Schapelle Corby: give it a rest!

This has certainly been done to death elsewhere [in fact just about everywhere] and I'm not going to go into details. Perhaps the most significant thing to come out of this is how issues that are basically irrelevant to most people become the centre of just about every conversation.

However, a plea: give it a rest! This woman is not Joan of Arc, Nelson Mandela or even Lindy Chamberlain.

From what I've seen, she's received a meticulously transparent trial, with every detail being available to the public. The thing is, she was found with 4kg of dope in her bag, 4 customs officers testified that she refused to open her bag when asked to do so, appeared agitated as though she was trying to hide something, and then admitted the drugs were hers. That's what the court heard. All the rest - the convicted rapist testifying about an overheard conversation, speculation about a domestic drug trafficking ring operating between Brisbane and Sydney - is circumstantial at best and an Australian jury would not have even got to hear about it. If the boot was on the other foot and Australian customs officers testified like that against an Indonesian girl, I don't doubt for a second who an Australian jury would believe. She'd be up the river just like Schapelle is!

What gets to me is this xenophobic notion of boycotting Bali or Indonesia. Yeah, that makes sense. Corby supporters argue she was set up by an AUSTRALIAN drug trafficking rings and the drugs were put in her bag IN AUSTRALIA by allegedly corrupt AUSTRALIAN baggage handlers. So boycott QANTAS!!!! If you think the Indonesian justice system has let Schapelle down by not fingerprinting the bag or forcing her to stay in such a hideous prison, by all means, put your money where your mouth is. I.E. don't boycott the country, DONATE money to Indonesia, an unbelieveably poor country so they can afford to provide some of the judicial luxuries you complain about. As it is, I'm far more supportive of them spending their limited budget on developing roads, schools and hospitals.

Finally, there are some losers who believe that Schapelle is some victim of an Islamist conspiracy to get revenge on Australia for East Timor. That can most simply be answered by saying that just about everyone involved in this case has been a CHRISTIAN [the head judge] or a HINDU [the other two judges]. Sorry for being so dismissive but this is one of the most xenophobic pieces of garbage to emerge about this whole sorry case, and those who express it are revealing their pig-ignorance in the worst possible way.

Anyway, I'm over this. Good luck Schapelle with your appeals, if you are innocent I hope your lawyers can provide some admissable evidence of it. It's not your fault that so many of your supporters are morons.