David Hicks

Margo Kingston's Webdiary - smh.com.au:
"As an Australian citizen abroad, Hicks is entitled to effective Australian Government consular protection when arrested and charged with serious crimes by a foreign government. For the past four years he has not had this protection. To surrender his final fate to a military “court” where the US military is at once plaintiff, jailer, evidence gatherer, prosecutor, judge and jury cannot give him a fair trial. At the very least, he should be tried by a US civil court (as was US citizen John Walker Lindh). Or he should be returned for trial in Australia as other non-US Guantanamo inmates (e.g., British, French prisoners) are being repatriated to face judicial process in their own countries."

This is the most impartial account I can find with regard to David Hicks and what his current rights are. Other western nations freed their citizens from Guantanamo Bay and have repatriated them so that the matters can be sorted out in their own country. She at least clarifies the fact that as one of our citizens he is entitled to certain things as we should all want to be as Australians. Personal opinion is not relevant.