With the resignation of their lawyer, it is now up to the Bali Bombers themselves to appeal their death sentences.
They’re not going to of course, but that seems to be something that the Australian media and the families of the bombers’ victims are determined to ignore.
The bombers would rather die soon than rot in jail for the rest of their lives. Unlike western people who prefer to be alive no matter in what condition.
Even though the bombers would likely be grateful for the favour, at least one grieving Australian father seems pretty keen to do some killing himself if the Indonesian authorities can’t decide how and when to dispatch his son’s murderers to the afterlife.
This morning Nine’s Today program showed the middle-aged Anglo-Australian calmly yet fervently expressing his desire to become more like the men who killed his child by taking a rifle to them himself.
Apparently revenge is its own reward and grief doesn’t hurt anyone who has joined the ranks of the vengeful and violent.
Especially when you deliver those who you blame for your pain from a life of pain and degradation.
