Listen To Your Elders

Irecently read a bit of rubbish by Ackerman stating that David Hicks is guilty of all sorts of heinous crimes, however, at that time Hicks hadn’t been even charged with any crime so how he could be judged guilty and of what is beyond me.
Piers also likened the trial of Hicks to the trials of Nazi war criminals after the 2nd world war, this if of course even more stupid a claim. I am old enough to have been part of the Second World War and if Piers wants to see the difference between the Hicks trial and the war trials he should look at records of Belsen and other concentration camps, there is no need there to torture witnesses to talk up and the evidence of the crime is plain to see.
Piers should also note that it wasn’t the victims of the concentration camps that were on trial but the prison guards and camp commanders. A similar trial should be arranged for the Guantanamo Bay staff, I’m sure that they weren’t tucking Hicks in every night for the past 5 years.
Undoubtedly, Hicks was silly as a young man but there is no hard evidence that he actually got to even fire a shot in anger and definitely no evidence that he killed anyone during his stay in the war zone. None of these things are really the nub of the matter, the whole point is that Hicks hasn’t been represented as an Australian citizen by the Howard government, even though Howard, Ruddock and Downer have all appeared in public and said that Hicks can’t be brought home to face trial because he has committed no crime!!
If these government people say Hicks has done no crime, how did Piers come up with his guilty verdict?
I want to see us return to a sovereign country where we maintain our codes of justice and fair play even in the face of a strong ally. A good friend isn’t as Howard seems to think, a party the always gives an answer that they think the other party wants to hear. A really good friend is one that gives an honest opinion regardless as to it’s popularity.