what a wonderful name, never heard it before.
Sadly, those of us who are simply humanitarians can be easily labeled otherwise by paranoid governments.
Thank goodness we have lost ol’ kiss-butt Howard…I’m sorry but he was our ‘Nixon’
and what its done to Aus society in blindly ‘leading’ us to follow Bush’ fear mongering
has left Aus society afraid to say hello to each other.
We were always a nit picking society, home of the tall poppy syndrome and all that
and we digest all the gossip mags we can get in a glimpse over shoulders, in Drs surgeries, some even buy this moral anaesthetic.
But, there’s me, the cynic.
I’m sure you know I’m a hopeless Taoist
certainly if you visit my home site http://www.donnawilliams.net you’d get that.
In any case, thanks for caring about humanitarian issues, about equality and justice.
But we are the country which still pays only lipservice to Indigenous issues
so sadly, Mr Hicks may have to handle his new life as ‘public interest’
I think the best he can do is to join with Amnesty to speak out against breaches of the Geneva Convention
because the media is a hungry beast
I’m a public person, I know
I was once ’stalked via media’
I asked the main instigator why he was doing this
he said ‘you made yourself a public person’ and essentially now I could take the consequences of that
tall poppy in one sentence really
people think it comes with the territory
the goss mags have taught them that public personas are somehow outside the boundaries of dignity they’d afford their own friends, neighbors, relatives.
its a social pathology, but to those who live in goss city, its an undeniable ‘normality’.
David Hicks is a passionate individual to have ended up where he did.
I hope he turns that passion into something constructive, diplomatic and socially informed.
The Taoist path is one of the middle road, neither black nor white, but comfortably a balanced ‘grey’
but its the only path I know which can weather the storms of an obsessive society
without becoming its fodder.
I’m with you, I would be sickened to find that a human being who has been,
-imprisoned for years in breach of the Geneva Convention,
-tortured,
-then subject to an admission of guilt under extortion circumstances for a newly created crime designed specifically to white wash a corrupt governments war crimes
is then expected to apologise to our government or people

but Australian’s can be uppity. Those few ignorant enough to still follow Bush’s lines out of Howard mouth may still have such a ludicrous whim on their Christmas wish list.
I do think that a public statement that he no longer adheres to extremism on the basis he has seen the effects of all forms of extremism, would be useful to him, but I, for one, expect nothing of this human being except that he , like any of us, seeks to ‘do no harm’.

Donna

My blood is boiling to read the stupidity about his past and I truly hope he will never say sorry for something he never did. The government should on the other hand for letting him down for so long and still do.

This poor man is the pray of the media and they are not nice, far from it. A good way to drive somebody suicidal is doing what they do to him. He must feel trapped, in a prison outside and I am not talking about his mental state after all that time in Guantanamo.

Do people have compassion, or simply a little bit of brain?

I am starting a course this year about Transpersonal art therapy, I would like to keep your website in mind I think I am going to learn a lot with it and should I say I loved Marcel Marceau.

Thank you for reading and I wish you a happy and successful year 2008

Kind regards Huguette Williams