Jayb there are questions about the means and their effectiveness.

Are Iran and Afghanistan really better off now than before the invasion? If not now, when? How long is too long?

Evan Hadkins: Well Jayb I don't support the killing of innocents by anyone.
I am surmising that you have been in a protest condemming the Americans & Australians for their efforts against terrorists. Have you been in a mass protest against the Teliban or Al Quaida? Hmmm, I didn't think so. So by your quite complicity you show your support for terrorism & the killing of innocents. Shame on you.

Arjay: The biggest terrorist organisation on the planet is the banking ,military industrial complex.
You'll get no arguement from me their Arjay.

A rather obtuse attempt to imply that denying someone the right to make money from free speech is equivalent to actually denying free speech.

Having said that- for something like this the law at the time must judge for itself whether Hicks is eligible for profiting from his story (as distasteful as it would be if he did)- with the only action left to extend 'proceeds of crime' to include other cases corresponding to Hicks' more abstract situation of taking up arms with an Islamist militant or terror group (which of course should henceforth also be a crime in this country also- even to the point that we specifically make a short list of armies Australian citizens MAY fight for, and MAY even hold dual citizenship to fight for- and anything off the list will be considered illegal and an automatic disqualification of citizenship).

If you want a REAL issue that taps into the heart of free speech; refer to Julian Assange, Bradley Manning and Wikileaks; these men are being unlawfully detained (Manning quite brutally) on nothing but the basis that they are actually helping to uphold the supposed values our societies endorse of free information on public organizations and interest, political transparency etc. THESE people are actually doing people like us a favor; rather than doing people like Bin Laden a favor like Hicks did.

I could not care less about Hicks.

At best he is an idiot, a dope.

At worst he was part of the enemy.

More important things to talk about.

Banjo's nailed it.

But he was still treated appallingly by both the Yanks and our craven Government under Howard.

Jayb,look at the evidence.http://www.ae911truth.org/ The real terrorists exist in our Govts.