Poor Hicks
I have some empathy with Terry Hicks, the father of David Hicks but none with David. Obviously I’m a harder and less gullible man than * Niall who claims that Hicks appears to have maintained his sense of self, despite the irrefutable claims of physical and mental abuse.
* Niall is still suffering from delusions of grandeur or paranoa or something that makes him deny other bloggers the abilty to permalink so just scroll down to The Fight Finally Begins – if you can be bothered.
Irrefutable?
1. incontrovertible, irrefutable, positive — (impossible to deny or disprove; “incontrovertible proof of the defendant’s innocence”; “proof positive”; “an irrefutable argument”)
Hicks himself claims to have been tortured. Well he would say that wouldn’t he.
This claim was backed up British detainees who claimed that;
… Hicks was denied medical attention for a hernia and interrogated more frequently than many other detainees after his capture in Afghanistan.The three men also claimed they suffered systematic brutality and were kept in open cages in the sweltering Cuban heat during their detention at the US military base in Guantanamo. Terry Hicks said his son’s abuse at Guantanamo was mental, not physical. Aww diddums. Cages in the open son, interrogated more than others, being spoken to in a nasty way. Just sounds like everyday life for an infantrymen to me. So, four terrorists claim they were treated poorly and a couple of left-wing lawyers and the father of one of them parrot their claims and it’s irrefutable! It is most probably irrefutable that Hicks was abused and torutured under the left wing rules that says if anyone says anything that makes the US look bad then it’s irrefutable. I have some empathy for Terry Hicks but I have more empathy and a lot of sympathy for the thousands of victims of the Taliban and it’s cousin Al Qaeda. I have no sympathy for David Hicks. Nor does the Australian Public – believe me.
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“irrefutable” to Niall is whatever he dreams up.
Kevin, you can request access to the comments and trackback anytime you like & I’ll grant it no questions asked. I simply reserve the right to do so, which is not unreasonable given that I pay for the domain and hosting.
Big call, by the way, saying the Australian Public has no sympathy for Hicks simply because you don’t. 20 million people just like you?
Big call. No. It’s my reading of the press and media coverage. ‘Irrefutable’ was a bad choice Niall and begs correction
Re access. I know you would grant me access but I don’t think I should have to ask. You would be better just banning those few who wind you up and join the spirit and ideas exchange of blogging
banning the few doesn’t work as 99.99999% of respondents use dynamic addresses. The mode I choose allows me the ultimate flexibility and control. For example, I would allow you any day as I underdstand you to be a rational human being. Others I know otherwise and choose to exclude. Even the ancient Greeks understood this method. I look forward to ratifying your access request.
Niall, the question more aptly askings is: Could 20 million people even remotely resemble you?
Niall, he made a decision to side with the enemies of our nation, the enemies of our way of life (liberal democracy). He now must face the grave consequences of that decision.
It is not nice, but it is life.
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Mike
There’s one problem with your appeal:
Niall wants Al-Qaeda to win. He’s too gutless to admit it, so he treats the matter disingenuously.
It’s about time that people like Niall admit which side they’re on.
I’m on my side…..self-interest is always trying. Surely even you would understand that ‘Murph’
Poor Niall, not bright enough to realise that supporting those who would kill him simply for who he is, is not in his own interest.