is that a 4kg bag of weed in your bag or, are you just happy to see me?

Schapelle Corby, what did you do? I wonder if anyone will ever know the truth - regardless, she has been sentenced to 20 years, minus the 7 months already served. If she serves the full term she'll be 47 years old when she gets out. This is serious business. Indonesian prisons are not like what we're used to in North America. There aren't any tv's or libraries, no movie nights, no crafts room - just hard time served on a hard concrete floor with no electric light and no bed except for during sleeping hours. 20 years of hell awaits this girl. I wonder if she did it though. I wonder if she was offered the chance to drag herself out of her Queensland trash family by making a one time delivery that would pay her thousands? But, then I think, how much could she really have sold 4kg of weed for? Not enough to make a sane person risk being caught and excecuted I'm betting. The whole thing just seems really unlikely. Bottom line is, if she stays in Bali her life is over. If she is somehow returned to Australia (political wheeling and dealing) she'll be rich in movie and book deals. What a fucked up world we live in.

Having lived in Australia it amazes me that anyone tries to smuggle drugs into Indonesia in the first place. About once a month there is news of someone being arrested, jailed for life or sentenced to death after being caught for some drug related offence. The Autralian government is powerless to do anything. A word of caution to all you travellers...lock your bags.

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Everyone seems concerned with the fact that she smiles too much and laughs at inappropriate times...how does that mean she's guilty? I smile at inappropriate times because I'm scared and uncomfortable. Think about it.