Schapelle Corby ignites US TV debate.

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The Age (Australia).
http://www.theage.com.au/news/Corby-...568228584.html

Corby ignites US TV debate.
Los Angeles.
June 1, 2005 - 8:50AM.

A fiery debate erupted on a popular US TV talkshow today when a panel of celebrities, including veteran journalist Barbara Walters, discussed the Schapelle Corby drug case.

One panellist, Joy Behar, branded Bali's drug laws "crazy" and supported the campaign to boycott Bali as a tourist destination.

"So the Australians are right," Behar told an audience of several million viewers.

"Don't travel to Bali because their laws are crazy."

The heated discussion came today on one of America's top-rating morning television talkshows, The View.

The Corby case was one of the topics debated by the show's five panellists.

Star Jones Reynolds, a former New York prosecutor, showed the least compassion for Corby, sentenced last week to 20 years in a Bali jail for smuggling marijuana.

"You come to this country (US), you reap the benefits of our laws," Jones Reynolds said.

"You go and visit somebody else's country, then you have to adhere to their laws."

Jones Reynolds' comment heated up the debate.

"But what if that was put in her luggage?" Behar, a well-known US comedienne, asked.

"That's why you have a trial," Jones Reynolds answered.

"They had the trial. The court rejected their argument."

Jones Reynolds' remarks fired up another panellist, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, who commented: "But they didn't even fingerprint the bag of drugs."

Jones Reynolds responded by saying US authorities might fingerprint evidence, but authorities from other countries might not.

"That's the way we do things in the United States of America," Jones Reynolds said.

"The way they do things in their country is completely different."

That's when Behar commented: "So the Australians are right. Don't travel to Bali because their laws are crazy."

Walters, the 71-year-old matriarch of American news, said she spoke with a US drug enforcement officer about the case.

The officer told her if Corby smuggled that amount of marijuana into the US she would have only faced a minor charge.

Walters also said if the US was going to protest incidents in other countries, such as the Corby sentence in Indonesia, the US should not be so sensitive when other countries protest against incidents involving the US, such as the detention of terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay.

"So in that sense, if we are going to call on the international community, we are going to have to practice what we preach," Walters said.

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I guess images are not allowed in this message board? I tried HTML tags and the standard forum bracket tags for images.

I attached a slightly shorter banner for the Indonesia boycott.

And linked below is an image gallery for many cannabis campaigns and events. MMM, 420, Renee Boje, and many other events and campaigns.
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Fuck that fat bitch star jones

You're going to boycott Indonesia over something so small and trivial as one unknown woman being charged with smuggling drugs, when the whole region is still recovering from one of the worst natural disasters ever recorded? Fuck you.

Yeah well I was shocked when I had first seen this on Good Morning America because I just don't believe that she would of got on American News if the Australian Media didn't play it out the way they did which was shameful to say the least! Second I don't think that she would have got a minor charge if she went to the USA with that quanity.... BULLSHIT! You only have to look at the American Government and the way they treat there citzens over the Cannabis issue :eek:.And in regards to the boycott of indonesian not to travel there because of there 'crazy laws' That is totally stupid.Hey here is an idea for anyone that wants to travel to these places do your bloody research before going to these countries so you know what your in for! ;) :)

Right on, Miss G :)

I don't get back to these boards too often anymore, though I posted at Cannabis.com boards often years ago.

And replying to narcs, moles, and/or backstabbers like GHoSToKeR or Miss Green is not a high priority to me anyway.

They are in the minority anyway as this Brisbane, Australia newspaper article excerpt shows:

Brisbane Courier Mail, Australia - Oct 2, 2005
http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.a...55E954,00.html
... Rightly or not, opinion polls show that the overwhelmingly majority of Australians believe that Gold Coast woman Schapelle Corby was jailed for 20 years for drug offences she did not commit. ...

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But the weekend's carnage at Jimbaran Beach and Kuta Square will test the bonds between the gentle, hospitable Balinese and Australians like never before.

This is not just because it reprises all the horror of the 2002 nightclub bombings that claimed 202 lives, 88 of them Australian, and burnt the menace of terrorism into the public consciousness.

Bali has become a place Australians are increasingly wary of.

Rightly or not, opinion polls show that the overwhelmingly majority of Australians believe that Gold Coast woman Schapelle Corby was jailed for 20 years for drug offences she did not commit.

Another nine Australians are facing the death penalty for attempting to smuggle heroin out of Bali.

Sydney model Michelle Leslie might have been foolish to have taken two pink tables of ecstasy to a Kuta dance party, but a potential sentence of 15 years' jail seems very stiff punishment.

Especially when Bali has a well-honed reputation for encouraging young foreign revellers to excess.

The latest bombings will only reinforce the negative sentiment from Australia.

Predictably, there were reports yesterday of travel agencies being inundated with Bali holiday cancellations.

One of the biggest operators, Flight Centre, said it would not charge its own cancellation fees or charges.

However, whether full refunds or travel credits would be offered on existing bookings was up to the airlines and accommodation providers.

The travel advice, however, from the Australian Government was unequivocal.

All non-essential travel to Indonesia should be deferred as "the possibility of further explosions" could not be ruled out, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said in an updated alert yesterday.

To date, Australia's love affair with Bali has shown immense resilience.

Rocked by the 1997 east Asian economic crisis, tourism to the island recovered, only to be flattened again by the October 2002 terror bombings.

Then, as now, the attacks were timed with the start of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, which leads into the peak international holiday season of Christmas-New Year.

Then came the region-wide health emergency with SARS, followed by the outbreak of the Iraq war, another disincentive to overseas travel.

But by last year, Bali had bounced back.

Australians were travelling there at the pre-2002 bombing rate of 25,000 a month and the island had reclaimed from New Zealand its position as our No.1 overseas holiday destination.

And Bali was recovering in style, with some upmarket hotels reporting almost 100 per cent occupancy rates and beachside restaurants such as those hit at Jimbaran charging top-drawer Noosa prices, and then some.

Can it come back again? This time around the task will be immeasurably more difficult.

Like Redgum â?? the band that broke up not that long after its totemic 1984 hit I've Been to Bali Too â?? being carefree and relaxed in Bali could be a thing of the past.

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Indonesian prosecutors are still appealing for a life sentence for Schapelle Corby for the "crime" of having unlocked luggage.

Narcs? Moles!? BACKSTABBERS?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

All I can do is laugh.. that's hilarious. I'm not even going to dignify you with an answer, but I am going to quote you in the Lounge for all to laugh at you along with me. :)

Knock yourself out, moron. I will quote you:

[QUOTE]You're going to boycott Indonesia over something so small and trivial as one unknown woman being charged with smuggling drugs, ...QUOTE]

You are one of the few people on cannabis forums who believes that life in prison for cannabis is trivial. The prosecutors are waiting right now to see if their appeal to increase her 20 year sentence to life in prison succeeds.
http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.a...55E954,00.html

No, I don't think it's trivial at all. I'm a complete and utter...... advocate of marijuana legalisation, but I do think we need to be a bit more mature about this.

When the country has, in the last few years, been hit by one of the worst natural disasters for a long time, the last thing they need is to lose more money because some self righteous stoners like yourself have adopted a houlier-than-thou attitude and lost all sense of perspective.

Are you from the US? If so, how would you feel if I was trying to convince everybody to boycott your country because they arrested a Brit with some weed in his bag?

And I don't see how my opinion makes me a Narc or LEO. You don't understand how fucking hilarious saying that makes you look. I might have listened to you but now i'm just gonna ignore all of your posts and laugh every time I see one, because I know you're still going to be arguing with me even when I don't know what you're saying. :)

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Are you from the US? If so, how would you feel if I was trying to convince everybody to boycott your country because they arrested a Brit with some weed in his bag?

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If the USA tried to put a Brit in jail for life for some weed in his bag that was obviously planted, and that the Brit had no control over that bag while it was in the hands of proven corrupt baggage handlers, and that some kangaroo court did not see the obviousness of this, then if some Brits did not boycott the USA for awhile, then something is wrong.

And then if obvious FReepers/narcs/moles/morons/backstabbers/wannabes (take your pick) come in using language like

"fuck you"
"self righteous stoners"

try to act like they are
"more mature"

then these dumbasses like you will always be exposed.

Crawl back in your hole, worm/mole.

And for your education, O ignorant one, many people worldwide are already boycotting the USA for many reasons including its brutal drug war, astronomical incarceration rate, brutal prisons, holy wars, renditions, torture, death squads. etc..