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29 Wednesday Apr 2015
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I think the next Senate Estimates Committee questions for the AFP should be very telling. Their appalling treatment of the Bali 9 is unforgivable. I think that Australia needs to take a serious look at the culpability of public servants – not for mere economic loss – but certainly for exposing Australian citizens, regardless of their criminality – to the death penalty.
Although nothing will bring back Chan and Sukamaran, justice for the Bali 9 demands serious compensation – and punitive damages – perhaps to contribute funds to an international initiative to ban the death penalty worldwide. Not forgetting the dreadful execution of another Australian in Singapore not so long ago.
This is the 21st Century. No nation can be permitted to dwell in the stone age. Look at the people on death row. These are not the master criminals, they are poor, ill-educated folk living on the bottom rungs of society – with few options – and not much – mostly apart from their lives – to lose.
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It is clear that the AFP has blood on their hands here. They could have simply arrested them all on their return to Australia. The Indonesians would not have picked them up without the intelligence. I have no issue with them spending time in jail but the death penalty is abhorrent. The last resort of barbarians. Widodo is nothing more than a puppet leader. Megawati is the real power, just like her mass murderer dictator father Sukarno.
I suspect there is a fair amount of payback here too. The putting of asylum seekers into lifeboats and returning them. The flippant attitude to phone tapping as well as the general buffoonery by Abbott on Indonesian relations appears to have played a role.
I boycott Singaporean Government owned businesses after the killing of Nyguen. Where possible I’ll do the same with the Indonesians.
The last person sentenced to death in this country was a 14 year old girl in WA in the 80’s. It was taken off the statutes not long after. The corrupt Bolte in Victorian hund someone just to win an election on a Laura Norder platform.
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Anak laki-laki Widodo ada lagi yang boneka dari putri pelacur Soekarno. Berpikir pembunuhan konstitusional membuatnya terlihat seperti man.Wrong itu membuatnya terlihat lemah. Ia tidak memiliki bola.
The boy Widodo is nothing more that a puppet of the the whore daughter of Sukarno. Thinks constitutional murder makes him look like a man.Wrong it makes him look weak. He lacks balls.
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