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Australia AG insists Hicks military trial will not hear evidence coerced by torture
[JURIST] The US military commission expected to try Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks will not allow evidence coerced through torture, Australian Attorney General Philip Ruddock told... [more].

And just how will anyone in the room know that evidence led by the prosecution was not coerced? (I think we can presume that no protest raised by David at the commission's hearing will carry any weight.)

More importantly, how can we trust this assertion by our AG?

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Australia AG insists Hicks military trial will not hear evidence coerced by torture
[JURIST] The US military commission expected to try Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks will not allow evidence coerced through torture, Australian Attorney General Philip Ruddock told... [more].

And just how will anyone in the room know that evidence led by the prosecution was not coerced? (I think we can presume that no protest raised by David at the commission's hearing will carry any weight.)

More importantly, how can we trust this assertion by our AG?

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This is why I'm a human rights lawyer in a "wealthy liberal 'representative' democracy" ...

So many lawyers, so little responsibility
Adele Horin, July 1, 2006, smh.com.au

Go read this article.

Even lawyers don't like this kind of lawyer - the politician.

And about half of us [Australians] voted for them to run the place ...

Music:: Renee Geyer - Into Temptation

Mood::

grumpy

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This is why I'm a human rights lawyer in a "wealthy liberal 'representative' democracy" ...

So many lawyers, so little responsibility
Adele Horin, July 1, 2006, smh.com.au

Go read this article.

Even lawyers don't like this kind of lawyer - the politician.

And about half of us [Australians] voted for them to run the place ...

Mood::

grumpy

Music:: Renee Geyer - Into Temptation

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Monday, June 26, 2006
UK will not ask US to release Guantanamo detainee Hicks
Holly Manges Jones at 7:04 PM ET

[JURIST] The UK Foreign Office [official website] has said that the United Kingdom will not petition the US to release Australian national David Hicks [JURIST news archive; advocacy website] from the US prison at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive]. Hicks, a suspected member of the Taliban who has been detained for over four years, won British citizenship [JURIST report] earlier this year based on his mother's nationality and had hoped to gain assistance from the British government in securing his release. Nine other British detainees were freed - the last four in early 2005 [JURIST report] - when the UK protested their imprisonments by arguing that military commissions [JURIST news archive] are illegal. But Hicks will not receive the same type of aid from the British government, which says he was an Australian citizen at the time of his capture and that Australia has provided previous consular assistance to him.

Hicks has been charged with attempted murder and conspiracy to commit war crimes. His trial has been postponed pending a US Supreme Court [official website] decision on the legality of military commissions [JURIST report], which is expected to be handed down before the end of June.

From Australia, ABC News has local coverage.

Hicks just can't win a trick.

But then he must be a dangerous terrorist. You know, like, oh, some guy who recently converted and was very serious about it all. Is this guy who was picked out of a crowd because he was not like the others really so dangerous? Or just very, very inconvenient ...

Note: if you're Australian, don't expect the Australian government to help you out if it's not convenient for them ...

Music:: Kyle XY 01x01 ... OMG ... why!!

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sad

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Monday, June 26, 2006
UK will not ask US to release Guantanamo detainee Hicks
Holly Manges Jones at 7:04 PM ET

[JURIST] The UK Foreign Office [official website] has said that the United Kingdom will not petition the US to release Australian national David Hicks [JURIST news archive; advocacy website] from the US prison at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive]. Hicks, a suspected member of the Taliban who has been detained for over four years, won British citizenship [JURIST report] earlier this year based on his mother's nationality and had hoped to gain assistance from the British government in securing his release. Nine other British detainees were freed - the last four in early 2005 [JURIST report] - when the UK protested their imprisonments by arguing that military commissions [JURIST news archive] are illegal. But Hicks will not receive the same type of aid from the British government, which says he was an Australian citizen at the time of his capture and that Australia has provided previous consular assistance to him.

Hicks has been charged with attempted murder and conspiracy to commit war crimes. His trial has been postponed pending a US Supreme Court [official website] decision on the legality of military commissions [JURIST report], which is expected to be handed down before the end of June.

From Australia, ABC News has local coverage.

Hicks just can't win a trick.

But then he must be a dangerous terrorist. You know, like, oh, some guy who recently converted and was very serious about it all. Is this guy who was picked out of a crowd because he was not like the others really so dangerous? Or just very, very inconvenient ...

Note: if you're Australian, don't expect the Australian government to help you out if it's not convenient for them ...

Music:: Kyle XY 01x01 ... OMG ... why!!

Mood::

sad

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Friday, June 16, 2006
Australia AG says changing terror laws could compromise national security
Joshua Pantesco at 9:57 AM ET

FedGov.AU is resisting concerns that it's processes are undemocratic, rejecting advice from it's own review that it's laws and processes are not transparent, too complex, too vague, and basically unfair. Nothing new then really.

Friday, June 16, 2006
Australia Senate upholds federal override of capital district civil union law
Joshua Pantesco at 10:03 AM ET

The ACT is supposedly a self-governing territory - but this FedGov is quite happy to impose it's own will on the ACT and the NT. Apparently allowing homosexuals to have civil unions "undermines" heterosexual marriage.

Frankly, heterosexuals are doing that quite fine for themselves. No law, be it FedGov Family law or otherwise can make people take anything seriously. Let alone resile form fucking each over after they've (usually) stopped fucking each other.

Friday, June 16, 2006
UK Foreign Office takes over Hicks Guantanamo release case
Jaime Jansen at 11:42 AM ET

The UK has now taken over from the Australian Government in efforts to press for the release of Australian David Hicks. Since our FedGov doesn't believe Australian Citizenship means anything more than the joy of being taxed in Aussie dollars - if you're lucky enough to still have a job that pays enough to be taxed - Mr Hicks et al have turned to the UK for assistance.

Basically, our FedGov has been clear - it supports Family Values - so long as that means parents are out working ASAP, doing whatever their employers desire, for whatever the employer is prepared to part with, and under whatever terms they're offered. "Flexibility" in the workplace is code for "You'll do as your told, and like it". They want women to be breeding - so long as they're married to a male. And if they're not, they're damned irresponsible.

FedGov has a 1950s vision of social life, an 1850s vision of employment conditions, and a AU$7.50 vision for the minimum wage.

Mood::

gloomy

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Friday, June 16, 2006
Australia AG says changing terror laws could compromise national security
Joshua Pantesco at 9:57 AM ET

FedGov.AU is resisting concerns that it's processes are undemocratic, rejecting advice from it's own review that it's laws and processes are not transparent, too complex, too vague, and basically unfair. Nothing new then really.

Friday, June 16, 2006
Australia Senate upholds federal override of capital district civil union law
Joshua Pantesco at 10:03 AM ET

The ACT is supposedly a self-governing territory - but this FedGov is quite happy to impose it's own will on the ACT and the NT. Apparently allowing homosexuals to have civil unions "undermines" heterosexual marriage.

Frankly, heterosexuals are doing that quite fine for themselves. No law, be it FedGov Family law or otherwise can make people take anything seriously. Let alone resile form fucking each over after they've (usually) stopped fucking each other.

Friday, June 16, 2006
UK Foreign Office takes over Hicks Guantanamo release case
Jaime Jansen at 11:42 AM ET

The UK has now taken over from the Australian Government in efforts to press for the release of Australian David Hicks. Since our FedGov doesn't believe Australian Citizenship means anything more than the joy of being taxed in Aussie dollars - if you're lucky enough to still have a job that pays enough to be taxed - Mr Hicks et al have turned to the UK for assistance.

Basically, our FedGov has been clear - it supports Family Values - so long as that means parents are out working ASAP, doing whatever their employers desire, for whatever the employer is prepared to part with, and under whatever terms they're offered. "Flexibility" in the workplace is code for "You'll do as your told, and like it". They want women to be breeding - so long as they're married to a male. And if they're not, they're damned irresponsible.

FedGov has a 1950s vision of social life, an 1850s vision of employment conditions, and a AU$7.50 vision for the minimum wage.

Mood::

gloomy

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A summary of recent news by the local independent newspaper Independent Weekly included these gems:

Law Council says UK cares more for Hicks...
The Law Council of Australia says Britain is embarrassing Australia by showing more concern for the fate of terror suspect David Hicks than his homeland. Law Council president John North has made the comments after London's Court of Appeal upheld the right of Australian-born Hicks to British citizenship. North is appealing to the Federal Government to do all it can to help Britain fast-track Hicks's bid.
...but Aust says a British Hicks can come home
Australia would allow a British David Hicks home if he is freed from a US military prison, Attorney-General Philip Ruddock says. Hicks, born in Adelaide, has received a boost to his campaign to be released from Guantanamo Bay after a UK appeals court upheld a ruling against the British Government's bid to deny him citizenship. Ruddock said the 30-year-old could return to Australia as a newly-released British citizen. "If he is no longer held by the United States, he has an entitlement to return to Australia," he told ABC radio. "There's no basis upon which he would be denied travel documents to travel to Australia," Mr Ruddock said.

SO the best thing for an Australian to do before they travel overseas these days is to acquire a foreign citizenship.

Our government is not prepared to help Hicks as a Citizen of Australia, but he's fine if released for being British.

WTF!

Music:: spellforce

Mood::

angry

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A summary of recent news by the local independent newspaper Independent Weekly included these gems:

Law Council says UK cares more for Hicks...
The Law Council of Australia says Britain is embarrassing Australia by showing more concern for the fate of terror suspect David Hicks than his homeland. Law Council president John North has made the comments after London's Court of Appeal upheld the right of Australian-born Hicks to British citizenship. North is appealing to the Federal Government to do all it can to help Britain fast-track Hicks's bid.
...but Aust says a British Hicks can come home
Australia would allow a British David Hicks home if he is freed from a US military prison, Attorney-General Philip Ruddock says. Hicks, born in Adelaide, has received a boost to his campaign to be released from Guantanamo Bay after a UK appeals court upheld a ruling against the British Government's bid to deny him citizenship. Ruddock said the 30-year-old could return to Australia as a newly-released British citizen. "If he is no longer held by the United States, he has an entitlement to return to Australia," he told ABC radio. "There's no basis upon which he would be denied travel documents to travel to Australia," Mr Ruddock said.

SO the best thing for an Australian to do before they travel overseas these days is to acquire a foreign citizenship.

Our government is not prepared to help Hicks as a Citizen of Australia, but he's fine if released for being British.

WTF!

Music:: spellforce

Mood::

angry

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Learn from the mistakes of others

Australia AG insists Hicks military trial will not hear evidence coerced by torture

Australia AG insists Hicks military trial will not hear evidence coerced by torture

Be afeared, be very afeared

Be afeared, be very afeared

UK no help Hicks. This be stupid. Still.

UK no help Hicks. This be stupid. Still.

Aussie Human Rights Debarcles

Aussie Human Rights Debarcles

this just kills me ...

this just kills me ...

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