Try Hicks here: Greens Senator(stand up to Bush Admin)

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GUANTANAMO Bay detainee David Hicks should be tried by an Australian court, Greens senator Bob Brown said today. The Australian terror suspect faces trial by a US military commission, which is coming under increasing scrutiny.

Two US prosecutors formerly involved with the military commission process have said the system appears to be rigged to ensure Hicks and other Guantanamo detainees are convicted. Senator Brown said today that Hicks, who was captured in Afghanistan in 2001, was eligible to be tried in Australia under the Crimes Foreign Incursions and Recruitment Act (1978). "David Hicks should be brought before an Australian court and tried, if the evidence is there, for being engaged in a hostile act in Afghanistan," he said.

"It is time we stood up to the Bush administration as Australians and demand it, that our Australian system be recognised as equal and as the right place for Australian citizens to be bought. "(Prime Minister John Howard) is wrong if he says that there is nowhere that Hicks could be charged before Australian courts and he is now selling out to a trumped up, rigged American system instead of defending our honourable legal system." Hicks is the last detainee from the Afghanistan coalition nations to remain in detention in Guantanamo Bay.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,16127949%255E1702,00.html

finally someone with guts to tell Howard

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1. excellent, he publicly called it rigged

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2. Howard refuses to protest over Hicks trial

The Federal Government will not protest against the United States trial of Australian terror suspect David Hicks, despite claims by two former prosecutors that the Guantanamo military commissions are unfair.

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In his broadside to the Howard Government, Major Mori said he found it hard to understand how it could condone a process that the US Government itself had opted out of.

"If the US Government does not believe the process is good enough for US citizens, how can Australia's Minister for Justice, Chris Ellison, approve the process for an Australian, unless he believes it is acceptable for Australians to receive a lower standard of justice?" Major Mori wrote.

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When it comes to sport, Australians wouldn't allow the opposing team to write the rules, pick the referees, pick the players of your team and control the decisions. How can it be tolerated when it comes to someone's freedom?" he wrote.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/howard-refuses-to-protest-over-hicks-trial/2005/08/02/1122748609764.html

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3. I think that is very odd considering even Britain took their own

prisoners home. I know his son worked for Bush's re-election but this is ridiculous!I hope everybody in Australia does something. I would like to know what anyone is doing about Jose Padilla

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4. Howard and Downer have admitted that Hicks has broken no law

that would allow him to be tried in Australia. If he comes home,
they have to let him go, as they did with Habib.

That's why they're content to let him be tried in a rigged US
military court. They don't care, as long as they can have him
locked up for something.