Hey holyshadow,

I'm pretty scared.

Here's a comment I got from an American friend of mine. He says that in the US they have a "dob-in" (my words) telephone number (711 I think). Anyway it is a hotline to the Dept of Homeland Security. It is for the use of anyone, particularly government employees.

Ostensibly it is for persons to report suspicious activities (like "be alert - not alarmed"). What has happened is that many people have started simply using it to get back at anyone they don't like - their neighbour, boss or just someone who pissed them off. Dept of Homeland Security was been swamped with calls, and they simply cannot investigate all of them. This sounds pretty awful to me. Has this been happening in Australia? I know it's easy enough to dob-in a tax dodger and they investigate a lot of these calls. Surely ASIO can't look at a large number of bogus calls, can they?

FU2,

That is something to be scared about I agree.And I am one to think the worst about this Government since Howard bases so many of our policies on the American models.

I believe there is a growing ,secretive Big Brother campaign pervading the country.Some of it is visible..IR laws and tinkering with Freedom of Speech laws, now talk of introducing the 'Smart Card',smart for the government maybe.
But in may ways we havent yet woken up to, we are already watched and listened too.
Yeah, its scary alright.

David Hicks is Australian, he should be treated as such .

I agree with Bazz. By all rights, his captors could have executed him on sight. No judge, jury or trial, perfectly legal. He was indeed lucky.
The man had no uniform, and was a combatant in a war zone, this equals a bullet in the real world, no questions asked.
FU2, he was caught in Afghanistan, not Iraq, so that statement is not relevant, and even if he were, refer to the previous point. The man had no uniform, and is therefore not covered under the Geneva convention in any way shape or form, except to say he may summarily shot dead. His fate lay with his captors, who had the legal right to kill him (and should have in my opinion), but they must have thought he might yield some intelligence.

I don't want his kind being freed, and returned to live among us. The guy is sub-human slime, and he & all those like him need to be eradicated as soon as is humanly possible.

Leigh,

I take it you don't believe in evidence, judge, jury, trial etc. All it takes for someone like you is to be told by the rich and powerful that someone is guilty and you believe it.

It was people like you who were there at the lynchings and "witch" burnings. It was people like those advocating a fair trial for Hicks who helped to make lynching and witch burning illegal.

It takes a combination of intellect and compassion to make a person stand up against the rich and powerful in order to help the oppressed. I wonder which is lacking in you to bring such a cavalier attitude about a man held without trial for 5 years.

https://www.getup.org.au/secure/donatehicks.asp

Help free Hicks.

Sunisle,well said.American propoganda has brainwashed those to lazy to question or challenge their lies.

.https://www.getup.org.au/secure/donatehicks.asp