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Law Institute of Victoria president Catherine Gale apparently believes David Hicks and his kind are a major issue in the US:
A new military commission process passed late last week by the United States Congress will offer little hope for Hicks and his family.
The odds of Hicks receiving a fair trial after almost five years in custody remain firmly stacked against him. One can only wonder if this new legislation is a political manoeuvre designed to win votes in the lead-up to the mid-term elections in the US.
One can only wonder if Hicks will ever be described—as he is in Gale’s intro—as anything other than languishing.
- Why does the media in Oz give a monkeys about this little prick…??? Seems to be a national obsession…wasnt Lane whinging about him the other day?Posted by debi L. on 2006 10 02 at 01:06 PM • permalink
- 1#, debi L.:
That’s easy. He’s an enemy of the USA. All good and proper people should be enemies of the USA. After all, even the most recent former POTUS has declared the USA as the single biggest threat to world peace.
Also, all Americans are fat, lazy, stupid, criminally insane, culturally insensitive morons lead by the devil himself in an illegal world wide racist genocidal crusade against the religion of peace.
So, anyone willing to take up arms against the USA or her allies is a “Hero of the People”.
Geeze…do I need to report you to your Thought Boss for failure to comply with Party Approved Rhetoric and Pure Thought as mandated by your betters?
- Hmmm.
I don’t know of anyone in America that give’s a rat’s *** about Hicks. Frankly most people in America have no idea who Hicks is.
Just how insulated does a person have to be to even think that Hicks would be an issue in an American election?
Posted by memomachine on 2006 10 02 at 02:00 PM • permalink
- Maybe, one happy day, Hicks will be described as decomposing…Posted by Son of a Pig and a Monkey on 2006 10 02 at 02:01 PM • permalink
Also, all Americans are fat, lazy, stupid, criminally insane, culturally insensitive morons lead by the devil himself in an illegal world wide racist genocidal crusade against the religion of peace.
That’s me all over, Mabel. With one little change.
Who can be lazy when the Master of Darkness, Lord Rove, calls upon you to aid in his nefarious plans.
Other than that…right on.
- Hicks threw his lot in with Al-Qaeda. “Languishing” is as good as he should expect.Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 10 02 at 03:05 PM • permalink
- “Also, all Americans are fat, lazy, stupid, criminally insane, culturally insensitive morons lead by the devil himself in an illegal world wide racist genocidal crusade against the religion of peace.”
And, those are our GOOD points!
Posted by Dave Surls on 2006 10 02 at 04:57 PM • permalink
- “Also, all Americans are fat, lazy, stupid, criminally insane, culturally insensitive morons lead by the devil himself in an illegal world wide racist genocidal crusade against the religion of peace.”
I thought that our crusade was legal!?! Other than that, it’s spot on. And why should Hicks get a trial since he doesn’t qualify for one, and since his brethren of choice aren’t getting one? Wouldn’t that be an example of racism? Hmmmm?
- Useless tool, er I mean ACT Chief Minister Jon Stanhope has nominated David Hicks’ father Terry for ‘Father of the Year’. I’m inclined to cut Terry a certain amount of slack, but I’ll never forget his bizarre tour of New York, wearing an orange jumpsuit and posing in a cage, to draw attention to his son’s ‘plight’. One New Yorker witnessing the spectacle observed impassively: “He’d better not try that in front of a fire station.”
- Hick’s father has been nominated Father Of The Year??!!
What exceptional thing has he done to deserve a FARTY?
This is BS. If Hicks only languishes for his life, ohhhh the ennui. He is an islamo-fascist and at least, should be held captive for the dyuration,. which may be 100 years.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 10 02 at 06:37 PM • permalink
- Don’t worry, hardly anyone in America has any idea about what’s going on in the war, much less knows who any of the involved personalities are by name. Heck, hardly any Americans know what a blog is. And after having to deal with new computer (l)users all day I’d rather it stay that way.Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 10 02 at 06:38 PM • permalink
- Bloody hell. Forget the US (on this issue); the only people in Australia who give a rats arse about Hicks are “civil liberty” lawyers, the supporters of the Taliban and the ABC (and they are not mutually exclusive, either).Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 10 02 at 06:46 PM • permalink
- #16 This is not an example of a non sequiter as I can go ..2..1..?
What I am trying to convey is that this post is a bit cryptic for us neophytes.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 10 02 at 07:05 PM • permalink
- Hicks threw his lot in with Al-Qaeda, which opposes elections, legislation by elected bodies, and any trials except by goat abusing “clerics”. I expect any coalition legitimate soldiers (as opposed to terorists like Hicks) would not langish long after being caught in Osama land, as they would be beheaded at once. (Hey, there’s a way to cure languising, why not….?)
- Who the fuck is David Hicks??Posted by NoAcuteDistress on 2006 10 02 at 09:10 PM • permalink
- Whichever party can show us video of David Hicks being dressed up in hefty bags and led around on a leash, wins.Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 10 02 at 10:24 PM • permalink
- When it comes to cliches, the media will leave no stone unturned (as it were),in an attempt to avoid original thought, which wasn’t after all a mandatory subject in their Bachelor of Communication degree courses, so why should we be surprised.
Languishinghas connotations of rotting in some Bastille dungeon, but as we know, Hicks is probably enjoying superior conditions at Guantanamo than he did with the Taliban, so perhaps a more accurate cliche would be relaxing comfortably in his Cuban quarters at the American taxpayers’ expense, David Hicks… etc.
- I don’t know of anyone in America that give’s a rat’s *** about Hicks.
That’s pretty much true here in Australia. The champagne socialists are the only ones with their underwear in a knot about it.
Posted by Art Vandelay on 2006 10 02 at 11:40 PM • permalink
- The vast majority of practical, realist people in Australia would be quite happy to see him stuffed into the barrel of a 155mm howitzer and fired over the fence into Fidel central.
He’s garnering as much sympathy as a paedophile who poisoned Makybe Diva, drunkenly ran over Bert Newton, firebombed a hospice for orphans with leukemia and was sprung in flagrante’ delecto with the little fat kid from Hey Dad.
About as popular as a turd in a punchbowl, or maybe even Mark Latham.
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