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. ...

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.
eco man Reviewed by eco man on . Schapelle Corby ignites US TV debate. -----article begins----- The Age (Australia). http://www.theage.com.au/news/Corby-Case/Corby-ignites-US-TV-debate/2005/06/01/1117568228584.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. Rating: 5