Saturday, March 31, 2007
RUNNING AWAY FOR HIS BELIEFS
A letter from David Hicks to a former flatmate:
Don’t try to write about my adventures because you don’t know that information. Nobody does, so it would be inaccurate. I would prefer if you wrote nothing about anybody, for that matter. Shit, I would have no chance to make any money when I got home, otherwise.
Guantanamo Fats can give up on that little plan:
The plea deal ... also included a provision that he cannot profit from the eventual sale of his story; profits from any such sale are to go to the Australian government.
Doesn’t sound like he’d have much of a story to sell, in any case:
Major Mori says Hicks was a naive young man looking for battlefield experience after having been rejected for military service in Australia due to his only having an eighth grade education ...
Recounting how Hicks fled from advancing Northern Alliance forces for three days, Major Mori said, “the ‘wannabe’ finally got a real taste of it and he ran away”.
So much for him being a freedom fighter, as one fan wrote to Miranda Devine:
"Sort of like a William Wallace (aka Braveheart). Both fighting for what they believed passionately about against a superior foe ... Good on you David for standing up for your beliefs."
Read Miranda’s whole column, in which SMH readers stand up for their beliefs:
"When you write such rubbish about Hicks it is a givaway [sic] that you are Jewish,” wrote Phil. “Only the Jews support what the United States does in the Middle East, because the Jews are an awful race that don’t give a damm [sic] about anyone but the ‘Chosen People’."
Kevin began: “Birdbrain Devine, your diatribe regarding David Hicks reeks of ... pillow talk with your favourite Jewboy - one Col. Moe Davis - and, worse STILL, a yankee jewboy (scum of ALL scum) ... It IS the yankee jew who is responsible for EVERY conflict since WW2."
See, this is why Sydney’s Earth Hour was such a flop; who wants to be in the dark with these types around?