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Like his 2006 play Honour Bound, about former Guantanamo Bay inmate David Hicks, Jamieson says Dead Man Walking challenges as well as entertains.
Yep. Honour Bound sure entertained. Also on matters Hicksian, Edna Paris writes in Canada’s Globe and Mail:
David Hicks was to be the first person to undergo a military commission trial. But Australians were so outraged by the lack of democratic legal processes that high-level relations with the U.S. were directly threatened.
This is not true.
Honour Bound* was entertaining. I certainly laughed my ass off when it flopped.
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*: Original, unAmerican spelling, retained to maintain authenticity. Use in this context does not imply in any fashion that “honour” is the correct spelling of “honor”.Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 09 30 at 02:15 PM • permalink“lack of democratic legal processes”
Because, you know, trials are always democratic. Doesn’t the Globe and Mail have editors?
Posted by Bruce Rheinstein on 2007 09 30 at 04:29 PM • permalinkIf you’re going to take a letter out of “honour”, shouldn’t it be hono’r?
Where are the apostrophe police when you need them most?
Posted by mr creosote on 2007 09 30 at 05:40 PM • permalinkSo where is the compassion for the victims of Hicks and his fellow thugs? Where is the angst over the squalid holes used for torture, rape, starvation, and the sawing off of heads of any who happen to cross paths with said thugs. Or the sudden death or maiming of innocents trying to purchase the necessities of life, or driving down a street, or sitting in a cafe, or going to school? I am sick to death of this overweening concern for killers, while ignoring their deeds and their victims.
I was inclined to cut Sister Helen Prejean some slack, as a genuinely Christian soul, but then I saw her recently on Andrew Denton, blathering moonbat boilerplate about John Howard to the usual giggling sycophants of an ABC studio audience. She obviously barely knew who Howard was, but was still trying to paint him as pro-death penalty - well, he’s a conservative, after all - when he is very clearly on the record as an anti. Denton made no effort to correct her.
I am inclined to cut Sister Helen Prejean no slack at all. She lavishes love on rapists and killers because they’re “misunderstood”, and ignores their victims, which includes the survivor families. And then she cheerfully goes on TV to bleat about it, presenting herself as that “good Christian soul”. I consider her as having the same sin of pride addiction as Mother Teresa, who loved the poor, loved the fact that there were the poor, and never wanted there not to be any poor she could “rescue”.
The Globe & Mail, like the Toronto Red Star and the CBC have never missed an opportunity to distort and lie in the furtherment of their agenda.
Look ma! I’m Colourizing!Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 09 30 at 07:53 PM • permalinkAh, good, so I’m not alone in thinking that Sister Prejean was another leftard preaching against the death penalty for murderers and their fellow travellers.
I saw that interview (was waiting for Robson Green) and while it started fairly enough, I wanted to smack her by the end.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 10 01 at 09:21 AM • permalink
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