so the usa have finally decided to bring charges against david hicks. that he has been held in custody for five years before being charged is unforgivable and the embodiment of the hypocrisy of the bush administration. how do they expect to impose their version of democracy on the world when they so overtly corrupt the very principles on which they claim to stand? even the charges brought against him are for actions that weren't a crime when he committed them, and committed in a nation that wasn't the usa. if he'd broken an american law in america i'd have no problem with him being tried and sentenced in the usa, but the fact that he was captured in afghanistan tells me that he should either be tried there under their law or brought back to australia and tried under ours... and only under laws that were in existence at the time of his arrest.
obviously i have no love for terrorists but i'm yet to hear any evidence that david hicks is one. furthermore, when we start making up laws and charging people with breaking them retrospectively then we're heading down a very dangerous path. this is the sort of unfair action that a free, democratic nation should fully oppose.
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I just realised that you have the same decor as Eva. Classic. She is at http://evunia.blogspot.com/
Now you can say hi.
Remember Eva? Think NB moons ago.
xk
of course i remember eva.. both from camp and NB.. not sure she'll remember me though
sad to see the reaction of some in australia, who continue to believe he deserves such inhumane treatment. (my love of Letters to the Editor means I come across many sad opinions!) I really wanted to see the french movie "Guantanamo Bay" (one of the Canne Film Festival movies) but I think I missed it. Given that the preview made me cry, I think I would have bawled my eyes out in the movie, but I'm still really disappointed that I missed it.
oops, got my details wrong. the name of the movie is "the road to guantanamo" and is about three BRITISH muslims who are captured on route to a wedding...
and I haven't missed it, it's on later this month, so I will either recruit a friend or bawl alone while I watch!!!!
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