Thanks, FBR I was dawdling over a response, but you have made most of it unnecessary.

There are a couple of things I want to point out about the video, one of the claims was that the trial was a 'show trial'. The premise seems to be the fact that Indonesia has an inquisitional judicial system rather than an oppositional one. I think it is a bit of a stretch to suggest that this breaches her human rights.

And the suggestion that she is also a victim of an international conspiracy to do with funding some war on drugs? How am I supposed to swallow that? I might have been able to accept the baggage handlers bit (but I doubt they'd be that sloppy and forget 4.2 kg). Unfortunately these rather Byzantine machinations don't bear any relationship to the political reality of Indonesia.

In comparison with other sentences under the same regime, she didn't get anything extraordinary. What most people don't realise when they see the video is that time is measured very differently in Indonesia to the way time is measured in the west. Waktu karet or "rubber time" governs all things Indonesian and it troubles me that the video implies that the Indonesian government really want to keep her for a full 20 years.

Each year, prisoners who behave can expect to get a month off their sentence for events such as independence day, birthdays and religious holidays specific to the religion of the prisoner. This, combined with the 5 year reduction Ms Corby won at appeal, brought me to my earlier estimate of 10 years.

It appears they are prepared to say anything that will increase the likelihood of garnering sympathy regardless of the truth.

Campiagning is posting again and again and again to argue she should be left in that cell 20 years. THAT is campaigning, and it is ugly.
I'm sure that's not what you meant to say, anyway I'd call it fund-raising rather than campaigning and my motivation to engage with you is pretty simple really...

I don't like it when people piss down my back and try and tell me it's raining.