He fought for the KLA in Albania, he fought with the Lashkar-e-Toiba against India in Kashmir. An organization that has killed thousands of people. In fact India has launched an investigation into crimes.

He wrote from Kashmir “I got to fire hundreds of bullets. Most Muslim countries impose hanging for civilians arming themselves for conflict. There are not many countries in the world where a tourist, according to his visa, can go to stay with the army and shoot across the border at its enemy, legally.”

This all before he rushed into Afghanistan to join the fighter against the allies after Sept 11. Joshua, you think this man has not killed anyone? Israel is doomed if you appease these people. His motive was to kill people including Australians. He has admitted in taking part and people cry over him spending 6 years in jail?! How about a financier of a bus bomb in Israel? ‘Oh..I didn’t do it’ he answers with a grin and your type would let him go.

Hicks is lucky to be alive. He got a lot better deal than some of his victims I suspect.

secondly, does the crime match the punishment. Just because he has been associated with a terrorist organisation at some point in his life does not justify the punishment. If he was convicted of hurting somebody or killing western troops, he would have been convicted as charged. But in reality he was put away for 6 years in political limbo for purely preventative reasons. As a moral society, we have no right to punish people for crimes that they have the POTENTIAL to commit.

The David Hicks case was a disgrace. I’m a proud zionist jew and understand the need to act tough in the face of terrorism, but I really felt the American government were sinking to the moral level of Al Qaeda. If we have to have this silly ‘war on terror’ fine, but lets do it sticking to our ‘moral compass.’

I know where mine is, i think you may have lost yours.

You have got to be joking.

One of our Australian citizens fighting for a terrorist organization. A group which is responsible for over 88 murdered Australians in Bali and 11 in the September 11 attacks in addition to the 3000 or so dead innocent civilians of other nationalities. He happily fought against our troops in Afghanistan when we reined in the terrorist safe heaven. He should of been shot and buried there.

I saw a ‘Free David Hicks’ slogan some 10m long a while back hanging of the St Pauls Cathedral in Melbourne and felt angry at how deluded our soft liberal society had become. That church would be rubble if Hick and his terrorist friends got their way and its membership dead or converted Islam.