When You Tried To Tell The World... Song for Schapelle Corby

This song tells the terrible story of Schapelle Corby, the political game which has taken her life away from her, and the awful media campaign which has been running for years to hide it. It exposes the truth. The song was written by Al Wilson, and is performed here by Holly Wilson. It is an extraordinary song, sung by an amazing talant. SCHAPELLE CORBY Schapelle Corby is illegally imprisoned in a squalid cell in Indonesia, having been sentenced to a shocking and brutal 20 YEARS in March 2005 for a crime she did not commit. She suffered the most blatant of show trials: a trial in which evidence was simply an inconvenience, to be ignored and destroyed as quickly as possible. She was charged with importing of 4kg of marijuana, which had appeared in her boogie bag when she landed in Bali. Despite her desperate pleas, the so-called court: - refused to test the drugs for country of origin: if they were Indonesian, she would have to be freed - refused to fingerprint/DNA her bag - refused to view CCTV film from the airport - burned the evidence so it could never be used to free her - presumed guilt: she had to try to prove innocence from within a squalid cell - refused to let her question key witnesses in court (customs officers) - the list just goes on and on. Even at the airport, they had illegally interrogated her for 9 hours, they attempted to trick her into signing a confession, and had even refused to weigh her bags: if they were 4kg heavier than when she left the drugs could not have been hers and again they would have had to release her. To be certain, they appointed a 'judge' who had never acquitted anyone at all in 500 drug cases. She just didn’t have any chance: she simply didn't have a trial. Despite the value of the marijuana being much lower than in Australia, to Indonesia Schapelle was a channel to war on drugs funding and a show case trial. She had effectively become a political tool, with even the president commenting upon it, by urg...

Channel: metacafe Video Length: 4m 25s Date Found: Mon, Mar 14 2011 6:03 AM Category: Music Date Produced: Fri, Apr 24 2009 9:05 AM View Count: 22