David Hicks is home, back in Australia
anyway with seven months to face
behind bars in an Adelaide prison.
It may have come as a surprise he made
a guilty plea to some – but as a five year
victim of America’s hard-to-see as legal
off-shore imprisonment policy and only
recently charged with so-called offenses
against America, he’s suffered more than
enough deprivation of liberty – let alone
having to bear the stigma of this countries’
Government’s unwillingness to recognise
and protect his supposedly inalienable
rights as an Australian citizen – come what
may! Welcome home David, I don’t know
whether you deserve to be in Yatala Labour
Prison for being an impressionable fool
but I do know that neither you nor any
other rights-denied civilian held illegally in
Guantanamo Bay should have been denied
justice while wholly ignored by the judicial World.
What would be worse though, is to be deprived
of the forgiveness and sympathy of this Nation
by its Government’s unforgiveable intransigence.
© 21 May 2007, I.D. Carswell
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