Schapelle Corby - Innocent or Guilty?

[Wysiwyg]

Extremeley easy my friend...Never forget that most asians are thrid world people and would never want another to go through hardship...There are always the same percentage, though.
If you look for Ganja or worse, you'll find it in a flash. Just go to Koh Pan gnang on a full moon party night to find more extacy than you need.
In Asia, you can walk up to a Pharmacy (chemist) and get whatever you want.... no questions asked. I don't take illegal substances, but the amount of toursists who hear me speaking local dialect who ask me for weed/.speed/ whatever is astonishing...If you want to smoke spliff, get a guest house in Nimbin, you'll have a better time...

A win/win situation...the buyer gets to escape from the confines of ho-hum and the seller makes some money to live off.Fortunately in our country you can escape the confines of ho-hum without drugs.

 

[Stan 101]

A win/win situation...the buyer gets to escape from the confines of ho-hum and the seller makes some money to live off.Fortunately in our country you can escape the confines of ho-hum without drugs.

That sounds so negitive... Could you expand on that, please

 

[Wysiwyg]

That sounds so negitive... Could you expand on that, please

I don`t see the post as negative so expansion is not possible.

 

[2020hindsight]

sorry Stan 101 , I meant that no-one can assume that they won't end up on a trumped up drugs charge in Asia,
but then again, lol....

considering that British missionaries were selling opium to the Chinese during the opium wars, (morally bankrupt bastads) - sanctioned by the british govt (grown in India, sold in China, to get them addicted, and finally get the attention of the Chinese emperor)

or .. as they say " must have given a chinaman a hard time in a previous life "

also I wonder if they checked the DNA of the heroin in Pat Pong, would it show up as originating in the Golden Triangle ? just a thought. It's never black and white is it

 

[Stan 101]

why would a "ho hum" person bother to go to another counrty to get busted for a life threatening felony when they could stay in their own country and continue their ho hum life by buying at the local pub?

 

[Stan 101]

in all my meagre (by many others standards) of time in asia, the worst I have had to bribe my way out of is for wheel standing a 150cc motorcycle in cambodia .Getting run over by a taxi in India cost me a weeks pay to get the guy's taxi back on the road. By the cops's reckoning I wasa tourist. If I wasn't in the country, I would never have hit the taxi, therefore I was in the wrong... I couple of roupies later he had me on the way to hospital in the same cab LOL

 

[2020hindsight]

in all my meagre (by many others standards) of time in asia, the worst I have had to bribe my way out of is for wheel standing a 150cc motorcycle in cambodia .Getting run over by a taxi in India cost me a weeks pay to get the guy's taxi back on the road. By the cops's reckoning I wasa tourist. If I wasn't in the country, I would never have hit the taxi, therefore I was in the wrong... I couple of roupies later he had me on the way to hospital in the same cab LOL

lol - I used to hire bludy gr8 1000cc bikes in Thailand - but you're right, the stories were rife of people being run off the road, then not being allowed their passports back until they coughed up bigtime. good one - same cab lol.

 

[Out Too Soon]

It'll make for a good Aussie movie!!

Ahh! the movie, the corby family will be able to go legit'. :
Like everyone else, originally I thought why would anyone be stupid enough to smuggle drugs into Bali.
It would seem her family had been doing it for years, why would anyone search for drugs coming into Bali. It's just a shame they didn't get her sister or half bro, I still don't think Shapelle was the ring leader but felt right from the start that her family were covering up something. I also think our own politicians would have done a lot more for her if they didn't get inside info from our own police.
The latest revelations in this case are finally flushing out the truth, not just Mercedes friend but also Schapelles original lawyer. (& the drugs the Corbys didn't want our police to test)
Drug smugglers (cross border ones) really p1ss me off, why? because they bring suspicion onto honest travellers like myself, coming home with a dirty smelly backpack after a few months bumming around asia, being treated with suspicion/ malice until it's realised that bag of white powder is just laundry detergent (true story) . That's why I have no time for idiots like the Bali Nine or the Corbys who know the risks & do it anyway. They should show the movie Bangkok Hilton or similar on every overseas flight, but that prob' wouldn't get thru to these low-lifes anyway. I knew a few drug smugglers when I lived in Thailand, Aussies, French, Spanish & Germans so I know the type of ppl I'm talking about. And before the cops come knocking on my door, I didn't intentionally associate with them, some I know are still in jail (Bangkok) & others were always careful to hide their true identity. ( I often wonder though if a couple of guys from Victor Harbour are doing time now.) Anyway it was a long time ago.
Still don't have much faith in Indonesian justice but they knew more about the Corbys than the Australian public did right from the start.

 

[Wysiwyg]

Getting run over by a taxi in India cost me a weeks pay to get the guy's taxi back on the road. By the cops's reckoning I wasa tourist. If I wasn't in the country, I would never have hit the taxi, therefore I was in the wrong...

Gee the cops are sharp...I had one try and bludge a cigarette off me at an airport (many many years ago when i smoked)and it confirmed to me that the system was different to ours.

 

[Stan 101]

the system is different... Learn to deal with it.. It's their country... Not ours.. We are guests...I tend to play by the rule of the table at the time...Asking anything else is asking for trouble...
Don't forget those poor bastrards are working for a week / month on what I spend on a day at the local seafood harbour restaurant... When in rome- eat pasta...

 

[Stan 101]

I actually have to say that I knew a little bit about horticulture, weed included. No well meaning pot smoker would go to Bali to get good weed. Importing weed to a country like that would make sense- if you are that stupidly inclined. There would cerainly make sense in a monetry value. Please make it known that that sort of thing is not or has never been on my aganeda...


Last I'll say on this...

 

[The Mint Man]

ch 7, now today tonight. new people coming out.
be quick

 

[Garpal Gumnut]

Let the poor girl serve her time for her crime, and hopefully come out wiser at the finish.

As for the hangers on, (within whom I would include every media person and outlet who has worked on her case), lets just consider them a peculiar form of low life which feeds on the misfortune of others.

Garpal

 

[2020hindsight]

speaking of the media, and their tactics - seems you don't have to have any moral qualms if you simply hire people who everyone knows has no ethics (PI's)

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=254462
'Today Tonight' host defends Corby lies, Wednesday Mar 14 05:00 AEDT
By ninemsn staff

Today Tonight host Anna Coren yesterday admitted lies were involved in an attempt to set up a televised showdown between Mercedes Corby and former friend Jodi Power. But Coren stressed that the program's private investigator did not use deceased diplomat Liz O'Neill's name, The Daily Telegraph reports.

An outraged Mercedes claims Brisbane PI Colin Chapman told her over the phone that he had papers belonging to Liz O'Neill, who was killed in last week's Garuda jet crash. She says upon arriving to meet the caller, she was ambushed by a Today Tonight reporter and five TV cameras. Coren acknowledged that the program did intentionally deceive Mercedes, but said Chapman never once used Liz O'Neill's name.

"He said that he was an official, he never said he was from the Department of Foreign Affairs. He said he was an official with some documents that would help Schapelle," Coren told the Telegraph. "I think Mercedes asked him whether he was from Today Tonight and he said 'no'."

"I think the most disappointing part of this whole thing was that Liz O'Neill's name has been brought into this. It's deplorable, it's simply deplorable." Coren also accused the Nine camp of running a smear campaign against her, and falsely portraying the show as tacky and untruthful.

She has no regrets about the deception used to lure Mercedes in for an interview, saying the private investigator is not bound by the same rules and principles as journalists. "As to the way he went about it, well he's not a journalist, he's a private investigator," Coren said.

"His code of conduct and ethics is different to our code of conduct and ethics."

which makes it ok? . (PS question then is ... is channel 9 above this sort of thing lol) This poll being conducted on nineMSN

 

[2020hindsight]

and how ironical that Scott Rush is included with the other two on death row. - considering his father brought the matter to the attention of the police. SURELY that can't happen.

I think the moral of THAT story is don't expect the Aus Federal Police to do anything other than pass on the info and watch you get hung.

For Scott Rush to be hung or shot would be... "overkill" (?) - SURELY it won't happen !! ( will it?)
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200703/s1872387.htm

Rush's death penalty unconstitutional, says lawyer. The lawyer for convicted drug mule Scott Rush says a two-pronged appeal will be mounted in Indonesian courts in the next few weeks.

Darwin-based Colin McDonald QC says the first appeal to Indonesia's Constitutional Court will start next week and run for a month.

Mr McDonald will argue that as a recent signatory to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Indonesia should reserve the death penalty for the most serious crimes, like murder.

"There is plenty of international jurisprudence to say that middle-ranking, drug-related crime is not in the most serious category," he said.

"Therefore, at least in relation to middle-ranking drug crime, the death penalty is unconstitutional."

He says the legal team is more confident about a later appeal to the Supreme Court questioning the sentencing judges' rationale for the death penalty.

 

[AnalysisParalysis]

If you were a keen boogie boarder, you'd have carried your board a fair bit, I think that's fair to say. The cover apparently had a broken strap, so sounds like it too was well used.

Surely, you'd notice the difference between carrying a rigid foam object, and a soft, bendy pillow-type object.

Having said that, I could say that after a long flight, if it was me, would probably just ignore it due to laziness. I mean, would you pick up your boogie board, and be thinking, "Hmmm...this feels slightly different, I must open the board cover and make sure that it really is still a boogie board..."

You wouldn't really be expecting anything but your board to be in there. You'd just be thinking about the hotel bed.

Anyway, my view is that a board cover full of pot would weigh more and feel different, and you'd notice it.

I do sypathize though, what a waste of a life. She looked OK in the bikini photo.

 

[insider]

If you were a keen boogie boarder, you'd have carried your board a fair bit, I think that's fair to say. The cover apparently had a broken strap, so sounds like it too was well used.

Surely, you'd notice the difference between carrying a rigid foam object, and a soft, bendy pillow-type object.

Having said that, I could say that after a long flight, if it was me, would probably just ignore it due to laziness. I mean, would you pick up your boogie board, and be thinking, "Hmmm...this feels slightly different, I must open the board cover and make sure that it really is still a boogie board..."

You wouldn't really be expecting anything but your board to be in there. You'd just be thinking about the hotel bed.

Anyway, my view is that a board cover full of pot would weigh more and feel different, and you'd notice it.

I do sypathize though, what a waste of a life. She looked OK in the bikini photo.

For starters she's a dog and not OK... She lies like my sister... She's guilty... I always knew it... I'm like a human lie detector... I'm disappointed in the Australian community for being so nieve and believing her straight away... This is a mistake most guys make with their girlsfriends when they're doing the dirts on ya and you don't want to believe it so you sit there and yes... Always ask questions!!! I have to say scam of the century

 

[AnalysisParalysis]

Well, God knows either way.

Kinda harsh penalties, just for pot. She might just be a heavy user.

 

[insider]

Well, God knows either way.

Kinda harsh penalties, just for pot. She might just be a heavy user.

Nelson Mutts has something to say

 

[2020hindsight]

peripheral to Schapelle Corby matter I know, but Mercedes seems to have had a good day in court anyway.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/29/2259754.htm?section=justin

Channel Seven guilty in Corby defamation case
Posted 2 hours 28 minutes ago
Updated 1 hour 45 minutes ago

A New South Wales Supreme Court jury has found that Channel Seven defamed Mercedes Corby in a series of news and current affairs stories broadcast earlier this year.

Ms Corby sued Channel Seven over the network's interviews with her former best friend, Jodie Power, in February.

The sister of convicted drug smuggler Schappelle Corby argued she was defamed by false implications that she was a drug dealer and smuggler.

Channel Seven mounted an offence of truth, but was struck down on all but one point.

The jury found Seven did establish it was true Mercedes Corby was guilty of the crime of possession of marijuana but not that she was a smuggler or dealer.

"I just want to say I'm really happy, I've still got more to do but I'm really happy with the outcome," Ms Corby said outside the court. etc