Numbat. Your source of information is very suspect, as is all media information. Media pictures and television news can be so easily manipulated, to give the viewer what the respective media outlet wants the viewer to see.
Take nothing for granted, when it comes to the media. The media is just another business that will market the best way possible to sell their product.

Gee, I can't stop worrying about poor little Hicksy.
It really concerns me that he may be mistreated by his captors.
No hang on, I've changed my mind.
He was an apprentice murderer and deserves to swing from the nearest tree.
The funniest thing about the whole episode has been the ABC's unrelenting attempt to make a hero of the little miscreant.
Wake up you people. He was training in the business of murder.
He deserves same.
cheers,
Rodger

To Mr Numbat.

You have to forgive Steve Madden, Hedgehog and WRE’s deep concern for the welfare of traitor Hicks. After all, their own political philosophies are so akin to Hicks and his friends in Al Qaida, that they obviously feel great kinship with both Hicks and his Jihadi mates.

Personally, I want the trendy lefties to keep beating their breasts over Hicks. The more that these people display their sympathies with the sort of people who would happily murder our children in their beds, the more they destroy their credibility with the Australian public. Every other cause with which people like Madden, Hedgehog and WRE associate themselves with, then becomes tainted by association.

That people like WRE, Madden and Hedgehog can always be relied upon to support causes that are inimical to the interests of the Australian people, is the reason why there is now such disenchantment with “intellectuals” and the causes that they support. “Intellectual” has now become a euphemism for “idiot” and the term “political correctness” a euphemism for “a totally idiotic attitude”.

The funny thing about trendy lefties supporting idiotic causes is that they think that it is a way of displaying how smart they are, when in reality it is doing the exact opposite. Being opposed to traditional attitudes and reflexively opposing your own nations interest, has been the hallmark behaviour of “intellectuals” for so long, that they now do it automatically without even bothering to think about the causes that they are supporting or opposing.

Supporting anti Australian, and especially anti American causes, is now simply a ritual which displays their membership of the Brahmin caste

It is apparent that Numbat and others attacking David Hicks do so out of ignorance; even more ridiculously, they are beyond redemption- no reading, learning and checking facts for them!

It is not worthwhile having dialogue with people whose mind is set and have no wish to find out and learn. The fact that they do not answer questions, but parade the old hate mantra, ( without any substantiations), is indicative that they are not open to facts and dialogue.

There are some people who do not know what is happening, like, Numbat, but are willing to look and learn. It's extremely sad that Howard's supporters are made up of the Numbat types...those of Howard supporters that know the infamy perpetrated by his government- and still support him- are the most frightening however.

I hope he is patient too, another 60 years at least should end his internal agony, they could have relieved him of such pain in Afghanistan, but the Money thieves need victims to worship. The other poor excuse of human existence is back here in Australia, and he is an Arab, those Supreme Being’s we are told about, and they still Worship him. Can Loot a lot of money yet, so the more mileage the left get, the richer in loot they become. Cant do much about their morals or ethics, they do not have any to correct so watch you tax dollars disappear. Thanks.

To all who state Hicks is a traitor. I will state this very simply and clearly.

Our justice system is based on the premise of innocence until proven guilty.

Hicks has not yet been tried, ergot we do not know whether he is guilty, stupid, unlucky or a combination of all three.

He has been detained in a prison, without trial, for more years than most proven criminals receive. This is not justice.

To all who believe Hicks is a traitor - be concerned that if you were caught in the 'wrong' place at the 'wrong' time, you too, could be detained in a similar unjust manner. It can happen.

Whether Hicks is guilty or not the method of his treatment flies in the face of the democratic system we all hold so dear. This is why the case of Hicks is so important it is about much more than the idiotic behaviour of one young man; it is about justice.