The circumstances of David Hicks and Schapelle Corby are different, but what they have in common is that they are both being subjected to unfair trial processes and are being sacrificed by the Howard Government in the hope of gaining better security cooperation with the US and Indonesia respectively. So yes, the question is: "What is our Opposition doing?" Even when they could have secured electoral advantage by supporting Corby in April - May last year, their line was a mind-dumbing: "We support the Government".

I have absolutely no sympathy for David Hicks. As far as I am concerned, Hicks is a turncoat and a traitor to his country and his people. Why should we support a man who is so bitterly hostile to our nation, culture, society, government, heritage, and freedoms? If he feels he is more Moslem than Australian, then he should have the courage of his convictions and accept what is meted out to him instead of whinging like a spoilt child the moment he is caught in a foreign country in a Moslem terrorist organisation training to be a Moslem terrorist or otherwise supporting Moslem terrorists. He is exactly where he belongs and he ought to stay there for the rest of his life. If by ill chance he is released, he should never be permitted to re-enter this country. Bye, David. You've got what you deserve.

Ripsnorter.

You pig ignorance is overwhelming, where do you get your facts?
Hicks has never been found guilty of anything, our politicians have stated he has violated no Australian law.

Ripstnorter

I suggest very stongly that you check out your facts which are vehement and uninformed in the first degree. I do not know where you got your supposed information from but you should check articles on google and then wikipedia and finally do a search on BBC news site.

This requires quite a lot of research rather than you going off onto a subject of which you have not really researched. And going off into a tangent - completely misinformed and non-researched and VERY militant to say the least.

Which is what you have done.

If you choose to make a comment at least make it with intelligence and knowledge of the subect of same.

Windyliz

Thanks Steve for expressing my thoughts so well on this person.

Steve Madden:

David Hicks has already admitted in his own writings to undertaking weapons and explosives training with Al-Kaida. This makes him a self-confessed Moslem terrorist in-training in the opinion of most people, if not yours. And he has adopted a the creed of a fanatical religious cult which is wholly alien to Australia, its culture, institutions, and society. This has also been documented in his own writings. And if you are going to resort to personal abuse by calling my opinion "pig ignorance" be prepared to get it back in your face as a typical lying, dhimmi fool and obnoxious Moslem bootlick. Hicks is a traitor and a turncoat and he does not deserve the protection of this country and nation that by his actions he has spat on and renounced.

Windyliz:

As for the BBC, their credibility is nil. They are the most Moslem-appeasing, Islamic-apologist, and left-wing international broadcasters on the air waves. They even admit it themselves. Read the Daily Mail article on the liberal-left-wing bias of the BBC below:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=411846&in_page_id=1770

The BBC as an impartial broadcaster is a damned sick joke.