(More: Justice for Just-Us! Australian convert to Islam - Sold to U.S.?)
"We're All Ratbags Now!"
Kangaroo Court for a Kangaroo Skinner - by Zbignew Zingh
Australians livid over convert to Islam being "sold" to U.S! After 5 years in prison camp - all charges dropped - but now new charge is invented:
"Material Support For Terrorism"(?)
David Hicks is a 31-year-old Australian convert to Islam who was "captured" by US forces in Afghanistan. Actually, he was “sold” by warlord bounty hunters to the American military.
Mr. Hicks has rotted in the prison at Guantanamo Bay for five years without charge, without trial and without conviction. Until recently, Australia's conservative prime minister, John Howard, was content to leave his compatriot to rot in an American prison camp.
Now, the Australian people are up in arms . . . livid at the US and livid at their own prime minister because Mr. Hicks' case has taken so incredibly long to resolve.
Australians are livid because Mr. Hicks' military defense counsel, including Major Michael Mori, Mr. Hicks' family and a determined campaign by Australian activists, have managed to put David Hicks in the Australian spotlight.
In the beginning, the United States was prepared to try Mr. Hicks on charges of conspiracy, aiding the enemy and "attempted murder". However, when he was finally formally charged on March 2nd 2007, all of the original accusations were dismissed for lack of evidence... except for a new charge of providing "material support for terrorism".
This "crime" did not even exist when Hicks was "arrested" by the US in 2001. The charge was "invented" by Congress in 2006, five years after Mr. Hicks was sold by Afghan warlords as an “enemy combatant.” . . . .
(full article)
Zbignew Zingh can be reached at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. This article is CopyLeft, and free to distribute, reprint, repost, sing at a recital, spray paint, scribble in a toilet stall, etc. to your heart’s content, with proper author citation. Find out more about Copyleft and read other great articles at: www.ersarts.com. copyleft 2007.
Other Articles by Zbignew Zingh
* The Less Docile American: Further Reflections on an American General Strike
* The Docile American: The Nexus of God, Labor, Health Care and the Fear to Strike
* Worlds Collide at the Watada Court Martial
* A Report on the Citizen's Hearing on the War in Iraq
* Walking the Line Between Justice and Reconciliation
* Deep Tooth: A Mol(ar) in the White House
* The Iraq Study Group Study Group
* Zamole Zingh: One Size Fits All Universal Politician for Every Office
* Ask Not For Whom the Wall is Built (It's Built For You)
* Halloween Without End
* Will Pakistan's Musharraf Have His Ears Trimmed by the Bush Administration?
* Plan C -- The People's Morning-After-the-Elections Contraception
* Snakes On a Plane, Bush in the White House
* Prepare Your Stakes and Fires
* How the Left Repeatedly Gets the Wind Knocked Out of Its Causes
* The Daze of the Living Dead
* Garden Variety Politics
* The Subsurface World of Inflation, Cannibalism and the Plight of the Squeezees
* Cracks in the Coalition of the Crackpots
* Dear George... Have I Told You How Much I Appreciate You?
* Facilitating Fascism
* Detroit Dialectic: The Irony of the Super Bowl in a Supercilious Nation
* The Nuclear “Threat” At the End of the Age of Petroleum
* Roberts' Rules of Order
* Project for the New American Colonies (A Neoconned American Revolution)
* Pat Robertson's Fatwah and the Emergence of Medieval America
* The Neocon Cookbook: Savory Recipes for the Power Hungry by the Power Elite
* President Bush Supports Alternative Fuels Research Instead of Conservation
* Bush Wants Answers: Did Chavez, Castro and Bin Laden Lead Embassy Siege in Iran?
* The University's Biocontainment Lab: Coming to a Neighborhood Near You!
* The Convergence
* The Political Descent of Mankind
* Soviets “R” US
* GOING OUT OF BUSINESS SALE!
* November Strategy
* New Dogs for the New American Century
* Vive la Difference
* Dennis, We Hardly Knew You
* The 2004 Political All-Star Game
* George Bush, Destroyer of the Faith
* Zbignew's Inferno
* The Statue of Liberty is Missing
* Monuments To The New American Century
* What Are We Trying To Achieve?
* Bush Administration Relents: American Style Elections Promised for Iraq
* E.U. Researchers Publish Findings of Widespread Mad Cow Infection
* The Declassified Ads
