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RAY ASHAMED
Five years in Gitmo have turned David Hicks ...
... into Bernard Fanning:
This unwholesome transformation leaves Ray Martin feeling ashamed, according to Nine news political activist Daniel Street:
They say a picture speaks ten thousand words. This new image of David Hicks — created by a world renowned face recognition expert — is a graphic illustration of the passage of time David Hicks has being left to languish in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Five years in isolated detention, without trial, leaps out in this image. It’s a ghost of the David Hicks we’re used to seeing, and one that reflects the accurate descriptions of his Australian lawyer, David McLeod, who has just seen him.
This picture has also prompted veteran journalist Ray Martin to publicly, and very powerfully declare, that he’s “ashamed to be an Aussie” over the Federal Government’s response to David Hicks, wisely asking “what has happened to the Aussie ‘fair go’? “.
I’m more ashamed that Australia produced Jew-hating kill-crazed Hicks in the first place than by his subsequent treatment. Note Street’s friendly description of lovely Dave, who - by the way - joined the Taliban and trained with al-Qaeda:
... a wayward Aussie ...
Please.
They’re now using an Identikit to illustrate how their poster child, an al Qaeda terrorist, may look… You can’t make BS like this up.
What’s next, painting his name on the side of a pig?
Talk about clueless useful idiots.
Posted by Bruce Rheinstein on 2007 02 18 at 11:33 AM • permalinkWhat, by the way, happened to the once notorious “Guantanamo haircut” - one of the methods of “torture” used by the Americans to humiliate Muslims?
At least they admit their fauxtography. They’d never get a job with al-Reuters.
Something that’s been bugging me: why is David Hicks in isolation? They keep harping on it, but no one ever says why. We’ve been told other prisoners who behave themselves live in a dormitory, and have a play yard where they can get exercise, sunlight, and fresh air. Has David been a naughty boy? Or, ostensibly having rejected Islam, must he be kept separate to protect him from being murdered by his former cohorts?
Also, does he really have all that hair, or was that just cut and pasted?
Rebecca, Hicks usually wears his hair short - very short.
5 DaneF
Hicks is being given a fair go. He’s still alive.
Graphic Image Warning
So true, after all Hicks could look like
Paul Johnson and NOT at the hands or by the hands of Americans.So now they are upfront about doctoring photos as intended triggers to outrage? I sense a higher truth about to be bespoke here.
Posted by Steve Skubinna on 2007 02 18 at 12:30 PM • permalinkYou mean we let this piece of pond scum live on the taxpayer dollar in the breezy Caribbean for five years, rather than just kill him and save us the trouble? Makes me almost ashamed to be an American!
Posted by Shaky Barnes on 2007 02 18 at 03:51 PM • permalinkThe “Hair Helmet” has a long history of being ashamed to be an Australian.
If you go over old Sixty Minutes stories and if you care to wade through A Current Affair transcripts, Ray has always used that line at the drop of a hat to try and gain sympathy for whatever popular bandwagon he was riding at the time.
He is a Media Whore who has not had an original or genuine opinion of his own since he received his first pay packet for “journalism”.
Bernard Fanning: Powderfinger
David Hicks: GunpowderfingerWorks for me.
Posted by Jack Lacton on 2007 02 18 at 04:05 PM • permalinkAll your Fannyings are belong to us.
”... this is a man with great mental torture…”
A number of very bad life choices can do that to you.
By the way: has anyone done analysis on where the nine UK ex Gits ended up? How many now model citizens, how many recidivistas? “Arrest and Release” has been a failure in Iraq.Alter that photo to add a bald spot on top of his head, and you have Homer Simpson.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 02 18 at 04:36 PM • permalinkLet me get this right. One Australian, just one, is in Gitmo. And this guy goes through the melodrama of saying he’s ashamed of being an Australian?
Me thinks thou protests too much.
Posted by wronwright on 2007 02 18 at 05:12 PM • permalinkHmmm.
That’s nonsense.
Hicks has got:
1. Carefully metered meals for health, nutrition and diet.
2. Plenty of time for exercise.
3. Plenty of time for rest.
4. No access to drugs or alcohol.
Frankly a real picture would be vastly different from this silly nonsense.
Posted by memomachine on 2007 02 18 at 05:16 PM • permalinkThe finished David Hicks pic must be an Islamic Reuters image. Does she work for Islamic Reuters?
The image has been artificially altered to suit their agender and they want him to “look” like this image to receive support. A fair go maybe, but….
Well, I’m afraid to say it, the altered hair looks really fake, his eyes look sunken but fake, but his beard looks like Jesus.
Ray, I’m ashamed of the alteration of the image.
Hes scum, sell him for body parts and be done with it.
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 02 18 at 05:58 PM • permalinkO/T
I’m now in Surfers Paradise enjoying one last day until I go back to Sydney tonightFor anyone visiting here - a trip to the observation deck of the Q1 building is worth it - fantastic views from the 77th floor
As for sympathy for David Hicks - it’s too much for me now, along with global warming, the environment - it’s off with the telly, skim the paper for something else - surely saturation point has been reached for more people than just me?
Posted by aussiemagpie on 2007 02 18 at 06:20 PM • permalinkLet me get this right. One Australian, just one, is in Gitmo. And this guy goes through the melodrama of saying he’s ashamed of being an Australian?
Me thinks thou protests too much.
Just you wait, wronwright. One KRuddy gits into power, it’ll be the War of Jenkin’s Ear all over again, by billy jingo!
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 02 18 at 06:33 PM • permalinkWho the hell is Bernard Fanning? Ditto for Ray Martin.
Posted by LaVallette on 2007 02 18 at 06:40 PM • permalinkI am sure the surviving brave POWs who worked on the Burma Railway as slaves, and emerged alive from Changi or any other WWII or Korean POW camps, will be ashamed of Ray Martin’s pathetic whinging on behalf of a well-treated modern ‘POW’ [but one who broke all the rules of war as a fanatical anti-Australian mercenary.]
#29 - I had a weekend at Q1 last year and was quite unimpressed with the general cheapness of the place. The view from the observation deck is quite good though, if you want to pay the money to get up there.
Posted by Jack Lacton on 2007 02 18 at 07:52 PM • permalinkRay Martin is a made up, blow dried talking head who is paid to speak other people’s words.
Why would anyone give a rat’s arse what Ray Martin thinks?
Someone once said “don’t shoot the messenger” but nobody said “don’t laugh and point at the ‘tard”.
Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2007 02 18 at 07:59 PM • permalinkHm. In my day, establishment-hating creeps thought the worst thing that could happen to them was getting their hair and beard cut. You know, “Almost… cut my hair…” We’re just letting Hicks continue to fly his freak flag, and we still can’t do anything right.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 02 18 at 08:04 PM • permalinkRay is ashamed of being an Aussie because of this pic?
Has he forgotten Bali? Is he ashamed of Australia being as “Hicks” subscribes to the same ideology as the perpetrators?
No, Ray is just a [swear word]self-loathing anti-western intellectual[/swear word] or SLAWI for short.
Heh, it’s almost like SWAMPIE.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 02 18 at 08:09 PM • permalinkThis is insane. Hicks isn’t nine years old, he isn’t 19, 29 or 39. He is 42 and a former drug addict and car thief who has probably spent time in Australian cells. Before he took off on his world-through-the-gun-sight tour of the world, he worked in such weather-beaten jobs as shark fishing and as a farmhand on outback stations. Then he went on his murderous adventure in not one, not two but three war zones. The most recent picture, looking like Freddie Mercury with a bazooka, was taken nine years ago. And shock horror, he looks nothing like that fresh faced nine year old in the adverts. He has lived a hard life of his own choosing and isprobably lucky to be alive. He looks fresher in the fabricated picture than any 42 year old drug addict, station hand or triple-war veteran I’ve seen.
And another thing that pisses me about the media and Hicks and that is calling him an Australian father of two. If it wasn’t for the fact Hicks is now some media darling, Ray Martin, the living incarnation of Frontline’s Mike Moore, would be exposing him for being a deadbeat who abandoned his children when they were toddlers. He doesn’t deserve to be called a father.
This is pathetic.
They could take a real-live photo of Hicks and let viewers make up their own mind.
They would only need an identikit photo for:
1) People who were killed years ago by the Taliban, which Hicks joined.2) Women whose faces were covered by Burquas
3) Women and young girls whose faces were disfigured or mutilated by Islamists.
Did I mention this is pathetic? Poor ashamed 3 million bucks a year Ray, should get boned by Channel 9 ASAP. I bet he’ll be even more ashamed working for the ABC.
No, no folks. The Left have got this one correct. Send him back…
to the Taliban. Heh.
Posted by Vanguard of the Commentariat on 2007 02 18 at 08:39 PM • permalinkI agree Dan, bone him! I don’t watch Ch 9 very often especailly now Eddie is in charge and even if there is something I want to watch, as soon as Ray Fucking Martin shows his fugly head, I switch off straight away.
Now Dick Smith has joined the Mo Dawood band wagon, the same is said for him. Fucking publicity whore!
Posted by ozconservative on 2007 02 18 at 08:39 PM • permalinkThanks for the info on paco, RebeccaH - I haven’t had much time to read past postings & I wonder about the folks I don’t see.
El Cid - do you know when the weather is supposed to return to normal? My brother-in-law came from Colorado for the 500, & THIS is the weekend it decides to be Winter in North Florida?
Back on topic…whoever suggested selling his parts, I’m all for that…can take ‘em while he’s conscious? I really hate traitors.
I am ashamed that the US has forced a poor wayward Aussie to wear a strange looking wig.
That whole Mo Daewood thing is a worry as well.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 02 18 at 08:46 PM • permalinkDavid Hicks: a wayward Aussie
Adolph Hitler: Rambunctious Austrian lad.
Ray Martin: escapee from Legoland
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 02 18 at 08:51 PM • permalinkI haven’t seen Ray on TV for a while, but this is my estimation of what he probably looks like.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 02 18 at 08:56 PM • permalinkYou too can be ashamed to be Australian.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 02 18 at 09:20 PM • permalinkChrist on a crutch MM, this wienie quotes Arundhati Roy to buttress his whining argument. There’s an argument stopper!
At least he appears to hate the US more than he does Oz. It must chap his ass that I am not ashamed to be American.
Posted by Steve Skubinna on 2007 02 18 at 09:32 PM • permalinkSBS is showing “The President versus Dickhead Hicks,” Tuesday night at 10PM.
It’ll be interesting if viewers react in a manner contrary to what SBS believes they should, i.e, not sympathetically.
From what I remember, the documentary doesn’t paint him in a great light considering his anti-semitism and jihadi rhetoric.A quick check of google suggests that Australia is lagging internationally when it comes to being ashamed of their nationality, with a mere 1,040,000 web links.
This leaves us shamefully lagging behind:
Canadians, Indians, Chinese, Japanese, Brazilians, South Africans, Italians, Germans (look ‘em up yourselves, lazy bastards)...
Australia is ahead of only a few God foresaken nations in the shame stakes, such as Belgium, New Zealand, Portugal and Switzerland.
However, if it came down to shame per capita , I suspect Australia would be right up there in the top ten, but not quite a patch on the very ashamed New Zealanders.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 02 18 at 10:16 PM • permalinkIf that identikit picture of Mohammad Dawood is even a close facsimile, then the authorities have some explaining to do. Why are they providing a hair restoration clinic for this rat.
As to Ray ‘helmet head’ Martin. What a self rightous, has been. I always watch out for the pithy sanctimonious sayings that make one want to vomit, as espoused by him and some ‘community leaders’.
1) ‘A fair go’. Translation: Prop up some useless bludger.
2) ‘For the community’. Translation: Prop up a lot of useless bludgers, with YOUR money.
3) ‘Community expectations’ Translation: My big super payout depends on how well I can pull this of.
4) ‘UnAustralian’. Translation: You are not following the collective mindset, with regards to our leftoid way of thinking.
I don’t care how much PhotoShop sympathy, they want to put out, or how cute the nine year old rat was. He should have got a Vitamin L (7.62 calibre) injection from the on set.#59 - Our shameless lack of shame is shameful. For shame.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 02 18 at 10:28 PM • permalinkPlenty to choose from if you want to see smarm in action.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 02 18 at 10:30 PM • permalinkIs Ray Martin just an airhead or will he say anything on TV if the money is right? whatever, he is stupidly letting himself be used in the propaganda war.
If one ever needed confirmation of the depths of decadence that the liberal media has fallen to, one should count the number of column inches during recent months, devoted to the lionisation of this Australian anti hero of western culture. then compare them to the number of column inches devoted to the Australian victims of islamic aggression in Bali or indeed Darfur or wherever.
Hicks or Dawood as he should rightly be called , but for the media attempts to portray him as a home grown country boy who may have temporarily gone astray, is a mere rallying point for the obssesive haters of the Bush and Howard administrations. The more support mustered for Dawood, the more dissent will result for our own elected government. it is classic proxy politics.
The amorality of the leftist liberal progressives is made even more objectionable by their belief that they hold the moral highground.
They all supported the Nazis at the time of the soviet/Nazi Pact.
they followed genocidal murderer Polpot like lemmings in solidarity for leftiem.
They covered up for Che Guavara and now watch for the new david hicks t-shirts to hit the streets.
Now they are the first to use false moral and tu qouque arguments to sanitize the actions of Islamist terrorists
the truth is that they are totally devoid of compassion for any victims of terrorism.
The only victims that count are the ones they create to help bring down their own governments.Hold on - for idiotic statements you still can’t beat the USMC’s own Major Mori who justified Dawood’s actions as “bad life choices”.
Yup - that would be it.
Posted by Apparatchik on 2007 02 18 at 10:35 PM • permalinkPer capita, the Irish, with a population barely one-fifth the size of Australia are surely the world shame champions.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 02 18 at 10:37 PM • permalinkI’m ashamed that Ray Martin’s a fucking earthling, let alone an Australian. Just think of those advanced civilisations out there in the galaxy whose first encounter with Terra is going to be Ray’s emoting over bogans. No way they’ll be coming anywhere near our neighbourhood.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 02 18 at 10:41 PM • permalink#55 MM - things are crook in Crystal Brook
Posted by Whale Spinor on 2007 02 18 at 10:42 PM • permalinkCome sing me La
Come sing me Gitmo Bay
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh‘N’ Hicks’ll meet me like a brother would
I think I remember but it’s twice as good
Like how cool the rum is from his silver tray
I thirst to be thirsty in Gitmo Bay
Sing out; oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Come sing me La
Come sing me Gitmo Bay
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh#70 Fighting fit 1.6. - and hope you’re well also.
Tim’s been a bit quiet since Valentines Day - hope you didn’t wear him out.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 02 18 at 10:50 PM • permalink# Hang on, check out Iceland
There are more links to being ashamed to be Icelandic than there are people (around 300,000). Must be something about people who live on islands.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 02 18 at 10:53 PM • permalink#59 MM.
What you have discovered is a shameful disgrace indeed. I feel so despondent and almost dirty. My head hanging, looking none in the eye, I find I must abase myself.
I would burn my Australian flag except that this would require a release of greenhouse gases.
This leaves me no choice, unable to purge my shame and guilt in any other way, I will reject my family, people, culture and nation and convert to Islam. Jihad here I come.
I think it only fair that if they can identikit poor widdle Mo Dawood, for doing nothing more than a ‘few poor life choices’, perhaps while they are at it they could also identikit the 88 Australians that are no longer able to age like Dawood still can. Perhaps that could help a few prats remember what this fight is about.
Go to the newspaper, they do have outstanding food awards, they must have beaut BBQ’s
http://www.nsgtmo.navy.mil/htmpgs/gazetteonline.htm
Hicks must be having delicious meals as yummy as the Astral in Sydney
#79 Great link, 1.6
But surely not a plastic turkey!!!!
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 02 18 at 11:02 PM • permalinkStrewth! I almost forgot…
Ray Martin, you are cordialy invited to Suck My Nuts.
R.S.V.P by 4pm today.
p.s - Isn’t there a dodgy T.V repairman or an unemployed yoof you should be haranguing? That’s real journalism isn’t it?
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 02 18 at 11:05 PM • permalinkEl Cid and everyone else,
paco is on a mission. Karl has assigned a very secret mission to him, so secret he hasn’t made me privy to the facts.
* left eye twitches *
I naturally have offered the services of Super Team Alpha, but ever since the Jericho mission when Michael Lonie decided to engage in a debate with MentalFloss on some stupid ass meaningless issue regarding whether Jeriocho was older than Ur at the very moment we were suppose to filch the secret book of incantations -
* right eye twitches *
- our services were rejected. I cannot provide you with many facts except that paco showed up with two rather untrustworthy associates with official permission to use the Tardis.
* both eyes twitch *
Personally, I expect complete catastophe.
Posted by wronwright on 2007 02 18 at 11:30 PM • permalinkClinical psychiatrist Prof Jon Jureidini said in the program that Guantanamo Bay detainees were “being progressively driven mad”.
Yeah, no shit Doc. “Progressives” drive us all mad.Posted by Vanguard of the Commentariat on 2007 02 19 at 12:27 AM • permalink66 Apparatchik— Major Michael Mori’s defenses of Mohamed Dawood might sound silly.
But don’t forget why he’s saying that stuff: he has been assigned by the US military to use all his legal skills to DEFEND Dawood.
By contrast, imagine what happened to any prisoners Dawood or his pals hauled in back in the good old days with the Taliban.
Posted by arrowhead ripper on 2007 02 19 at 12:31 AM • permalinkThat’s ok Ray,I’m ashamed you’re an Australian too.
Posted by carpefraise on 2007 02 19 at 01:21 AM • permalinkRudd has admitted a precipitate withdrawal of Coalition soldiers would be “bad”. (After a reporter pressed him repeatedly to explain what would happen). Now he’s also opposing any professional asistance Australian trainers can give to build up and strengthen the Iraqi army in order to protect civilians against terrorists.
Let there be no mistake about Rudd. This is one contemptible and evil little bastard.
Sounds like John Murtha and Kevin Rudd are bosom buddies, C.L.
Joy. The evil bastards of the world are uniting.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 02 19 at 01:32 AM • permalinkRudd is meeting Cheney, Rudd is meeting the premiers to work out a Murray basin deal. Shouldn’t he wait until he has won an election before trying to pass himself off as the prime minister?
Is it just me of is Rudd evolving rapidly before our eyes.Just two months ago he was an anal bookish little man who seemed quite reasonable and even likeable. But now his ever-inflating ego has stretched and distorted him into something quite grotesque and scary, not threatening in a Latham bully sort of way, but frightening like a Hannibal Lechter. He boasts about playing with John Howard’s mind, which sounds like Hannibal. He is totally in awe of his own cleverness, which is like Hannibal. More frighteningly, Hannibal got away with it.
Is it just me, or does that nose look Jewish?
And, let’s see. He gets halal meals, plenty of rest and exercise, no temptation by ‘cat’s meat’, and prayer 5 times a day with an arrow to show the dumbbastard which way Mecca is. All he’s missing to be the complete Muzzie is freedom to slaughter infidels. Except for the 72 raisins it sounds like Paradise. Why should he complain?
And driven mad? More like a gimme putt, from his history.
Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2007 02 19 at 01:53 AM • permalinkHe’s always been an egotistical twerp, a legend in his own mind. Hence the bunged-on plummy accent and dweeby speccy look- not usual for a graduate of Gympie High (home of the Gymps). Wayne Swan is another alumni of that salubrious alma mater, and also puts on the dog.
The Attack Squirrel has lots of form from his incumbency as chief of staff in the Goss govt, and has plenty of enemies from that period- I expect to see a few pop up as we head towards an election; even though they will invariably be Labor hacks and assorted fellow travellers, their loyalty never extends to torpedoing the ambitions of one of their own who’s managed to get a rails run for some cushy number.
I think the crash and burn of Kev and Jules will make Lathams Hindenburg moment look like an airfix model lit up by a 12 year old and hung off the clothesline.
I’m excited!
#97 - I hope!
The media should not have any trouble finding Qld Govt staffers that would rather share a cell with Hicks than work with Doctor Death again.Posted by boxofmatches on 2007 02 19 at 03:35 AM • permalink#97 - One of Goss’s (and Rudd’s) great enemies was Beattie. Smirky Pete seems to like Howard more than the personality bypass.
Posted by boxofmatches on 2007 02 19 at 03:42 AM • permalinkHow do you drown kevin Rudd?
Put a camera on the bottom of a pool.Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 02 19 at 04:03 AM • permalinkHopefully, the next really true photo of Dave and Ray will have them looking like this.
Posted by AlphaMikeFoxtrot on 2007 02 19 at 04:05 AM • permalink#95
He boasts about playing with John Howard’s mindHmmm Phat Phil’s sounding relatively conciliatory towards Australia’s most cunning politician lately, maybe the KRudder oughta pay some attention ...
#69. Swinish: Ray’s emoting over bogans
Oi! Here in the House in the Heart of Bogan Central, we resemble that remark.
Find another name for him.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 02 19 at 07:22 AM • permalink#109 Mark Latham understood Kevin Rudd even better than you think.
He used to sign off his articles for the Daily Telegraph with “And Kevin Rudd’s a c**t.”
Posted by Young and Free on 2007 02 19 at 08:30 AM • permalinkI think Hicks chances of scoring a root with an attractive woman with big tits when he gets to the UK just decreased dramatically.
47 KC
I’m back in the mountains of Tennessee and have been since December. But yes I know the Panhandle has had its spell of winter. And gosh, am I tickled, as I know that the smart asses that have homes higher up on the mountain, have more snow to remove.
84 President and Owner of WW Roofing, Inc. Karl Rove confidant and Gatekeeper of Mead.Paco, who? (wink, wink) My lips are sealed, lest the forces of the dark Lord, decide my blabbing will jeopardize ongoing operations and toss my ass in front of Prosecutor Patrick
NifongFitzgerald.A thousand apologies Nilknarf.
Delete ‘bogans’, insert ‘obnoxious and malevolent turds.’
We now return to our scheduled programme.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 02 19 at 07:19 PM • permalink
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