of all of the 'incident' as you have said, very much so, and then make a comment or judgement, then of course, taking into account other comments which have been made here and which I do not need to elaborate further on. I am simply elaborately further on same.
I like your name. Rings a bell.
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I agree with you. Her mom, dad, sister and half brother are all nut jobs. I honestly think it was the brother who brought the drugs along.
shareHer mom and her sister were some of her biggest supporters. I don't think the sister's a nut job at all and I dunno if that's the fairest portrayal of the mother since mostly all we saw was her in hysterics over her daughter's situation.
Just because they're not all super-smart and much of her family didn't come off as all that sharp, doesn't make them nut jobs.
The father's past didn't help her matters from our perspective, though who knows if the Indonesian prosecuters even paid that much attention to Australian news and what was uncovered about her family.
Just one thing I must point out that I haven't noticed in the arguments against the family being nutjobs or obviously under the influence/have in the past done drugs...the arguments often point to the father's past (it's a spotty past with small-time DUIs and an incident involving a small amount of marijuana found at a party which quite frankly do not point to him being a criminal worthy of distributing 10+ kilos of marijuana). The one thing I never see pointed out though in defense of the father (sure, the family could be far from normal societal standards in terms of intelligence or rather crude in their manner of speech) is that he was critically ill with cancer when they filmed him answering the doc's questions. It was mentioned that he has taken (and probably still was taking) prescription drugs that "zonked" him out (i don't remember the exact word he uses but it's similar to that). The fact that he's terminally ill and on medication that probably includes painkillers, which make you loopy much like pot, most likely makes up the reason he seems like a doper when in fact he's probably not.
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