Corby's sentence too severe<\/p>\n
Surely, your chief editor (The Jakarta Post, May 30) is not
\nsuggesting that the lengthy prison sentence imposed on Schapelle
\nCorby was determined, in part, by widespread Australian
\ndiscontent about the fairness of her trial. Would you expect us
\nto meekly bow our heads when innocence is sacrificed to
\ndemonstrate a political point?<\/p>\n
Were the situation reversed, Indonesians would have every
\ncause to protest too. We are outraged that key defense evidence
\nwas either dismissed or trivialized; that the chief judge has
\npresided over 500 cases of suspected drug cases and not once has
\nhe ruled other than guilty; that a volume of \"similar events\" has
\noccurred in which illegal goods have been surreptitiously placed
\nin the baggage of innocent travellers between our countries; that
\ncorrupt Australian baggage-handlers were engaged in this same
\npractice on the very day and at the same airport that Schapelle
\ndeparted for Indonesia; that it is nonsensical for a person to
\ntravel from a country where the purchase-cost of drugs is very
\nhigh and the penalty of conviction is too low, to a country where
\nthe cost is low and the penalty appropriately severe.<\/p>\n
GRAHAM WILLIAMS
\nVictoria, Australia<\/p>",
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