Bring Hicks home
Credit where it’s due. Danna Vale was a dud minister, but she’s dead right about David Hicks:
Let’s get real. The case of David Hicks clearly fails the commonsense test. It fails the commonsense test not only in the educated minds of the legal profession, but in the gut feelings of ordinary Australians who believe in a fair go, and who believe that truth and justice and that old hand-me-down from the Magna Carta that says men are innocent until proven guilty, still deserve some currency in our world.
Just like you, just like me, as an Australian, he is entitled to a fair trial without further delay. And, after four years in Guantanamo Bay, if the Americans cannot deliver this to David Hicks, in all fairness, we must ask that he be sent home.
Well said Rob…
John Howard needs to sacrifice one Australian for George Bush’s cause. As Bush is probably the best friend Howard has ever had, by going along with the US administration, he can show the world that he supports his mate. This is such an injustice to David Hicks, but what can anyone do? These new laws are so sensitive, that by not following Howard’s mob, we will probably be typecast as “supporting the terrorists” in thinking about “acts of terrorism”.
Well, I dunno about Dana’s idea. What chance of a fair trial would Hicks have in Australia with customised retrospective legislation taylor made to fit him up anyway? Stupid, naive bastard he may be (and I’ve certainly got no truck with suporters of the Taliban thugs) but one would think four years in the guantanamo gulag is enough punishment for the crime of being a total idiotic fuckwit.
Jusat bring him home and forget the whole sorry episode.
“…in all fairness, we must ask that he be sent home.”
Where? To England or Afghanistan?
We won’t, though, as nobody in our government has any balls.
Damn! http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,17294171-29277,00.html