CRIMINALS

When Chan and Sukumaran, two Australians faced execution in Indonesia for running drugs, “do gooders’’ and some in the Australian government, namely Tony Abbott, then PM and Julie Bishop, then Foreign Minister, jumped up and down and almost demanded that they be spared because of the fact they were Australians.

We are not some privileged species and it’s time some of us learnt that the laws and rules of foreign countries, however draconian, apply to us. Indonesia rightly stood up to the arrogant and pompous interference by Australia’s leftist weep and wail brigade and the two criminals died by the firing squad.

I have visited Old Melbourne Gaol and seen the dormant gallows. Oh that we had the death penalty again here in Australia along with savage laws and penalties and courts that were feared.

I also wish to state I’m fed up with the celebrity status afforded individuals such as these two, Schappele Corby and now Renae Lawrence, who has now returned to Australia after being released from prison in Bali. These people are/were criminals, certainly not heroes deserving of publicity and a media circus swarming all over them.

The Seven Network programme Sunrise on Thursday morning had a reporter waiting at the airport hoping to catch a glimpse of Lawrence and maybe, oh how amazing it would be, catch a few words from this great and worthy individual as she passed by. It was nauseating and the media should be ashamed that they would stoop so low as to deem what this lowlife might say as being worthy of public record.

Roger Deshon Toowoomba