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A beautiful Australian woman (Schapelle Corby) is arrested at an Indonesian airport with 4.2kg of marijuana in her bag… what transpires next is one of the most confusing and alarming government cover-ups in the history of Australian justice…
“A 27 year old Australian woman, Schapelle Corby, was sentenced to 20 years in an Indonesian prison in May 2005, after 4.2 kg of marijuana had been found in her boogie-board bag on arrival in Bali. However, her fate had been determined not in Bali, but in Canberra.
This is a frightening but entirely true narrative; a grotesque political horror story which is still unfolding today. It exposes what happens when an individual’s human rights conflict with strategic political need. It reveals the ruthless use of a government’s organs of state, and a regime of unprecedented opinion management, against a single working class woman and her desperate family.
It presents, and demonstrates, the crushing, pre-meditated, and often brutal acts which a western government is prepared to inflict upon a helpless citizen, in pursuit of political expediency.” Expendable.tv
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One response to “Expendable: The Political Sacrifice Of Schapelle Corby (2012)”
This is a very hard documentary to get into and I don’t take the subject matter lightly at all. Scumbag politicians and the State subverting a citizen and or citizen rights is my biggest concern, money, power, and greed and the JOKE corrupt media all in-line to produce the perfect storm scape-goating a citizen. The production value of the doc. however is poor and the speech is slow and cadenced like it was made for people who have a hard time understanding things. It constantly and tirelessly switches between frames and doesn’t seem to know how to segue. Also continuously showing the same graphics to a torturous extent with the same audio effects. It is really frustrating bc it is a story that needs to get out and to be heard, it is disheartening, alarming, insensitive and a microcosm of what is happening in every industry in every western and I’m sure Eastern counrtry in the world. Decency, truth, honor, and integrity have been usurped by greed, corruption, power, lust, and selfeshness.
We can thank our elected leaders and ourselves for thrusting them into a system of government where the checks and balances have been done away with and the climate of the population, while maybe being overall distrusting, taking a stance of collective apathy if it doesn’t directly affect our daily lives. We no longer fight or do what is right, we fight for or do what we want. We have a careless attitude towards our neighbors and our popular culture has made us cold, cynical, sarcastic, careless, calculated wretches of “animalistic” tendencies backed by “science.” This we cavalerely display in an all-knowing manner when truly we are a much less intelligent people than our predecessors, we have regressed in every aspect of our society and this is done with intent from our political structures, directed by a few up on high. We can thank ourselves for our complicity to this overall conspiracy of dumbing down, creating a debilitating life-style and poisoning or bodies and way of life. This is because our ideals are polluted and our pride denies us the ability to think criticaly and ask difficult questions and find proper resolutions and proper oversight for anything anymore.