Crikey editorialises:
"The official Government line on David Hicks may not have changed, but the tone of its comments suggests even John Howard and Philip Ruddock are becoming exasperated at the delays in bringing him to trial – or at least concerned that the affair is becoming a political liability. And so they should be. The continued detention of Hicks is a national scandal.
But the Attorney-General insists that Hicks can't be brought home and charged in Australia. Ruddock says it "is more complicated than simply identifying a criminal offence". Absolutely. It's a moral issue. Theories of moral equivalence have always been bankrupt apologies for despotism. Our governments are infinitely more moral than Saddam Hussein’s. Their sense of justice is infinitely more developed than that of the Islamicists we are fighting."
"The official Government line on David Hicks may not have changed, but the tone of its comments suggests even John Howard and Philip Ruddock are becoming exasperated at the delays in bringing him to trial – or at least concerned that the affair is becoming a political liability. And so they should be. The continued detention of Hicks is a national scandal.
But the Attorney-General insists that Hicks can't be brought home and charged in Australia. Ruddock says it "is more complicated than simply identifying a criminal offence". Absolutely. It's a moral issue. Theories of moral equivalence have always been bankrupt apologies for despotism. Our governments are infinitely more moral than Saddam Hussein’s. Their sense of justice is infinitely more developed than that of the Islamicists we are fighting."
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