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There's something in the US
constitution about your right to a speedy trial. I know this because they keep
referring to it on American TV. So one would have thought that five years
languishing in a cell block with no one but a bunch of Muslim terrorists for company would
be stretching the reasonable limits of judicial interpretation.
.. not to mention that bit about cruel and usual punishments. Unless you were a Muslim terrorist, of course. Then it might be
the ideal company. Exchange a few Allah Akbars with your buddies,
compare stories of the glory days mutilating girl's genitals and blowing up the
kaffir, and anticipating the
72 virgins waiting to accommodate your every fetish in the afterlife. However, in spite of these small compensations, it seems that ratbag South
Australian David (Davo) Hicks would like to leave. He's been sitting around for
five years while the US administration works out what to do with him and
several hundred of his colleagues, who got caught up in a big broom which went
through Afghanistan
after some little misunderstanding in which some Muslims flew their aircraft
dangerously close to some large buildings. But no speedy trial for Davo. It seems that he isn't entitled to the
protections of the US constitution, being, like, technically in Cuba and
all. Australia dumps her
unwanted human garbage on busted-arsed Pacific islands like Nauru. The US dumps her unwanted
human garbage on a busted arsed island like Cuba. Not on US soil therefore not
protected by the constitution. Obviously. Of course before taking angrily to the streets with pitchforks and Marxist slogans, The Left
might like to consider that this is not actually unlike the Indonesian move which
refused the Bali Nine constitutional rights on the basis that they were not
Indonesian - even though they were on Indonesian soil. The US is not alone in
her judicial interpretations of convenience. Of course it's all John Howard's fault. It always is. And in this case
Little Johnny has done something he doesn't do that often: he has made a
serious error in judging the public mood. David Hicks might be a Islamofacist
psychotic homicidal terrorist, but he's our Islamofacist psychotic
homicidal terrorist. And don't you forget it, Johnny. Then again of course he might just be very stupid. He wouldn't be the only
Islamicist who was a few murders short of a jihad in the brains department.
There are enough failed shoe and rucksack bombers to attest to that. Either way, public opinion has swung relatively quickly from the 'No
hurry, Dubya' to 'charge him or let him go, Yank'. It's finally
occurred to people that spending five years in a cell without even being
charged violates every notion of justice imaginable. The public might be in
love with the concept of big government, but they still don't trust it. Giving
that kind of power to the
average politician is a
bit like leaving your bottom with Bob Brown over the weekend. And Little Johnny
didn't see it coming. Now he's running around trying to backdate and exaggerate
the demands he made of Dubya when they have discussed the issue. Bad call Johnny. No Cuban cigar. Part of the problem for the Americans, though, has been working out what to
actually charge Davo with. Going fighting in foreign wars might be a pretty stupid
thing to do, but it's not clear that it's a crime. Fighting in a foreign army
might make it legal to strip someone of their citizenship, but is it
actually a crime? And it's not like Davo was ever actually a US citizen, so
that doesn't really apply. What's the problem with citizens of a free country
going to fight in foreign wars if they consider the cause to be just? For a while the Americans looked like trying to charge Davo with 'Being
an Enemy Combatant'. What the .. ? Wouldn't that make every German or Japanese soldier in WWII a
criminal? Get a life, Dubya. They now have settled on a complex set of charges which have been introduced
into the US military code specifically for the Guantanamo detainees, whose
description is so convoluted as to be almost unmemorizable. The public has a right to be suspicious of charges with complex
descriptions. Charges like 'murder', 'rape', 'theft' and 'assault, are easy to
understand, and have a close association with a notion of natural justice. A charge
like 'feeding a red and pink lubricated goat with a mobile phone under a full
moon on the second Thursday of the month' is simply a fabrication designed to
get a result. Why couldn't they charge him with something simple? If he is
guilty of murder, theft, assault, rape or theft then charge with these
things. Please. Regardless, the whole War on
Terror is going pear shaped. The Left have seen the
opportunity to embarrass Little Johnny, and boy are they going to. They would
have liked a better poster-boy than a Muslim ratbag, but they've worshiped the
likes of Mao, Stalin, Kim and Castro in the past. Davo is looking pretty clean
cut compared to the company they normally keep. Especially now that that the
Hicks Groupies are using Davo's primary school photo to convince us all that he
is really a child in detention. Guys, every Islamofacist psychotic homicidal
terrorist started life as an adorable milk-drinking guiltless child - what's
your point? Truth and reason be damned, Bring David Hicks Home is going to be the
humanitarian slogan of The Left up to the next federal election. One piece of advice to The Left though - be careful what you ask for - you
might get it. After all, do you really want that lunatic back here? At the risk
of stealing one your slogans: Think of the children!
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