[Sabantien]

I don't support the death penalty, but no one in Australia gave a crap about it anywhere in the world until these two blokes were up for it.

Then the AFP cops it because they knew that they would risk the death penalty of caught in Indonesia. Hang on. So the guys doing it, who also knew the risk of death penalty, are not at all responsible for their actions, but the AFP suddenly is?

Same goes for the whole argument about drugs killing people. Oh but people who take drugs make the choice, they take the risk, knowing that it could kill them. Yet, the drug smugglers didn't make a similar choice knowing the risks?

They were young and stupid. Didn't you do anything stupid when you were young?
Sure, I drank so much I had to cling onto my bed so I wouldn't fall face fall into the ceiling and the whirling fan. Smuggle drugs into a country with a death penalty for smuggling drugs? No, never did that.

We all make choices in life and take risks. Sometimes that comes back to bite us. I guess the bigger the stakes the bigger the risk, and these guys lost.


All that said, I agree with a few others, this was a political flipping the bird to Australia. Criminals in the wrong place at the wrong time being used as political pawns.