Isn’t it time?
Published 1 year, 11 months ago in Making News.Isn’t it time we brought David Hicks home to find out if he really has done anything wrong - based on Australian law and Australian values. Surely he can languish in an Australian jail if he really is guilty!!
INDI
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What do people reckon about The Age getting behind Hicks? What is their motive? It seemed rather sudden that they increased their coverage of his plight recently. It was like someone in there (one of the decision makers) snapped their fingers and said, “righto, it’s about time we did something about this bloke in Guantanamo”… thoughts?
Could it be because of the “Election Year” ?
Indi
David Hicks, in a letter to his former flatmate Louise Fletcher, as revealed in The Bulletin on September 19, 2006:
LISTEN, have you got any friends I can f— when I get home? They have to be good-looking and I prefer big t1ts as well. Well, send their photos with the letters so I can check them out …
(On his activities at Gitmo:) I don’t do much. Just sitting in me cell doing f— all. The usual. I can’t tell you about my adventures but I will when I get back.
(Responding to Fletcher’s suggestion that she might write a book about him:) Don’t try to write about my adventures because you don’t know that information. Nobody does, so it would be inaccurate. I would prefer if you wrote nothing about anybody, for that matter. Sh1t, I would have no chance to make any money when I got home, otherwise.
From: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21149703-7583,00.html
Whatever David Hicks MAY be guilty of, and I deliberately emphasised the word MAY, he deserves to fall under the Geneva convention. Lets be honest, even Sadam Hussein had this basic human right, and for that matter, so would Bin Laden if he were ever caught. Calling him an enemy combatant is really just a different way of calling him a prisoner of war isn’t it?
Yes, it’s time.
(Congrats on the iPod.)
Cheers!!!
As with many things in the world, for instance the UN, some factions of Australian and British government, the US controls these with an iron fist. So too the fate of David Hicks. I agree, he should be brought back to Australia and given a fair trial, but if the Australian government really had any stead in David Hicks’ future, then I’m quite sure he would be back here.
What I have a gripe about is the detainment of “terror” suspects with very little conclusive evidence, albeit circumstantial.
Hmmm I agree. Terrorism only works if you are afraid. I wonder who the real terrorists are?
Who are you afraid of?