David Hicks is home! A win for the common man who lobbied long and hard for justice to be served and sentenced passed on a man who has done wrong? No... in reality the cold hard fact is that there is an election coming up and John Winston Howard wanted to remove an element of criticism from his upcoming campaign.
The Government cant be seen to be sitting on their hands about this issue when they have acted can they? Well... whilst technically they acted, perhaps it could have been done, say about 4 years ago?
That David Hicks spent so long without trial and even without charge should not be forgotten. The fact that he was held by a foreign power subject to that foreign power's military system (not their civil legal system) and held in a sub-human compound in a distant remote location should not be forgotten as an issue for this election.
Yes he is home, to serve the remainder of his sentence, but do not forget Messrs Howard and Downer have done little dare I say nothing to bring this issue to resolution under fair Australian law.
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