whats your thoughts on the issue?

I seen a massive sign on the freeway driving to the beach house the other day which read "free david hicks"

Is he innocent/guilty? Has he already served enough time?
Is america just stalling the issue?

Thoughts?

No one really knows if he's innocent or guilty, the problem is the US is holding him under a sort of quasi-POW pretence in times of war, when all they're doing are police actions.
Lock him up after a trial which finds him guilty, let him go otherwise if he's innocent, but its just a bit ironic fighting 'wars' for freedom and democracy of foreigners while keeping same-said foreigners outside the democratic justice system.

The thing that irritates me the most is by the run up to the federal elections he'll be either running around free as a bird or back here in a cell and the liberal government will milk it for all it's political worth.
I'd almost bet money on it.

yeah its been too long to charge/try him

Hurry up and do it, find him guilty and shoot him. End of problem.

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Fighting for peace is a bit like Fucking for Virginity, i mean it makes no sense. Anyway IMHO Hicks is as guilty as sin (If you look at some of the things he has said in letters home to his family, it'll make you hair curl!) Hey, look at it this way. The Yanks want to do this, he was there, and did at very least some of what he has been accused of (Providing Material support to a terrorist organisation is the charge), so let the Yanks deal with him. I Feel sorry for his Dad tho

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Some people are alive, simply because it's illegal to shoot them.

to be honest, the poor bastard has also been tarnished by the media. He can sit in those prisons indefinately or until John Howard gets off his arse, grows some balls and demands him back to serve his time in OZ. If he's guilty of course....that's just it, no conviction, sitting in limbo, fucked...

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spacetribe!

WHO GIVES A F@#$?

Bigger and better things in the world to worry about.

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Bring him back here to serve his time? Well what i want to know is why *MY* Tax dollar should pay to keep the SOB In Gaol when it was the Seppo's that wanted to arrest him, and the predominant attitude here is F**K Him. The Yanks want him, they can damm well keep him

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Some people are alive, simply because it's illegal to shoot them.

your tax paying dollars are also funding corrupt cops and their existence in the police force? clearly double standards everywhere.

fuck me, it's quite simple really, convict him (if he's evidently guilty), give everyone closure on this issue and move on. what are they waiting for?

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spacetribe!

david hicks was fighting with the army of a recognised government, in a recognised country. sure, the taliban were a disgrace and its good that theyre gone, but he deserved to be treated within the geneva guidelines like any other enemy combattant.

now, if he didnt deserve such treatment, and is labelled as a criminal (though a criminal in what regard i cant fathom) then he deserves a timely trial, another underpinning of our westminster system of law that the US has forgotten).

either way, there are absolutely no grounds for holding someone for such a length of time without charge or trial. the howard govt has again dropped the ball on a very serious issues

you cant lock someone up indefinitely because you dont like their politics. thus far, the US govt has brought zero evidence to light that hicks has done anything at all.

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Originally posted by AnitA WHO GIVES A F@#$? Bigger and better things in the world to worry about.

there are few things more important than the adminstration of justice, and the current political climate where some governments are running around the world doing what they will despite their long history of supposed democracy and freedom.

so yeah, those of us that care about such things DO give a fuck.

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN there are few things more important than the adminstration of justice, and the current political climate where some governments are running around the world doing what they will despite their long history of supposed democracy and freedom. so yeah, those of us that care about such things DO give a fuck.

LOL Bitch where have you been?
It's been boring without you and Tathi LMAO

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added a poll-

taken from one article

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The British refused to allow their nine prisoners to be charged by the Americans and asked for them back. Upon return to London, finding they had not committed, nor would be convicted of, any known crime under British law, they were set free. Australia, on the other hand, agreed to the Americans charging David Hicks on the basis that he would be tried quickly and fairly. After five years, "quickly and fairly" have yet to be delivered.

interesting indeed.... like to see how this all pans out with an election coming up