Seems strange to go back to writing about real life… but for David Hicks what he is experiencing is nothing *like* ‘real life’. For years he has been locked away in a US run Cuban jail after being detained illegally following the US invasion of Afghanistan.
After being abandoned to his fate by the Australian government he discovered he was eligible for British citizenship and applied for it knowing the UK government would insist on it’s citizens being released from the hellhole of Guantanamo Bay. Unlike the Australian government, the British accept that the entire process is a sham with a mock trial being set up under a legal system *designed* to find him, and others like him, guilty of concocted ‘crimes’.
Despite this, the UK is still trying to avoid any conflict with the US and is appealing the decision of the High Court in the House of Lords… the highest court of appeal.
We can only hope that justice will eventually prevail. I have no idea if he is guilty or innocent, but I *do* know that his extended illegal incarceration is an offence against natural justice.
The Eclectic Interweb 