That any Australian could support the kangaroo court style military tribunals the as yet innocent Hicks will be subject to, is beyond belief. The terrorists don't have to worry about defeating 'democracy',it's already dead here.

Ican't believe this idiot waffle.
Hicks was in Afghanistan as a member of a force that had taken all liberty, not just civil liberty, from a whole country.
Remember, they carried sticks to beat the women who's dress did not have their approval.
I do hope that those of us with enough sense can continue to protect you from the David Hicks of this world, because its obvious that you don't have the brains to protect your yourselves.

Why all this misplaced sympathy for David Hicks. My sympathies go to my children and anyone else whos legs and arms he and his muslim friends might blow off in a café or something if he is brought back to this country. This fake outpouring of sympathy for David Hicks is just the usual American bashing.
I’d like to see him ever seek justice from his adopted Muslim terrorist friends. They wouldn’t just detain him, they’d probably cut his throat on national television.
That’s just a bit of a comparison between them and the way he’s been treated by the awful Americans and Australians. Makes the Americans not look so bad doenst it.

Sharfkin,

Do you read widely? Even the most unobservant people are aware that more children "with arms and legs blown off"....amd much much more...are a result of the Christian US and it's camp followers. Does the mass murder of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians- and the same number maimed- count for nothing in your book? And if not, why not?

The occupying Israeli military kills 5-10 civilians a week. Last week a child's arm was clearly visible on the news footage from Beit Hanoun- does the weekly murders by Jewush people not bother you? And if not, why not?

The relatively few- compared to Christian and Jewish- murders by Muslims seems to be the only crimes that bother you. Why is this?

I personally don't group people into religions- I group them according to their actions. And the US and Israeli forces cannot be beaten when it comes to the numbers of their fellow human beings that they have murdered.

Sunisle and some others are not living in the real world.
The very best that David Hicks could have hoped for was that he be
treated as a soldier. In which case he could have been imprisoned in
a POW camp until the cessation of hostilities, no matter how long.
He could have been in detention as a soldier for 50 years or more.

Instead he had the possibility that not being a soldier he might be
released earlier, or being shot out of hand.
This what happens when you have civilians running around in battlefields shooting at people.

The situation in both Iraq and Afghanistan is that there are gangs of
people killing and kidnapping often for money, none of them soldiers
and all crying about how hard done by they are when they are captured
or killed. They simply cannot expect to be treated as soldiers.
It is the fault of these people that so many innocent people get
killed, for how do you tell the enemy from the innocent.
Even when they do get killed, their comrades claim,
"Öh look they killed these civilians" after they have moved the
weapons away.

I mean get real, what the $%^& do you think happens in a war ?

Be still thy bleating heart. Hicks went looking for adventure, he found it.That should make him happy.
He was not forced to go fight with the lot he picked, he chose.
Just because he made the wrong choice does not mean that we have to pay for that.
He is where he belongs. Leave him.