If you can read this, thank a Teacher. If you are reading it in English, thank a Soldier.
A NATIONAL television advertising campaign showing a close-up of David Hicks as a freckled, nine-year-old schoolboy will try to humanise the Guantanamo Bay detainee after the weekend announcement of serious charges against him.
How cute he looks
Oops. Sorry! Wrong photo. This shot is one of Osama Bin laden when he was a cute teenager.
Still, same message.
Dear Kev
It might even up the balance to the comments from “Shifty” “liar” Howard, “Bunter” Downer and “walking death” Ruddock.
They have tipped a bucket in him for years and yet we wait and we wait and we wait for the “fair trial”.
Is it just people you don’t much like who aren’t entitled to basic legal rights Kev? Even Saddam was tried before a jury.
Saddam…different court, different country,different charges…no relevance.
Hicks has his basic human rights. He is not a common criminal, he is a armed combatant and is receiving all the rights the Geneva Convention insiste he is entitled to.
In simplistic terms he is a POW and normally would be incarcerated until the end of the conflict in which he was engaged.
No relevance? Good god, that’s the most frank admission of the stupidity of the war on terrorism I’ve heard. The point I was making was that a character like Saddam has been provided with greater legal rights than a mere foot soldier – is that really what you’d advocate?
As to the POW example and the Geneva Convention argument, you’re kidding right? Hicks has been treated anything but like an ordinary POW – this is at the heart of the US argument for the existence of G’mo.
The media continues in their carefully dishonest efforts to humanise Hicks by refusing to call him by the name he took after becoming a muslim.
His name is Mohammed Dawood, just as Cassius Clay is Mohammed Ali.
Don’t call the mongrel Hicks. He gave up that name years ago.
In fact I guess if you wanted to piss him off you’d ask him his Christian name.
Let him rot.