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March 29, 2007

David Hicks Confesses, Moonbats Don't Care

Aussie terrorist David Hicks, a Club Gitmo vacationer who converted to Islam and joined al-Qaeda, has confessed to crimes against civilization. But that won't cost him the love of the lunatic Left. A few choice quotations can be found in this extract from a piece by Andrew Bolt:

From the International Commission of Jurists' Glenn McGowan: "Who amongst us would not consider, in his shoes, pleading guilty just to escape a hellhole?"

From Liberty Victoria's Brian Walters: "After five years in shocking conditions … any ray of light showing a way out would be taken, and it has been."

From The Age: "Desperation drives the deal."

And from Greens leader Bob Brown: "His guilty plea is simply a plea for release for exit from the inhumane Guantanamo Bay gulag."

It is typical of the often hysterical excuses made for Hicks, and laced with anti-Americanism, that Brown equates Guantanamo Bay with the Soviet Union's gulag — equates the imprisonment of some 400 accused terrorists, many caught on the battlefield, with the imprisonment of 18 million civilians in conditions so brutal that a million or more died.

So routine is this kind of exaggeration that even ABC reporters told of their surprise this week at seeing Hicks at his hearing looking fat, healthy, tanned and jokey, after all, rather than gaunt, pale and crushed.

Bolt notes that when Hicks joined al-Qaeda in January 2001, the terrorist franchise had already publicly demanded "all Muslims able to do so to kill Americans — whether civilian or military." As he was in training with al-Qaeda, Hicks told his family he was a "practical soldier," training for martyrdom. His hope was to help see to it that "Western-Jewish domination is finished, so we live under Muslim rule again." As his own father was forced to admit: