I heard David Hicks' father speak in Ballarat when David was being held in Gitmo. Now there is one bloke I would stand up and applaud any day of the week.

Andrew Leigh...Kellie Tranter.

Nice little put together if I do say:)

The human man animal..lol...trust me, its as funny as hell to me.

I think we import Pat Condell to Australia for our leader-ship, and Hicks does ( as evolved first world people ) delivered understandings of what not to do, when acting out. Think! people! Why would you help a person thats helping a people that we are trying to help move along with the rest of the 21 century? Do we have all the time to fight like the proverbial tens rats in a box...I do think so.

To move all together in the 21, is the smartest thing we can do....and trust me, some see the big picture.

All for ONE AND all FOR ALL...............Thats the sh!t.

LEA

Hazza,

You're on the button - Hicks committed offences against India and (by working hand-in-glove with the Taliban) against the Afghan people. If the world worked precisely as it should, he could, as Custard points out, be sent to Afghanistan to face a court there before being taken out and shot, or be sent to India to face a court there before being jailed. Perhaps to India first. On reflection, he may decide that Gitmo was the soft option.

So now the Left opposes women's rights in Afghanistan, especially their education ? It opposes a secular legal system, a separation of 'church' and state, gay rights, tolerance of any other belief or no belief ? Sorry, I must be on a different planet. Or have I got it wrong ? What does the Left support these days, apart from thugs and medievalists ?

Joe

csteele writes

'I heard David Hicks' father speak in Ballarat when David was being held in Gitmo. Now there is one bloke I would stand up and applaud any day of the week.'

so it was you who voted him father of the year.

Runner.....thats a cheep shot.

L

Extremely good point SPQR.

The more I read the opinions of trendy lefties, the more convinced I am that they think entirely in double standards. Orwell noted this and called it "doublethink."

Hence they will denounce any person "suspected" of committing human rights abuses but will aquire a case of acute myopia when it comes to condemning terrorists like Hicks.

My favourite trendy lefty contradiction is their habit of claiming that it is oh, so wrong to prejudge, label or stereotype any group of people, while they prejudge, label and stereotype every right wing group which they despise.

No wonder that Australians have such a low opionion of the Artz caste when this mob consider it the height of chic to always make heroes of Australias enemies. All any write has to do to win a Miles Franklin Award is to claim that they are aboriginal and then write a fictional account of how oppressed they were when they were "stolen" and they are a shoo in.

Australians have no hope of winning any literary award if they have are white and patriotic. They have to change their names to "Helen Demidenko" or any other ethnic name which suits their fancy to be even taken seriously by the literati mafia.