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Originally Posted by BENT_8

Let me get this straight, an Indonesian chap kills 20 people, 4 of them Aussies and he is released mid last year with his sentence halved due to his good behaviour, yet 2 Australian drug smugglers, attempting to remove drugs from Indonesia are executed by firing squad despite obvious efforts to be rehabilitated.
Now i suppose you'll say drugs are a real problem in Indonesia and an example needed to be made.
Thats fine, but looking back over the last 15 years Terrorism has also been a real problem, so problematic that we direct millions of dollars in aid to help prevent radical Islam from taking over and so problematic that it has led to the loss of many lives including Aussies, yet somehow returning a terrorist to society is ok because Indonesia says so.

Does no one see the irony.

Its easy to play the drug smuggler card and draw support by thinking of the children, but the truth is, the drug dealers/addicts who would have aquired these drugs didnt kick the habit because the shipment didnt come in, they just got it elsewhere.
Nothing positive has been achieved by cable tying these people to a cross and shooting them in the heart.

No, this is not about 2 drug smugglers, it hasnt been about drugs for a while now.
Its about the President of a **** ant, back water country, sticking the finger up at Australia to make him self look bigger than his childish frame could ever allow.
Perhaps these lads should have just knocked him up some stilts, could have painted them up a treat too.

So what should we do?

Some will tell you we should let it go, move on.
Some might even suggest that we should really apologise for taking them to task over it.
Some will suggest boycotting Indonesia and some will contemplate cancelling their cheap booze filled 'holiday'

You know what i think will happen, **** all.
Why?
Because Australians dont give a **** about anything that doesnt directly relate to them.
Many will even applaud those 3rd world peasants for their handy work as though taking the hard line somehow makes everyone think they are genuine. Coz shooting defenceless people in the heart at point blank range is so 2015 Australia like, akin to belting a bloke at a pub before you introduce yourself.

When in reality they would have just as easily conformed to the conservative side of the argument had common sense prevailed, if for no other reason than to be on the winning team.


Australians are weak as **** and Indonasia knows it.

My2c.

I think you read too much into it, and I don't get the comparison about the Bali Bombers and these guys, they are unrelated events, one has nothing to do with the other.

Bali as well as other countries have always had the death penalty for drug smugglers, it's well known, has been well known for decades, nothing to do with them being Australian or any other conspiracy theory.

Re the conspiracy theories of presidents thumbing their finger at Australia etc etc it's just media generated BS, the rule has always been there they were sentenced to death back in early 2006, it's all the appeal precesses that have taken ten years before the sentence could finally be carried out, so has nothing to do with the President of a **** ant, back water country, sticking the finger up at Australia to make him self look bigger than his childish frame could ever allow, but it has everything to do with two commercial drug dealers attempting to export 8.3kg of high grade heroin, not a mistake either as it's not the first time they did it.