Schapelle Corby - Innocent or Guilty?

[gwm]

my recollection is that a new baggage screening (xray) of all inbound luggage (including checked in) protocol started in the period prior to Schappelle's arrival. Until recently (and may well still be the case) luggage "of interest" is identified at the poiunt of xray to the guys "on the gate" by way of white chalk mark crosses on each side of the item - if the board did not have identifying marks there would generally be no need to check it. Anyone who had been used to the old casual method of inspection may have been surprised with the changed protocol
Recently we arrived there with many boxes of prescribed pharmaceutical tablets in our checked in luggage - the eyes of the inspectors were wide open "with glee" (misplaced) as we approached the exit gate!!!!!!!!!!!! but alas we were clean

 

[trainspotter]

Trainspotter, what I find strange is that two weeks a go some Australians took boards in to Bali, and no one looked at them, why did they look at the Corby's, DID THEY KNOW IT WAS COMING, I think so.

I have watched many items of interest cruise through the Denpasar Airport. Quite a few times I have just simply walked around the X Ray machine (I do not get the BAG BOYS to carry my luggage) Have not handed in my immigration card on several occasions as well. I must not be a noteworthy person of interest? Lotsa guys I know take their boards to Bali. Never been stopped or checked. Accidentally on purpose took several bottles of champagne in my luggage. Taken into side room by authorities. I pointed out that I had checked the "anything to declare" box on the card. "OH" was the reply "How much?" was my answer. 400,000 Rupiah (about $50AUD) I was free to go. That is how the sytem works. Legal corruption and graft at it's finest. 25USD legal entry fee per person and 200,000 Rupiah per person to leave the country. Whilst in the country not uncommon for the "police" to pull you over for no reason. "Uang rokok" it is called ..... cigarette money. Usually 50,000 Rupiah to be let off. Want something done on a higher level like get into the country via a yacht with incorrect papers? Guess what ... immigration accept USD as well. First hand experience of this.

 

[PeteA]

I think she is not guilty and it really irks me that after all this time she is still in jail over there. Why won't our politicians do something to help this woman?

 

[Tink]

It irks me that we were fed this mumbo jumbo by the media before the court case.

 

[pilots]

I think she is not guilty and it really irks me that after all this time she is still in jail over there. Why won't our politicians do something to help this woman?

I irks me that our politicians do NOTHING for all our other Australians who are in jail over seas, but thats the LAW, they have all been caught, tried, and convicted, we DON'T have the right to tell other country's what to do. GUILTY.

 

[ColB]

Schapelle Corby, Mercedes Corby and Rosalie Corby ALL IRK ME!!

 

[nulla nulla]

Re: Schapelle Corby - What irks you?

This thread and the people that blindly protest her innocence irk me. Maybe we should rename it the "What irks you?" thread

 

[Muschu]

Re: Schapelle Corby - What irks you?

This thread and the people that blindly protest her innocence irk me. Maybe we should rename it the "What irks you?" thread

Or blindly protest her guilt. Both "irk me". We don't know. [Well I don't].

Every time I hit "new posts" this thread comes up. I have not observed anything that suggests the more regular and convinced posters will change their point of view irrespective of any argument that is presented.

Certainly, under the Australian justice system, there are recent cases [John Button, Andrew Mallard (for example)] who were found guilty of serious crimes and acquited many years later. Similarly I imagine many others have been deemed innocent when in fact they were not.

There appears to be a fascination in the topic - which is fine - and I wonder how the thread will come to its end.

 

[Tink]

LOL @ irk

After 6 years Rick, I think most have made up their minds by now about this case.

Information overload.

 

[nulla nulla]

Re: Schapelle Corby - What irks you?

There appears to be a fascination in the topic - which is fine - and I wonder how the thread will come to its end.

The thread will probably meander on as a never ending thread. Eventually she will be released (still protesting her innocence).
Then there will be the Royal Commission, the Second Royal Commission, the sale of the movie rights, the furore over the sale of the movie rights. etc etc.

I fully expect it to go on for a very long time.

 

[Julia]

So, Nulla, do you reckon she'll make enough money out of the movie rights to think, whacko, it was all worth while after all?

 

[Agentm]

if she gets out then it puts eddie out of business

this is the link

http://www.schapellecorbytours.com/

 

[nulla nulla]

So, Nulla, do you reckon she'll make enough money out of the movie rights to think, whacko, it was all worth while after all?

HHmmmm.... she might have to spice it up a bit, a film of someone sitting arround bawling might not have much audience appeal.

 

[nunthewiser]

What we need is my mate jonno to do a bare all expos'e on the Corby sisters to get this place really rocking .

 

[Garpal Gumnut]

It is good to see that this thread is slowly dying out and not being resurrected by posters with nothing else to comment upon.

gg

 

[Honourable]

Oh, and please, do not bring up dental work, breast implants or any other garbage that you have been fed by the media. Give it a rest, just this once.

No, no rest. Are you going to deny that they did all these things since Schapelle has been in prison?

Seems the family has been profitting from this new found coverage.

Maybe you should give it a rest, its now going round in circles.

Yes, I do deny the above, with absolute certainty. Mercedes has not had any cosmetic dental work done, or breast implants inserted, before or since Schapelle's arrest. I knew this anyway, but to be sure, I confirmed it with her mother just a few days ago.

Yes, the family has made some money from magazine stories, and some money from the book, Schapelle Corby - My Story (before the royalties were confiscated). I can assure you that this has all gone back into supporting Schapelle, providing food and other basic needs, paying for doctors, hospital visits, medications, ongoing legal costs, and trips to and from Bali for her mother, so she can provide comfort and moral support to Schapelle whenever the need arises. These days, the need arises quite often.

As to me giving it a rest, yes, I think I might. Clearly, this thread is no longer a debate on whether Schapelle is Innocent or Guilty. What it is, is a group of people who have made up their minds, who now sit around inanely chanting GUILTY GUILTY GUILTY. They praise each other up for the most trivial of posts, and pack attack anyone daring to suggest that Schapelle may, in fact, be INNOCENT.

Well sorry, but Schapelle is Innocent, that is a fact, whether you people choose to believe it or not.

 

[Honourable]

Similarly, you could write the word "Innocent" 5 million times and it would not change the fact that Schapelle Corby has been apprehended, tried, found "GUILTY" and sentenced.

Yes, what you say is true. However, does this make it right?
Was justice served?
Do the courts always get it right?
Did Chief Judge, Linton Sirait, get it right this time?
Did he get it right every time in his previous 500 drug related trials? By the law of averages, this would be practically impossible - 500 defendants actually guilty in 500 cases!!
How many other innocent people has he sent to prison??

If you went to Bali, and after you had checked your bag in, someone inserted drugs into it, would that make you guilty?

Think about these things, before being so sure that you are right!

 

[Honourable]

No I don't know them, and I never want to know them

That's okay, because they wouldn't want to know you either.

 

[Honourable]

you still haven't answered my question as to why the BAG BOYS did not carry the luggage

Your "opinion" is that she is innocent. The courts have proved otherwise.

I have been to Bali twice, and I don't get the BAG BOYS to handle my luggage because I am quite capable of handling it myself.

You have admitted that you don't get the BAG BOYS to handle your luggage either, no doubt because you can handle it yourself and don't want to pay out money unnecessarily.

I'm quite certain that on the 8th October 2004, Schapelle and her travelling companions likewise saw no need to pay people to handle luggage that they were capable of handling themselves. To suggest that Schapelle is somehow guilty because the BAG BOYS didn't carry the boogie-board bag, is ridiculous.

They didn't carry it because they were not asked to do so, end of story. Nothing sinister about it.

 

[nunthewiser]

Hi

Next time you write to either corby sister can you please ask them to contact jonno as he keeps asking about his boogie board bag and i think he would like it back .........

Thanks in advance

Nun.