This week, a lobby of judges, barristers and legal experts has accused the Howard government of war crimes, deliberately compounding the illegal actions of the Bush Administration. Led by Melbourne barrister Robert Richter the group called for the prosecution of the prime minister and other ministers for the 5 year illegal detention of David Hicks. Richter was also making a point that the incarceration was violating the Australian criminal code and international law.
The call came at the same time this week when Hicks defense lawyers were in court arguing that the Howard government had failed its constitutional duties to protect its citizen Mr. Hicks. Richter explains “Instead of confessing to a wrong and doing the decent thing by trying to set it right, they are pushing ahead with ‘churching the whore’ after the abortion. They urge the Americans to create a facade of legality for what is seen by all honest jurists as a gross violation of national and international law.”
It may still be the case that after 5 years of government lies about Hicks a new charge conjured up and put on the books – the dubious retrospective law.
In reality, Hicks has been illegally detained for 5 years with no end in sight. To string the process along the government over the years has at times hinted that something is being done. Many people have expressed grave concerns on what this 5 year torturous incarceration will do to Hicks mental facilities.

Recently Howard has cooked up 40 new so called anti-terror laws, gravitating around 'arrest without charge' and denying 'the right to a speedy trial.' As Howards rule wanes, he will attempt to rule through terror. YES for this country, for anyone who opposes what the political establishment is doing such as running the social services into the ground after asset stripping them or privatising them.

Yea.

Iraq has become Bagdad or is it Bagdad has become Iraq?
I in another thread said Howard would bring Hicks home soon he has just begun.
He in my view told his mate Dick to send a letter to Australia before the election saying thanks blokes ,take your troops home well done.
The lies end only after the election, after Howard is judged.

Did they also try to church the male responsible for impregnating the whore? It takes two to create an unwanted pregnancy.

The whore is not the only sinner in this case.

If they arrested the clients and published their names in the papers they could stamp out prostitution more quickly than arresting the prostitutes I would think.

But the men don’t really want to stamp out prostitution they only pay lip service to it. No pun intended.

Why are we concentrating on David Hicks , what about the other 500 odd prisoners at Guantanamo Bay 95% of whom are innocent {according to CIA informant planted there},if we are to stand for one we should stand for all.
Alan

Hansard 2-03-1898 Constitution Convention Debates (Official Record of the Debates of the National Australasian Convention)
Dr. QUICK.-
The Constitution empowers the Federal Parliament to deal with certain external affairs, among which would probably be the right to negotiate for commercial treaties with foreign countries, in the same way as Canada has negotiated for such treaties. These treaties could only confer rights and privileges upon the citizens of the Commonwealth, because the Federal Government, in the exercise of its power, [start page 1753] could only act for and on behalf of its citizens.

Therefore John Howard had no position to pursue David Hicks to be charged!

There is this excellent document published titled “Is the Constitution safe” by Nick Hobson which shows how various Federal Governments have secretly replaced the entire Constitution with the purported Australia Act 1986.
I responded to this document with my article titled “The Constitution is a PERPETUAL LEASE”. See my blog
http://au.blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-ijpxwMQ4dbXm0BMADq1lv8AYHknTV_QH Exposing the elaborate swindle to rob us of out constitutional rights is not on and it as is unconstitutional.

On 6-7-2006 published book;

INSPECTOR-RIKATI® & What is the -Australian way of life- really?
A book on CD on Australians political, religious & other rights
ISBN 978-0-9751760-2-3 was ISBN 0-9751760-2-1

I then filed this as evidence in my appeals (a 5-year legal battle against the Federal Government lawyers which were heard on 19 July 2006, and I succeeded on all constitutional grounds and so in the appeals.

See also my website http://www.schorel-hlavka.com

You see, I placed also before the Court John Howard had no position to authorize any armed invasion into the sovereign nation Iraq and within Section 24AA of the Crimes Act (Cth) committed TREACHERY.

The then Governor-General Peter Hollingworth refused to DECLARE WAR.
I lodged on 18 March 2003 an application in the High Court of Australia seeking a Mandamus/Prohibition for Australian troops to invade Iraq, but the High Court of Australia, on 19 March 2003, the day of the invasion, refused my application within section 75(v) to proceed! Seems to me they were taking sides with the Government rather then remaining impartial.

Good on 'em!
Nice 2 c the wigged 1's aren't all "parasites & "Bad Stewards"" (More regulation required 4 that mob in my view)
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& what have howard's mates decided 2 add 2 the list of "flagrant disregard" for areas of the *Law?*

.. Intimidating Counsel,
on the trumped up charges of of being disrespectful 2 that psychopathic clown g.w.bush Turkey.

The truth in my view is that bush turkey et al unjustly object 2 the "spotlight" being shone on their crimes, such as torture, kangaroo courts & the propagation of misinformation for the purposes of inciting war. (*Libby* is but 1 example.)
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*Mori* is 2 act 2 the utmost of his ability 2 ensure that in the finality, *David* receives "Justice."

Bearing in mind that howard et al operate outside the confines of the Law in certain areas, it is by necessity thereafter that *Mori* participate in the political process in order that this regrettable situation may b corrected.

*Mori* is being *True Blue 2 Oz* by being prepared 2 "Stand-Up & b counted" by putting "His 2 cents in" without fear of the consequences, as is expected from time to time on crucial issues of all "Ozzies of Age."

Lesser men would simply acquiese 2 the war criminals.

...Adam...

P.S. it seems as if this place has lost its "Google" listing.
BOO! BOO! HISS!

When David Hicks was caught in bed with the enemy he should have immediately had his Australian and British passports cancelled. Therefore no longer being an Australian or British citizen he should no longer have the rights of an Austalian and British citizen.

Send him back to his new friends in Afghanistan.

Think of your children and their children and his muslim friends threat of death to the Infidel. That means death to your children if you are not of Muslim bloodline. Save your sympathy for them not Hicks.

As of this week, all the old charges that have been parroted against Hicks have now been discarded. The new open ended charge brought against Hicks is "providing material support to a terrorist organization." After 5 years of no charges or charges that have collapsed, the Howard government has dreamt up this 'vague catch all.' This is the dubious retrospective new charge made up recently, whilst no such laws were on the books in 2001. The politicians indicate, if by some chance he is judged not guilty in the military kangeroo court, that they can still keep him in Guantanamo for life. Howard is still using David Hicks as a pawn to justify the dubious 'war on terror.' Moreover, Howard and Bush do not want Hicks or anyone else talking about the backward thuggery and torture being inflicted daily upon prisoners. Instead of calling them prisoners of war Bush's handlers changed the words calling them "enemy combatants." In this way, they could be tortured and denied the most elementary rights listed under the Geneva conventions.

The Geneva convention is a piece of paper dont rely on that to protect you.

As I said in the post above Nations with power are not going to hand their leaders over to any world, war crimes courts if they dont want to and that includes other nations besides America who may have military power at some stage.

I always knew the West would be called on to hand its leaders over to the World War crimes courts one day because sooner or later they would be threatened and they would have to do what it takes to survive in the end. I'm not necessarily talking about the present conflict. I think the worst is yet to come.
I always said they are just shooting themselves in the foot supporting the world war crimes court because sooner or later they will be forced to do awful things to survive.

It seems many people have forgotten that Hicks is a terrorist by his own admission in letters to his family and not only trained with Al Qaeda, acted as a translator for Osama Bin Laden. He also admitted he fought in Kashmir and may have taken part in the killing of Buddhists and Hindus there. India will probably ask the US to hand him over for trial on terrorism charges there if he is released. Basically, I couldn't care less what happens to the little scumbag who took up arms against his own country and rejected everything we stand for. I'm sure if the boot was on the other foot and some Australian soldier was captured by the Taliban, he would receive wonderfully humane treatment and a fair and impartial trial. Those who make claims about torture and beatings and so forth seem to use 'secret service documents' as proof that was the case, as if they were in some way privy to CIA documents. The only other 'proof' offered is the claims by Hicks himself and his fellow terrorists and their sympathizers. It's just a shame the Americans didn't shoot the little bastard at the start and save us all this whining about the 'injustice' of it all.

"This week, a lobby of judges, barristers and legal experts has accused the Howard government of war crimes,"

That is probably the same bunch of judges, lawyers and "experts" who pussyfoot around with criminal justice because they dont want to do anything to offend bank robbers, rapist, murderers and drug dealers, whilst completely ignoring the expectations of the public and victims of crime who pay for their misdirected and poorly intentioned services.

A bunch of legal tossers with more time on their hands than they know what to do with. Obviously they need their packages reviewed so they have to spend more time working and less time pontificating

Yeah! Bah! "Experts"! What do "experts" know?! Phhh!