Friday, October 28, 2005

AFP sacrifices drug couriers

so it appear that the Australian Federal Police sent a letter shopping the Bali 9 to the Indonesian police, effectively sentencing to a likely death. From The Age (26/10/05):

It was a crime not yet committed but with terrible consequences if it was discovered in Indonesia: the death penalty.

Yet on April 8, the Australian Federal Police wrote to their Indonesian counterparts outlining in extraordinary detail what would take place.

They named the alleged ringleader, Andrew Chan. And they told the Indonesians: "If you suspect Chan and/or the couriers are carrying drugs at the time of their departure, please take whatever action you deem necessary."

Given that Australia opposes the death penalty, this is, well, remarkable. Why not pick them up when they re-enter Australia if the AFP were able to track them so well? Poor dumb 28 year-old Renee Lawrence ( and the other hapless couriers) may, instead of serving 10 years or so in an Australian jail, have her life ended when court-ordered bullets tear through her heart and brain in Indonesia.

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Succint.

10:18 pm  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yes, very nasty work from the AFP. They knew exactly what they were doing. They have no respect from me at all.
Should we cooperate with that kind of police force in furthering the government's drug nazi agenda? Do they deserve our assistance in their agenda that opposes our freedom?
If they were on fire I wouldn't piss on them to put them out.
If they want respect they should earn it.
Drugs don't kill people, illegal drugs kill people. Prohibition is the root of all evils we are seeing, not the properties of the drugs themselves. Thanks alot AFP for showing your true colours. As for John Howard.....don't even let me start my rant about that little upstart.

9:40 pm  

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