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Another Australian faces death penalty for pot
#5661207 - 05/22/06 06:21 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Trembling in terror, another Australian faces tough justice May 23, 2006 - theadvertiser.com.au
EXPATRIATE Australian woman Barbara Kathleen Higgs faced a Lombok court on drugs charges yesterday hidden behind sunglasses and a black and gold headscarf.
Higgs, from Pinjarra in Western Australia, was arrested on the resort island of Lombok, east of Bali, three months ago after allegedly being found in possession of 50g of marijuana.
She faces the harshest of Indonesia's drug laws - article 82, which carries the maximum death penalty - the same laws used to convict Schapelle Corby and the Bali Nine. She also faces two lesser charges.
Her lawyers say the main charge is an exaggeration of the case against her and she is not a drug dealer.
Imploring the judges to think about the effect on her family, Higgs, 43, trembled as she begged to be allowed to use the headscarf to hide her face from the media.
Higgs and her husband, Melvin, live in Lombok and run a small hotel called Bulan Baru on the island's Senggigi Beach tourist strip. She was arrested in February following a tip-off from the local community.
Prosecutors say a search of her home uncovered about 50g of marijuana in a plastic bag.
Higgs faces three charges. The most serious encompasses drug importation, selling and distribution, and carries penalties of death or life in jail.
A prosecutor alleged Higgs bought the marijuana for 500,000 rupiah (about $55 USD), and that her urine had tested positive to traces of marijuana.
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Re: Another Australian faces death penalty for pot [Re: veggie]
#5661378 - 05/22/06 07:08 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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following a tip-off from the local community
Fuckin' stupid goddamn snitches. I can't stand a nosy neighbor that snitches on you for what you do in your backyard. They need their brains bashed in.
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Re: Another Australian faces death penalty for pot [Re: veggie]
#5661383 - 05/22/06 07:09 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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A possible death penalty for 50 grams of pot? That's ridiculous!
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Re: Another Australian faces death penalty for pot [Re: veggie]
#5662202 - 05/22/06 10:17 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Now I am not saying I am down for U.S. foreign policy, but while we are out "liberating the world," why don't we go liberate the people in Bali... oh wait, because that is what our govt. would love for our drug policy to be
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Re: Another Australian faces death penalty for pot [Re: CUBErt]
#5662838 - 05/23/06 01:43 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Hang the narc, bomb the prosecutor, and repeatedly rape whoever put these laws and punishments into place. My kind of invasion.
Without blaming the victim: Don't be fucking stupid. If you want to go to such locations as Bali and Thailand, how bout not getting high for a while? I'm sure hotel owners have heard of the other recent cases...
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Re: Another Australian faces death penalty for pot [Re: Koala Koolio]
#5662986 - 05/23/06 04:15 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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> why don't we go liberate the people in Bali...
Three letters; two of them vowels followed by an the letter "L" ... something which Bali does not have.
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Re: Another Australian faces death penalty for pot [Re: Seuss]
#5663060 - 05/23/06 05:29 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Re: Another Australian faces death penalty for pot [Re: OJK]
#5663245 - 05/23/06 08:00 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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50 grams equals intent to distribute? That's like saying someone who buys two loafs of bread obviously intends to deliver the slices.
Why doesn't Australia liberate its citizen from those blood thirsty Muslims in Indonesia? Executing foreign nationals for pot possession is nothing short of State sponsored terrorism. If I were Australian, I'd be calling for an invasion. Fuck Indonesia! Australia could could stomp their puny asses!
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Re: Another Australian faces death penalty for pot [Re: OJK]
#5663597 - 05/23/06 10:29 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Yeah, we aren't going to help them because they don't have the internet...
Plus no oil either.
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Re: Another Australian faces death penalty for pot [Re: Microcosmatrix]
#5663665 - 05/23/06 10:46 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Just to play the Devils Advocate here....
The woman charged is not from Indonesia, correct? Shes from Australia? And she came, and set up her hotel in the middle of some little village in Indonesia. Indonesia is a predominately Muslim country, no? Islam has a strong prohibiton against marijuana?
Maybe these native people didnt like some white girl from across the ocean setting up shop in the middle of their little slice of utopia and violating their religous beliefs by peddling a drug that they dont want around them?
Im just saying, while we all believe in the goodness and fairness of drugs, there are plenty of people who dont share our beliefs. Maybe they shouldnt be needlessly antagonized...
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Re: Another Australian faces death penalty for pot [Re: Madtowntripper]
#5663726 - 05/23/06 11:02 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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The taliban use opium and hashish religiously if I remember correctly
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Re: Another Australian faces death penalty for pot [Re: Madtowntripper]
#5663733 - 05/23/06 11:04 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Eh, I'm not so sure about that. I'm not hip to religious groups bullying against personal freedoms any more than I'm for the governments doing it.
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Re: Another Australian faces death penalty for pot [Re: EquilibriuM]
#5664139 - 05/23/06 12:14 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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EquilibriuM said: The taliban use opium and hashish religiously if I remember correctly
I highly doubt this.
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Re: Another Australian faces death penalty for pot [Re: Microcosmatrix]
#5664153 - 05/23/06 12:16 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Microcosmatrix said: Eh, I'm not so sure about that. I'm not hip to religious groups bullying against personal freedoms any more than I'm for the governments doing it.
Dude. Its not like they came to HER neighborhood and made the laws against something she was already doing. She came to THEIR town and flaunted their laws. I'm sorry, but thats wrong. We eat beef, but go to India and kill a sacred cow and see what happens.
I like drugs, you like drugs, we all like drugs. Not everyone likes drugs. If some people dont want drugs in their idyllic little fishing town, fuck. Dont they have that right?
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Re: Another Australian faces death penalty for pot [Re: EquilibriuM]
#5664198 - 05/23/06 12:26 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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EquilibriuM said: The taliban use opium and hashish religiously if I remember correctly
Umm... no.
They didn't allow opium production. That's why it skyrocketed when we set them free, hrm.
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Re: Another Australian faces death penalty for pot [Re: Koala Koolio]
#5665054 - 05/23/06 03:26 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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I dont think they used opium themselves, but I think they did use profits from opium/heroin trade to fund their Jihad.
And Madtowntripper is in many ways right, but its still just really sad to things like this
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Re: Another Australian faces death penalty for pot [Re: Madtowntripper]
#5665259 - 05/23/06 03:59 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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I just can't go for that argument. Especially since we're talking about 50g of personal stash, not setting up a grow room in the pyramids of Egypt.
Fuck a "neighborhood", fuck a "country", and fuck a "city" and a"state". Fuck 'em all.
People should have freedom to walk the Earth and smoke any herb that grows on it. That's my religion.
And everybody else better just watch out whoever try to separate mankind from nature using violent force. Beware, nature is gonna win in the end or perhaps even sooner.
So there.
Edited by Microcosmatrix (05/23/06 04:08 PM)
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Re: Another Australian faces death penalty for pot [Re: Microcosmatrix]
#5665316 - 05/23/06 04:09 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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This is sad....
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Re: Another Australian faces death penalty for pot [Re: veggie]
#5665477 - 05/23/06 04:48 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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What sucks the most about this is that Chapelle Corby's case will be looked upon even more harshly, and now will be portrayed as part of a larger problem/network.
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Re: Another Australian faces death penalty for pot [Re: Koala Koolio]
#5665766 - 05/23/06 06:00 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Koala Koolio said:
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EquilibriuM said: The taliban use opium and hashish religiously if I remember correctly
Umm... no.
They didn't allow opium production. That's why it skyrocketed when we set them free, hrm.
Well I read an article a while back in a high times magazine that said they did...
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