The people higher up threatened the families if they gave THEIR names - the Mr. Bigs -
you contradict yourself - do the crime you do the time - no you don't - you're taken out and butchered! They've done ten years.
How many people could walk into a baby nursery at their nearest maternity hostpital, take a gun, and shoot a few of the babies in the heart - what, because they'd cried all night?
A human life is a human life - young, old - no one condones drug dealing (well, that is a generalised statement - too - come to think of it - many a crims moll/relatives/wives/girlfriends love the proceeds - having aided and abbtetted or looked the other way at the Mr. Bigs -) how I hate these pat twee "do the life do the crime" shallowest of observations. Would YOU apply this heartless thinking if this were YOUR child - your father - your brother - your son?
I don't presume to know it all about Bali, or Indonesia. But my family have spent long periods up there - lived there at times - family speak the language - love their legions of (mainly Balinese) friends - some of them now (started with nothing) and now in the highest echelons of the travel, art, and diplomatic areas - many of them Brahman caste, therefore can assume the rites of Hindu pries hoods.) I think it a tragedy that Jakarta, and the Javanese, Islamists mostly, are now exerting such pressures on Bali - their culture, sadly I fear, will gradually disappear. And corruption is now rife, and spreading to be the daily norm.
Our friends up there can ONLY ever do business with the bribe, nudge, and wink. It's a constant forking out of Rupiah. Pay up - or your busniess goes under. Unless you have powerful friends in Jakarta, Which most of them do.
However, in this instance, despite knowing how all this works, I have lost all respect for Indonesia. Hard hearts - and money is king. What happened to compassion, morals, and ethics? No tears for others? (THat is not the BAli I have knonw and loved for decades). It may be the norm for Jakarta.
These mens' lives are being used as chess pawns, for bargaining - and to aid a new President felx his political muscles - his Parliamentary position being weak.
SO we watch this atrocity - (the past weeks total mental cruelty for these men and their grieving families - and you say "remorse goes a long way - rubbish! And primly, self righteously, repeat the worn out old cliche - "Do the crime - do the crime". No way! Aussies are better than this.
When he's waving his tanks at us - he seems to forget, this new President - that we have good mates in high places.
His behaviour in this matter is gross! He claims he's a "humanitarian". At this rate, Hitler was, too.
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