[LINK] madness - or un-australian behaviour

[Deus Ex Machina]

Brendan Scott [brendansweb at optusnet.com.au] wrote:
> Deus Ex Machina wrote:
> > grove at zeta.org.au [grove at zeta.org.au] wrote:
> >> On Tue, 29 Aug 2006, Deus Ex Machina wrote:
> >>
> >>> the geneva convention does not stop you from putting prisoners on trial.
> >> No, but it has a lot to say about detaining people without charges
> >> for several years, denying access to a legal counsel, not telling the
> >> detainee the nature of the charges and using torture to elicit a confession.
> > 
> > hicks has a charge sheet, has been provided with a lawyer. why are you
> > on the side of a terrorist?
> 
> Has he been convicted already?  I thought the trial had been delayed for some reason?

if someone punches you in the nose, obviously nothing occured till the
court decided that it occured. does reality just have a habbit of waiting for
judicial confirmation before it actually occurs? I think not.

Vic