Sunday, February 18, 2007
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.