Hicksie... are you reading this?

If you're ever cruising near Carisbrook, do drop in.

- talk about anything -

- or nothing at all -

Either way the kettle is always on and there's always a feed.

Best wishes....

oh boo hoo .. here's a guy who stuffed up, made a mess of his life and is now not able to face up to it and it's, of course, someone else's fault.

lot's of people stuff up, many don't .. the big thing about maturity is to get on with your life and not live it trying to avoid responsibility

if you put yourself in the position that "Hicksie" has, then you take what comes ..

imagine if the yanks had not found him and some other people had who were not as well disposed to trying to find out what's what .. they would have just shot him .. no real loss, another wannabe goes down

he's not a hero as some people make out, he's just a fool who is now trying to change the way history will see him .. as a fool who couldn't cut it

jeez, captured while guarding a tank .. well done on the guarding job, the Taliban sure had his worth worked out, gave him a really important job, what a joke.

the whole celebrity thing is all based around hatred of the US and PM John Howard .. little else. For those who are shocked that torture exists in the world, grow up .. if thugs who get a gun and threaten people are let loose, then a little bit of persuasion normally works very quickly, once the gun is gone .. they tend to fold fast, I doubt very much that more than withholding a meal from these guys would crack them

Hicks was a member of the Kosovo Liberation Army and also later on AL-Qaeda. He travelled the world looking for opportunities to join mercenary forces where he could use deadly weapons against the opposing forces. He was a thrill seeking mercenary who got captured.

His stories about Guantanamo do stretch the imagination even of the most gullible conspiracy theorist. Eight to 12 yr olds in Guantanamo??

The author, who believed everything Hicks says, needs to undertake a good amount of introspection and self-analysis, a deep breath and realise that this guy is a mercenary soldier, a professional killer, not an innocent, well meaning holiday maker caught in the crossfire. He has made a complete fool of himself with his gullibility.

This story is of no interest.

Better off to watch the test pattern on TV

As I understand it, Hicks was not an innocent picked up off the streets in Morphett Vale by some CIA black op squad, but captured in Afghanistan, where he was working for al Qa'ida.

I keep expecting to read about how the Indian government has applied for his extradition on charges of firing on Indian troops while he was working for Lashkar-e-Toiba, yet another terrorist organisation.

Live in hope.

And unless I've gone senile, both of those organisations would be classified as extreme right-wing, reactionary, medievalist organisations, not left-wing in any way. So how on earth could Hicks be considered remotely progressive enough for the idiot-left to bother lifting a finger for him ?

Ah, I see: he was against the US.

US = bad, baddest in world,

US = not good,

therefore not-US = good.

Al Qaida = not-US,

therefore al Qaida = good.

L-e-T = also not-US.

Therefore L-e-T = good.

Neanderthal = not-US.

Therefore Neanderthal = good.

Uggggh Uggggh

When anybody joins any army they are committing themselves to cause suffering and death to people who have probably done nothing to them. Whether it is the Taliban or the Australian army they are making the same sort of commitment.

However, I enlisted in the US army at the age of 17 in 1943. The thought of an Axis victory frightened me more than the prospect of war. It still does.

What happened to David Hicks was horrible and shouldn't have happened. However, he put himself in the position where they could happen to him.