An introduction to the argument that the Bali Police planted the 4.1 Kg of marijuana on an unsuspecting Australian tourist is in Corby and the Bali Police. It will continue to stand as the most believable explanation of what occurred on the 8th of October 2004 unless someone can explain to the satisfaction of common sense why the Bali Police broke international law, used political pressure and were prepared to appear as a corrupt power in charge of a kangaroo court rather than test the evidence they claimed supported their case - they destroyed or disregarded their own evidence.
The Corby Case - Part 1 examines the Australian government's reaction to Schapelle's arrest in contrast to the Indonesian government's assertions that Australia was exporting drugs to Indonesia. It looks at the Australian Federal Police's reactions to Schapelle and the role the Australian government played in her conviction.
The Corby Case - Part 2 continues to investigate Schapelle's trial and the betrayal committed by her lawyers who were far more interested in protecting Indonesia's interests than they were in representing Schapelle as innocent.
The Truth About Aussie Gold is a review of Mathew Moore's article, "Why Australian marijuana is a big hit in Bali." Before this article was written the Australian public who didn't know Schapelle accepted that no one takes marijuana to Bali. Moore wrote this preposterous article without any support and with clear flaws in logic. However, no one challenged it, discussed it, reviewed it or even did a follow up but it allowed Schapelle's guilt to be a possibility and started the change in public opinion.
A Truth Behind the Lies looks at Channel 7's Jodie Powers expose. The interviews she gave outlined serious criminal activity on the part of the Corbys that stretched from domestic drug cultivation, dealing, interstate trafficking, transnational trafficking and International bribery and corruption. In fact, the allegations Powers made were so serious that any government that ignored them would risk international condemnation for corruption - if they were true. In fact, one truth that Powers highlighted was that no one wanted to investigate this case because Schapelle was innocent.
Death For Sale concerns an Australian government scandal that has yet to break. The Australian government had the Bali 9 under surveillance and informed the Indonesian government of their intentions weeks before the mules left Sydney for Bali. The AFP did this knowing full well that the Bali 9 would be arrested on capital offences. On the 8th of April 2005, in a phone conversation between the Justice Minister, Chris Ellison and the Indonesian Attorney General, Abdurrahman Saleh, Ellison convinced Saleh that because Australians were opposed to the death penalty it should be taken off the table in Schapelle's case even though she still maintained her innocence, and therefore was not repentant or showed remorse and that Indonesian public opinion appeared to be demanding her death. That was the same day that the last of the Bali 9 arrived in Indonesia.
Bombs, Barbeques and Propaganda temporarily leaves Schapelle's case to demonstrate how our media is politically controlled. The example used was a 'party given for terrorists'. It wasn't a party. It was a photo opportunity for Australia's media to encourage the Australian public to support the death penalty in Indonesia. This too looks for common sense to prevail.
She Shoulda Felt the Weight! This looks at the beliefs of the general public and how they were manipulated by the Australian government to divert an international crisis. The arguments proposed by those who believed Schapelle was guilty were so weak that they could not be considered as arguments but rather as justifications for beliefs they already held. They believed Schapelle had to be guilty because they could not believe that the Australian government would deliberately abandon an innocent Australian citizen without a fight.
This
looks at what occurred before Schapelle's trial and at the vital
evidence that the Bali Police stopped from being presented
before the court. By preventing all measurable evidence from
reaching the court, including any analysis of the incriminating
evidence itself, the Police and not the judges determined the
outcome of Schapelle's trial. It proves conclusively that the
Bali Police had prior knowledge of the marijuana. It also looks
at Schapelle's defence and concludes that the Indonesian
government had complete control of her lawyers. It is not so
much that she didn't get a fair trial but that she didn't really
get a trial at all.
In
May of 2005 Mathew Moore wrote an article that claimed there was
a market in Bali for Australian marijuana. Moore's article
argues that Australian drug users in Bali feel more secure
buying drugs from Western dealers because the Indonesian dealers
are often working for the police. In fact, he says, that there
is so much Australian marijuana in Bali it has the trade name,
"Aussie Gold". Moore avoids the obvious. Western drug dealers
stealing customers from Indonesian police-backed dealers
wouldn't last five minutes. And, in spite of the fact that his
claims allowed Schapelle's guilt to be a possibility, it was
never reviewed, critiqued, or even questioned by the media -
until now.
Hundreds
of supporters have visited Schapelle in the visitor's area of
Kerobokan Prison and many have posed for photos with her. One of
these visitors was arrested in Australia for drug offences
months after his return from Bali. Police found photos of him,
Schapelle, and Schapelle's mother displayed on his mantlepiece
and someone leaked the story to the press that photographic
proof existed of Schapelle's involvement with drugs prior to her
arrest. The press claimed they were not taken in a prison
setting which meant Schapelle had assosciated with drug
offenders prior to her arrest. In response, Schapelle's mother
asked to see the photos so that she could identify when and
where they were taken. However, this is when the real scandal
occurred. Both the South Australian and the federal police gave
information to the media supporting the myth that the photos
were proof of Schapelle's prior connection to drugs while
denying Schapelle's mother the right to see and identify them.
Australia would have believed that Schapelle was indeed guilty
had it not been for the second set of prints.
Schapelle
was facing the death penalty and Indonesian government backed
anti-narcotics groups were demanding she pay with her life
before her guilt or innocence was even determined. On the 8th of
April 2005 the then Justice Minister, Chris ellison announced
that he had just had a telephone conversation with Indonesia's
Attorney General, Abdurrahman Saleh who agreed not to seek a
death sentence because "Australians are opposed to the death
penalty". What the Australian people were not aware of then was
that a group of Australians, known as the Bali 9 had been under
our federal police surveillance for weeks because they planned
to go to Bali, buy heroin and return to Australia as drug mules.
The Australian government informed the Indonesians of the Bali
9's intentions two weeks before they left Australia. On the 8th
of April 2005, the day Saleh agreed not to seek the death
penalty for Schapelle was the same day that the last of the Bali
9 arrived in Indonesia to go under Indonesian Police
surveillance for death penalty offences.
When
Schapelle was first arrested the evidence for her innocence was
so overwhelming that 95% of the nation polled belief in her.
However, as the case progressed, this changed. No new supported
evidence came to light and the reasons stated for this change of
heart were downright silly. While all testimony stated that
Schapelle's brother dragged Schapelle's bodyboard bag along with
his own luggage from the carousel because Schapelle was already
overladen, detractors still insisted that she should have felt
the extra weight. When this was explained to them, they grasped
at another unsupported myth. It became very clear that the
reasons they were giving were mere excuses to justify a belief
they already had. Since Schapelle appeared so innocent and the
media were attacking her the fact that our government abandonned
her must mean that they knew something they were not sharing
with the people.