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David Hicks and the death of a legal system : Comments

By Binoy Kampmark, published 20/2/2015

Australians tend to demonise or sanctify their legal villains, casting a social net around them that either protects, or asphyxiates them.

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WWJD, runner?
Posted by Craig Minns, Tuesday, 24 February 2015 10:45:11 AM
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WWJD, runner?

certainly use His brain Craig. I suspect He would of wept over hundreds or thousands of drownings and rebuked the stupidity that led to them.
Posted by runner, Tuesday, 24 February 2015 11:22:56 AM
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To Foxy Fonda.

I must say that it is difficult reasoning with people who have no brains.

I mean, David Hicks trained with Al Qaida and was captured when Kunduz was surrounded by forces allied to the USA and Australia. Now, it seems to me that anybody with a skerrick of common sense would conclude that

1.If you train with Al Qaida, know Osama bin Laden, and got caught on a battlefield with a surrounded Muslim terrorist army, than you are definitely a Muslim terrorist.

2. Muslim terrorists are not nice people.

3. Muslim terrorists have no credibility.

4. Hicks is a God damned traitor.

5. Muslim terrorists want to stick Foxy Fonda in a burkha, shoot her in the face if she wants an education, think that she should should be sold like a slave into marriage, do not think that Foxy has any right to deny her husband sex, want to keep Foxy in the kitchen where she is not allowed to even go out of the house without her husband's permission, and think that Foxy should be beaten by her husband with a big stick if she gets uppity.

Therefore, it seems to me that it would be logical for Foxy Fonda to be totally hostile to Hicks and his terrorist friends. But rather incredibly, Foxy thinks that Hicks was just a victim of circumstance, who just happened to be doing a bit of training with Al Qaida for a bit of fun. And he was just standing innocently in front of a taxi stand in surrounded Kunduz in his luau shirt, surfboard, and thongs when those Northern Alliance meanies grabbed the poor innocent sod and sold him to the Americans.

Your logic can only be described as "breathtaking stupidity."
Posted by LEGO, Tuesday, 24 February 2015 2:53:09 PM
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Keep huffing and puffing, old fella.
Posted by Craig Minns, Tuesday, 24 February 2015 3:01:11 PM
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When Hicks was captured by the Northern Alliance, a legitimate outcome would have been to execute him on the field. Legally, the alternative was to intern him for the duration of the war.

If the war has ended, as Obama alleges it has, then he is entitled to be released.

There was nothing in our laws, at that time, which would enable him to be dealt with as a criminal. It is ridiculous to claim that he is innocent, but technically there was no basis in our deficient criminal law upon which he could be brought to justice. He should be grateful for our flawed legal system, which allows a miscreant like him to go unpunished.
Posted by Leo Lane, Wednesday, 25 February 2015 3:58:54 PM
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Sheesh and you lot complain about the ISIS mob...
Posted by Craig Minns, Wednesday, 25 February 2015 4:02:28 PM
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