of relative governmental ineptitude and will
David Hicks, the last(?) of the two Australians illegally in custody in Guantanamo Bay is applying for a United Kingdom passport. He is doing so because the UK has, unlike our spineless government, rightly been critical of the trials of people incarcerated there and has managed to get all nine of their citizens returned home. If the Australian federal government does not care about its citizens, hopefully the UK government will.
Not that the UK government is perfect. The laws being passed over there are as at least as scary as those in the United States and over here. With the overreaching power their security forces have been given and are actively using, I would not want to live there for long.
As an aside, calling the people at Guantanamo "detainees" is a pretty appalling doublespeak. The term makes their incarceration seem transient, trivialises their fate and avoids the pesky legal connotations of the word "prisioner" (i.e. that they are actually being held with some legal basis). How about we just call them "people", hey?
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oi, hippy, is 'prisioner' the new-left frenchy word for prisoner of war? Watch more m*a*s*h*, less SBS news.
Posted by: staline on September 26, 2005 04:06 PM
Meh, whatevar. I'm so scene I don't need your speeling!!1111!
Posted by: Mike on September 26, 2005 05:04 PM
Hey, M*A*S*H was pretty left-wing for its day. Just 'cause it was a bit more subtle than Michael Moore, doesn't mean it didn't have some worthwhile content. Even the TV series, jollied-up though it was, still had its moments.
"Suicide is painless, and I can take or leave it if I please..."
Posted by: Joel on September 26, 2005 09:31 PM
Exactly - and i do believe that it's the only televisual event ever that has used the red cross emblem correctly.
so mike, as i said, less Anton Enus, more Korean War humour.
Posted by: on September 27, 2005 12:58 PM
God I miss Fast Forward's SBS News sketches...
Posted by: Joel on September 28, 2005 08:25 PM
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