Numbat, what jealous rage. My posts state simply(for people like you);
* Mr Hicks has not been charged with anything
*No evidence of wrongdoing has been put before a court
*He has already spent four years in a concentration camp

*He was not caught fighting the coalition of the killing
In fact i dont know if Mr Hicks thinks violent vengeful thoughts such as Mr Redneck.
No i am not jealous just saddened that in Australia today Mr Redneck, and yourself never recieved a decent education.
The kind that gives you a capacity to seperate fiction from fact, plus an understanding that violence and prejudice never resolves anything.

Verdant, have you ever heard of the French Foreign Legion? If so, do your views expressed in your posting apply to the soldiers, fighting for them. If not ,Why not?

hedgehog: Jealous rage?? what I'm jealous because I didn't join and train with a terrorist organisation as did hicks?
Probably become as a shock to your sensitive psyche but terrorists train for combat otherwise why train them.
Again the picture of 'rambo' hicks cradling a grenade launcher that shows his soft sensitive side does it?
Or perhaps he was going rabbit shooting as has many fine Aussie boys.
Hicks was trained by a merciless bunch of rabid, brutal murderers. His new mob kill indiscriminantly, unarmed men, women, children or babies. They are extreme psycopaths and willing killers of those who they are comanded to slay. Hasn't been proved? this clown had been trained to KILL, if ordered to he would probably kill you and yours. numbat

Why are there no official figures of the number of "men, women, children or babies" killed or injured by the illegal invasion of Irag.

Numbat,

When was the evidence, trial, judge and jury in David Hicks issues. You seem to know a lot wothout any of the above. Don't you believe in the justice sytem...should we go back to lynching...what about witch burning?

The lack of an effective leader of the opposition is one big reason why Howard's crew have gotten away with so much. Most other western countries have an oppostion that has spoken out about this issue...and THEIR citizens sent home.

The Greens and the Democrats have spoken out...but Beazley, as usual, runs for the hills. Howard will go down in history as an infamous leader without conscience or morality..Beazley will be remembered as a big bag of wind.

Numbat,
I am waiting to here where you get your facts from; perhaps you, and others, can dwell on how important it is to have the rule of law. While the system we have is far from perfect, it is certainly better than imprisoning and torturing because George Bush says you are a "bad " person.

Hicks is suffering now, but history will show the infamy of this period in the US and it's followers actions...cold comfort for the hundreds of thousands dead, maimed and imprisoned without trial.