Bali 9 pair get 72-hour execution notice on Anzac Day

[ufo_investigations]

http://www.news.com.au/national/bali-nine-pair-get-72-hour-execution-notice/story-fncynjr2-122732076...

[icyfroth]

Kind of pales into insignificance when you think of the tens of thousands of young Aussie men who went to their deaths willingly in the Gallipolli campaign we commemorated yesterday.

[chameleon54]

Personally I think its a bit distasteful of news type organisations to tie the announcement of the impending death of two convicted drug smugglers to the Anzacs and other soldiers who fought and often gave up their lives to protect Australia and its citizens.

One group chose to destroy others lives out of greed, for personal gain. The soldiers where willing to lay their own lives on the line to protect other people. 

Lets have the decency to keep the two discussions separate.

[azureline**]

Distasteful all round.

[village_person]

Bali 9 pair get 72-hour execution notice on Anzac Day

Message received and understood. I will not dabble in drug smuggling in order to get rich quick and at the same time deal in a product that means death to some people who purchase and use the product.

Gee, fancy me picking up a message like that out of this whole sorry saga. 

[rabbitearbandicoot]

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@icyfroth wrote:

Kind of pales into insignificance when you think of the tens of thousands of young Aussie men who went to their deaths willingly in the Gallipolli campaign we commemorated yesterday.

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I don't think for one minute that they went to their deaths willingly. In fact, I'm pretty sure they would have preferred to come home.

[icyfroth]

Many had the opportunity to come home and refused. Others, wounded and back home, chose to came back to front. So "willingly" would be perfectly correct IMO.

[debra9275]

I honestly don't know how you can even make that comparison

and no , people did not  give their lives in war time 'willingly"

[bright.ton42]

Back on topic.... I don't agree with them being executed.   Anyway life spent in a bali jail would be worse.

[icyfroth]

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@debra9275 wrote:

I honestly don't know how you can even make that comparison

Why not?

and no , people did not  give their lives in war time 'willingly"

Judging by the fact that so many Australian young men VOLUNTEERED, not conscripted, VOLUNTEERED, some as young as 14 forged their ages, I would say, even if they didn't fully realise what was ahead of them, went willingly to their deaths. Laid their lives on the line for their mates, for their beliefs, and for sheer sense of duty. 

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