re: bali 9 andrew chan - firing squad-- groundzero
gz,
That guy who done 13 years was Robert Polglase. From memory it was for a smallish amount of hash which was smuggled from India to eventually end up in Australia. This road was well travelled in the 70s.
I went to Primary school with Robert. Haven't seen him since but feel that his sentence was over the top as I do for B9 and Corby.
The little wedgie calling on Australians to avoid smuggling is a bandaid approach, but not the answer to a multi faceted problem.
The drug trade has not missed a beat whilst these stories are playing out.
Poppy production in Afghanistan is back to an all time high since GWB sorted the Taliban out. By deduction I can infer that GWB is a prime mover in opiate production and should face the Cheney firing squad.
You cannot have a drug trade without the complicit involvement of corrupt officials like Police Immigration and Customs officers sticking their hand in for a slice of the pie.
Prohibition will never work. Education and Health services may ameliorate the problem.
