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Airport security is a very serious matter in these days. Had a person or plant gone through an Australian airport check and damaged a foreign installation, especially an American one, there will be hell to pay by the Australian government and the Australian airport authorities. I don't believe for one moment that the Sydney or Brisbane airport checks are that casual. (more later)

A very good argument. You don't bring your own pot to Bali. Its way too risky and pointless. Bali is a hedonist's paradise with lots of beer and free love flowing, and of course drugs, recreational or otherwise. Ask and one should be able to buy top grade pot anytime.

4.1 kg (9 pounds) of pot is ridiculous. A soldier's rifle weighs less than around 8 lbs to give you an idea of the weight. To carry that much of pot the bag will have to be a pretty big tote bag, big enough to say carry your tennis racquet and equipment. Pot is vegetable matter and very light. In case you guys don't know, the effective part of pot are in the form of flower buds, not the leaves as in tobacco or as you see in cartoons and police bust photos. Anyone who has seen one, and airport staff would have been trained in recognizing pot, will know at once what it is. Its also impossible to hide its smell. Even if you don't know what pot is the smell will immediately make one suspicious that something is not right because it smells nothing like spices, food or the usual general store stuff anyway.

So there were a lot of dumb ****s at all the three airports. The big question is, take note that her bag is a very personal item. If its my bag I would know at once that it had been tampered with just one glance. A filled up bag of a different shape and smelling funny I would know right away something is terribly wrong. Whatever Corby had originally in that bag it would not have been something so fluffy and voluminous as 4.1 kg of pot buds even if all she carried was her clothes or a bag full of crumbled newspaper.

scanner. In any normal travel luggage there are certain telltale signatures like toothbrushes, personal care items, clothing zippers and buttons, souvenirs and toys. A bag full of homogenous "empty" veggie matter would trigger a inspection immediately. And since the check would have been done only for outgoing luggage. So any failure is at the Australian end.

The little I saw on TV the emotional scene when the sentence was pbutted down showed Corby was not mentally challenged. If she claimed the bag at Bali airport as hers the evidence against her is unbuttailable. I agree that a 20 year sentence is shocking. But Indonesian law could have given her the rest sentence. The best action to take now is to make that appeal, otherwise it would be an admission of guilt, although the appeal is very likely to fail. Then she can hope for clememcy through Australian diplomatic efforts to transfer her jail time to be served in an Australian insbreastution. Once in Asustralia she can qualify for early parole under Australian law. Then all the forms of respecting Indonesian law would have been met.