Poor little Muhammad

I’ve yet to hear of a criminal claiming his trip to from the the courthuose was inhumane. Never a word about the airconditioning being too high or too low and I’ve never heard of bad guys suffering from dehydration or getting ill to the point of hospitalization on the way to court. Until now.

Victorian Supreme Court judge Bernard Bongiorno gave the caution after being told several of the men became ill after they were transported from court in a vehicle without airconditioning or water in temperatures above 30C. Lawyer Greg Barns, for one of the accused men, Ezzit Raad, told the court the incident occurred last Thursday.

If that’s a grave intended denial of human rights then I trust no-one invloved ever has to endure a long army convoy It’s a well known that terrorist leaders instruct their people to claim “torture” as soon as they can after capture. It creates a queue of human rights lawyers to come to their assistance even if the torture is totally invented. Every time a terrorist suspect is required to answer to the law for his alleged crimes against humanity or his intent to committ such crimes his lawyers modus operandi, the first step for defence, is to appeal to the weak amongst us by claiming “torture” or “lack of human rights” A sound tactic but ethically questionable because it is designed to take the emphasis away from the alleged intent to conduct a terrorist activity and shift it to the conditions of incarceration. Articles waxes philosophically about the accused. Nice guy,…astounded that he would be considered a suicide bomber….. shock and indignation…..their right to a fair trial had been irreparably damaged……His father said his son was an “angel”…. The HRLRC is gravely concerned that the type, length, conditions and effects of the Detainees’ detention amount to serious ongoing human rights violations, including in relation to: and they list a standard litany of rights from the UN’s International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. All of the above is fine and I don’t deny the alleged terrorists their human rights but at the moment the entire debate is about their rights and little mention of their alleged terrorist acts. I’m of the opinion that every article printed in the media should remind readers of the alleged intent as in “poor little Mohamed was denied a glass of water under the covenant of blah…blah…blah but it is alleged he was a part of a plot to blow up Australian infrastructure and/or innocent Australian women and children. Some perspective, don’t you think?