| A US Marine Corps defence lawyer has condemned the total lack of justice shown by his government in dealing with an Australian detainee at Guantanamo.
Speaking to journalists in Australia on Tuesday, Major Michael Mori said David Hicks was facing a military tribunal rigged to get convictions in which there was no right of an independent appeal. "Everyone is so emotionally charged by September 11 that they are eager to label people a terrorist without using an established justice system to determine innocence or guilt." ...Mori said it was outrageous the military commission process was set up with no independent checks and balances. He concluded the commissions were designed to convict rather than determine guilt or innocence. |
Bingo.
| The Australian government has acknowledged the 28-year-old Hicks, who was arrested in Afghanistan in late 2001, will be among the first group to face the tribunal.
But authorities in Canberra have made no attempt to bring him back to Australia where laws against terrorism only date back to 2002. ...Mori, who has met Hicks five times in recent months, said it was very hard to tell someone who had been locked up for two years that he was about to face an unfair system and his country would allow that to happen. Other countries, such as Spain, Denmark, and Saudi Arabia, have successfully argued for their citizens in Guantanamo to be returned home to face possible prosecution. |
Australia, the 51st state.
| Mori also said Hicks had broken no Australian law, no law in Afghanistan and had not harmed any Americans.
He questioned how non-Americans could be subjected to US law. "The military commission process is an unfair system." ...US officials have promised no Australian will face the death penalty. |
How very good of them.
....hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
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