Posted by Kevin Bates This is a most tedious injustice of course, and a political nuisance to leaders here and in the US as they try to come up with a legal way of dealing with Hicks and other detainees. Legal but hardly just in its delay, in its proposed process which practically guarantees a guilty finding, and in its sheer inhumanity. Hicks should have been tried and his alleged crimes investigated and ruled on years' ago. Chances are he should now be serving a sentence for those alleged crimes. Still he languishes without any sense of a future, or a clear story of his past revealed. Now that John Howard is feeling the heat from his own back-benchers and the polls, he is making noises about bringing Hicks home before the election!! He could serve his time here if he is ssentenced. Why the sudden urgency in the Prime Minister? Again, as with the water issue and that of global warming, Howard only moves when the voters indicate he must move, and not when he thinks it is a genuinely good thing to do. There's no law against that of course, but I'm sure someone could make a good case for coming up with one!
on February 19, 2007, 9:17 am
I suppose we are as a friend of mine has just written to me, petty-much David Hicks-ed out at the moment. There seems no doubt that Hicks was up to no good - even words from letters to his father indicate his commitment to the jihadist cause. However he has been locked up for five years till the Yanks could invent a law under which he could be charged.
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