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originally posted by: sn0rch
originally posted by: Kapusta
originally posted by: Kryties
originally posted by: Kapusta
a reply to: Kryties
Not saying I support the execution butt...
Think of the lives that could have been lost or ruined if the Heroin they were trying to smuggle got through?
It might be hard for you to fathem but until you have lost a love one to this drug ,maybe then you would understand.
Umm, you really think those addicts will stop taking heroin just because one shipment was stopped and one of millions of drug dealers caught?
Seriously?
Poor argument mate.
Let me ask you a question would you feel differently if these guys gave heroin to your loved one and killed him/her ?
How many crimes would you say have been committed because drugs played a roll?
How many people have died because of drugs?
Where is your remorse for these people?
You make the bed you lay in "mate" these guys getting caught might have very well saved lives and stopped crime .
Absolutely all due to prohibition.
Overdose? Crime?
So, make it illegal then justify it because people break the law... circular idiocy.
How about if it was the guy at the local bar being executed. how many people have died from alcohol overdose? How many crimes are committed by drunks.
Nah, thats legal huh. Go drink another brewski and enjoy a smoooooth camel cigarette while you're at it.
Those things have never killed people.
At least 39 executions are claimed to have been carried out in the U.S. in the face of evidence of innocence or serious doubt about guilt.[6]
originally posted by: hutch622
a reply to: Kryties
Stay with your convictions , i know how it is , i authored the timeline thread and have found the blood-lust of some people to be appalling . Nothing will change with these deaths , nothing . The death penalty is not a deterrent , never was never will be . This was deliberately announced on ANZAC day and is more about Indonesia's dislike of Australia than about drugs . Oh and widodo gets to keep power a little longer .
originally posted by: hellobruce
originally posted by: James1970
Tony it's the Australian Federal Police you need to speak to.
Yes, I am sure he spoken to them and congratulated them on a job well done.
originally posted by: Nyiah
My memory's fuzzy at the details, but this group was a group of drug smugglers, correct?
Why do people applaud the executions of cartel members, deaths of dealers, but these smugglers were hailed as some kind of heroic group just because they were "only planning" to smuggle? They broke the law in a foreign country & paid for it big-time.
originally posted by: sn0rch
They will not be congratulated. They will be looked at with discern.
From now on, any family who fear their relatives are engaging in any such activity will NOT cooperate with the AFP.
originally posted by: Timely
Leaving humans to contemplate their deaths for 10 years - yes - 10 YEARS is tantamount to torture.
Barbarian corrupt turds !!!
originally posted by: Dark Ghost
People need to realise that Indonesia is a sovereign nation with its own laws and social norms. If you intend on visiting, then you are obligated to abide by these laws and social norms.
originally posted by: BobaFettish
originally posted by: Nyiah
My memory's fuzzy at the details, but this group was a group of drug smugglers, correct?
Why do people applaud the executions of cartel members, deaths of dealers, but these smugglers were hailed as some kind of heroic group just because they were "only planning" to smuggle? They broke the law in a foreign country & paid for it big-time.
As fuzzy as your memory may be, there was much more to this case, much, much more than many people are aware.
Firstly, the double standards of the Indonesian government. Demanding the release of Indonesian death row inmates in several other countries, while showing no mercy to foreign prisoners in their own jails.
Then there's the very public demand for a bribe to save the lives of these two at the onset of their trial. The failure of the families of the two men to acquire the amount that the judge was asking, earned them the death sentence.
And last but not least, the Indonesian president with a smoking gun in one hand and the other hand stretched out waiting for another 2.4billion in aid money, threatening "dire consequences", if the Australian government cuts their aid off in the wake of these executions.
Indonesia is a dirty, corrupt, barbaric little grotto. They publicly and openly disrespect Australia and Australians and yet welcome the money we give them in aid.
The point so many people make that these two men were drug smugglers is a moot point to most Australians. What this is all about is a power trip by a very resentful little cess pool of a country, trying to bully their larger, wealthier neighbour out of pure jealousy, but at the same time calling on that neighbour to continue to presenting them with "financial offerings" before spitting in our faces.
Also might mention that Indonesian fishing boats have been plundering Australian waters relentlessly recently... I'm not talking about territorial waters, I'm talking about coastal waters. There have been threats and warnings to the Australian government "not to interfere", with Indonesian fishing fleets or refugee flotillas. Inside or outside Australian waters.
The last time one of these fishing boats was captured and the crew jailed, the Indo government went ballistic. It has been years since the last Indo fishing fleets were sent on their way or arrested and had their boats confiscated. The main and logical reason for this "even though there has never been a cease or lull in the number of poaching fleets in our waters", is because of the threats.
They are a nasty, corrupt little nation of bigots with an inferiority complex.