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A FIERY debate erupted on a popular US TV talkshow when a panel of celebrities, including veteran journalist Barbara Walters, discussed the Schapelle Corby drug case.
One panellist, Joy Behar, branded Bali's drug laws "crazy" and supported the campaign to boycott Bali as a tourist destination.
"So the Australians are right," Behar told an audience of several million viewers.
"Don't travel to Bali because their laws are crazy."
The heated discussion came today on one of America's top-rating morning television talkshows, The View.
The Corby case was one of the topics debated by the show's five panellists.
Star Jones Reynolds, a former New York prosecutor, showed the least compassion for Corby, sentenced last week to 20 years in a Bali jail for smuggling marijuana.
"You come to this country (US), you reap the benefits of our laws," Jones Reynolds said.
"You go and visit somebody else's country, then you have to adhere to their laws."
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Jones Reynolds' comment heated up the debate.
"But what if that was put in her luggage?" Ms Behar, a well-known US comedienne, asked.
"That's why you have a trial," Jones Reynolds answered.
"They had the trial. The court rejected their argument."
Jones Reynolds' remarks fired up another panellist, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, who commented: "But they didn't even fingerprint the bag of drugs."
Jones Reynolds responded by saying US authorities might fingerprint evidence, but authorities from other countries might not.
"That's the way we do things in the United States of America," Jones Reynolds said.
"The way they do things in their country is completely different."
That's when Mr Behar commented: "So the Australians are right. Don't travel to Bali because their laws are crazy."
Walters, the 71-year-old matriarch of American news, said she spoke with a US drug enforcement officer about the case.
The officer told her if Corby smuggled that amount of marijuana into the US she would have only faced a minor charge.
Walters also said if the US was going to protest incidents in other countries, such as the Corby sentence in Indonesia, the US should not be so sensitive when other countries protest against incidents involving the US, such as the detention of terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay.
"So in that sense, if we are going to call on the international community, we are going to have to practice what we preach," Walters said.
A FIERY debate erupted on a popular US TV talkshow when a panel of celebrities, including veteran journalist Barbara Walters, discussed the Schapelle Corby drug case.
One panellist, Joy Behar, branded Bali's drug laws "crazy" and supported the campaign to boycott Bali as a tourist destination.
"So the Australians are right," Behar told an audience of several million viewers.
"Don't travel to Bali because their laws are crazy."
The heated discussion came today on one of America's top-rating morning television talkshows, The View.
The Corby case was one of the topics debated by the show's five panellists.
Star Jones Reynolds, a former New York prosecutor, showed the least compassion for Corby, sentenced last week to 20 years in a Bali jail for smuggling marijuana.
"You come to this country (US), you reap the benefits of our laws," Jones Reynolds said.
"You go and visit somebody else's country, then you have to adhere to their laws."
Advertisement:
Jones Reynolds' comment heated up the debate.
"But what if that was put in her luggage?" Ms Behar, a well-known US comedienne, asked.
"That's why you have a trial," Jones Reynolds answered.
"They had the trial. The court rejected their argument."
Jones Reynolds' remarks fired up another panellist, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, who commented: "But they didn't even fingerprint the bag of drugs."
Jones Reynolds responded by saying US authorities might fingerprint evidence, but authorities from other countries might not.
"That's the way we do things in the United States of America," Jones Reynolds said.
"The way they do things in their country is completely different."
That's when Mr Behar commented: "So the Australians are right. Don't travel to Bali because their laws are crazy."
Walters, the 71-year-old matriarch of American news, said she spoke with a US drug enforcement officer about the case.
The officer told her if Corby smuggled that amount of marijuana into the US she would have only faced a minor charge.
Walters also said if the US was going to protest incidents in other countries, such as the Corby sentence in Indonesia, the US should not be so sensitive when other countries protest against incidents involving the US, such as the detention of terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay.
"So in that sense, if we are going to call on the international community, we are going to have to practice what we preach," Walters said.
