ONCE A CONVICT, ALWAYS A CONVICT.
Our proud heritage in Australia is the fact that our forefathers were convicts. Prisoners of his/her majesty who were (inevitably) unjustly imprisoned. Forgivable crimes such as stealing bread from market stalls to feed the family. Naturaly, anyone stealing food from the multinational supermarket stalls today to feed the family is a filthy parasite that deserves all the jail time the judges righteously met out.
The notion that alienating offenders by placing them into a carefuly designed cauldron of barbarism, tribal hierarchy and forced brutal homosexual sex somehow makes the criminals more adjusted to living exemplary lives is something only a delusional mind can birth.
But hey, what do I care, we hide our garbage in big mountains and cover them with dirt out of our sight. Why should we treat the broken down people of our civilisation any differently. In short, if we hide it, the problem will go away.
This mentality of jailer and the jailed pervades our community still.
And so, some recent examples.
An Australian citizen, Shapelle Corby is jailed for drug smuggling.
Now, there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that the poor girl is innocent.
Here are my reasons why;
a) Security flaws in Australia airports.
A secret Australian Customs Service report, completed last September, found that some Sydney airport workers had been involved in drug smuggling. This has been widely publicised in Australian press. This also forms the basis of Corbys defence. That someone else (at the airport) placed the drugs in her bag, and forgot or missed taking them out on her last leg in Australia.
b) Flaw in flow direction.
No one, even a silly girl like Shapelle smuggles drugs INTO Indonesia.
At the same time 9 Australians are caught smuggling drugs OUT of Indonesia to Australia, she smuggles INTO Indonesia? For all the heavy penalties Indonesia seems to have more Drugs abvailable than Sydney's Kings Cross on a Saturday night.
c) Corruption.
Indonesia is at the very top of the corruption ladder in the world International anti-corruption organisation ranks Indonesia just past Haiti,Nigeria,Chad and Azerbajan who take the top billing.
Someone did not pay somebody enough. This is likely the reason why Shapelle is rotting in jail.
d) Judiciary.
The Indonesian kangaroo court judge proudly boasted that in 800 cases he tried not once did he judge the defendant innocent. In an imperfect civilised legal system like Australia, a small percentage of accused would be found innocent. Not so in Indonesia, the avatar of human rights and robust legal system (see point c).
Shapelle was found guilty long before a word was said in court by her defence.
Found guilty by the reputation of the judge who would rather see an innocent womans life ruined, than have his reputation as a hanging judge ruined. Shame.
e) Evidence and process.
Shapelle was found guilty of the drugs being in her luggage. As the commentators say, the court was not interested how they got there. There were no fingerprints taken off the plastic bag the drugs were in. The evidence was destroyed. Fundamental ommisions in collecting evidence. Apparently our aid to Indonesia stops at political counterinsurgency and does not extend to criminal investigation evidence collection.
What is the response of the Australian government to this abuse of its citizen?
Furious diplomatic protests? Flocks of government legal eagles rushing to her rescue? Threats of curtailing of the bullets shippments, sorry, 'military co-operation' Indonesia uses to stifle its separatist movements. Not so! The Australian government's solution is to negotiate a prisoner exchange scheme.
I am sure Shapelle will feel wonderful rotting in jail for 20 years on a joke charge. Serving time in the same jail with those on 4 year sentences for manslaughter.
God forbid in the future an Australian faces a death penalty in Saudi Arabia.
Our governments solution will be to negotiate a supply of a sharper blade so that the Australian dies quickly and as painlessly as possible.
This abuse by the Indonesian so called justice (HA!) system is made even more painful after all the outpouring of aid after the tsunami. It is important point to consider. We send billions of dollars in aid when hundreds of thousands of its citizens were in need. When one of Australian citizens is in need, we get blowback, 'national pride' and distaint for basic human rights.
There is of course precedent for this disregard by our government of personal liberties.
Steven Hicks, an alleged 'enemy combatant' (Whatever the hell that means) being kept in a US concentration camp for over 3 years, without a trial, in clear violation of a number of international agreements. With the full consent and blessing of the Australian government. Hick, by all accounts would not have been able to be charged with any crime in Australia. Still, he rots in jail because being the US 'Pacific region Sheriff' is more important to the Australian government than personal freedom of some peasant citizen.
A series of 'detention centers' (qv prisons, qv concentration camps) are set up through out Australia where refugee (called here 'illegal immigrants') men, women and children are kept in idefinite custody. Yes folks, in Australia we keep babies in jail. The paradox is that most of them are from Afganistan, Iraq and Iran. The very same countries where we have military saving us from the terrorists. On one hand, they are here 'illegaly' and can return to their safe home. On the other, we fight bad people in their homeland. Solution to the paradox? Jail them (hide them out of the way) qv (Pacific Solution).
It is time for the people who purport to defend freedom of its people in this great country to actualy look up the definition of the world 'freedom'. Allowing its citizens to rot in foreign jails and allowing those who seek our protecition to rot in our jails for the sake of shallow diplomatic ends is a violation of the charter of human rights, common decency and it is certainly not fair dinkum.
It is time for our humanity to shatter the convict shackles that bind our Australian decency.
The notion that alienating offenders by placing them into a carefuly designed cauldron of barbarism, tribal hierarchy and forced brutal homosexual sex somehow makes the criminals more adjusted to living exemplary lives is something only a delusional mind can birth.
But hey, what do I care, we hide our garbage in big mountains and cover them with dirt out of our sight. Why should we treat the broken down people of our civilisation any differently. In short, if we hide it, the problem will go away.
This mentality of jailer and the jailed pervades our community still.
And so, some recent examples.
An Australian citizen, Shapelle Corby is jailed for drug smuggling.
Now, there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that the poor girl is innocent.
Here are my reasons why;
a) Security flaws in Australia airports.
A secret Australian Customs Service report, completed last September, found that some Sydney airport workers had been involved in drug smuggling. This has been widely publicised in Australian press. This also forms the basis of Corbys defence. That someone else (at the airport) placed the drugs in her bag, and forgot or missed taking them out on her last leg in Australia.
b) Flaw in flow direction.
No one, even a silly girl like Shapelle smuggles drugs INTO Indonesia.
At the same time 9 Australians are caught smuggling drugs OUT of Indonesia to Australia, she smuggles INTO Indonesia? For all the heavy penalties Indonesia seems to have more Drugs abvailable than Sydney's Kings Cross on a Saturday night.
c) Corruption.
Indonesia is at the very top of the corruption ladder in the world International anti-corruption organisation ranks Indonesia just past Haiti,Nigeria,Chad and Azerbajan who take the top billing.
Someone did not pay somebody enough. This is likely the reason why Shapelle is rotting in jail.
d) Judiciary.
The Indonesian kangaroo court judge proudly boasted that in 800 cases he tried not once did he judge the defendant innocent. In an imperfect civilised legal system like Australia, a small percentage of accused would be found innocent. Not so in Indonesia, the avatar of human rights and robust legal system (see point c).
Shapelle was found guilty long before a word was said in court by her defence.
Found guilty by the reputation of the judge who would rather see an innocent womans life ruined, than have his reputation as a hanging judge ruined. Shame.
e) Evidence and process.
Shapelle was found guilty of the drugs being in her luggage. As the commentators say, the court was not interested how they got there. There were no fingerprints taken off the plastic bag the drugs were in. The evidence was destroyed. Fundamental ommisions in collecting evidence. Apparently our aid to Indonesia stops at political counterinsurgency and does not extend to criminal investigation evidence collection.
What is the response of the Australian government to this abuse of its citizen?
Furious diplomatic protests? Flocks of government legal eagles rushing to her rescue? Threats of curtailing of the bullets shippments, sorry, 'military co-operation' Indonesia uses to stifle its separatist movements. Not so! The Australian government's solution is to negotiate a prisoner exchange scheme.
I am sure Shapelle will feel wonderful rotting in jail for 20 years on a joke charge. Serving time in the same jail with those on 4 year sentences for manslaughter.
God forbid in the future an Australian faces a death penalty in Saudi Arabia.
Our governments solution will be to negotiate a supply of a sharper blade so that the Australian dies quickly and as painlessly as possible.
This abuse by the Indonesian so called justice (HA!) system is made even more painful after all the outpouring of aid after the tsunami. It is important point to consider. We send billions of dollars in aid when hundreds of thousands of its citizens were in need. When one of Australian citizens is in need, we get blowback, 'national pride' and distaint for basic human rights.
There is of course precedent for this disregard by our government of personal liberties.
Steven Hicks, an alleged 'enemy combatant' (Whatever the hell that means) being kept in a US concentration camp for over 3 years, without a trial, in clear violation of a number of international agreements. With the full consent and blessing of the Australian government. Hick, by all accounts would not have been able to be charged with any crime in Australia. Still, he rots in jail because being the US 'Pacific region Sheriff' is more important to the Australian government than personal freedom of some peasant citizen.
A series of 'detention centers' (qv prisons, qv concentration camps) are set up through out Australia where refugee (called here 'illegal immigrants') men, women and children are kept in idefinite custody. Yes folks, in Australia we keep babies in jail. The paradox is that most of them are from Afganistan, Iraq and Iran. The very same countries where we have military saving us from the terrorists. On one hand, they are here 'illegaly' and can return to their safe home. On the other, we fight bad people in their homeland. Solution to the paradox? Jail them (hide them out of the way) qv (Pacific Solution).
It is time for the people who purport to defend freedom of its people in this great country to actualy look up the definition of the world 'freedom'. Allowing its citizens to rot in foreign jails and allowing those who seek our protecition to rot in our jails for the sake of shallow diplomatic ends is a violation of the charter of human rights, common decency and it is certainly not fair dinkum.
It is time for our humanity to shatter the convict shackles that bind our Australian decency.
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