some other country
“AUSTRALIA’S only Guantanamo Bay detainee, David Hicks, could escape justice if Britain accepts his application for citizenship, Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer says.”
Oh those lawless Brits.
If Mr Hicks and his lawyers want to try to circumvent justice by going to some other country and think that will help them, that’s a matter between him and that country,” Mr Downer said yesterday.
Apparently, we have now started to talk of one of the members of the coalition of the willing and the country that founded Australia - as “some other country”.
Mmmm. I wonder if there is some agenda here for Downer not to name Britain by its name. Can anyone guess?
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September 28th, 2005 at 2:53 pm
Yes I loved that quote. Not because of what it says but the implication that David Hicks has a snowflake’s chance in hell of receiving justice, which of course he does not.
At this stage he is an innocent civilian who has been held without trial for 3 years by a foreign power. If his country of birth has deserted him, which we clearly have, then it seems natural to seek citizenship in a more civilised and compassionate country.