OddThinking » We’re not nearly finished yet

Filed by: Julian on March 31st 2007

		Each image on the left represents a Guantanamo Bay “detainee” who has been formally charged with a crime.
		Each image on the right represents a Guantanamo Bay detainee who has not been formally charged.
		Many of the prisoners have been held since early 2002.
		Whether you believe David Hicks’s guilty plea was honest, co-erced or a pragmatic lie, …
		whether you believe the acts he committed were actually a crime, …
		whether you believe that the military tribunals can deliver justice, …
		at least David Hicks was finally granted the decency of some sort of chance in some sort of court.
		Many others haven’t.

		Just because they weren’t born in Australia…
Total: 10		just because many of them are committed acts that we find abhorrent…
		doesn’t mean we get to ignore the need for justice.





















































































































































































































































































































































































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Comment by Aristotle Pagaltzis on April 3, 2007

Thank you for saying that. I have no idea about the case in question, but it boggles my mind how many people will readily state that the proper procedures of justice are not necessary in many cases, just because they have already formed an opinion about whoever it is. It makes me want to shake them and yell at them to â€œwake up! Your own security depends on our collective insistence that everyone be tried justly â€“ however atrocious their deeds may have been.â€ There is no other protection for all of us than to ensure that checks and balances are in place.
Comment by Andrew on April 13, 2007

David Hicks didn’t deserve a fair trial – he’s guilty. The others are worse. I wish it was obvious that this comment was intended as satire.

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