No Transnational investigations by Police or AFP. Here's why...

Why would anyone visit such a dangerous place as Bali?

"Can you imagine if Australians were caught bringing kilos of heroin into Heathrow London and Australia's police didn't immediately storm their homes in Australia as well as those belonging to their relatives, friends and associates? Can you imagine an Australian being arrested in the Sudan trying to import containers full of teddy bears named and labelled "Mohammad"? Our police would be at the home of this person before the media even got wind of it trying to determine if those responsible were complete idiots or criminals trying to stir up global religious dissent. Can you imagine what would happen if Australian businessmen were caught importing cases full of whiskey into Saudi Arabia and our police didn't even bother to investigate their families or to visit their homes?


When an Australian is arrested overseas they may be charged with something that is equally illegal here or nothing more than an oversight of customs regulations resulting in a confiscation of the goods and perhaps a small fine. However, while the country that is charging these Australians regards the crime as serious so will our law enforcement or face the accusation that offending this country is not of concern to us. The idea that our government would pick up the phone and say, "Oh yeah, we heard something about that a few days ago... what was his name again? So, you want us to investigate him for you? Not our problem, buddy" would never happen in a million years.

Since no one raced around to the Corby home in the early evening of the 8th of October 2004, a tactical response squad didn't bash down their door to prevent Schapelle's gang from cleaning up evidence of their criminal activity, no one went there to secure the passports of anyone who may later prove to be involved and the Corby home wasn't torn apart by forensics looking for evidence of the marijuana trade, at what point did the Australian Government realise that Indonesia would not be deeply offended by the apathy demonstrated by Australian law enforcement? We know that Michael Corby asked Tony Wilson when police of some kind would be visiting their home three weeks after Schapelle's arrest. We know that neither State nor Federal Police ever visited the Corby home in any capacity and we know from commentary from Indonesian officials much later on that they were not interested in any Australian investigation. But, there is a huge difference between not being interested and vetoing Australia's own need to establish whether Schapelle was guilty or not. The refusal of the Indonesia to supply a sample of the marijuana to Australian law enforcement amounted to a veto on Australian investigation on what they asserted was a case of importation - a transnational crime.

Are we being asked to believe that the Australian government conceals crime and protects drug traffickers? Because either the Australian Government was hiding evidence of Schapelle's drug trafficking or they knew by Saturday the 9th of October, before they could know anything about the Corby family whatsoever, that the Bali Police backed by the Indonesian government had deliberately planted the marijuana on a random tourist to force Howard to cease his interference in Indonesian domestic affairs. We know this because the Australian Government knew within hours of Schapelle's arrest that any investigation of the Corbys by Australian authorities would not be demanded, and that a complete failure to act would not make our Government appear uncaring and insensitive to offending Indonesia. It would not be used by Indonesia to make Australian law enforcement look incompetent nor the Australian Government apathetic towards the transnational proliferation of drugs.

The fact that our law enforcement did not storm the Corby home within hours of her arrest is proof that they knew then that such an investigation would not be wanted and I have just proven that the Bali Police planted the marijuana on a random tourist with the full support of the Indonesian Government. If you can dispute my logic, I would certainly like to hear it."

The above extract from a post today is by one of the forum members.