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Well I don’t usually start a letter with an observation on the ugliness behind the pretty mask – but it sure is easy to see here – right front and centre behind the hooked hawkish nose. No dove’s beak that one. I only regret that I am not able to administer a George Galloway style reply at your ridiculousness. What a foolish woman. That you attempt to mislead the Australian public on the facts behind this case is shameful. I have no expectations that this reactionary paper will publish this text – it matters not, I publish the ‘input’ and ‘output’ on a public blog site anyway. And the material is also emailed to a small list of respected writers, activists and parliamentarians.
So I submit this to let you and others know that I am outraged that a fellow Australian citizen can be tortured into submission, to confess to a retrospective crime he did not commit at the time – especially by Australian law – and this government has the affront to lock him away in solitary confinement until after the election.
Here in WA someone just left prison after a couple of years and he (it appears) was actually preparing to act against the Australian domestic law of the time. So why has David Hicks to continue through this farce another day? At our taxpayers expense as well! We are being treated as chumps. More punishment from the kangaroo court?
The story has not gone away – it has gotten bigger and is now a wholly domestic issue. The Americans can go jump on this one: their mental mad-house is failing, but we need not be part of it. And how much pressure was brought to bear to drop legal proceedings against members of the government?
There should be an immediate investigation into the abuse of Australian law – technically the man is innocent of any Australian crime (as we all well know – including yourself) and being held against his will – and many of ours as well. Here now today on our soil. I say free David Hicks, give him justice, and freedom and the basic right to benefit from his life’s story – which has not been proven to be in error by any accepted court process. I say support Getup!
Howard, Ruddock, Downer have stuffed up on this one big time – bigger than the AWA fiasco even.
I’m ready with 10,000 words for freedom of people from illegal psycho-bullying and misguided abuse of the Australian justice system by our elected leadership.
This is not personal – it’s principle. The only thing David Hicks did that has any meaning is take the smart road home after five and a half years of psycho-physical abuse while being held without due court process. Your words – and those of the rest of the media are incorrect and simply reflect blind prejudice. Have we invented a fourth arm of government here? No I don’t think so. Have any Americans been through this, up until a few months ago, illegal military commission process? No. Why not? Hastily rushed executive orders from Bush – simply prove the point.
And where is our legal system today – yes ours … or did we give that up in globalised FTA deals as well? Based on recent concerns published about drug use in the legal system – going up the fat-cat noses of cocaine sniffing lawyers perhaps?
I say wake up d---heads! This is not dreamtime. This is your chance, nay your duty, to prove you collectively are not just over paid social parasites.
Time for change? Sure is!
I am going to vote Labor this election and also work actively for the first time in my 51 years to make it happen: and the one reason to overcome my political sloth? This treatment of David Hicks – both by the Americans (Major Mori and his support team exempted); the Australian government who have done stuff all by way of achieving justice outcomes for Hicks; odious biased media like this paper (Phillip Adams exempted); and trumped up kitchen muffins like yourself.
I look forward to Hicks writing his story and may he and his family become wealthy through it. What rubbish that these crumbling politicians make empty threats about denying him his rights.
Listen – it is quiet simple 101 stuff: (a) he did not commit an Australian crime while associating with the governing forces of Afghanistan; (b) he has been through over five years of intense psycho-physical bullying and torture; (c) he has elected, after standing his ground for this time, to now take the quicker/easier way out (even Galileo did similar recanting, although the earth still continued to traverse the sun); and (d) this abuse of our legal system is an attack on us all and our freedoms – worse than any ‘bang’ that might happen on a freeway or house of worship.
The accountability stops with Howard, Ruddock and Downer. And I say a ‘pox on them’ over this matter would not be unreasonable. Now can one be arrested for issuing a ‘pox’? I’m not sure, but I’m sure that somewhere in the future Ruddock (& co.) will be issuing a ‘fatwah’ against poxing and I’ll be at risk of rendition for retrospective ‘witchcraft’. Ahhh, so be it if it means their undoing now!
What a farce of justice this is. And you, dear writer, are a sad clown dancing to its passing parade. Petard yourself. You seem a touch biased – his name is David Hicks – and the bad smell behind you is the propaganda you write here. Shame on you. Only fools can’t sense it and fortunately their numbers are decreasing.
But the bigger shame is on your suggestion that the general public’s opinion matters in the proper system of justice. Dear girl – not at all. It is law that matters! If you want a hang’n or a witch to burn then go live in the ‘Deep South’ (e.g. try Texas) where, only a few decades ago, they used to lynch black men and shoot presidents. The reason? Same as now – they were mad! And still are! And by the way I think I can see a wart growing on the end of your nose: so quick, before ‘they’ see it and turn on you next! Ready for a dunking Delilah?
Welcome home David Hicks.
[And a post-script for the blog-master or mistress as the case may be]
"Publish as is if you dare – or not at all."
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