To quote the above article;

‘The judges ruled that the right to life in the constitution and under international protocols was not absolute and had to be balanced against the rights of victims of the drug trade.’

AND

‘Drugs posed a serious threat to Indonesian society, and were “a danger of incalculable gravity”.’

Yet the victims of this particular drug trade were to going be AUSTRALIAN citizens.
And their NEVER WAS GOING TO BE ANY VICTIMS, as the ‘Bali 9’ members were under Australian Federal Police surveillance BEFORE THEY LEFT AUSTRALIA for Indonesia.

And to quote now from a knowledgeable friend;

Neither the cocaine arrest in Sydney on the 8th of October 2004, nor the heroin arrest in Bali of the Nine were big deals. Their impacts on the Australian drug market would barely have been felt. Neither went anywhere near production facilities or secured a problematic smuggling route.

When the AFP opted to tell Indonesia about the Bali Nine, they lost all control of the ‘upstream’ investigation. The woman who sold them the drugs managed to ‘escape’ undetected twice while the Bali 9’s every movement was being watched and photographed – if you believe that, you’ll believe anything.

The man who arranged the buy was shot in the leg while being arrested in his Denpasar home. His next-door neighbor watched him being helped to walk to the police car surrounded by police. He wasn’t taken to a hospital but instead to a police station. While in the police station, he was shot in the chest and died – ‘While trying to escape’ – that’s murder. All attempts to discover what had occurred were met with “It’s none of your business.” So what are the AFP doing in bed with these people?

While the AFP were able to swing a legal justification for informing the Indonesian authorities it was never clear cut. In fact, as the Law Council has pointed out, it was only allowed by using a loophole in Australian Law concerning when the Nine were officially charged.