David Hicks the political pawn - Toying with the bug collection.
Donna Williams
March 04, 2007
When a man who even the prosecutor’s agree never fired a shot in anger is charged with attempted murder, then I guess we can only imagine the lovely staff of Guantamo must have been playing tiddly winks over hot chocolate with Australian detainee, David Hicks, these last 5 years.
I’m saddened by the brown nosing of this Australian John Howard government (and the red-neck silent public which conveniently looks the other way) which would rather see such a person imprisoned for life than admit David Hicks was a token Australian used as a pawn to help the Australian government justify its support of the US government’s most incompetent leader in US history.
Sure, David Hicks is probably as guilty of supporting ‘the wrong side’ as a large percentage of militant Muslims around the world but that does not equate to ‘attempted murder’ if no shot was ever fired by him.
But these leaders aren’t the bug pinned to the bug collection and David Hick’s is. The public toying which the US government and our own sycophant leader does with that bug is its own version of terrorism and one they proudly flaunt before the world, telling us they are ‘the good guys’.
When Hitler lead the German public to either nod to or look away from Nazism (and hence condone it), we all said, not us, we could never be like that. Yet in any other form, when it suits us enough, we so easily allow injustices as long as we convince ourselves we are more righteous, more moral, more innocent and we don’t care to look too close because otherwise we’d have to speak out.
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I’m saddened by the brown nosing of this Australian John Howard government (and the red-neck silent public which conveniently looks the other way) which would rather see such a person imprisoned for life than admit David Hicks was a token Australian used as a pawn to help the Australian government justify its support of the US government’s most incompetent leader in US history.
Sure, David Hicks is probably as guilty of supporting ‘the wrong side’ as a large percentage of militant Muslims around the world but that does not equate to ‘attempted murder’ if no shot was ever fired by him.
But these leaders aren’t the bug pinned to the bug collection and David Hick’s is. The public toying which the US government and our own sycophant leader does with that bug is its own version of terrorism and one they proudly flaunt before the world, telling us they are ‘the good guys’.
When Hitler lead the German public to either nod to or look away from Nazism (and hence condone it), we all said, not us, we could never be like that. Yet in any other form, when it suits us enough, we so easily allow injustices as long as we convince ourselves we are more righteous, more moral, more innocent and we don’t care to look too close because otherwise we’d have to speak out.
http://www.donnawilliams.net/
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