Bring Hicks home

[Violet_Crumble]

He lives in a cell of featureless walls, 24-hour lighting and a single window of frosted glass that in daylight glows like a fluorescent globe.

For five years, David Hicks has occupied spaces like this, caught between a US Government that has been unable to prosecute him and an Australian Government that refuses to try to free him. This sentence without trial, in conditions so secret that he cannot be photographed, could drag on for another two years unless the Federal Government asks the United States to send him home.

Hicks' military lawyer, Major Michael Mori, says Australia is tolerating a terrible situation. While Hicks has been in legal limbo, John Walker Lindh — the so-called American Taliban who trained at the same camp as Hicks — has been charged, pleaded guilty and sentenced. But Lindh broke American law; Hicks has not broken Australian law.

"America would not tolerate this for one of its citizens," says Mori. "Nor would it tolerate any politicians sacrificing some American citizen to the whim of a foreign country, regardless of whether they are our ally or not. It just doesn't happen."

http://www.theage.com.au/news/in-depth/bring-hicks-home/2006/12/02/1164777845596.html

[AussieDave]

1. Normal, rational people as PM would have brought him home long ago

but little Johnnie Howard is as stubborn and self-righteous and his hero, GW Bush. Howard is on a hiding to nothing, and I can only think he's afraid of getting his ass sued off by Hicks when he finally DOES come home.

If only Labor could get its act together and provide a real electoral threat to Howard.......:eyes: