Do you understand how racist this is....a balinese man gets 2 years for killing hundreds of people, and an innocent young girl gets 20 years for something she didnt do....this is beyond a joke. As far as im concerned Bali isnt that good a place to go there an take the risk of being convicted of something i didnt do.
The judges didnt even use any of schapelles witnesses, they didnt want to run the risk of proving there customs people wrong, they would rather ruin a young beautiful life.
Also they couldnt even keep there bloody hands off the bag so it could be finger printed. Selfish people!!!
Schapelle i am behind you all the way and i cant wait to see you back here in Tugun
I do believe she deserves a fair trial in a country that is not corrupt, then it will be proven that Schapelle Corby is innocent.
Bring schapelle home!!
Mr Howard I personally believe that if your government department knew about the baggage handeling problem and it wasn't addressed it is therefore your responsability. As Prime Minister of Australia, you have a responsibility to us, Australians. I would also like to suggest to have a re-enactment of the whole situation and interview all persons concerned, because most definatly there is a 2nd party to this. I voted for you as i believe you have a strong voice in which i would like you to contine you.
Mr Howard you can start by contacting the Indonesian president as this problem is not going to go away.
Bring Schapelle Corby home, back to Australia Prine Minister!!!
I for one am not going to Bali becos of this. If there was hardly a chance before that i might go there, as ive never been that interested in Bali as a holiday location. There is definately nothing that would make me go there now!!
Bring Schapelle home! she is innocent!
Why was no finger prints taken... if they had done this they would have found that Schapelles finger prints would NOT have been on the drugs. The indonesians did not follow procedures, how could they allow so many people to handle the drugs before they could be analised? The evidence has been tampered with... The Australian government is partly to blame as well... why didn't they step in, they could have worked alond side with the Indonesians to find the truth. This is not fair for Schapelle... She is innocent!!! Set her free!!
One benchmark of a civilised nation is their civil liberties. The most important of these is that a person suspected of a crime is considered innocent until proven guilty. Indonesia will never move past it's history of dictatorship and corruption to be counted amongst the civilised nations of the world until it has rectified this. All australians treasure the painstaking proceedure of our court system, because it ensures this right. Please Indonesia forgive the inadequacies of our policing system which allows drug trade through airports and free this innocent woman
HELLO!?!
DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT?!?!?!
THE BALI BOMBER HAS NOT BEEN CONVICTED YET!!!
HAS NOT BEEN CONVICTED YET!!!
THERFORE HE HAS NOT BEEN GIVEN TWO YEARS FOR KILLING 88 PEOPLE, HE WILL PROBABLY GET THE DEATH PENALTY LIKE THE OTHER THREE BALI BOMBERS
READ UP ON THE FACTS BEFORE YOU GO OFF!!!
No amount of gas and oil in the timor sea can make up for the abandoning of Australian citizens.The circumstancial evidence for Scapelle corby is overwelming as is the incompetence of the Indonesian Customs and their primitive system of law.For once do something really decent John Howard and get her home.Michael Hogan
Why is it a man who plans hundreds of murders gets a sentence of two years? Yet a woman accused of drug smuggling gets 20? Its the same legal system isn't it? Theres no concrete proof to say Corby is guilty, but I guess the judges had already decided in their own mind that she was guiltly and there was no chance of an open mind for them.
I thought it was innocent until proven guilty? Obviously not in Bali.
Bali's corrupt!!!!!!
their customs officers are corrupt and liars.there is total lack of evidence-they didnt test the origin of the drugs or fingerprint the bag.thats just bullshit!!! Bali court system is a joke,they are a bunch of monkeys.Schapelle doesnt look stupid enough to do something like this.the baggage have some explaining to do. your in our hearts Schapelle
Innocent until proven guilty?!? It seems the other way around in Bali. You are guilty, try and prove otherwise.
This is not justice!
Send Schapelle Home!!!
Can people who feel they have to vent their feelings in a online forum like this PLEASE not make this racist!!!
For people like me who LOVE Bali and its beautiful people and actually want to go there, you are not helping/
The Indonesian people know what is being said about them and they are feeling hurt and disappointed.
Please do nto spoil it for people like me who want to go back and be welcmed back into my favourite place in the WORLD!
I believe that Schapelle OCrby is innocent, but it is not going to help her defence... actually it could HURT her defence... if people insult the people and court system of Bali..
I believe she needs to be left alone by the politics of drugs coming into the country. Can't Indonesia atleast admit that drug smuggling does exist and admit they may have made a mistake. Just let Schappelle Corby go back to Australia so she can go on with her life as it was before she tried to have a vacation and enjoy your country. She obviously knows she's unwanted in your country by now and realizes your greetings to tourists are obviously unwelcoming. If there is no justice letting Corby go, I know I will never visit Indonesia out of fear of injustice being done onto me then. And I live in Iowa, United States.
I cant see how she can not even be given a fair trial. She is a poor innocent girl caught up in the red tape of two countries with differnt laws and beliefs. I really feel for her.
HELLO!?!
DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT?!?!?!
THE BALI BOMBER HAS NOT BEEN CONVICTED YET!!!
HAS NOT BEEN CONVICTED YET!!!
THERFORE HE HAS NOI BEEN GIVEN TWO YEARS FOR KILLING 88 PEOPLE, HE WILL PROBABLY GET THE DEATH PENALTY LIKE THE OTHER THREE BALI BOMBERS
READ UP ON THE FACTS BEFORE YOU GO OFF
Indonesians should be ashamed of themselves, australia has done so much for bali and they lock away an innocent australian without mercy! shopel corby is innocent.
Indonesia should be wiped from the list of countries Australia gives aid to. Why financially support a country that has delivered a gross injustice to a young Australian? They killed so many innocent Australians in the Bali Bombing and now they are taking another life. SCHAPELLE MUST BE SENT HOME AND SET FREE.
I live in Cincinnati, OH, USA, and am deeply saddened and horrified by Schapelle's situation. I pray she will make her way home safe and sound. Stay strong, Schapelle!!
Justice - what justice? An innocent woman has had her basic right of freedom taken from her, her right to have a normal life with a family, to be able to enjoy limited time with her sick father.
How is that the government can let the alleged drugs get ouf of the country and what have they really done to help protect Schapelle? Would I go to Bali - NO!!! Did she receive a fair trial - NO!! Sure she is in a different jurisdiction - but she is AUSTRALIAN and our Australian Government of the day is being pretty un-Australian!
I truly believe that she is innocent and had been set up - drugs planted. I would be horrified if it was one of my children. I believe there is REASONABLE DOUBT so should have been found innocent.
I think that the sentence that was given to Shapelle is injust.
Considering the Guy who was responsible for the bali bombing only got 2 years jail for KILLING 88 Australians.
How does this match up:
Killing 88 people = 2 years Jail
Bringing in soft drugs which was planted in her bag = 20 years jail or in worst cases the death penalty.
COME ON WHERE IS YOUR COMMON SENSE!
Mass Murder and Terrorism only deserves 2 years under Indonesian Law but Drug importation deserves 20 years, Life in prison or Death by firing squad????? Tell me Mr Howard, are we really meant to respect that form of Indonesian judicial logic.I think not!
No one takes drugs into a drug infested country, they take them out!
We give them so much financial support and they give us a kick in the guts. John Howard you fulfill Schapelles sentence in return for her full pardon. Only then will JUSTICE BE DONE!
ALL YOU IGNORANT PEOPLE SAYING ALL THESE HORRIBLE THINGS ABOUT BALI NEED TO GET THEIR FACTS STRAIGHT BEFORE YOU SOUND OFF!!
THE BALI BOMBERS YOU ARE ALL COMPARING SCHAPELLE TO THAT HAS APPREANTLKY ONLY GOT 'A FEW MONTHS' FOR KILLING SO MANY PEOPLE HASNT ACTUALLY GONE TO COURT YET!!! THERE HASNT BEEN A TRIAL.
ALL THE OTHER BOMBERS ARE NOW ON DEATH ROW WAITING FOR THE FIRING SQUAD, AND THE FOURTH ONE WILL PROBABLY ALSO.
THIS IS A STANDARD SENTENCE FOR SOMEONE WHO DIDNT PROVIDE ANY EVIDENCE FOR HER INNOCENCE.
I BELIEVE SCHAPELLE IS INNOCENT, BU PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT BEFORE THEY START TO SLING ABOUT RACIST HATE TO THE INNOCENT PEOPLE OF INDONESIA!!!!!
(((FREE SCHAPELLE CORBY)))
I ALWAYS HATED JOHN HOWARD NOW HE'S NO BETTER THAN THOSE INDONESIONS WHO ARE DOING NOTHING BUT KICKING US IN THE GUTS-I WAS GOING TO GO TO BALI FOR A HOLIDAY BUT NOW I WON'T EVEN BUY ANYTHING FROM THERE-YOU ARE NOT GOD!!!!!!!!!!!
YOU WILL COME HOME SCHAPELLE.
TRACEY RETCHFORD
an injustice has been done to an innocent woman.
He ora whakatakariri, he mate te whakatakariri "there is strength in unity,defeat in anger.
Kia kaha "be strong"
A conviction by a legal system that refuses to examin all contributing evidence, suggests a complete lack of interest in the actual problem. In addition, it suggests that the said law system is actually in support of Drug Trafficing.
20 years for 4.1kg of Marujuana. Yet, only 3 1/2 years for the conviction of being involved with the Bali Nightclub Bombing which killed over 200 innocent people ?
You be the judge. An Indonesion Legal System dedicated to the preservation of life and human rights ? I think not
Although it is perfectly understandable that another government has the right to create, and administer laws as they see fit, on this ocassion they are being particularily pig headed about someone who odviously poses no threat as a drug dealer. This country has bitten the hand that feeds it, and should be wiped off the list as a country which receives any help from Australia what so ever. Set her free you slanty eyed, choco coloured backwater rodents.
I think it is very sad that if the PM Son or Daughter was in the same siuation and was framed that they would have been aquited or just sent home. We need to stand as one when the little people take the fall,people power is powerful.
I would be devestated if Schapelle was my child. The 20yr verdict has shocked me like she was my own relative...what would you do Mr Priminister it she was your daughter, surley not accept the laws of another country? fight for her please.
