The 15 British naval personnel kidnapped by Iran in disputed Gulf waters and released after two weeks (and the usual parlour games that constitute diplomacy in the current U.S.-dominated atmosphere of pre-emptive anything-goes), claim they were subjected to intense "psychological pressure" and threatened with years of imprisonment, and that’s why they made their on-air admissions of trespass, fault and guilt
What a surprise! And so readily and so soon!
Meanwhile, for more than 5 years, Australian dill David Hicks – sold to U.S. forces by anti-Taliban Afghan guerrillas for bounty - has suffered torture, beatings and somewhat more “psychological” abuse than the compromised Brits – not to mention actual rather than threatened imprisonment - in the phoney Bushevik “war-on-terror” before finally agreeing to a plea bargain admission of “guilty” in a rigged show trial worthy of North Korea.
The 2007 Hollywood Academy Awards night is long over but Australia’s Prime Minister Germ W Howart continues making an early run for next years’ Best Actor Award with an astonishing attempt at salvaging his tattered thespian career.
Clearly not a method actor, for some months the wooden Monstralian PM had expressed his growing “impatience” and then his “anger” (what, no sputum?) with the rogue Bush Regime over what he called “delays” after 5 years of consistent gushing and fondling GWB’s nether regions as state-sanctioned torture became a matter of symantics not ethics, ignorance became bliss, and the Iraqi blood-and-bone machine set up by the Busheviks went into overdrive.
Now, of course, justice has been served – like tuna in a sushi bar.
So David Hicks is guilty of something or other for being in Afghanistan during the US attack on the Taliban. Just say the magic word TERRORISM and the flakey dictatorial possibilities are endless. Ah, and no Senate enquiry downunder!
Yet again Germ Howard PM flaunts his utter contempt for Democratic principles of accountability, independent scrutiny and transparency and treats Australians like witless bovines with no memory of the past or any interest in the future.
And going by the past 10 years of national coma, his assessment is probably correcto.
Now we’re supposed to accept the orchestrated outcome of the Guantanamo kangaroo court and call it justice.
We’re also supposed to believe that Hicks – “worst of the worst” and a “threat” – having suddenly admitted his cold-blooded terrorist affiliations, can be safely released into the community in 9 months time. As long as he doesn’t actually say anything about his capture, sale, imprisonment, abuse and torture (… Freedom of speech, anybody?).
After 5 years of appalling criminal negligence by the Australian government and criminal assault by the US government, political expedience wins the day.
Hmm, but what of the elephantine turd in the kiddy pool on this one?
For 5 years both Bush and Howard have tarred and feathered Hicks in no uncertain terms, bellowing his inherently evil nature from the rooftops:
Hicks was out to suck the blood from your baby, would root your grandmother for the sheer hell of it, and would – given half a chance – speak very, very harshly to your pet budgie.
They used language that, in any real legal system, would have resulted in charges of contempt of court.
But of course, the rinky-dink, cobbled-together Guantanamo three-ring-circus has nothing to do with legality or justice or even “terrorism”.
It’s the ideological agenda, stoopid! And the next federal election.
Yet the Lying Rodent – he of the mean and tricky sack of faux patriotism – would have none of that! He furrowed his trimmed eyebrows in cartoon gravitas, puffed himself up like an indignant Toad of Toad Hall (look it up, people!), and poo-pooed the obvious fact that after five sickening years the oh-so-suddenly-convenient Guantanamo result was scripted, acted and as phoney as GWB’s military service and scholastic record.
But you don’t need to be a Spielberg to figure out when the co-writing of the final draft of the Guantanamo script was concluded. During Veep Cheney’s recent shutdown of the Sydney CBD, resulting in gridlock and jawlock as the PM went down on the Halliburton frontman with barely a moment to draw breath, the phoney dénouement was thrashed out:
“Dick, please, I’m having a tough enough time convincing the proles of the benefits of my Workplace castration laws… I need this Hicks thing off the media radar asap or it’s another nail in my coffin come the poll!”
“No problem, bitch, just suck a little harder!”
Ah, yes, it’s not easy being the two-bit, two-faced sheriff of Oceania in the Amerikkkan lake (aka the Pacific), but our PM is a plucky little bugger and no doubt gave Dick a night to remember downunder. And Hicks’ fate was sucked, sealed and delivered at last.
And if the Iraq catastrofuck is the greatest US foreign policy disaster in history, then the Guantanamo show trials are the greatest threat to justice and due process.
Desperate to get out of that US army house of horror, Hicks did what the 15 Brits did: whatever it took to get out of a distressing predicament.
And if the mendacious midget of Oz reckons Hicks’ plea bargain of guilty is, in fact, an admission of the unproven “crime” he most recently has been accused of by his lawless captors, then so too are the Pommy sailors’ televised statements.
Coercion? Nah, just an offer too good to refuse!
Fortunately, the Amerikkkan miltary tribunals in Guantanamo are so obviously rigged, the whole crooked sytem is sure to collapse under the mounting weight of its own bullshit.
And speaking of illegal imprisonment… almost two years after squeezing a synthetic apology from the Lying Rodent, a certain Cornelia Rau is seeking compensation for being wrongly “detained” by the Howart government in Australia’s very own version of the old Soviet Gulags – our so-called “immigration detention” system where we incarcerate unwanted newcomers; innocent men, women and children.
Chances are Rau might be awarded up to a cool million.
Just imagine what Hicks is worth!
Happy bloody Easter and pass the nails.
This was Max Gross for Xenox News, cracking eggs, taking meds and drinking dregs.
Unregistered
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Max, you've done it again, but I don't know what is more frightening - the mess that non-core John has made, or your pic! - Ex Liberal Voter |
Ricardovitz
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Noth'n a $0.27 bullet can't solve. Why take war prisoners when you can just shoot them? Pop a cap in their skulls, and the American Taxpayer saves tons of money. Shove the Baath War Heros into ovens and let the snowflakes of Freedom Rain. I just don't understand why the Middle East is permitted to survive. We should have learned the Grand Lesson from our ancestors - those who defeated and eradicated the Neanderthals. We have inherited the earth because our ancestors had the fortituded to completely eliminate a species of humans that was physically stronger than they were. Our ancestors simply had superior technology and the ability to capitalize on that technology. What are we waiting for? A green light from the Amoral Minority? |
Unregistered
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Ricky, there is nothing to stop you taking a one-way ticket to the middle-east and picking up some cheap bullets and getting to work right now. Don't let the weaklings stop you. Stop talkin' and start shootin'. Get going tiger! We'll read all about it in the news! - Semper Fi |
Ricardovitz
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Or enough guns to shoot them. There's an easier solution that the Lord himself blessed us with during WWII. If the Lord didn't want us to use nukes, he wouldn't have given them to us to use against our enemies. Our cowardice not to use them will lead to our own demise. The Lord has always intended the better species of man to dominate over the lesser human species. We were designed to destroy those inferior to us - it's in our biology. Our failure will only become others' opportunity. The good Lord has been trying to teach this to us for eons. The Iranians get it. They would destroy every last white person, every last Christian, every last Jew, every European, American, Australian, African that is not one of them, if they could. I guess we still don't get it. Our ranks are filled with sniveling, save-the-world, drug-guzzling hippy, sopping wet pussies, that don't have an ounce of self-preservation in them at all. Perhaps we have become the weaker race and the low-intelligence muslims will destroy us due to our inability to purge ourselves of the inferior who walk among us. |
Voodoo Chile
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Poor old Mr R. encapsulates why the USA is such a global pariah these days. How sad for him. |
Unregistered
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So that's how Jesus really got back to Heaven! - Jesus Saved My Precious Bodily Fluids |
Ron
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Top article Max. Esp liked your comparisons with the Hicks confessions and the 15 Brits confessions. Why is one taken on face value and the other said to be lies? What a twisted and complicated world we have to live in. |
agitprop
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The fucken Poms folded after a few days and are already raking in cash for comment while Hicks has been fucked over for five years and will have any funds raised in similar fashion confiscated! This terrorism bullshit is so fucken obvious only the "worst of the worst" gutless, brainless dickwits will swallow it! |
The fear epidemic
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This terrorism bullshit is so fucken obvious only the "worst of the worst" gutless, brainless dickwits will swallow it! Its not that they are worse or anything. The bulk of people are much like Ricardovitz, scared. So scared that they will believe anything, so that they can feel something is being done to make them less scared. Hell, they even carry around arsenals despite living thousands of miles from any action. The war on terror, my terror, is being fought. Bunkered up with my guns I feel safe and secure. Sad isn't it all of these people cowering in fear. Fear of WMD. |
Ricardovitz
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are doomed! You better believe I'm scared. Scared of all of the evil, torture, rape and murder that the Muslim World worships, and that the Liberal Lemmings are willing to tolerate in lame attempts to pacify such evil. |
DOCTOR_BENWAY
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Ricky is right about fearing the Liberal Conspiracy. We should all be scared of Liberal Party psychopaths raping decent folk up the back passage with sandpaper dildoes, or forcing us to masturbate with steel wool. There is so much evil emanating from the Al-KirriBilli mosque, that it almost glows with demonic energies. I have offered to re-program these Liberal Party vegetables into decent normal-behaving folk, but they just laughed at me! If I get their head demon into RP, see if they laugh then... |
Ricardovitz
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There is a reason why your Aussie conservative party is called the "Liberal Party" - that's because it's more liberal than all of the fruits and nuts in California. They did what all of the American Homosexuals, Budahists, Hippies, Peacenicks, and Communists couldn't do - CONFISCATE ALL OF YOUR HANDGUNS AND OTEHR FIREARMS!!! If that ain't "liberal", then I don't know what is. Furthermore, your "Liberal" party doles out money, food, places to live, etc. to millions of worthless unproductives. You people call them "conservatives", but their name says it all: your "Liberal" party has been over-run by peacenicks, atheists, communists, GUN BANNERS, and Drug-guzzling Hippies. Why don't you Ausies just kill yourselves right now. Go ahead, just suck the end of an exahust pipe or guzzle more drugs than your livers can handle. You and your children are doomed to slavery, and then when they don't need you anymore, your government will simply start shoving you in ovens by the millions. |
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This time I actually agree with your sentiment. - Shock. You are right. There is a huge amount of torture, rape and murder that the Muslim World perpetrates on other religions, be they Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, Jew......somewhere in the world and it seems that no-one of any consequence speaks out. It IS without doubt an attempt to pacify them 'cos they have a reputation of being hot-heads and riot at the drop of a hat. Not to mention the sheer large population. Where will it end? A classic example of this was the long and deafening silence around the world when they destroyed the world's largest Buddha in Afghanistan. If that's not a travesty, what is? |
Umbrella Woman
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Aren't we supposed to be the good guys? the enlightened, democratic West? Every civilian terrorised, maimed or killed by American action in Iraq and Afghanistan is proof that the West are exactly the kind of careless, callous crusaders al-queda accuses it of being |
Ricardovitz
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We were attacked in our own country; and our citizens (yours as well) have been attacked through out the world by organizations that reside in Iraq and controlled Afghanistan. We are well within our rights to destroy those who attack us. |
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No Ric, Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 until those halfwits in the Grey House invaded it. And the Taliban were business associates of the US govt... Like the Iraqi minister said: the US was ignorant before invading and aarrogant during occupation. And whole world knoews what a pack of two-face hypocrites the US govt is... Oh, and Ric, you have LOST the "war o terror-ISM"... I can't wait for the US Army to mutiny! |
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First, you completely ignore that we rightfully invaded Afghanistan and destroyed the Taliban. Thus, I suppose you concede this action was just and rightful on our part. This ends the discussion in Afghanistan. Second, we were justified in invading Iraq on three grounds: 1) Saddam was openly and publicly supporting and encouraging terrorism world wide. He flaunted the fact that he paid money to families of suicide bombers who worked for terrorist organizations. There is no denying this. 2) Saddam entered a treaty with the US, whereby the US withheld further aggression during the Iraq/Kuait war. In return for the US not invading the rest of Iraq and occupying it during the 1st Gulf War, Saddam agreed to inspections, no-fly zone, selling oil for food only, and a number of other conditions. He violated each and every point of that treaty - that alone justifies a full fleged invasion of Iraq. 3) There is undeniable proof that Saddam did in fact harbour terrorist training camps, which he funded, inside of Iraq. This is more than enough - we don't need to show anything else. We could be wrong about WMD's, etc., and it doesn't make a bit of difference - we were and are fully justified in invading and occupying Iraq based on the above alone. Your argument goes something like this: The prosecuter claims that Abdul murdered John, murdered Sally, raped, Bill and Susan, tortured Ralph and Jane by sawing off their limbs, murdered Butch, Brett, and Bobby and blew up a daycare center with 50 children inside. The Defense shows that there is some doubt about whether the Abdul actually raped Bill because some of the seman extracted from Bill's bung hole didn't match Abdul's, eventhoug Bill is a known man-whore. So, according to Alex, it was a travesty of justice that Abdul was ever accused, or tried for any crime at all - after all, there is some evidence to doubt the prosecutor's pursuit of the rape charge pertaining to Bill. |
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OK so you "destroyed" the Taliban but missed Bin Laden and Al_Qaeda because you - that is, your terminally insane Prez - were so keen to whack Saddam. Man, you blew it, big-time! Al Qaeda are back in style in Afghanistan, Iraq is a failed State, and the US has to scrape up all the weekend warriors (aka National Guards) it can get to joi the meat grinder... Nice one, Ricky, With US victories like this, Osama must be shaking in his curly toed slippers! |
Ricardovitz
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"you "destroyed" the Taliban but missed Bin Laden and Al_Qaeda because you were so keen to whack Saddam." Perfect example of twisted logic right there. One has nothing to do with the other. Saddam signed a peace treaty, violated the treaty numerous times and committed many other attrocious and independant terrorist acts - that's why we wacked him. The Taliban has been destroyed; so has most of Al Qaeda. Bin Laden could be dead for all we know, burried somewhere on the border of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Who cares, he's done, has no influence or control over anything, if he is still alive. You don't have to kill someone to completely defeat him - and Bin Laden has been thoroughly defeated. Some of his followers must not be made to follow in his foot path. We will gladly make them maryters for Allah! Bin Laden is a coward, if he is still alive. Afraid to speak, afraid to be seen, afraid to act, and afraid to fight. If he is still alive (which I doubt), we've cut his balls off and have given him a slit in its place so that the queer folks of Afghanistan can use him as a cum sack and not spread AIDs. Osama has been long ago defeated, I know it, you know it, and the world know it - whanting to admit it or not is a different matter. |
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We have the right to destroy anyone who attacks us, or anyone who is perceived to attack us, or anyone who we think might attack us one day. This is how we protect ourselves and our future. It is why we need guns with us at all times. So we can protect ourselves against anyone we need to protect ourselves against. |
Non yank Westerner doomed to a future created by dumb Yanks.
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Osama is bigger than ever. Virtually unknown before 'The War on Terror'. Osama and his movement are now nearly bigger than Jesus. Thanks Yanks. We didn't need this. And why? For Haliburton and friends? Surely hasn't kept petrol pricing down. |
Ricardovitz
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"Surely hasn't kept petrol pricing down. " Of course it hasn't. The war was never about oil, stealing Iraqi oil or keeping gas prices down for Aussies and Americans. The extreme short sightedness of liberals, communists, socialists and drug-guzzling hippies is really very "chimpish". |
Venting Wasabi
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Hmm, destroyed al-qaeda and the Taliban? Doubt it, not that it matters. There have been more terrorist attacks and deaths since the Americon neo-nuts invented this fake "war-on-terrorism". And you aint kidding us: the whole world knows you Yanks are doing this for $$$ not for freedom or your bastardised version of democracy. |
Antihistamine
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The American version of democracy is an extremely bad one. If the richest, most powerful nation on earth cannot - or will not - provide its citizens with universal health care, education and - lets face it! - equiry, equality and freedom, then why should we, the rest of the world, follow the US example? |
Ricardovitz
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not a nanny-state socialist country. Why the hell do you think someone else must provide you with health care? Why don't you think that you are responsible for yourself, including your own health? Where do these drug-guzzling lemmings get off crying to "the world" that someone else isn't providing enough for them. You moronic retards are pathetic. SURVIVAL OF THE FITTIST!!!! If you aren't capable of taking care of yourself, your needs, feeding yourself, AND YOUR HEALTHCARE, then friggin DIE already - keeping people like that alive is poluting our gene pool. |
Lord Myron
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Shoot all smart arses in class. Make the world a better place. Survival of the fittest. |
Antihistamine
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Taxes are paid to maintain an equitable society. Anything less than that is corporate fascism ruled by an "elite" (i.e. filthy rich) minority... and judging by the extremes of imbalance in that beacon of democracy known as the USA, I would suggest that the rest of the world is quite right in rejecting that rotting example |
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The strongest will pay thugs to FORCE the weak to provide for the strong. Now that is what winning really means. Living in opulence while the weaklings struggle to keep your wine cellar well stocked. It is not what you know, but who you know. User pays... - John (anonymous PM) |
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Holy toejam, Rick, you seem to imply that you are a totally self reliant, independently wealthy WINNER living in total isolation of your fellow human beans! How do you manage this great feat? Oh, I get it, you must be George W Bush! |
Ricardovitz
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I've got everything someone needs if the social network that you Lemmings rely upon gets unplugged. I may not be the richest guy around, but I do have what it takes to survive. I have guns, ammo, a self-sustainable place to live without electricity, city sewer or city water. I have a case full of electric solar pannels stashed away. Not to mention precious metals for currency, seeds, food supplies, pleanty of medications, clothing, water purification tablets and filtration systems. I can hunt, camp for days on end, stay healthy and clean while all of you Lemmings fight over rat intestines, if and when you can find them. You don't need to be independantly wealthy to survive, but you can't be a dumb-old poor slob neither. Ye, better hope that ye don't live anywheres near I do I'nwhen the appocolypse comes. 'Cause I'll be fix'n to sing you a little song, goes something like this: ___________ This land was your land, now your land is my land From Kalifornia, to the Jew York Island From every forest, to the gulf stream waters Your land now belongs to only me. As I was marching upon every highway I saw above me an endless skyway I saw below me a golden valley Now, this land was conqured for only me; Chorus I've fought and conqured and I've lead my people to your footsteps To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts And all around me The Lord declared This land was made for me and mine. Chorus The sun shines brightly while I'm a shoot'n The wheat fields yielding and the dust clouds blustering The fog was lifting a voice come chanting Slave, your land now belongs to me. |
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Ricky, that brings a tear to the eye. As they say, the meek shall replenish the Earth - with their minerals of course. There will be a lot of composting going on soon. No intoxicated leaping, whirling and twirling in a gay Mardi Gras when you're pushing up daisies. - Vlad (yes, the real impaler) |
Mr Anderson
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I'm willing to bet Mr R is about 14 years old and doesn't get around much... Does your mommy know you're up this late and piss-farting around on her PC? |
Sven Svenson
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Seems to me that the Bush team is less interested in democracy or protecting the American constitution than in corrupt crony capitalism and the Republican party's hold on power... I fear Bush is following the well trodden path of dictators before him... |
Ricardovitz
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I recon you don't get no TV, Newspapers, or even radio where you come from. So's I can understand you need'n to rely on this thang they call the "internet" to get you the news. Problem is that you ain't real good at what they call "Googling". The Republican party lost their hold on power way back in the '06 elections, nearly half a year ago. Now, the communist-Democrats run the House and Senate. Bush is in his last couple of years as president, so he ain't look'n real good to be our fearless dictator. (But, I'm available for the job - just biding my time) I know it ain't easy being smart like me - it's mostly genetics, but that's why some real smart rocket-scientists invented this thang called "Google". You aint' got to be smart to get yer information right before you make an ass of yourself. |
Benny
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer: “President Bush’s commutation of a pal’s prison sentence counts as a most shocking act of disrespect for the U.S. justice system. It’s the latest sign of the huge repairs to American concepts of the rule of law that await the next president.” The Denver Post found that “such big-footing of other branches of government is not unprecedented with this administration. The president’s abuse of signing statements show his disrespect for Congress’ power to make law. His insistence that terror detainees at Guantanamo Bay be denied Habeas Corpus rights mocks legal tradition. It’s a shame that his actions in the Libby affair will add to that list. Libby should be held accountable for his crimes.” Chicago Tribune believes that “in nixing the prison term, Bush sent a terrible message to citizens and to government officials who are expected to serve the public with integrity. The way for a president to discourage the breaking of federal laws is by letting fairly rendered consequences play out, however uncomfortably for everyone involved. The message to a Scooter Libby ought to be the same as it is for other convicts: You do the crime, you do the time.” The Arizona Republic: “We thought Scooter Libby was going through the criminal justice system. Just like anyone else. Then, President Bush whipped out a get-out-of-jail-free card. This is the wrong game to play on a very public stage.” San Jose Mercury News: “Other presidents have doled out pardons and the like, usually on the way out of office. It’s never pretty. But few have placed themselves above the law as Bush, Cheney and friends repeatedly have done by trampling civil liberties and denying due process. Chalk up another point for freedom. Scooter’s, at least.” |
