[LINK] madness - or un-australian behaviour

[Deus Ex Machina]

Howard Lowndes [lannet at lannet.com.au] wrote:
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> 
> Deus Ex Machina wrote:
> >Howard Lowndes [lannet at lannet.com.au] wrote:
> >>
> >>Deus Ex Machina wrote:
> >>>>It's the same with David Hicks. If he is what is claimed then it should 
> >>>>be pretty easy to prove in a court of law.
> >>>>
> >>>>It is far more disturbing to me that bad laws are passed, due process 
> >>>>is not followed, politicians interfere with the law where they should 
> >>>>not and incompetent commentators make illogical and incorrect 
> >>>>statements than someone who has not been proven guilty is allowed to 
> >>>>live a life free of unwarranted harassment.
> >>>its is precisely due process that is keeping hicks out of a court and
> >>>his day of reckoning.
> >>>
> >>>http://www.defenselink.mil/news/commissions_exhibits_hicks.html
> >>>
> >>>its not like the US government is keeping him there for fun or torture.
> >>>the legal process always grinds along like a turtle. its the endless
> >>>legal battles around the case that has prevented him being put to trial.
> >>>thats not unusual, thats not a conspiracy, thats just due process at 
> >>>work.
> >>Yes, it was such "due process" that the SCOTUS declared it unlawful...
> >
> >which no doubt congress will fix.
> 
> ...and which SCOTUS will probably then still declare unlawful as what is 
> being proposed still contravenes the Geneva Convention.

the geneva convention does not stop you from putting prisoners on trial.

Vic