It's about the election. Don't be so clueless.

Prof Flint -

The more holes you dig like this one, the more likely it is that Mr Howard will fall into one of them. Have a care!

David Hick's plea of guilty is not an indication of guilt. The 15 British sailors recently captured by Iranians were admitting to being within Iranian territory within days of capture. Hicks has had to endure over five years of coercion, and then be faced by an indefinate further period before facing a trial. No evidence of any wrongdoing has been presented, although the Americans gave had five years to prepare a case.

When he returns to Australia, David Hicks will be the only prisoner who has not had any trial, and against whom no evidence has been shown. He will also be prevented from defending himself in any way for 12 months.

This is a breakdown of the most basic legal principles, and is destructive of our civilisation rather than part of any real war.

Corfe, then a man of such high moral principle should not of made an out of court settlement for early release and no trial. Your man of high moral principle should have demanded a trial and willingly endured his time to argue his innocents and demand of his accusers proof on all charges. Your man of high moral principle should of stuck it out and won his case and then demand compensation from the USA for false imprisonment and the years of constant torture the left want the public to acknowledge as having taken place against Hicks(WITH OUT PROOF). An innocent man of high moral principle would do all these things. Not take the first deal and run to the arms of mommy Australia whom he threw over for a taste of Islamic jihad.
He's not allowed to profit from his excursion into terrorism for one year...ohhhhhh, how terrible. All Australia must now suffer from the loss of such a benefit. It will take Hicks that long to craft enough lies to fill his years as a heroic jihadist and victim of American culture of torture no matter how many Leftie ghost writers he uses.
Admit it. Your going to want to have a good cry after reading of his heroic feats in the face of the enemy and the stoic strength he showed through out his imprisonment and torture.

“This is a breakdown of the most basic legal principles, and is destructive of our civilisation rather than part of any real war.”

Absolutely Corfe. And this is many orders of magnitude more significant than anything that Hicks may have done.

aqvarivs you said:
"Your man of high moral principle should of stuck it out and won his case and then demand compensation from the USA for false imprisonment and the years of constant torture the left want the public to acknowledge as having taken place against Hicks(WITH OUT PROOF). An innocent man of high moral principle would do all these things".

The world looks so fair and just from where you sit in the social world. You must either be a multi-millionaire or a member of the legal profession yourself. Which is it?