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Australian woman may face death penalty for marijuana charges in Bali:

A stunningly beautiful, young Australian woman who recently tested negative to all drug tests forced upon her, now sits alone in a cold, dark cell somewhere in Bali awaiting her trial date to be set and to hear whether or not she will be executed. 27 year old Schapelle Leigh Corby has been charged with smuggling marijuana into Bali. The icy cold drug detectives, assigned to her case say they recommended the prosecutors try Ms Corby under Indonesia's nasty narcotics law, law No. 82, which carries the maximum penalty of death for those convicted of importing drugs in to Bali.

On October 8, 2004, Ms Corby was caught with 4.2 kilos of marijuana in her luggage at an airport in Bali. Ms Corby insists the marijuana was not hers and her family and legal team insist the marijuana was planted in her bag. This seems likely due to the fact that marijuana is usually smuggled out of Bali, rather than into Bali because the prices for pot in Bali are much lower than the prices for pot in Australia. In addition, the cannabis was found in a clear plastic bag, in plain view for all to see when her bag was unzipped at the airport.

Prosecutors in Indonesia, a country which places marijuana in the same category as heroin, in turn have commented that they are seeking to make a public example out of Ms Corby.

"It's a drug case and it must be the toughest so that it will intimidate others who try to copy her," said Lieutenant-Colonel Bambang Sugiarto.

Link to CC article for further details: [url]http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/4092.html[/url]

Photo credit for attaced photo: Brendan Esposito

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Please take a moment to speak out and take action to help save Schapelle Leigh Corby's life. Here are some things that you can do:

1. Write to the Australian Prime Minister and email the Australian Foreign Minister of Affairs asking them to take action to place pressure on the Balinese Government to release Schapelle Leigh Corby and to encourage Australians & the rest of the world to publicly boycott traveling to Bali until they set her free.

Snail Mail: Australian Prime Minister: John Howard House of Representatives Parliament House Canberra ACT 2600 Australia

Email: Australian foreign affairs Minister: Alexander Downer [email]A.Downer.MP@aph.gov.au[/email]

2. Contact the Indonesian Consulate in Australia or in your home town and demand that they set Schapelle Leigh Corby free. The public campaign to help save Schapelle Corby, suggests that people threaten to boycott travel to Bali until they grant Ms Corby her freedom.

Snail Mail: Consulate General - Republic of Indonesia 72 Queens Road Melbourne 3004 Victoria, Australia

Email: Indonesian Consulate in Australia: [email]KJRI@KJRI-MELBOURNE.ORG[/email]

*Here's a link to the locations of the indonesian consolates around the world:

[url]http://www.balilife.com/cometobali/consulate.html[/url]

*Here's the address to the one in Vancouver:

1455 West Georgia Street, 2nd Floor, Vancouver, B.C. Canada V6G 2T3

3. Anyone who has ever experienced a problem with their luggage being tampered with at any Australian or Indonesian airports or has dealt with corrupt customs officials in Indonesia, please email your experience to: [email]hfs_inc@hotmail.com[/email]

4. Donate money to the Help Free Schapelle Fund, by making a cheque or money order out to, HFS Incorporated and mailing it to:

HFS Incorporated P.O Box 2097 Bondi Junction, Sydney NSW, Australia 2022

OR, to:

HFS Incorporated Commonwealth Bank Bsb no: 2124 (06) in front for internet banking Account no: 10589692. Email: [email]hfs_inc@hotmail.com[/email] with any questions.

5. Write to your local papers about Ms Corby's plight and submit some photos along with your plea.

6. Print & circulate this info sheet & attached photo in your neighborhood & in front of the Indonesian consulate in your area.

Thank you for participating!

screwed up. sad. diplomacy should be able to handle it. i would hope.

ah that shit sucks..i feel sorry for her..reminds me of that film broken down palace. i hope she gets off the death penalty but id say she'll get life in prision..that really is a shit break..poor girl :cry:

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That sucks!!!

That is why I'll never go to a country like that. I KNOW I sound ignorant and paraniod.

Sometimes people become a victim of the will to FIND criminals...we call it the 'urge to score'.

She is too hot to be executed!!!

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[quote=hypoluxxa]That sucks!!!

That is why I'll never go to a country like that. I KNOW I sound ignorant and paraniod.[/quote]

yeah its an isolated case though i mean my mates have been over in places like that and everyone is high and the cops know it..just wrong place wrong time.

i would always check my luggage in the airport before going to board..just in case. still very sad

for Marijuhana ownly :? you're just kidding :? very sad

Ya how much marijuhana smoke? :?

I think the woman was a big smoker and then when she use the marijuhana soks dead :evil:

I am Mexican and here in my country people deads for the drugs :x

not to slam her, but she probably/hopefully knew the risks involved with trying to smuggle that shit there. anyone ever see "broken down palace"? good movie, probably something similar to that.

i still think that its bullshit. that law is waaaay too strict.

To think there they are killing people for marijuana and here the us they people walk on just about anything.

And I think the autorities is the problem because here (Mexico) all is with money that is the reason

What difference does it make how good looking she is? :?

[quote=marcovich_2001]I am Mexican and here in my country people deads for the drugs :x[/quote]

come on... the people dont dead becouse the marijuana!! it is only a plant!! and is legal ins the upfront countries...

the law in bali is fucking sux.

in mexico the people dead for another reassons for example.. the politic :|

People murder (not "deads") Just pointing something out... :wink:

-Psynce-

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I don't see why people are saying she's stupid for smuggling...the people who say that are stupid..

4.2kilos is alot to have in ur bag to think u could just walk through customs.. that shit was defo planted and im sure she was 100% innocent.

If you read the article the link provided: [url]http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/4092.html[/url] , she is charged with trying to smuggle marijuana (from Australia) into Bali which doesn't make sense since mj is so much cheaper in Bali. Here's an excerpt:

On October 8, 2004, Corby was caught with 4.2 kilos of marijuana in her luggage at an airport in Bali. Police told reporters it was the largest amount of cannabis taken into Indonesia, and the first such case involving an Australian. Indonesian media has dubbed Corby "the marijuana queen."

Corby, a Gold Coast beauty school student, insists the marijuana was not hers. Many of Corby's supporters believe the marijuana must have been planted in her bag. For one, marijuana tends to be smuggled out of Bali, rather than into Bali because the prices for cannabis in Bali are much lower than the prices for cannabis in Australia. [b]Even the head of the police investigation, Lieutenant-Colonel Bambang Sugiarto, ageed that it is unprecedented for anyone to smuggle marijuana into Bali from Australia.[/b]

In addition, the cannabis was found in a clear plastic bag in her body board bag, nestled on top of her yellow swimming fins and her body board. Sugiarto said no fingerprint tests had been conducted on the vacuum-sealed plastic bag, because too many hands had touched it after its discovery.

Unfortunately, despite all of the public attention on Corby's case, the Balinese authorities have done little to help her plight. There is no record to be found with the weight of her body board bag as it left Australia, and it seems that the X-ray images taken of her bag as it passed through the Brisbane airport have been erased.

In 1997, the Indonesian government added the death penalty as a punishment for those convicted of drugs in their country. [b]The law has yet to be enforced on any significant, well established drug dealers. Rather, the trend has been to execute unknown, first time, alleged drug traffickers like Corby, who don't have a significant amount of money to bribe the authorities to set them free.[/b]

The usual shit. Same happens in Thailand all the time: looks pretty kool killing poor people for posession of drugs and not giving them a fair trial, and at the same time being friends with the real trafickers. The high-ranking officers make too much money off those guys, so they would be stupid to actually bring them before court.

You what really pisses me off? The governments, in this case the Australian, not doing enough to get those persons out of that situation. Just letting them take the fall in a fucking corrupt system, so as not to 'offend' the other govt. Well, fuck them I say. If someone is really stupid enough to take the risk: their problem. They know what the risks are. But people getting lifelong jail sentences or death penalties b'cos those coward trafickers are using them...I gotta stop here, or I'm really gonna get worked up here. :MadNow:

Definitely looks like a pothead. :roll: Reminds me of 'Brokedown Palace'.

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Funny articles on cannabis culture website. Apparently, Brad Pitt and Jennifer Anniston are huge potheads. Maybe that's why they broke up.

Hey, she's the one who is responsible. She should have known the law before smuggling her illegal drugs into the country. It's a wakeup call. We can't judge this law as wrong, because doing so would be aiding and abbeding smuggling, just like a common criminal.

I hope she's executed, it may spark up a good debate.

^ u sir are an Idiot :DumbAss:

as i said in my other post...that shit was planted...so obvious people :roll:

Thanks the links,and the great story!!!! :!: :RockOn:

[quote=White_Hindu]Hey, she's the one who is responsible. She should have known the law before smuggling her illegal drugs into the country. It's a wakeup call. We can't judge this law as wrong, because doing so would be aiding and abbeding smuggling, just like a common criminal.

I hope she's executed, it may spark up a good debate.[/quote]

youre pathetic. You hope someone dies so that there is good debate? buddy, thats just sick

[quote=White_Hindu]Hey, she's the one who is responsible. She should have known the law before smuggling her illegal drugs into the country. It's a wakeup call. We can't judge this law as wrong, because doing so would be aiding and abbeding smuggling, just like a common criminal.

I hope she's executed, it may spark up a good debate.[/quote]

Did you even read the article? You are already assuming she is guilty.

Sure we can judge if a law is wrong. Just becuase something is law doesn't make it moral or right. We can say the law is wrong becuase we feel the punishment doesn't equal the crime. We can also judge the law as wrong because it is not applied consistently. And just because we disagree with a law it doesn't make us common criminals. Your leap in logic makes no sense. Without civil disobediance there would never be any change and the staus quo would forever remain.

The problem is that the world isn't status quo. Your argument holds no validity, because Bali has different laws than the USA, and just because we may view this law as immoral doesn't make it so. Bali obviously feels very strongly about this law, and to say they're wrong when they are the lawmakers is stupid and pointless. If she's innocent, then the most she has to worry about is passing a polygraph test.

my mom always said "that stuff'll kill ya"...

guess she was right.

[quote=White_Hindu]The problem is that the world isn't status quo. Your argument holds no validity, because Bali has different laws than the USA, and just because we may view this law as immoral doesn't make it so. Bali obviously feels very strongly about this law, and to say they're wrong when they are the lawmakers is stupid and pointless. If she's innocent, then the most she has to worry about is passing a polygraph test.[/quote]

To disagreee with lawmakers isn't stupid or pointless. I disagree with lawmakers from my own country let alone others. You argument that just because they are lawmakers then everyone should not question them is ridiculous. Laws in my own coutnry use to make it illegal for minorities and women to vote. If people didn't question those laws back then where would we be today? International public outcry does make an imapct, case in point, when in Nigeria when a women was condemned to be stoned to death for committing adultry while her male counterpart gets off scott free (How fair and just is that?), International public outcry helped her gain a reprieve ( [url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/2023502.stm[/url] ).

If Bali feels really strongly about the law, then why don't they apply it more consistenly? Why is it that it has yet to be enforced against well established drug dealers? If they did I would at least have more respect for their convictions, even though I might not agree with them.

All she has to do is pass a polygraph test?!? If it were only that simple my friend.

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that wil teach her a lesson...I guess she shouldn't have gone to Bali...no actually this shit sucks. I emailed everyone on the list. Those basterd balinese asshats. WTF??? death??? WTF???

to be honest, she looks like a wife of a fuckin drug dealer.

White hindu...everyone in this forum isn't under U.S law so don't make that reference.

Ur fukin deluded, do u really think they would give a polygraph test to her in a shitty jail.. the police are corrupt as fuk overthere...

if u were goin smuggle 4.2 kilos of shit that way u must either be A) Retarded or B) not know it was there in the first place..

:roll:

see that is why i never want to go to Asia.. that place is fucked up.. everywhere you here stories about people getting there ass smacked with a pole or getting executed for bringing in some plants across an imaginary line..

[quote=runningman]see that is why i never want to go to Asia.. that place is fucked up.. everywhere you here stories about people getting there ass smacked with a pole or getting executed for bringing in some plants across an imaginary line..[/quote]

I wouldn't go so far as sweeping the whole continent as "fucked up." There are many countries in Asia that you would not encoutner a problem like how Corby did in Bali such as Japan, certain parts of China such as Hong Kong, Shanghai and Viet Nam to name a few.

China??

the chinese can lock you up for no reason at all.. i wouldn't mark China as a place i would go to even in my lifetime..

[quote=runningman]China??

the chinese can lock you up for no reason at all.. i wouldn't mark China as a place i would go to even in my lifetime..[/quote]

Then you my friend are unnecessarily limitng yourself to a wealth of experience due to your xenophobia. I have had many friends who have played in China to an amazing crowd and who have experienced no problems whatsoever.

I don't think China is the only country that can lock you up for no reason at all. Ever heard of the thing called the Patriot Act and a place called Guantanomo Bay?

[quote=hacamatic] I don't think China is the only country that can lock you up for no reason at all. Ever heard of the thing called the Patriot Act and a place called Guantanomo Bay?[/quote] Well put.

Don't think I will make vacation plans to go to Bali . That's a little extreme don't you think folks , shit it's probably one of their cash crops isn't Nepal close by ? :shock: