AFP (Australian Federal Police ) commissioner Mick Keelty has come in for criticism ever since the Bali Nine were arrested. People have suggested the AFP should of stopped the Bali Nine members from leaving Australia or waited till they returned. Mr Keelty has explained at length his organizations mandate and procedures and is no doubt getting tired of being told he has ‘blood on his hands’.
According to Mr Keelty “People who want to get involved in international crime, and this is what this is, international crime, need to understand they subject themselves to the differences, if you like, and in sometimes the harshness of the international criminal justice system,” I’m sure some of the younger members of the Bali Nine did not fully realize what they were getting onto and some of the others did not realize the penalties they could be given. However, all of them did things to put themselves in that position and ignorance of the law is not a defense.
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hmmm would u want to pay for their upkeep while they are in jail in Australia? I don’t.And I am glad they all got long sentences over there. Pitty they all won’t bite the bullet.
They deserve a second chance…the younger mules do. They should be let out in a few years and they must learn that if they ever do such a thing again then it WILL be the firing squad: No appeals, no more nonsense, no more bull or chances after that.
As for the ringleaders–If they are perfectly willing to destroy other peoples lives for a little profit, then they too should have thiers destroyed as punishment. Let them rot for 15-20 years!!
Mick Keelty did the job he is paid to do and did it well. If the Bali Nine had limited their criminal activities to Australia, then they would have been caught here, tried here, convicted here [if there was sufficient evidence, as there most certainly was in the Bali situation] and sentenced in accordance with Australian law. But they were silly enough to try it on in Bali, where even the most stupid know about the drug offence laws and they are now paying the price. No-one is to blame but themselves.
Not something I would wish on anyone, but hopefully it will be seen as a warning to other young people not to get involved in the illegal drug trade.
Many people automatically discount the threat that the ringleaders dealt out to the mules. But living in California I’ve heard stories of Mexican durg gangs doing the same to poor people in Mexico. It is, do this drug run or I’ll rape and kill your daughter(s). And it happens quite a bit.
I don’t think the two Brisbane boys were entirely lying about the death threats to thier families.
I get your point Carlos, but Australia is not Mexico. Here drug dealers sometimes kill one another, for various reasons. But any suggestion that mules were forced into it by threats to themselves or their families is unlikely to be sustained. In Australia, drug dealers who tried to coerce mules to co-operate in this way would be likely to be dobbed in to the police.
And one woud suggest there is some sort of history between these donkeys and the ho masters. They are not innocents picked off the streets for their good looks. Perhaps if the BS they are saying is true then these mules have a fairly hefty drug debt to work off. Who knows who cares???
That man is an annoyong little crud. That bastard had no right selling thoise kids out like that to a foreign power. The AFP should have waited for thier return and busted them at home.
The way I feel about the whole thing is this. Suppose you have a son that malicioulsly broke a neighbors window and the neighbor took a rod or cane and beat the crap out of your son. I’m sure you would be pretty darn enraged at having your kid beaten-up by a neighbor.
However, if I had been informed of what my boy had done I would not heistate to introduce him to a leather belt about 20 times in a row.