Gag Hicks

David Hicks have been officially silenced by his court order. as part of his plea bargain he is not allowed to speak to media for the period of 12 month, or profit from his story.

This has been an obvious request from Howard government in order to keep him quite silent until after the election at the end of this year. The heat has been getting to Mr Howard, and as usual he talked to his buddy in the white house, Mr George Bush, in order to help him out. Mr Bush himself needs to handle himself better in the US, having pressure from Iraq war.

All over the media, the government has been denying that it had something to do with the gag, it has been very unsuccessful. Even the American media noticed the input of Howard into the Hicks case.

Mr Howard should learn from other countries where they do such thing a little bit less obvious.

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.