Thanks - by the way

Hicks might not be able to sell his story here but the rest of the world dont listen or abide by Australian law. Cant you lot see the Hicks story WILL be sold and sold to raise more money for people just like him.

He will of course be made to look as a hero in some places.

He might come back to Australia yeh sure but after three or four years he will most probably be off again and this time for good.

He wont like living in a country where many dont want him.

You can see the dicks basically a little attention seeker.
Hicks father has yet to go through a great deal. Far more than he ever thought.
Of course its only natural he will fight for his son no matter what.
I think most people will understand that. After a while when the honey moon period wears off Terry Hicks will need to deal with some of his own feelings.

Sooner or later Davids going to say or do something that going to tick the old man off big time.

Davids clearly not big on family either leaving his own two kids.

No theres nothing here for David Hicks long term and he wont stay in Australia forever I am sure.

Terry and David will have an argument but not for a while thats will be in years to come.

After Davids not the center of Attention anymore with some of these ding alings that have run the free Hicks crap David will go back over for good.

He will no dought meet up with his buddies again and receive a heros welcome.[ David will like that]

When you look at it like that you really do have to feel sorry for Terry Hicks.

The poor old bugger one day will finally have to addmitt his sons just a traitor. Not only to his country but his family.

I feel sorry for you Terry Hicks.
Hes going to betray you and our country again

"The problem with terms like 'left' and 'right' - and their abusive variants like 'loony-left' and 'rabid right' - is that they are tossed around without regard for accuracy and relevance, thus deflecting attention away from the real issues of debate. It's time commentators stopped being lazy and treated arguments - from whatever source - on their merits."
Posted by FrankGol, Thursday, 5 April 2007 11:32:13 AM

I agree whole heartedly. I should like to see each article discussed on merit and not angst.

Unfortunately, it isn't the case with left of centre thinkers attacking everything not written by a ( I just read this word, never heard it before) by a Leftoid. (I immediately began to wonder if a right toid was something more severe.) For some of the commentaries posted here on OLO political perspective is everything and must be spread. Then they attack some Christian and mock him for evangelizing and didn't he know God was a fairy tale.
Under these circumstances it's very difficult to have true conversation and actually discuss the real events of a case and what is truly happening outside of the media Left-Right spin doctoring. My case in point on topic is a couple of articles back when the Executive Director Australia Defence Association, was posting to give us good information on the situation free of media bias concerning Hicks and the process taking place. At the end of the day no one learned anything and those same folks are now here on this thread reposting the same line.
Most of them haven't even picked up on the fact that Hicks has made an out of court deal for release and that the MMC in his case is now moot.
There still shouting unfair trial, torture, gulag and slandering the USA, Bush, Blair, Howard, apple pie and daylight savings time. go figure!

The other night 4 Corners played-out Hicks interview with Australian officialdom soon after his arrest:
When asked why he went to Afghanistan his answer was -to increased his “military preparedness"
When asked why he needed military preparedness he said -he intended to use it to fight in Chetneya, Kashmir & Palestine .

He never thought to question the rights or wrongs of these conflicts -and it clearly didn’t concern him one iota that his chosen side in such conflicts regularly & deliberately hit civilian targets & torture their opponents...

This is not quite true Horus.

He was asked; “For what purpose?”

He replied; “To stop the atrocities that are happening to the people in these places, the oppression.”

Ludwid- the full quote:

DAVID HICKS: To go and FIGHT in places like Kashmir, Chechnya - these types of places, Philistine.

OFFICER J: For what purpose?

DAVID HICKS: Huh?

OFFICER J: For what purpose?

DAVID HICKS: To stop the atrocities that are happening to the people in these places, the oppression.
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Now, was he going to these places to play the role of Mahatma Gandhi or was he going there play Abu Musab al-Zarqawi?

He was being asked what he thought were the objectives of the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, not about his own motives.

He didn’t say that he intended “to go and fight in places like Kashmir, Chechnya – these types of places, Palestine”. He said that the Taliban and Al-Qaeda intended to do this.

And he said he was never a member of either.

“Now, was he going to these places to play the role of Mahatma Gandhi or was he going there play Abu Musab al-Zarqawi?”

Horus, I think it is pretty clearly neither. It was more a case of going on a big adventure, with the prime motive of proving himself as a worthy human being by doing something significantly different that would be perceived as tough and dangerous by his father and friends back home. His letters to his parents are quite telling in this regard.

There seemed to be a strong sense of inferiority, of having failed, and of needing quite urgently to find a purpose in life and to be seen to be doing so.

I hazard a guess that his very short stature, and the consequent way that many people view short men - with a strongly superior demeanour, has a lot to do with this.

It is hard to come to the conclusion that his motives were particularly sinister. He just wanted to get home when the sh!t hit the fan.