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Australia’s failure to oppose the death penalty for the Bali bombers could undermine our efforts to save Australians on death row in South-East Asia, the NSW Council for Civil Liberties says.
If the major parties continue in their failure to lobby against the execution of terrorists in Indonesia, we could lose any hope of winning life in gaol for a handful of idiotic heroin smugglers.
Civil libertarians note that countries like Indonesia and Singapore are more receptive to hectoring by Australian politicians when the hectoring is constant and unceasing.
“Nobody likes to be told what to do,” council vice-president Pauline Wright told The Daily Grind, “unless it comes in the form of a non-stop barrage of moralistic posturing.”
“I’m outraged to think that anyone would disagree with that,” she continued. “Just outraged,” she continued.
Ms Wright is particularly incensed that Australian Federal Police gave evidence to Indonesian authorities that was used in the trial of Amrozi, one of the Bali bombers.
Many Australians share that view: the AFP has problems coming up with enough terrorism evidence for use in Australian courts without handing it out willy-nilly to other countries.
