Drug smuggling - Peru two

Exactly, strange view on it Erimus.

Am amazed myself to read the soft response on here to this womans actions. She was caught smuggling 1.5million quid worth of cocaine. She wan't in the local bookies or pub taking my bet or serving me my pint.

Granted she has done her time, whether people think that is long enough is another debate. To compare what she did though to what bookies and pubs do is silly imo. I'm well versed on the problems of drinking and gambling, both personally and through friends and family. So I'm not trying to downplay the consequences of what goes on around them at all.

These 2 women are a different ballpark altogether though. The fact that they consistently lied about what happened also should be taken into account. On the journalists article posted earlier on here, I can see why she would be called an auld Maud Flanders. At the same time though, she has a couple of points I'd very much agree with - mainly the fact that these were young decent looking girls caught and that colours the perception of everything. If these were 2 20 year old lads from a drug gang in Dublin/Cork/Limerick, would there be an ounce of sympathy in the media when reporting on it? 

Was reading Paul Keany's book "Cocaine Diaries". He got locked up in Venezuela for the same thing and the parole issue seems to be the same there. They've to serve a minimum 18 months before being considered for parole and if they get it then they have to stay with a local family and work for a few years before being allowed leave the country. He just legged to Colombia and flew home from there.

I just find some of the comments on here and on other forums odd. It's almost like she is a victim or something because of the following reasons - she was young when she committed the crime, she is a she, and she ended up in a foreign prison in rough conditions. I simply just don't have any sympathy at all for her. Her story was clearly absolute nonsense when she was caught. Has she shown any remorse at all for what she did? Her motives were purely monetary, there were no other circumstances involved here.

Whether or not I do 40 lines of coke a day is neither here nor there imo. Just like bringing the bookies or the publicans into the argument. I don't see any logic behind that.