re: nikko: bali 9 - what a bloody joke!/sue12
Spot on about Yak and his knee-jerk re-action.
He sees a picture on telly and he thinks that it represents the whole truth and nothing but the truth. No need to ask questions, no need to find out how the stuff got there, no need to reflect upon the fact that the last charade, the last insult of a court destroyed not only the life of a non-addict but the many lives around her, no need to examine if there are any mitigating circumstances. Just the pictures. Pictures which journos love to exhibit over and over and over again until we are all thoroughly sickened by them and prefer to turn our eyes the other way and, much like Winson in 1984, hope that they die. It says something dreadful about that type of psyche, yet it is that type of psyche exactly which stands beneath the huge picture of Big Brother and says (like Yak just said a few posts ago in response to mine) "I love Big Brother!" That's, of course, until Big Brother turns on him.
I have no idea what happened with the "bali 9." None whatsoever. Schappelle's hearing showed that "possession" is treated in a superficial, primitive way: It's in your bag and I don't care who put it there. Thus, "the stuff is strapped around your body and I don't care if someone had a gun to your head while someone else was strapping it on you." We were told -by the American media, of course but, hey, it could be true for once!- that the car bombers in Iraq had their hands handcuffed to the steering wheel so that they couldn't escape, meaning that these guys didn't want to actually perform the deed. Could we be seeing the same sort of mitigating circumstances here? I have no idea.
And then, here we go again with "my taxes" BullSht! How much am I prepared to give for the Bali 9? ShIt, if I had my way I'd rip 90% of the money going to Iraq for our piSsy efforts there, obeying the military superpower's walking cadavers and put it to better use, such as looking after our citizens overseas, no matter what trouble they get into. AND I MEAN NO MATTER WHAT TROUBLE THEY GET INTO. One doesn't disown one's children because they've done something wrong, even if you're certain they've done it!
It dispirits me to see all this dejection of our own: young or old - just as it dispirits me to see our dejection of other people. No wonder our youth becomes so despondent, feels completely alienated and "goes for broke."
Again, the knee-jerkers have made up their mind about all of these kids, just as the three "judges" (What a bloody insult to judges world-wide!) had made up their mind the moment Schappelle walked into THEIR little theatre!
