To my dismay, I took a quick look at the reader reactions on the SMH and other places. The amount of vicious 'Do the crime, do the time' deadbeats is disheartening. I wonder if they would be quite so hawkish if it were their own children?
Agree totally; Howard Abbott all the libs and the AFP threatened All of Australia by offering human sacrifices to Indonesia, knowing full well they were condemning these 9 people to death. This is in spite of Australias 1973 anti death penalty act. Lib/AFP Arseholes
Imagine your own children for whatever reason someone pushed heroine onto them and they ended up dying a horrific death from an overdose? The Bali 9 were only interested in a quick buck$ they didn’t care about the consequences of their actions on others in our society. Fuck them big time. Bang Bang
I get it. I don't condone what they did but I also don't agree with what the AFP did either. They could have arrested them back in Australia with the drugs. They wouldn't have gone unpunished. The death penalty is a cruel and barbaric act.
Yes I agree with that and they should have been sentenced to life in prison. But think about those who served in the AFP who witnessed the horror that heroine does to our society.
I appreciate it’s hard for you and most people to understand the horrors of heroine addiction.
Imagine your own children for whatever reason someone pushed heroine onto them and they ended up dying a horrific death from an overdose? The Bali 9 were only interested in a quick buck$ they didn’t care about the consequences of their actions on others in our society. Fuck them big time. Bang Bang
Imagine your own children for whatever reason someone pushed heroine onto them and they ended up dying a horrific death from an overdose? The Bali 9 were only interested in a quick buck$ they didn’t care about the consequences of their actions on others in our society. Fuck them big time. Bang Bang
Albo negotiating their release is to be applauded. But Murdoch media will ignore of course. Thing is, the LNP would never have bothered releasing anyone. Albo has helped Julian Assange and several others, regain their freedom and come back home.
"AFP had all the evidence they needed to arrest the nine before they left Australia on a heroin smuggling mission. Instead, it let them travel to Bali and then told Indonesian police about the crime they were about to commit." Did the AFP get Golden Durian from the Indonesian government...
I've seen, and recall clearly the interview with the Grandfather of one of the nine, who had been candidly informing the AFP of what was about to happen, and then the AFP went and betrayed them, by deliberately allowing it to happen, the Grandfather - he was heartbroken.
You know that’s about all the AFP can manage. The epic corruption and money laundering goes on unabated but they can’t quite get anyone. But a bunch of naive young kids… 2 hung!… and they couldn’t just wait and pick them up back in oz, no couldn’t do that. It’s the typical bully syndrome
I don't condone what they did but it beggars belief why the AFP dobbed them into the Indonesian authorities knowing full well they could be executed, instead of arresting them once back in Australia. Whoever made that cruel and reckless decision should be ashamed.
I'm glad they are returning home .I'm not sure I have much sympathy for them though .This was not their 1st drug run and almost all of them had a criminal history in Australia prior to their arrest in Bali .My brother also received a death penalty from the drugs they sold him .
Yes, great news and I concur that they should never have been shopped by the AFP or perhaps not dobbed in by one of the parents who naively trusted the AFP.
As I have said elsewhere, they have served their time - in conditions much worse than most who are in prison in Australia. I am happy for their families.
The AFP could have/should have waited till they returned and smashed the total supply chain rather than flirt with their almost certain death by alerting the Indonesian police. But then sitting back watching foolish young people suffer unbelievable harm and not lifting a finger was unconscionable.
If they got the information from one of the fathers, they should have just waited for them at Sydney airport.
If they had, all the tragedies surrounding this sad case would have been avoided.
For a country that will not extradite a person if they will face a death penalty they really fucked things up with this one. They inform a country that will inflict a death penalty for drugs that these guys were smuggling. The AFP could easily capture them & the drugs on their return. Simply murder.
"This reflects the strong bilateral relationship and mutual respect between Indonesia and Australia," the ministers said in a statement." What fucking bollocks! 'Mutual respect' my arse. Two were executed.
I celebrated enormously that day. If you want to know about sickening you should experience the horrors of drug addiction and the effects it has on families and their children.
Scumbags where eradicated 🎉🥂🍾
Stopping them in Australia would have stopped the drugs going to Indonesia and every chance Australian drug lords may have been arrested also.
AFP actions betrayed a father trying to stop his son doing something stupid.
The drugs were not going to Indonesia, they were being picked up in Bali and the idea was to smuggle them into Australia, so it might be a good idea if you did not call others stupid till at least you know what you are talking about.
If those things are truely your values then you wouldn’t have celebrated State sanctioned murder regardless of the circumstances. All people make mistakes & can be reformed as these ones seem to have. Do you think they should have been shot as well?
They should have been arrested by the AFP and put in Australian prisons. The AFP decision to feed them to the Indonesian police was disgraceful. Was there ever anyone held to account? Was it Mick Keilty at the AFP then?
Well before they got on the plane to Bali. The AFP knew they were smuggling drugs and instead of arresting them here they informed the Indonesian police.
Mick Kelty has a lot to answer for.
Yes and what’s really sad is one of the guys dad rang the AFP to ask them to stop him leaving the country and this is what they did. Kelly also told Ben Robert’s Smith they were going to investigate him for war crimes and he falsely accused an Indian doctor of terrorism.
Bali 5 left
Assange
Beef
Wine
Lobster
Timber
Inflation was 6.5 % now 2.8%
2 budget surplus in a row
Renewables record and emissions falling
NACC started
Or you could focus on what flags to stand in front of.
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Blood on his hands.
‘Peace love and respect‘ in your bio. Clearly, you don't practice what you preach or is your entire bio a figment of your imagination?
I appreciate it’s hard for you and most people to understand the horrors of heroine addiction.
And imagine that the AFP had arrested them here in Australia, months before the April 2005 arrest in Indonesia?
Wouldn't that have been a better outcome?
If they had, all the tragedies surrounding this sad case would have been avoided.
Scumbags where eradicated 🎉🥂🍾
AFP actions betrayed a father trying to stop his son doing something stupid.
departments of government.
If those things are truely your values then you wouldn’t have celebrated State sanctioned murder regardless of the circumstances. All people make mistakes & can be reformed as these ones seem to have. Do you think they should have been shot as well?
FFS
Mick Kelty has a lot to answer for.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Rush#:~:text=Lee%20Rush%2C%20Scott%20Rush's%20father,commit%20a%20drug%2Drelated%20crime.
https://www.theage.com.au/national/covert-war-crimes-inquiry-compromised-by-former-afp-chief-mick-keelty-20200812-p55kzj.html
Assange
Beef
Wine
Lobster
Timber
Inflation was 6.5 % now 2.8%
2 budget surplus in a row
Renewables record and emissions falling
NACC started
Or you could focus on what flags to stand in front of.
Pick which one is Government
Not quite.