Schapelle Corby trial wraps up for the moment in Bali

Hi Nick, I have sent you an email about getting Schapelles family some computer help in Bali, I used an email address that I had from a year or so back, I hope it reaches you.

Hi Nick

I have sent you an email about getting some IT support for the Corby Family in Bali.

Hi Nick

I have sent you an email about getting some IT support for the Corby Family in Bali.

Guru Ann, thank you. I will look for your email. I hope things improve for Corby

i wish that they give you a fair tril and i know that you are not gulity
amanda whitman
year 10
gin gin
qld
AUSTRALIA

This is a very sad day! Schapelle is an Australian and even if she were guilty she does not deserve to jailed in a Bali jail and be treated like a dog.

I have travelled to Bali many times, and there is no way that I will ever return and I sure that many Australians would be feeling the same way. Bali and its officials are corrupt! This is a fact!

Twenty years for possibly - if she knew about it, which hasn’t even been proven - importing a small quantity of a soft drug that she would have made a loss on if she’d even sold it anyway; and just over one-tenth that sentence for masterminding the brutal death of hundreds of innocent people. An absolute pile. Unfortunately I have to join the voices calling for a Bali boycott - I know this will hurt the poor, innocent Bali tourism operators, but they can take their complaints directly to the Indonesian legal system as far as I am concerned - every single aspect of this case from the rushed and half-hearted hiring of a defense lawyer to the judge’s boasts that he has never acquitted a drug case - screams “kangaroo court” and a complete set-up. Schapelle was doomed from the minute she entered that court and I will not travel to a country where I run that risk due to actions that were not my own.

I loved going to bali but now I will never go again..

After what we have given your country you owned us for giving Corby back to us..

I work for a very large company and many of my friends feels the same..

good bye bali we will never visit your country again

I loved going to bali but now I will never go again..

After what we have given your country you owned us for giving Corby back to us..

I work for a very large company and many of my friends feels the same..

good bye bali we will never visit your country again

I loved going to bali but now I will never go again..

After what we have given your country you owned us for giving Corby back to us..

I work for a very large company and many of my friends feels the same..

good bye bali we will never visit your country again

I Loved bali, the people are so lovely, but now? how can we face them knowing how unjust their system is? Cannot believe the verdict Cannot believe their system. Please look after our girl over there as i feel many Aussies will not return to your shores. And schapelle needs all the support she can get.

I can’t believe that poor Schapelle has been found guilty. Even if she is guilty (which I don’t think she is) she doesn’t deserve 20 years in a jail in a foreign country. I cried when I found out the news today; I never believed she’d be found guilty. Shame on the judge; you bastard.

i couldn’t believe what i read in the daily world news… this poor Australian girl! we don’t really know who put the devil drugs in her bag, but whoever did that was a murderer, and someday the truth will come to the public and he/she will receive the punishment one deserves. (from China)

Bali Bombings, Childcare facilities that result in STD’s for children, and a corrupt legal system. We sent aid. We sent troops to help. We turned a blind eye to Indo soldiers and police charging for refugees to board Australian planes out of Tsunami affected areas.

Thats Indonesia 88+2+9+1 , Australia 0.

Why feed a dog that bites?

No Aid.
No Trade.
No Tourism.

Where is your indignation when the Australian Government locks up children without charge or trial, let alone conviction, for years on end in detention centre gulags…

That is so unfair, that young woman is innocent!!!
It makes me so angry, helpless and also endless sad.

That is so unfair, that young woman is innocent!!!
It makes me so angry, helpless and also endless sad.

I agree with Richard’s comments (May 28) and Eva (May 29)
What also saddens me is the individuals whom I have heard on radio and television who believe Schappelle should be discriminated against because she is an attractive human being. They overlook the fact that she is INNOCENT!!! She is HERSELF and if that is attractive and appropriately emotional it doesn’t change the FACTS. Remember Lindy Chaimberlain who was deemed to be the opposite. In the end it all had no bearing on the TRUTH.

I think its great that people are talking about boycotting Bali, and that will affect some innocent tourist operators, but atleast they dont have to sit innocent in a jail for 20 years. The justice system is so corrupt over there, that maybe a large sum of money will get her out or lessen her sentence. I have read of this happening in the past. I cant believe the Bali bombers got less than 3 years. WHAT CRAP, KEEP FIGHTING

Pam,

Boycotting Bali, not only hurts the tourist operators, who are mostly Australians, but more importantly it hurts balinese locals who live on minimum wages and have nothing to do with the Corby Trial. You are mistaken in saying that the Bali bombers got less than three years given that one of the bombers was killed in the bombing and another 4 that were involved have been sentenced to death by firing squad. By the way the judge who sentenced Corby is a devout Christian.

Jesus, I wonder why people are so stupid, now after (perhaps) reading or hearing some explantions by Tim Lindsey or any others who know the system and the case they realize how wrong they were. Corby’s GUILTY.

Hi guys,
Here is food for thought. It doesn’t matter whether you agree with their justice system or not. The questions are these. Is she brain dead? Did she stuff 4.1 Kg of cannabis (worth $300-400 per ounce in Aust and $20 in Bali) into a boogie bag without making any attempt to hide it on the off-chance that custom’s might not open that bag? Did she break it up into smaller bags to conceal it? Nope. Did she put it under a tee shirt or in a bigger suitcase? Nope. It wasn?t even underneath the boogie-board! This bag might as well have had a sign on it that read ?DRUGS IN HERE?. Who can trust a court that believes that?
Next, We are told by our leaders, (John Howard, Andrew Downer, and others,) by Indonesian media spokespeople, politicians and Corby’s Indonesian lawyers that the media fuss is not helping Schapelle and that, in fact, it is harming her defence. Now you can’t have it both ways. Either it’s a fair and impartial judiciary or it is not. If it is impartial then all the comments and media attention should not make an ounce of difference to the judgement or the sentencing but we all know that that is not true. Schapelle is being held hostage and if we criticize or speak our minds then they will hurt her and degrade her more than they already have done. I just pray that no one does anything really stupid.
Next, it’s not a case of boycotting… but if you go there, you could get blown up or framed. I like Balinese people, hell, I like Columbians but I’m not going there.
Next, there has been some suggestion that baggage handlers in Sydney may have been using luggage as a courier system to transport drugs around the country and while this may have some merit, Schapelle was not the first. Others have discovered cannabis in their luggage while unpacking in Bali hotels. Is it coincidence that all the baggage handler mistakes ended up in Bali? What about Singapore or Hawaii?

So who did it? The answer is really obvious! The one fact that came out of the Bali bombings was that you could hurt 20 million Australians by killing just 88. We were so intent on justice and, with the help of the Australian Federal Police, we sent three of them to prison where they laughed and joked with the guards, and one of them got 2 ? years? And then a plot was hatched? ?Why don?t we send a few Australians to the same jail under sentence of death ? payback!?

I am accusing Jamar Islamia of conducting a cowardly terrorist attack against Australian citizens, and the close ties between Australia and Indonesia. The effects have been every bit as damaging to the Australian psyche as the bombing and for good reason. An attack that singles out an individual, one just like you and me, an innocent, one who is helpless and the more innocent she looks, the better for the perpetrators. I could not imagine a worse fate than being innocent and being ignored.

Finally, as the verdict was read we heard cheering in the background from so-called ?anti-drugs? campaigners. Really? In Bali? Why aren?t they harassing the cab drivers? Cos when I was there I kept on getting dope shoved in my face by Balinese guys that seem to be operating with impunity. The heavy sentences seem to be reserved for us. No, the guys in court cheering were members of Jamar Islamia who had just sent one of us to join their glorious leader in the same prison ? payback.

The only way to end this nightmare is for the people of Australia to see Schapelle as a victim of terrorism, which to my mind, she is. How foolish our leaders will look if history proves this to be true and they did nothing but bend over.

What about Aussies spending time in Cuba, WITHOUT A TRIAL? Boycott the USA?

A neighbor of mine has been throwing his garbage into my property, so I’m going to retaliate by raping his child. I know the innocent child didn’t actually do anything, but if that child has any problems he can talk to his father, who is responsible for throwing garbage in my property.

A neighbor of mine has been throwing his garbage into my property, so I’m going to retaliate by raping his child. I know the innocent child didn’t actually do anything, but if that child has any problems he can talk to his father, who is responsible for throwing garbage in my property.

Here is the reality. The Balinese economy has been having a stable GDP growth rate of about 9 per cent per annum. Its economy is influenced by tourism but much of the growth is the result of exports of raw materials in exchange for manufacture goods. Australian tourists may make up quite a number of the total number of tourists in Bali because of proximity, but Australia’s population is small relative to other sources of tourism, such as the US or Japan. If a boycott is establish it’s questionable as to whehter it will have any lasting effect on the Balinese economy. The economy is not as simple as that. Within Indonesia there are many foreign firms. In the era of globalization there is such thing as foreign investment. Foreigners can partially own companies within Australia. If you don’t buy Balinese holidays and instead put your money into something else, who is to say that most of this money won’t go back to Bali? Do you know the nationalities of all the shareholders of major firms from which you buy goods? Unless you analyse all these things carefully, a boycott is nothing but symbolism and sentimentality.

Many people here are saying things like, “We helped you Indonesians.” It may be emotionally appealing, but try not to see political phenomenon as occuring at the level of the nation. Everything occurs at the level of the individual. Do you control Australia? Do you influence Australian trade? Unlikely. You are just one person. Common hatred can unite people, but often this unity is delusional. The elite and the ordinary are two completely different groups, yet the elite have an incentive to make the ordinary think they are one and the same as the elite. BHP invests heavily in Indonesia. You cannot control this. Virtually all relationships among countries are economic in nature. They are influenced by careful cost benefit analysis by the elite, not by the juvenile patriotism of ordinary people.

John, I particularly liked your logic over the father and the child. People just get to emotional and don’t even stop to think straight about the individual consequences of their actions.
I think we should all be more concerned on finding ways to save energy, to have cleaner air and water, to press our governments and companies to be more environment friendly, instead of arguing about boycotting tourism to a region of friendly people who need it to survive economically.