Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Hicks coming home (maybe) after guilty plea
March 27, 2007 David Hicks could be back in Australia by the end of the year after a shock decision to plead guilty to providing material support for terrorism.
The unexpected guilty plea of an Australian who was the first Guantanamo detainee to stand trial before a military tribunal was likely linked to a deal with prosecutors, the man's father said Tuesday.
Australian papers cover this matter in a lot of detail and of course the details vary a lot, from day to day. Apart from the plea bargaining aspect, Hicks seemed to have most unfair and biassed treatment from the courts. Any non-US citizen who has as much as eaten a few times in US greasy-spoon restaurants may easily understand the way this can happen. Hence the existence of such usenet groups as alt.nuke-the-usa . In short you can find a lot of annoying hypocrites in the USA, if you look at all.
But to be fair, Hicks does seem to have been a deplorable nuisance to the USA, and at the very least he seems to have posed for AlQaida with materiel like rocket launchers etc, which can't bring him much praise from the security conscious U.S., even if they are pretty gung-ho themselves anyway.
IMO: By now Hicks should perhaps be put in Australian custody. There are several political elements to that as well.
The unexpected guilty plea of an Australian who was the first Guantanamo detainee to stand trial before a military tribunal was likely linked to a deal with prosecutors, the man's father said Tuesday.
Australian papers cover this matter in a lot of detail and of course the details vary a lot, from day to day. Apart from the plea bargaining aspect, Hicks seemed to have most unfair and biassed treatment from the courts. Any non-US citizen who has as much as eaten a few times in US greasy-spoon restaurants may easily understand the way this can happen. Hence the existence of such usenet groups as alt.nuke-the-usa . In short you can find a lot of annoying hypocrites in the USA, if you look at all.
But to be fair, Hicks does seem to have been a deplorable nuisance to the USA, and at the very least he seems to have posed for AlQaida with materiel like rocket launchers etc, which can't bring him much praise from the security conscious U.S., even if they are pretty gung-ho themselves anyway.
IMO: By now Hicks should perhaps be put in Australian custody. There are several political elements to that as well.
# posted by uv : 8:15 AM
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