Ruddock on Guantanamo courts.

Ruddock brushes aside criticism of Guantanamo courts. :

"'These complaints, as they were made well before the military commission process was put in place and so a lot of the comments, must be seen as historic rather than current,' he said."

Okay, if these complaints are out of date, why are people of repute still complaining? People who are well credentialled internationally ? People who ought to know the law and the military system? It can be denied, discounted, ignored, all of that. The complaints can fall on deaf ears. So be it. It in no way will it alter the truth. The truth is the truth is the truth. If people who ought to know are not comfortable, oughtn't a democratic society listen to them and include their views? We have a separation of the powers of the legal system and the state system. We are supposed to have. There is a good reason for that and it still holds and is pertinent to this case. International issues should be tried in an international court. Why aren't the people who shot all the bullets through the container trucks of Afghanis in Afghanistan being brought to trial? David Hicks was in Afghanistan before we thought of Baxter and Guantanomo Bay and whatever else we have thought up lately. What exactly is David Hick's position as a citizen of Australia who was fighting in Afghanisitan before any of our post 2001 adhocracy?