robinsm

Robinsm ,1. Don't believe all you read/see/hear in the media.

 

2. A life sentence means many different things in the various Australian jurisdictions. I think the ACT is the only place in Australia where a life sentence means for the of his/her natural life. But what's the point of keeping a person in gaol when they can no longer pose a threat to society. A great deal of sentences of imprisonment are handed down to satisfy our "need" for retribution rather than to protect our society. A wise man I once worked with said: People should be gaoled AS punishment not FOR punishment.

 

I'd rather have a "let's have the Pollys get their heads out of their arses and stop using 'Law & Order 'as a vote catcher" day/week/year. Fat chance of that though.

The inmates are running the asylum now so it doesn't surprise me. Lets have a national life sentence for murder day.

Get real, 34 women have died in Australia this year from domestic violence, with no comment from the bleeding hearts, and your worried about a couple of drug barons. I rest my case

Your opinion can change all it wants... it has been my experience that even the best trained medical minds can loose their grasp of reason when trying and failing to deal with a family member with a drug "habit"... opinions mean very little... results and evidence are legitimate markers of how best to handle the drug problem in society...and the evidence is that using law enforcement to try to adjust what is essentially mentally ill behaviour does not work...it makes the problem worse... Interesting fact... In Mackay Synthetic Cannabis has caused 3 deaths in the last year...this stuff was being legally sold... even my friends who own the corner shop were selling it... they got robbed by an armed offender of all this **** one night... All legal... at least 6 months before the first person died I had a chat to my friends at the shop...and warned them that it was just going to be a matter of time... but what could you really say...

So given the sentiment that they had rehabilitated themselves, ashould we then let out the anita coby killers, the janine balding killers, the port arthur assassin and sundry other nasties because they have .."rehabilitated" themselves. Wake up people, these are worse than killers, they did it deliberately knowing the end result to their victims. They knew what would happen if they got caught. Bleeding hearts are all very well, but what about a solution to the probl;em that doesnt cost us money that could be better spent elsewhere. This case has nothing to do with alcohol, marijuana or smoking, it has to do with the willful importation of heroin into a country that has specifically given the death sentence for its importation. What about showing sympathy for those here in Australia that need it, old people, ill people and those not as lucky as us. This is not the first time these 2 brought drugs into countries. How about we get back to flying and the important things in life, not the removeal of some garbage overseas that no one really cares about.

There is a lot of passionate and heated discussion about the events that happened this morning. We have to remember that there is two things guaranteed in life, death and taxes.I do think at the end of the day, it is a waste of life and death is so permanent. I do agree that drug dealers have to be punished but these events prove to me that the Indonesian government are no different than the barbaric ISIL. ( guys do some research on how the West Papuan people have been treated.)

 

I know that drug dealers suppling hard drugs are indirectly murderers. And most criminals are always sorry when they are put into the back of a Police car. And yes there is a massive sign at the airport saying blah blah about drugs.

 

But from all accounts these two guys have genuinely been reformed over the last two years.

 

Just something to think about.

people tend to forget that these people are worse than murderers. They affect many people, not just their immediate family and they do it for greed. They spread despair, disease and crime. The shooting of these 2 individuals has taken 2 pieces of evil off the streets and maybe saved a large number of lives. The stuff they were trafficing in, for money and greed, is the stuff that makes people commit crime, splits up families and condemns the victims to a life of misery and hardship. Good riddance to bad rubbish I say.

works for me doug...

I remember the weather bureau in Melbourne installing as huge 2 gigabyte hard drive assembly in 1991. At that time it was close to the largest in the country. They had to remove part of the side of one floor of the building to get it in. Damn thing was huge. Also remember doing night patrols in Auckland of data centres. Along with paper tape and card programming there was manual disc stacks of 1meg that were removed and replaced in slide out drawers. IBM in Auckland had a mainframe that occupied 2 floors of a multistorey building. My phone has roughly 1000 times the memory of that thing.

Why not Pete. Count me in. Yep tomo, them's was the days all right. Nothing like a gratuitous post number bump.