*Ø* Blogmanac | USA: Free Australians Hicks and Habib now
While Americans celebrate freedom, their gov't subjects 662 people to cruelty at Guantanamo
For 19 months, two Australian citizens have languished uncharged in America's hell-hole at Guantanamo Bay. Bush's ignorant cabal has thrown out the window the ancient human rights principle of habeas corpus -- that people cannot be held in jail without being charged. It is a crucially important principle honoured for hundreds of years by the people of all civilized countries.
They are denied access to lawyers, Red Cross, United Nations and Amnesty International representatives. They are kept in 6 feet by 8 feet concrete cells like stray dogs, under fluoresecent lights 24/7 like torture victims of the KGB. But it is not the KGB, it is the government of the USA keeping these men, like hundreds of other captives, subjected to 'cruel and unusual punishment' (against their own loudly applauded and oft-proclaimed 'best in the world' US Constitution).
Bush's lapdog Australian government will not even demand that Hicks and Habib be charged or released. Wilson's Almanac will.
"It is 19 months since American military authorities began jailing prisoners captured in the US-led war in Afghanistan at Cuba’s Guantanamo Bay, where they are denied all access to lawyers and their families. Among more than 660 prisoners from 42 countries in the concentration camp-style jail are two Australians, 27-year-old David Hicks and 46-year-old Mamdouh Habib."
Pictured: Australian citizen David Hicks, held without charge by USA
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Latest news is that Hicks might face trial. As the US government itself has revealed, this will be a military court and they have suspended the normal fair rules of evidence and other acceptable forms of justice. (This has been done as part of the Shrub cabal's phony 'war on terrorism' which has ulterior motives: to steadily and imperceptibly remove the rights of Americans one by one.)
Please write to representatives and media to demand that Australian citizens not be illegally detained or tortured by the USA government. We especially hope our American friends will see that their own rights are inextricably linked with the inhumane treatment of non-American prisoners.
Footnote: David Hicks is often portrayed in the media by a photograph showing him holding a rocket-launching weapon. Don't be deceived by this photo. The Australian government, US government and their captive media want you to believe he is a danger to you. The photograph was in fact taken while he was a soldier on the side of the 'good guys' (Americans and Australians) supporting freedom in Bosnia. This fact is never mentioned, quite deliberately.
While Americans celebrate freedom, their gov't subjects 662 people to cruelty at Guantanamo
For 19 months, two Australian citizens have languished uncharged in America's hell-hole at Guantanamo Bay. Bush's ignorant cabal has thrown out the window the ancient human rights principle of habeas corpus -- that people cannot be held in jail without being charged. It is a crucially important principle honoured for hundreds of years by the people of all civilized countries.
They are denied access to lawyers, Red Cross, United Nations and Amnesty International representatives. They are kept in 6 feet by 8 feet concrete cells like stray dogs, under fluoresecent lights 24/7 like torture victims of the KGB. But it is not the KGB, it is the government of the USA keeping these men, like hundreds of other captives, subjected to 'cruel and unusual punishment' (against their own loudly applauded and oft-proclaimed 'best in the world' US Constitution).
Bush's lapdog Australian government will not even demand that Hicks and Habib be charged or released. Wilson's Almanac will.
"It is 19 months since American military authorities began jailing prisoners captured in the US-led war in Afghanistan at Cuba’s Guantanamo Bay, where they are denied all access to lawyers and their families. Among more than 660 prisoners from 42 countries in the concentration camp-style jail are two Australians, 27-year-old David Hicks and 46-year-old Mamdouh Habib."
Pictured: Australian citizen David Hicks, held without charge by USA
Read on
Latest news is that Hicks might face trial. As the US government itself has revealed, this will be a military court and they have suspended the normal fair rules of evidence and other acceptable forms of justice. (This has been done as part of the Shrub cabal's phony 'war on terrorism' which has ulterior motives: to steadily and imperceptibly remove the rights of Americans one by one.)
Please write to representatives and media to demand that Australian citizens not be illegally detained or tortured by the USA government. We especially hope our American friends will see that their own rights are inextricably linked with the inhumane treatment of non-American prisoners.
Footnote: David Hicks is often portrayed in the media by a photograph showing him holding a rocket-launching weapon. Don't be deceived by this photo. The Australian government, US government and their captive media want you to believe he is a danger to you. The photograph was in fact taken while he was a soldier on the side of the 'good guys' (Americans and Australians) supporting freedom in Bosnia. This fact is never mentioned, quite deliberately.
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