Sat 7 Apr 2007
Torture tale sidesteps Hicks gag | NEWS.com.au
David Hicks may be gagged from telling his story but here is some interesting reading with information from his British citizenship application. It will be interesting to see how Howard deals with this one.
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April 7th, 2007 at 6:49 pm
i don’t think too many Australians will care, actually. Hicks is a lout, and the only reason he didn’t kill anyone was because the yanks got him and his Taliban and Al Qaeda mates first.
the bigger question is how a would-be terrorist could be so adored by otherwise rational aussies. you’re letting your hatred of Howard blind you to the fact that Hicks would have sold you out, and hates your fashionable copy-cat liberalism.
April 7th, 2007 at 6:58 pm
I am not sure if if Hicks is guilty or innocent, but he should never have been treated the way he has been.
shaun
April 8th, 2007 at 7:37 am
We are SUPPOSED to be better thn terrorists and Nazis. Guilty or innocent, everyone should have the right to decent humane treatment and fair trial. Hicks wass denied those. Therein lies the issue.
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel, btw, j. howard. Blind loyalty to your country, right or wrong, was a defence tried at Nuremberg. Obviously, you re an example of ‘those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it’.
April 8th, 2007 at 10:38 pm
Feel better? Any other hyperbole you’d like to add? Any more cliches?
Hicks has been elevated by the Left in to sainthood. For chrissakes, the Democrats want him to run for office.
Was the process flawed? Sure, But unfair? I don’t know. What’s fair about a guy who can take up arms with terrorist groups and draconian regimes, and then be treated like a hero for it? What’s fair about the people who were killed by his mates, because governments around the world, conservative and liberal alike, failed to take action against those people because they were afraid to offend?
You can whine all you like about his alleged mistreatment, but Hicks and his type hate your soft-left ideology. Until he was caught he hated your “fairness”, your justice system and your liberalism. And he absolutely no time for opinionated chicks.