Thursday, July 10, 2003

*Ø* Blogmanac | If Shrub kills Hicks, why not kill all Germans?

More on Hicks and Habib
As reported here on July 4 (below), two Australian citizens have been held for 20 months without trial in the USA's Guantanamo camp. Currently, it is quite a widely debated issue in Australia, and not a few of the pundits are in favour of the US doing to Hicks (Habib's name rarely comes up, presumably because he's a sand nigger) anything it wants.

Commonly, media gurus refer to "9-11" when mentioning Hicks. It's a red herring. Hicks was caught on the battlefield of Afghanistan while defending that country from US invasion. Perhaps one day the USA will charge him with something; such a scenario seems likely now. It also is apparent that he will be tried by a military court and face a death penalty, a barbaric practice still used mainly by some Communist, Muslim and American states, discarded long ago by civilized nations, even for the most heinous criminals.

Some of the dumber of the Aussie pundits are saying Hicks supported the Taliban and thus deserves to die. They keep referring to the Taliban as having refused to hand over Osama bin Laden. How long will this myth last? For the record, the Taliban did offer to hand over bin Laden, but not to America, knowing that the USA has a madman in power. They offered him up to the World Court, but America refused to accept this perfectly reasonable offer. Instead, they want control of 'enemies' just as they want control over everything else in the world, and they'd like to subject bin Laden to the torture to which they are subjecting 600-plus Muslims in Guantanamo as I write.

Australia's government stands condemned for allowing Big Brother USA to put an Australian citizen through this traumatic set of circumstances. Those who assert that David Hicks "deserves whatever the Yanks throw at him" must fall silent when asked why it is that America has not threatened to execute soldiers who fought against them in Vietnam, Korea, World War II and any theatre of war one can name. Why single out captives from Muslim nations? War is war. Are we now to accept, among America's many other crimes against human rights, that captured soldiers are to be shot?

Australians would do well to remember that Texas, under the governorship of that dumb, slimy killer, George W Bush, had the world's highest rate of murdering prisoners, apart from Communist China. Let's keep the pressure on our own slime, John Howard et al, and make sure that no Aussies get electrocuted or shot by the Bush regime!

On the other hand, if they murder David, let's start demanding that Aussies, Poms and Yanks trawl the world for every hun, nip, gook, towelhead and dago who ever shouldered a rifle against the "Good Guys" in all wars, and that we arrest and execute all of them. They could be buried in the kind of mass grave that George's daddy had thousands of Iraqis bulldozed into (some still alive) on the Highway to Hell in 1991.

And if Shrub's cabal kills Habib, let's not mention it. He's a Muslim, after all.

Postcript: Britain has a similar thing going on.

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