Australia: Mr David Hicks's plane touches down in Adelaide
Parrot Press | 20.05.2007 02:12 | Analysis | Repression | Terror War | World
"I might've wanted to make it perhaps better known the level of concern that the Government had and the way in which we were continuously making representations to the United States to bring the process of dealing with him forward," he said. [Scoff, Scoff, Scoff, ah! bullshit!]
Additional implemented punishment
A jet transporting the Australian political prisoner and scapegoat David Hicks imprisoned and tortured at gitmo for 5.5 years has landed at the RAAF's Edinburgh base in Adelaide.
The aircraft landed at a 9:45am ACST (10:15am AEST).
Mr David Hicks is now in Australian custody and is being processed before being transported to Yatala Prison in Adelaide, where he will serve an additional implemented punishment of nine-months for John Howard's re election campaign.
Federal attorney-general, war criminal Philip Ruddock says he does not know whether the Australian Federal Police (AFP) will seek a control order for Hicks when Hicks is released from jail.
In other words whether they will seek to punish him again. Does he have anymore-political points to be scored on by the war criminal government? That may now depend on how they demonise him in the prison system. Which they have done and can do. Claims like they found something in his cell or that he was writing to Bin Laden wishing him a happy birthday or merry Xmas etc. A plot to destroy society from another isolated prison cell.
Ruddock says he would have liked to see Hicks returned to Australia much earlier.
As if he and his corrupt war criminal goverment had no control over the matter?
He has said he would have done things differently if he had his time over.
"I might've wanted to make it perhaps better known the level of concern that the Government had and the way in which we were continuously making representations to the United States to bring the process of dealing with him forward," he said. [Scoff, Scoff, Scoff, ah! bullshit!]
Hicks, originally from Adelaide, was picked up by the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan and was sold as a slave to the US military in December 2001.
Mr David Hicks now a legend in his own time was the first Australian sold in the alleged "war on terror" which is a war on freedom for resources in the Middle East.
After five years at gitmo in Cuba and after being isolated and tortured, Mr David Hicks put his hand up to an alleged charge of providing material support for terrorism but the deal was illegal - done under duress and with an illegally constituted tribunal which didn’t conform to Australian standards of justice. So any confession is obviously worthless.
Also this deal was to be used to provide material support for G W Bush's alleged war on terror and in reality (war crimes against humanity) in the Middle East, and also for John Howard's (re election campaign) hence the gag order made on David Hicks.
He was sentenced to seven years' jail, with all but nine months suspended.
Source:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200705/s1927776.htm
That on the same basis that having David Hicks meant they could do whatever they wanted to him – and did, now that Australia has him we will treat me with the dignity and respect for legal institutions that we should always do.
In other developments:
Legend David Hicks due to leave gitmo
Shame John Howard Shame on You! When is your ABC going to stop lying for you? ABC you should be totally ashamed of yourselves for lying to the people of Australia. Take the mask off and take a good long hard look into the mirror. See whom you are trying to protect and portray as mr nice guy? Send War Criminal John Howard off to the Hague ICC for crimes against all of humanity! Do your conscience a favour!
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/05/145192.php
Father angered by secrecy of Hicks's return
The father of political scapegoat David Hicks imprisoned, isolated and tortured at gitmo for 5.5 years says he is angry the details of his son's return have been kept secret from him.
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/05/145192_comment.php#145199
David Hicks repatriation a farce, Brown says
The Australian Greens leader has described as "high farce" the repatriation of political scapegoat David Hicks.
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/05/145192_comment.php#145193
Related:
David Hicks transfer to Aust in home stretch
Plans are being finalised for the transfer of tortured political scapegoat Mr David Hicks from Guantanamo Bay in Cuba to Australia.
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/05/144990_comment.php#145023
For the record, ABC
On tonight's news they say. "That David Hicks is going to be interrogated again prior his release, and that David Hicks agreed to do so? So they obviously intend to make new allegations against him once he's back in Australia to try to cover John Howard's political arse. On the basis that no one believes the 'official' reasons for his torture and subsequent 5.5 prison term. Shame Howard, shame on you!
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/05/144990_comment.php#145056
David Hicks very lucky to be tortured, isolated for 5.5 years for nothing?
John Howard must repudiate the deal as it was illegal - done under duress and with an illegally constituted tribunal which didn’t conform to Australian standards of justice. Any confession is obviously worthless. That on the same basis that having David Hicks meant they could do whatever they wanted to him – and did, now that Australia has him we will treat me with the dignity and respect for legal institutions that we should always do.
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/05/145083.php
Lawyer to formalise David Hicks homecoming
The Australian lawyer for political scapegoat David Hicks will go to Guantanamo Bay to ensure Hicks understands documents to formalise his move to Australia. David McLeod is expected to travel to Cuba early next week. The documents will be presented to David Hicks by representatives of the federal government. David Hicks will serve the balance of the US/Aus government's 'implemented' nine-month sentence at Yatala Prison in Adelaide.
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/05/144735_comment.php#144750
More rubbish from Rann...
Rann concerned about security arrangements after Hicks's release but he's not concerned about the government being run by war criminals?
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/05/144403_comment.php#144434
Rann suggests control order against Hicks?
South Australian Premier Mike Rann has asked the Commonwealth to ensure that political scapegoat David Hicks will not pose a danger to the public on his release from prison? [Now why would he? He's a political scapegoat used as a pawn in the alleged 'war on terror' by the John Howard gov't, which by the manner of his case is 'a war on freedom' and David Hicks is no danger to anyone.]
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/05/144403.php
Free David Hicks rally - Melbourne 21 April
As part of a national day of action, Civil Rights Defence organised a rally at the State Library in Melbourne where speakers included Greens Senator Bob Brown and David Hicks' father, Terry...
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/04/143861.php
Terry Hicks seeks legal advice to get around gag order
The father of convicted political scapegoat David Hicks says he is seeking legal advice as to what effect his son's gag order has on him speaking out publicly.
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/04/143778_comment.php#143833
Guantánamo Bay detainee railroaded into guilty plea
The issues of principle in the case of David Hicks
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/04/143577.php
War criminals need time, not a timetable: Community
Not only has Labor left the Iraqi's in the lurch by being complicit in the illegal and degrading act of aggression killing over 655,000 people in a holocaust but now they say, after the fact, that they won't leave the Iraqi's in the lurch. So why have we been left in the lurch?
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/03/142514.php
The aircraft landed at a 9:45am ACST (10:15am AEST).
Mr David Hicks is now in Australian custody and is being processed before being transported to Yatala Prison in Adelaide, where he will serve an additional implemented punishment of nine-months for John Howard's re election campaign.
Federal attorney-general, war criminal Philip Ruddock says he does not know whether the Australian Federal Police (AFP) will seek a control order for Hicks when Hicks is released from jail.
In other words whether they will seek to punish him again. Does he have anymore-political points to be scored on by the war criminal government? That may now depend on how they demonise him in the prison system. Which they have done and can do. Claims like they found something in his cell or that he was writing to Bin Laden wishing him a happy birthday or merry Xmas etc. A plot to destroy society from another isolated prison cell.
Ruddock says he would have liked to see Hicks returned to Australia much earlier.
As if he and his corrupt war criminal goverment had no control over the matter?
He has said he would have done things differently if he had his time over.
"I might've wanted to make it perhaps better known the level of concern that the Government had and the way in which we were continuously making representations to the United States to bring the process of dealing with him forward," he said. [Scoff, Scoff, Scoff, ah! bullshit!]
Hicks, originally from Adelaide, was picked up by the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan and was sold as a slave to the US military in December 2001.
Mr David Hicks now a legend in his own time was the first Australian sold in the alleged "war on terror" which is a war on freedom for resources in the Middle East.
After five years at gitmo in Cuba and after being isolated and tortured, Mr David Hicks put his hand up to an alleged charge of providing material support for terrorism but the deal was illegal - done under duress and with an illegally constituted tribunal which didn’t conform to Australian standards of justice. So any confession is obviously worthless.
Also this deal was to be used to provide material support for G W Bush's alleged war on terror and in reality (war crimes against humanity) in the Middle East, and also for John Howard's (re election campaign) hence the gag order made on David Hicks.
He was sentenced to seven years' jail, with all but nine months suspended.
Source:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200705/s1927776.htm That on the same basis that having David Hicks meant they could do whatever they wanted to him – and did, now that Australia has him we will treat me with the dignity and respect for legal institutions that we should always do.
In other developments:
Legend David Hicks due to leave gitmo
Shame John Howard Shame on You! When is your ABC going to stop lying for you? ABC you should be totally ashamed of yourselves for lying to the people of Australia. Take the mask off and take a good long hard look into the mirror. See whom you are trying to protect and portray as mr nice guy? Send War Criminal John Howard off to the Hague ICC for crimes against all of humanity! Do your conscience a favour!
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/05/145192.php Father angered by secrecy of Hicks's return
The father of political scapegoat David Hicks imprisoned, isolated and tortured at gitmo for 5.5 years says he is angry the details of his son's return have been kept secret from him.
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/05/145192_comment.php#145199 David Hicks repatriation a farce, Brown says
The Australian Greens leader has described as "high farce" the repatriation of political scapegoat David Hicks.
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/05/145192_comment.php#145193 Related:
David Hicks transfer to Aust in home stretch
Plans are being finalised for the transfer of tortured political scapegoat Mr David Hicks from Guantanamo Bay in Cuba to Australia.
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/05/144990_comment.php#145023 For the record, ABC
On tonight's news they say. "That David Hicks is going to be interrogated again prior his release, and that David Hicks agreed to do so? So they obviously intend to make new allegations against him once he's back in Australia to try to cover John Howard's political arse. On the basis that no one believes the 'official' reasons for his torture and subsequent 5.5 prison term. Shame Howard, shame on you!
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/05/144990_comment.php#145056 David Hicks very lucky to be tortured, isolated for 5.5 years for nothing?
John Howard must repudiate the deal as it was illegal - done under duress and with an illegally constituted tribunal which didn’t conform to Australian standards of justice. Any confession is obviously worthless. That on the same basis that having David Hicks meant they could do whatever they wanted to him – and did, now that Australia has him we will treat me with the dignity and respect for legal institutions that we should always do.
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/05/145083.php Lawyer to formalise David Hicks homecoming
The Australian lawyer for political scapegoat David Hicks will go to Guantanamo Bay to ensure Hicks understands documents to formalise his move to Australia. David McLeod is expected to travel to Cuba early next week. The documents will be presented to David Hicks by representatives of the federal government. David Hicks will serve the balance of the US/Aus government's 'implemented' nine-month sentence at Yatala Prison in Adelaide.
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/05/144735_comment.php#144750 More rubbish from Rann...
Rann concerned about security arrangements after Hicks's release but he's not concerned about the government being run by war criminals?
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/05/144403_comment.php#144434 Rann suggests control order against Hicks?
South Australian Premier Mike Rann has asked the Commonwealth to ensure that political scapegoat David Hicks will not pose a danger to the public on his release from prison? [Now why would he? He's a political scapegoat used as a pawn in the alleged 'war on terror' by the John Howard gov't, which by the manner of his case is 'a war on freedom' and David Hicks is no danger to anyone.]
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/05/144403.php Free David Hicks rally - Melbourne 21 April
As part of a national day of action, Civil Rights Defence organised a rally at the State Library in Melbourne where speakers included Greens Senator Bob Brown and David Hicks' father, Terry...
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/04/143861.php Terry Hicks seeks legal advice to get around gag order
The father of convicted political scapegoat David Hicks says he is seeking legal advice as to what effect his son's gag order has on him speaking out publicly.
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/04/143778_comment.php#143833 Guantánamo Bay detainee railroaded into guilty plea
The issues of principle in the case of David Hicks
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/04/143577.php War criminals need time, not a timetable: Community
Not only has Labor left the Iraqi's in the lurch by being complicit in the illegal and degrading act of aggression killing over 655,000 people in a holocaust but now they say, after the fact, that they won't leave the Iraqi's in the lurch. So why have we been left in the lurch?
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/03/142514.php
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Australia: Hicks's punishment begins final phase?
20.05.2007 03:12
Ruddock is dangerous and deluded
He was flown into Adelaide's RAAF base at Edinburgh before being taken by car to Yatala.
A convoy of motorbikes, police cars and unmarked vehicles including the secured van containing the legend Mr David Hicks drove past the media contingent waiting outside Yatala Prison at 10:40am ACST (11:10 AEST).
David Hicks was not visible through the blacked out windows of the van.
He will now go through Yatala's stringent check-in procedures before being taken to his cell in South Australia's highest security prison ward, Division G.
He will serve the remainder of his nine-month additional implemented punishment to provide material support for G W Bush's alleged war on terror and in reality (war crimes against humanity) in the Middle East, and also for John Howard's (re election campaign) hence the gag order made on him.
Hicks will be released on December 31 this year.
Federal attorney-general and war criminal Philip Ruddock is dangerous and deluded.
He says it is up to the Australian Federal Police (AFP) to decide whether to seek a control order for Hicks once he is released from jail even though he knows the real truth of the matter that Mr David Hicks put his hand up to an alleged charge of providing material support for terrorism just to get out of gitmo but the deal was illegal - done under duress and with an illegally constituted tribunal which didn’t conform to Australian standards of justice. So any confession is obviously worthless.
Ruddock says that Hicks will not be allowed to profit from telling his story, but the US ban on speaking out within the next year is not enforceable.
But it's not 'profit' the war criminal John Howard, and his cronies like Ruddock are worried about either. More like 'their political image' to hold on to power will be undermined if the 'real truth' were to get out about the Hicks case.
He says Hicks is free to tell his story. [After the election!] Cunning as a shit house rat.
Ruddock: "While there were conditions imposed as part of the plea bargain, they were matters between him and the United States, they don't involve us, and I don't believe there is a basis upon which if he breached those conditions, that is if he told aspects of his experience, that we would be delivering him up because of that," he said.
In other words the war criminal's Howard, Ruddock and their cronies had nothing to do with it? Well just how many lies can the Australian people swollow?
Father happy
Mr Terry Hicks, who is still in Sydney, says his son will be very happy about his arrival.
"He'd be over the moon, yeah David's spirits would be pretty high knowing he's back home and he's not far away from his home so it's good," he said.
Terry Hicks has been in Sydney for a conference and will fly out to Adelaide this afternoon.
He expects to able to see his son in three or four days.
Mr Hicks says although he is happy about his son coming home, there is some bitterness too.
"I'd like to have got him home under different circumstances," he said.
"As far as I'm concerned he's been coerced into all this, he hasn't faced a proper court system, in fact it wasn't a court system at all.
"So there's probably a lot of things that we could probably test under the system - the legalities of all this - and this all comes back to David, whether he wants to test out the processes."
Source:
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Australian legend David Hicks 'elated' to be on home soil
20.05.2007 07:11
Mr David Hicks arrived in Adelaide about 9:45am ACST on a chartered flight the Federal Government estimates cost more than $500,000.
The political prisoner and scapegoat imprisoned and tortured at gitmo for 5.5 years in Cuba has been transferred from the RAAF's Edinburgh Air Base in northern Adelaide to South Australia's high-security Yatala Prison.
He will serve the rest of his nine-months of implemented punishment in solitary confinement in South Australia's highest security ward, G Division.
Mr David Hicks's Australian lawyer, David McLeod, was with him on the flight and says the Adelaide man is grateful. He says his client intends to be a model prisoner.
"He wants to get on with his education, he wants to complete high school and if possible, go into university."
He says the transfer from Guantanamo Bay went smoothly.
"David is well and he enjoyed the trip, and he's very, very glad to be back on Australian soil," he said.
"He visibly was elated when we touched down at Edinburgh."
Challenges discontinued
Mr McLeod says David Hicks, who was restrained in his chair for the flight home, has instructed him to discontinue all legal action against his imprisonment.
"David wants the Australian public to know that he does not propose to launch any challenge to his ongoing incarceration here in Australia," he said.
"He has instructed me to discontinue all current court actions, which is the Federal Court action in Sydney and the English court action in the United Kingdom."
David Hicks was put into Yatala prison garb at his send-off from gitmo Bay.
Mr McLeod says it could take some time before David Hicks can receive visitors.
"I'm told that the induction process could take as much as a week and that I might be the first person who sees him and that will be arranged once he's been processed," he said.
Actually it could take six weeks because all visitors have to have a security check. For some people it has even taken up to 3 months and others have been denied visiting rights altogether.
'Flawed process'
Democrat Senator Natasha Stott Despoja says the federal government still has a lot to answer for in the treatment of Hicks.
She says it should have insisted he be released by the US military five years ago.
"Instead, they chose to be a cheerleader for the entire military commission process, a process that was deemed illegal at one stage and has been incredibly flawed," she said.
"The Australian government has supported the US without questioning the fact that evidence could be obtained through coercion or torture."
The Get Up organisation has waged a vigorous campaign for the legends release and has welcomed his arrival.
Spokesman Brett Solomon says it is thanks to the Australian public's pressure on the Government that Mr David Hicks is home today.
"I think it's a real tribute to the Australian people that made it very clear to the Australian Government that their response was not adequate, that it was not sufficient, that we felt that an Australian's right has been denied for a political relationship in the name of political expediency," he said.
"This whole situation at once has come to an end but the stain that the government has left on Australia and Australia's reputation will remain."
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