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2005-06-07 Down Under

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Posted by anon1 2005-06-07 04:16|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Forgot to ad:

Aussies are angry as they rightly perceive this trial was run on the presumption of guilt.

Whether or not Corby could produce the real culprit is irrelevant to proving that she didn't do it: yet this is what the indon judges said on record she would have to do.

It isn't because she's young, pretty and white. It's because Aussies know injustice when they smell it.

This is one Aussie who is not going on holidays to Bali (though I had planned to go this year). Thailand is looking much better.

Posted by anon1 2005-06-07 12:07|| 2005-06-07 12:07|| Front Page Top

#2 While Indonesia was never high on my travel list, it fell much much lower on the basis of this trial. We all bent over backwards to assist Indonesia after the tsunami (just ask Chuck Simmins), and this travesty is the result.

No good deed goes unpunished.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2005-06-07 12:14|| 2005-06-07 12:14|| Front Page Top

#3 Yes, seafarious, I want my tsunami donations back, too!

I know it's not the poor innocent people who did this but it IS their culture that produced the court system and judges and government that is there.

Plus did you know that in January 05 while our donations and troops were helping patch up the wave struck areas, the INDONESIAN military was too busy facing off with Malaysia over an island they both claim.

So really if we denied them aid they could put their own military towards civilian projects instead of causing regional problems.

Also they conducted a web war, possibly the first ever? over that debacle. Indonesian hackers broke into Malaysian govt websites and posted the red and white javanese indon flag all over them, proclaiming the island was theirs (forgot the name of the island - these stories appeared on the wires in january and weren't picked up by all newspapers as tsunami news was bigger then)

Posted by anon1 2005-06-07 12:31|| 2005-06-07 12:31|| Front Page Top

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