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Howard blunders badly over Hicks Case
by nano Tuesday, Mar 27 2007, 12:14pm
international / social/political / commentary

John Howard, the servile Australian prime minister has probably ended his tenure in office over his blind, sycophantic support of the flagrantly illegal proceedings against the Australian citizen, David Hicks. Howard’s extraordinary support of a foreign power at the cost of his own nation and its values is a political blunder from which it is almost impossible to recover. The very widely known facts of the Kangaroo military proceedings against Hicks speak for themselves. Any nation that legalises torture, flouts the Geneva convention and International law; attacks civil liberties and human rights; denies habeas corpus; admits hearsay ‘evidence’ obtained under duress and torture has no legal or moral claim on the concept of justice whatsoever. The entire world (with the exception of John Howard) is cognisant of that fact!

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Howard’s latest comments on the case are both idiotic and contemptuous of the Australian public’s intelligence, “We believe that Mr Hicks, given the severity of the charges against him, should always have faced ‘justice’ and we believe that process is ‘now occurring’,” he said [my emphases]. The suicidal keyword for Howard is “justice” and its obvious absence in relation to the political proceedings against Hicks.

What is occurring is a failed U.S. regime grasping at straws in an attempt to vindicate its many overtly illegal and criminal acts. Not a single person in Australia, and probably the world, imagined for a second that Hicks would receive a fair trial. Almost everyone is aware of the reality of the situation yet Howard remains blissfully oblivious of that fact and the damage he is inflicting on himself and his party by persisting with his childish insistence that ‘justice’ is being served. Howard is obviously labouring under the misapprehension that he is able to construct and even alter the prevailing reality! John Howard may be suffering from a delusory complaint.

The opposition party cannot believe its luck; their once wily, politically savvy opponent is losing it! With the minimum of tactical intervention the opposition is allowing Howard to crucify himself and his party over the Hicks case. There is not a consultant in town that is unaware of the fact that the Hicks case is a lose-lose situation for Howard. Howard’s only hope is to politically attack and criticise the U.S.; options he is unable and unwilling to pursue – a servant must obey his master!

So its goodbye Johnny; who would have ever thought this politically adept little liar would blunder so awkwardly just prior to an election?