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Hicks pleads guilty

Hicks have today pleaded guilty to the charges of supporting a terrorist organisation, I first heard of the news from the Age online newspaper.

David hicks have pleaded guilty to these charges just so he can "get out of this place"; the guy have spend the last five years in the worst possible place on earth, with no support in any way from the Australian government. I don't blame the poor guy, who knows what kind of issues he had to deal with inside Guantanamo Bay.

There has been numerous reports of systematically drugging the inmates in order to break their will power and to keep them in "controlled state" according to sources in the American press; not to mention depriving the detainees of their basic human right, basic legal council or their basic daily needs.

In both the official report from Guantanamo Bay administration, David Hicks was given the option to have a hair cut and a shave; it seems that the detainees were not given the right to have hair cuts or shaves, couldn't they just sedate them and give them a hair cut or a shave they are already drugging them in order to perform the simplest of tasks.

ENOUGH HOWARD

Enough is enough. PM John Howard, is playing around just to gain extra political millage. the trial for David Hicks is due to start Monday night (Australian time), this trial was not even on the calender except when the government was being attacked by every one in Australia about the lack of effort that was invested in bringing Mr Hicks back home.

So what you think Howard does? he calls up his good friend (and only friend), Mr Bush to speed up the trial of Mr Hicks. putting aside the legitimacy debate of military commission that Mr hicks will be facing, Australia is one of the few countries that did not formally request the return of its citizens from Guantanamo Bay. Several countries around the world have requested and successfully returned their citizens, some of which have been tried in their countries own legal system. Even India have returned some of its citizens, Pakistan on the other hand left its citizens stranded in Guantanamo Bay, just so General Musharraf can hold on to power without external intervention of his questionable ruling or the worsening state of the legal rights of Pakistan's citizens.

Mr Howard did NOTHING for five years, and now he is trying to catch up. Way too late Mr Howard, you should have thought of that earlier.

Arrogant Howard

Prime Minister John Howard has been so arrogant to the Australian society it is now turning against him in the polls. People are shifting their vote from Mr Howard even if they are liberal supporters. Beside his long stand with Bush on the Iraq war and his refusal to listen to the Australian public or the opposition; the double standard that he is setting for his liberal friends and supporters and the wider Australian community.

During his long time in the PM office, he has performed a number of good things for Australia; but the long time in the office has made him to be another Mugabe.