I'm glad she got put in jail, at least now any dickheads will think twice about smuggling anything into or out of denpasar international...
What I dislike here is not the fact that she deserved it or whatever, or that she got a harsh sentence, but more that the judges dismissed evidence presented in support of her innocence. They did not make all possible efforts to prove her guilty beyond reasonable doubt before sentencing her for a crime she may or may not have committed (the baggage handler stuff in Sydney, for example).
How would
you like it if the law system you were exposed to failed to take into account substantive evidence in favour of your innocence if you were charged with a crime? Moreso, what if everyone who heard about your plight had your quoted attitude toward it all? How do you think you would feel? Would justice be served?
And your point about pot and ciggy's, think about it. Everyone I have ever known that smokes pot 'alot' is quite fucked up, most of them (not even generalising) are surfies from down the coast, Torquay and Lorne. I don't know many people who are fucked up from smoking. I am talking socially or mentally, not through the standard lung cancer or something like that. Marijuana made all these dickheads slow at work, tired all the time... couldn't get jobs because they looked 'stoned'. Don't under-estimate its destructiveness.
There's a reason I used the term "
absolute", Budgie. Discounting the fact that people who smoke 'alot' would likely be just as fucked up at a heavy marijuana smoker (albeit in different ways), you count 'socially or mentally' into the effects marijuana has: in that same respect, I'm including many other costs into that of tobacco smoking. Things like the cost to the health system, the money spent on tobacco related illness that could be spent on other health issues, the increasing incidence of athsma in society, the increased risk of heart diseases, the poorer quality of life in general... I think my point is valid.
Did everyone here 'hate indonesia' this much before Schapelle fucking Corby came on the scene?
Actually, after my trip when I was 16, yes, I planned to not go back there if I could help it, because I found it a distasteful place to be. Now, however, I fear going there because my life will be forfeit if I happen to unwittingly come into the posession of illicit narcotics en route.
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