leased said "Hicks attending a camp is enough to be charged in the gulag and not a shot fired. The Brit did the same course as hicks and was let go 2 years ago, no charge."
Its obvious and has been hinted at many times by Major Mori that Howard/Ruddock could have had Hicks home at any time. The only reason why Howard would choose to keep Hicks there is for the high impact punishment being driven slowly into our subconscious to the point where we agree about the need for such a system in these days of “whose the terrorist” The Howard government is of the extreme fascist type and obviously believes in this system, a system of manipulation and control by government and wants it to become the rule of law here as soon as possible.
“Notoriously, the Howard government has held people in immigration detention, sometimes for many years, even though those people have committed no offence. This has involved gross traumatisation of refugee children and adults. This policy has repeatedly been criticised by international authorities as breaching Australia’s human rights obligations. The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission reported that the treatment of children in Australia’s detention centres was ‘cruel, inhumane and degrading’.”
”The Howard government’s anti-terror legislation, administered by Mr Ruddock, provides for people to be gaoled without trial and without the person being told the evidence against them. It provides for people to be placed under house arrest for up to 12 months, without knowing the evidence against them. It allows people who are not suspected of any offence to be ‘disappeared’ for up to a week.”
