Further to the Mr Hicks issue - I havent bothered with this thread not do I care too much about what others have written - having said that -

who can belive anything that has been said about him? - at least those things alleged by his allegators when we have no idea how the information was extracted?

Secondly the PM's woeful handling of this - in terms of the repsect of basic human and legal rights - and in terms of the kind of support an Australian citizen might get if in strife overseas - is in itself sad - however the longer things drag on the worse it getsfor Mr Hicks.

In thier heart of hearts I am damn sure Downer and Howard just want this guy to go away - if he ever returns for better or worse he will be a cause ce'leb and that is the last thing they want in an election year.

We can assume Howards late calls for a "quck resolution" was a hollow effort - and I think we can safely assume we wil hear little about Mr Hicks from the Americans or Howard as the election closes.

if Mr Hicksis luckier than some I would be keen to know what flint thinks is unlucky

I was born during WW2. As a youngster I loved reading Biggles books, war escape books and, indeed, anything about WW2. In the last few years I have been in a kind of daze. I still cannot believe what is happening in Australia, UK and US. I am gradually coming to see that I was a victim of propaganda.

Bush, Blair and Howard are not Hitler or Stalin. But they are all of the same spirit. And that spirit is in us all. The sooner we wake up to that, and start trying to identify the spirit, the better.

David Flint you are spot on, David Hicks should count his belessings. He could be nailed the floor of his steel box 24 hours a day rather than being chained to it for for 23 hours a day.

Let me try this again; David Flint you are spot on. David Hicks could be nailed to the floor of his steel box 24 hours a day rather than chanied to it for 23 hours a day.

"David Hicks is luckier than some" How do people who hold such horifying -anti human ideas, get to have such a prominent blog?

yendis

By just being a normal Auatralian citizen. That's how.