"Protesting your innocence in Indonesia, subsequent to a conviction, is not smart if you want to go home, it’s seen to be a slur against their justice system. “Contrition” is what they want to hear. “Admit your guilt! Tell us how judicious and sagacious we were to give you twenty years for a bag of bloody hooch, chuck a fist-full of dollars this way and you’ll be out in no time.”
Schapelle Corby resorted to neither of those tempting options and that says something.
Aussie media are salivating over the rights but it will be years yet before Corby herself has the chance to give her side. Strict parole conditions prevent her publicly defending herself... a slip of the tongue and she’s back inside.
The Indonesians even invoked Australian law to prevent her profiting from her story (money Corby said she desperately needed to appeal the conviction).
Australia will of course invoke the same law when the time comes, but there are many ways around that.
Some disturbing elements remain in the Corby case. Not the least of which is a consistent plea of innocence that has cost her dearly in time in the Kerokoban hell hole.
DEFAT and the Australian Federal Police need to answer some serious questions they have so far ignored.
Successive Australian Governments have done little to assist Corby, instead insisting we respect Indonesian law.
Yet how is it possible to respect a judicial system that gives the same penalty to a girl with 4k of marijuana in her boogie board as it does to the Islamic bastard who made the bomb that killed 88 Australians?
There is no respect for Australians in either instance.
I know a majority of readers disagree with me, saying the family has a history of marijuana growth and distribution. That may be true, I hear stuff too, but that’s guilt by association and would not hold water in a proper court.
Having read everything I could get my hands on and having spoken to many involved (both pro and con) in the Corby case, I have reached a conclusion about what must have happened, and it’s as simple as this:
A certain domestic baggage handler, one of many we know were responsible for using passenger luggage to ship drugs and marijuana interstate, for some reason got cold feet and did not retrieve the package inserted in a boogie board.
The boogie board was then transferred to an international flight to Denpasar. Corby, the owner of the boogie board, then presented it to Indonesian customs officials when asked to.
In the meantime some crooked customs officials we knew worked at Australian domestic airports “lost” CCTV tapes and the luggage weight docket to cover their tracks.
Corby was left carrying the baby, and it wasn’t even hers.
There’s still an acrid smell of something other than marijuana here.
Okay, now tear that to pieces."
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Aussies had Lindy Chamberlain hung, draw and quartered too. Sadly - they seem to go for the jugular, so often - with regard to their own.
