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“A MAN WHO CAN LOOK AFTER HIMSELF”
The Age’s Penelope Debelle tells of her fascination with a certain Hicks, D.:
Part of the enduring fascination with David Hicks, apart from his extraordinary combination of religious fanaticism, military adventurism and juvenile stupidity, was never having seen his face.
That face, according to a 2003 piece co-authored by fascinated Penelope, was “the human face of the fight for individual justice in this murky era of terrorism.” I wonder if the Indian soldiers Hicks tried to kill saw him the same way.
One photograph that made father Terry and stepmother Bev Hicks bristle every time it appeared was a posed shot of Hicks in Kosovo with a rocket launcher on his shoulder.
Count your blessings, Terry and Bev. That shot wouldn’t have appeared half as often if there were any pics of Dave meeting Osama bin Laden.
The other photos, faded snaps of a youth in a fair isle jumper or blue T-shirt, became increasingly meaningless over time as reports began to emerge of the physical toll Hicks’ incarceration was having on him ...
It was only after he was shifted to solitary confinement that the real deterioration began. After two years, reports filtered out of Hicks’ decline. Unable to exercise, he was putting on weight ...
Whoa! Lady Penelope is rewriting history. The earliest (and subsequent) reports indicated that Hicks had lost weight, not that he was being stuffed with pies and locked out of the gym. From Hicks’s 2004 affidavit: “At one point during 2003 alone, my weight dropped by 30 pounds (and I was not overweight to start).” In November 2003, the ABC reported: “Terry Hicks says after receiving the letter [from David], and news that his son’s weight has fallen to less than 60 kilograms, his family are increasingly concerned for their son’s welfare.” (Interestingly, one month later Terry Hicks told the ABC his son’s mental condition was “absolutely brilliant”, he’d had a hernia operation, he was “very fit” ... and that he’d received “chocolates and vegemite.” There’s your weight-gain root cause, Penelope.)
The myth of scrawny Dave persisted for years, boosted by claims from his lawyers: “This identikit of an aged and emaciated David Hicks has shocked the accused terrorist’s supporters, who now fear for his health. The image is based on a description by Hicks’s lawyer [David McLeod], who met the detainee a week ago.” Another Hicks lawyer, Major Michael Mori, said in 2006 that Hicks had “lost a lot of weight. I think the weight loss is part of his loss of appetite, just coming on from his ... depression manifesting itself in that way.” It made Ray Martin ashamed. Back to Penelope:
Just before he was due to appear before the US military commissions early this year, he was all but a broken man: unshaven, unsociable, untrusting of anyone but his lawyers, and so dehumanised he had grown his hair long so he could pull it over his eyes at night to shield them from the lights.
“Just before he was due to appear”? Penelope avoids Hicks’s actual commission appearance, at which reporters were present. One account: “He’s put on a considerable amount of weight, he’s almost verging on chubby. Now he was always a stockier build, he’s only five foot two, but he was looking distinctly beefy ...” And another: “He did not look unhealthy and certainly not ‘gaunt’ or ‘hollowed cheeked’ as his legal team have described him in recent months.” Ignoring these reports, Penelope feigns surprise when fat ’n’ sleek Dave walks out of Yatala prison:
To finally see David Hicks in the flesh was a relief. His face was smooth and broad, his hair — possibly dyed to make him less recognisable down the track — was long and brushed back. His face looked broad and a bit puffy, but overall he seemed not in bad shape.
What did she expect - a Belsen survivor? You’d imagine someone so invested in a story that they felt “relief” when the subject emerged without having gnawed off his own fingers for nourishment might have noticed the occasional item placing his mass somewhere above that of an Olsen twin. Quickly adapting to the New Dave, Penelope finds virtue:
What was most striking was how much he looked like the man Australia has come to know well: his father, Terry. They share the same piercing eyes, the same stocky stature and slight swagger that suggests here is a man who may be short but who, when pushed, can look after himself.
Remarkable. She’s talking about someone who trained to kill opponents of Islam, and who once wrote: “The western society is controlled by the Jews with music, TV, houses, cars, free sex ... the Jews have complete financial and media control many of them are in the Australian government.” And the love don’t end there:
Given the fearlessness Terry Hicks has shown in the past six years, including protesting on a New York pavement in a mock-up of a Guantanamo cell, perhaps those similarities should have been no surprise.
Those Hicks genes are strong. Odd, though, that Dave is now frightened of Islamic extremists. Maybe he thinks they’ll feed him too much.
What an extraordinary sour and self-righteous looking
womanperson. But as she quite fairly points out, at least plump Davy has worn a fair isle jumper in his youth. An ambivalent Scottish creation using two different skeins of wool such that alternating colours are used on consecutive stiches - one Merino Australian and the next Angorra TalibanPosted by Whale Spinor on 2007 12 30 at 12:04 PM • permalinkstiches = stitches (but with fair isle plain only , no purl - yes I’m a 60 year old Australian male but my mother taught me how to knit. And I still do, it’s very relaxing)
Posted by Whale Spinor on 2007 12 30 at 12:13 PM • permalinkUh-oh. The fact that everyone’s got an agent is not a good sign. And for the record, Hicks is not in hiding—frolicking at the beach.
I see Hicks with a high-profile position in the Rudd government. Given Hicks interest in environmental issues, perhaps as aide-de-camp to Peter Garrett.
Posted by Mystery Meat on 2007 12 30 at 01:34 PM • permalinkGiven the fearlessness Terry Hicks has shown in the past six years, including protesting on a New York pavement in a mock-up of a Guantanamo cell . . .
Left-wing street theater in New York requires “fearlessness”? Please. Strolling through the Brownsville section of Brooklyn wearing top hat, white tie and tails - that would require fearlessness.
Hey, guess who plans to rain on the Rose Bowl Parade?. CAUTION! PHOTO ALERT! PICTURE EQUIVALENT TO THREE TABLESPOONS OF IPECAC SYRUP!
Terry Hicks fearless? He’s just been turned into a self-promoter, a la St Cindy, egged on by a posse of civil liberties extremists. The humble and apologetic Terry Hicks that first faced the media at the time of Dawood’s arrest little resembles what he became shortly after. And it now turns out there are media deals at stake, in his own words apparently, to be hurdled by “legal loopholes”, so the PR machine again being ramped up is unsurprising.
Sure we can all chortle at Penelope getting moist about the gusset over Dawood now.
But beware, her progressive revenge is not too far away.
Dammit, I always get them confused with the Courier Mail.Penelope…
Take the blinkers off, you stupid twat.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 12 30 at 05:08 PM • permalinkIt’s simultaneously funny and weird that the Age has so many like this in its stables.
Their fascination with Hicks must be some variant of the showbiz/fame, moths to the candle syndrome. Can’t possibly be any attractive aspect of the person himself.
Good to see that Newhouse had the sense to recognise a danger to the jewish community. If only the jews in America would stop voting Democrat!Back off guys. The girl’s in love. And why shouldn’t she be. Daiwoo Nubira Hicks is famous and may very possibly be rich if one of those claimed book deals bears fruit. And that is all you need to attract love-struck groupies such as Penny or Traceeeeee Hutchison.
#4
Amazing. Just as I’d resigned myself to The Age running a two-horse race for the stupidest woman in Australia, suddenly we have a new contender.
It should be of national concern that the formerly glorious Age has been reduced to running this kind of stuff. It is like it being run by a group of rebellious teenagers trying to shock their rich parents. Is the Age editor a Goth?
It’s nice of Penelope to classify activities such as blazing away at Indian troops as juvenile stupidity.
However, I have no doubt that, were I to express an interest in owning a Mossberg pump, Mizzz Debelle wouldn’t hesitate in typifying me as a crazed thrill killer, just one beer away from taking Mistah 12 down to the local day care centre for a bit of rough shooting.”...To finally see David Hicks in the flesh was a relief…”
Penny, spare us your AAA-powered “We’re all going to Hicksville’ fantasies.
As for the Aged, nothing summed it up better that its website on the morning of his release:
“David Hicks Free At Last”
Says it all really.
Posted by Jay Santos on 2007 12 30 at 06:27 PM • permalinkHealth Care Alert! There has been another major outbreak of stupid.
Journalists, Hollywood directors, hardest hit.
I thought it was all about the lack of due process rather than the individual himself? You know the “regardless of what he’s done he deserves to be treated…..” argument. That appears to have been shelved in favour of the wet-for-Dave approach.
And check out the SMH’s David Marr (also wet for Dave) attacking Newhouse for attacking Hicks.I’ve not read all the comments yet - just a bit of essential linkwhoring.
There was a two page spread in the Sunday Hun about Hicks’ misadventure.
Since I couldn’t find it online, I’ve copied the
whole bloody thing so that we can wonder at his travails.Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 12 30 at 08:11 PM • permalink“The western society is controlled by the Jews with music, TV, houses, cars, free sex ... the Jews have complete financial and media control many of them are in the Australian government.”
Anti-semitism is ugly and inexcusable. I wonder then if Australian neo-Nazis, particularly the ones who have received military training and may actually have been involved in combat will also now be required to have control-orders imposed on them?
Meanwhile, it would seem that fair-dinkum Aussie footballers and off-duty cops are the main danger to the Jewish community in Australia.
“AN off-duty police officer is likely to face disciplinary action in relation to an anti-Semitic attack by a group of Ocean Grove footballers.”
Posted by Terri Nichols on 2007 12 30 at 08:15 PM • permalink#37 harold.David seems to be continuing a quest to be the very last homosexual to be beheaded once the Caliphate is established however his support for Little Davy,who has apparently now renounced Islam,might not be the best way to avoid being offered an early appointment with the headsman.He seems to be trying to say that attributing all kinds of potential evil to Jews generally is acceptable since Little Davy didn’t specifically single out “Australian” Jews.I fear David’s ambivalence might be a little too subtle for the ROP headloppers.
To those a certain age:
His fast gun for hire heeds the calling wind.
A soldier of fortune is the man called Talabin.
Talabin, Talabin. Where do you roam?
Talabin, Talabin, Far, far from home.
There are legends that the newspapers spin Of the man with the gun
Of the man called Talabin.Posted by stackja1945 on 2007 12 30 at 09:10 PM • permalink#15 Paco, I know I’ve told this one before, but it’s pertinent: when Hicks senior was doing his little bit of theatre on the streets of New York (caged, wearing an orange jumpsuit), a local news team got some voxpops from passersby. I will always treasure the laconic observation of one young man: “He’d better not try that in front of a fire station.”
Also, what is the mystery medical condition, incurred in Guantanamo, that Dawood now needs treatment for? Could it be late-onset Munchhausen’s syndrome? Call Dr. House, stat!
Dave, I used to love the “bad boys,” too… Jeans, tight t-shirts, with a beer, a smoke, a smirk & a joke. Soon, though, the ones who are thugs reveal themselves, with a lack of respect for their mothers or their country. Many of the others are still charming, even after a coupla decades in the Navy (Marines, Army, etc).
Hicks wasn’t (isn’t) a “bad boy” - he’s a thug—a bully. I know one thing about bullies - if they’re not psychotic, they’re cowards. Cowards are dangerous. Penelope is a fool.
Dammit, stacka, I used to love that show!
Terri Nichols #43
Do you go to anti-neo-Nazi sites and
try to divert attentionpoint out Hicks Anti-Semitism?Posted by armageddon on 2007 12 30 at 09:32 PM • permalinkI dunno, I was going to comment on the curious moral inversion prevalent in the left, but wondered, what if it’s just me?
Perhaps what I consider repugnant is actually admirable. What I think stupid is really clever. What I believe cowardly is in fact clear eyed uncompromising courage?
Maybe my parents and school teachers and scoutmasters and drill instructors have some explaining to do.
Posted by Steve Skubinna on 2007 12 30 at 09:37 PM • permalinkKC, he’s not even a thug. Maybe a thug-wannabe. A wimp with delusions of almost-adequacy. That acorn didn’t drop far from the tree. His old man appears to be one of those angry girly-men, too.
Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2007 12 30 at 09:40 PM • permalink#57 Steve
Perhaps what I consider repugnant is actually admirable. What I think stupid is really clever. What I believe cowardly is in fact clear eyed uncompromising courage?
I don’t believe for a moment that I or anyone else who thinks like me are stupid, or our ideas are repugnant, and that cowardice is courage.
What a suprise, reporting to the police 3 times a week is to cramping for poor Mo Dawood
His lawyer, David McLeod, believes the control order is unusual and could interfere with Hicks’s reassimilation, Fairfax newspapers have reported.Lawyers are scum.
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 12 30 at 09:47 PM • permalinksteve, it is typical of the left enlightened ones to take what is morally pure and make it repugnant… and vice versa
the lessons most of us learned as children have been deemed irresponsible, racist, (whatever you want to insert here)phobic, etc
however, it has been my experience to try to reason with them has been futile
that doesnt mean i stop trying
usually it just shuts them up at family functions
;D#60 Thats what I was asking about Mole - who the heck is paying for all McLeod’s time?
Anyone been in litigation lately? It costs a fortune.
And by the way I read somewhere that the Oz government paid around $300,000 all up in expenses etc. for Terry Hicks to go visit his young adventurer during his Cuban sojourn.#‘s 53 & 54 Cuckoo: Actually, I don’t recall having heard that before. Good one!
I believe the mystery ailment is likely to be chlamydia, or possibly the West Indian dry gripes. I recommend a thrice-daily enema of this liquid, undiluted.
#63 Pogria: I am young at heart, mature in age.
‘the past is a foreign country: they do things differently there’
Also:
God Grant Me The Senility To Forget The People I Don’t Like, The Memory To Remember The Ones I Do, And The Eye Sight To Tell The Difference!
Posted by stackja1945 on 2007 12 30 at 10:17 PM • permalink#68 paco
As we can read at: Trivia for El Dorado (1966)
The ingredients that Mississippi recites for Johnny Diamond’s recipe to sober up J. P. Hara are:cayenne pepper, hot mustard powder, ipecac, asafoetida, and croton oil. Ipecac is a strong emetic, asafoetida is a spice known for its strong sulfurous odor, and croton oil is a potent purgative.
Posted by stackja1945 on 2007 12 30 at 10:32 PM • permalink#66. WTF was the government doing spending our taxes on Terry’s junket?? Sorry - he’s got all these supporters so they should have held a fundraiser.
Grrrr.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 12 30 at 10:59 PM • permalink#54 and #68:
I would have guessed syphilis, myself. Probably got it from the 72 virgins.
Posted by Ted Schuerzinger on 2007 12 31 at 12:51 AM • permalink#79 Ted,
he probably got the syphilis from dad. Papa Hicks looks like he’s in end stage syphilis right now. yeeuch.
The virgins could have given him the hernia that was repaired at Guantanamo. You know, 72 women desperately trying to get away from the midget with the big gun! He was trampled in the ensuing stampede. ;)
#63 Pogria - As stackja says, young at heart…& in very good company! I plan to get as old as I possibly can, as the alternative holds no charm for me just yet.
Strange as it may be, My Chief asked me what my New Year Resolution was going to be. I can’t come up with anything I am willing to give up…except maybe my pottymouth!
Back on Topic…Hicks is a bottom-feeder son of a bottom-feeder. Too bad he takes up so much valuable time. If we still put people in stocks, he’d be worth a rotten tomato or 2, but any more than that is a waste.
#86, Until I see Davey-boy on Al-Jazeera TV live from the Middle East renouncing his Muslim faith, I won’t believe that he even is an apostate.
Has anyone actually heard him renounce Islam?
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