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David Hicks, 'the convicted terrorist' is being flown back to Australia sometime soon. Where he'll serve out the rest of his sentence in the comparable comfort of an Australian gaol.

The Americans (as vicious as any a race), not content with keeping the man locked in virtual solitary confinement, without charge for 5 years, (flaunting the most basic rule of law) and secure in the knowledge that the 'convicted terrorist' will remain incarcerated for several more in a 'normal' prison, are transporting him like he was Osama himself, the security fierce and intentionally deliberate uncooperation laced with the odour of bitter revenge.

The media has jumped in too (surprise, surprise) - with that most detested human flaw of mine - raging sanctimony (again...sur...). Gasp! He's being transported at taxpayers cost, they say, hoping, and invariably persuading, the dopey public to ring in the station and whine - or not, there are SOME who seem to be not so thick - not THAT many, however!

Oh! their chests almost puff with smuggness (think 'smuggery' is a good new word for this).

But at its heart, this medium is motivated by nothing but the bottom line and to employ sanctimony as a means to profit as they so regularly do is infinitely more heinous than some unfortunate fellow who's only provable crime was to be in the wrong place with a gun - which he didn't fire - and with which he didn't kill anyone.

Whether you write off the supporters of this man as nutters or not the fact remains that there exists enough of them to (apparently) have a voice and the powerful are simply exerting their greater power arbitrarily over the relative masses.

(Note to Americans; why don't you just arrest them all for sedition? Lock em up! Throw away the key!)

Moreover, whether this emergent explosion of suppression is because of the terrorist threat or simply the nature of man, who knows but you can be sure they'll (terrorists) be taking full advantage of the propoganda victory, in this war in which propoganda is becoming so important. And insofar that life as we knew it has forever changed, they've already won.

Somebody wants to inform that idiot, Bush!

P.S. News just in: it's now 'self-confessed convicted terrorist'. That's what's called covering all bases. We say your guilty; you say you're guilty. Must be guilty!