Inhuman minds think alike: Miranda Devine and John HowardHere's a massive surprise- David Hicks' imprisonment will continue until after the federal election.
Coincidence, of course.
John Howard is a monster. He has an appalling record on human rights, but he's smart enough to know how to work the 'out of sight, out of mind' mentality on the Australian public. He's blown George Bush enough times to know he could pull this one small favour; it wasn't much to ask from the Americans, seeing as Hicks was so desperate to get out of Guantanamo they could be sure he would plead guilty and give de facto legitimacy to the illegal torture camp and military kangaroo court they're running.
Miranda Devine (I do hate to admit reading one of her screeds) has taken it upon herself to ridicule the people who think that maybe, just maybe, Hicks wasn't subjected to a fair process over the last 5 years. I don't like to legitimise her ongoing employment with Fairfax by linking to her column, so anyone who wants to experience the entertaining juxtaposition of her assessment of Schapelle Corby's trial with what she had to say about David Hicks' 'trial' can go here.
Here's a taste...
On Schapelle Corby:
The Australian public has seen what Corby's defence team saw long ago: a transcendent grace that makes her guilt implausible. Her strength of character, not to mention the careful styling and stunning good looks, improved in recent months by jail-time weight loss, have bolstered her claim she is innocent and that corrupt baggage handlers planted the drugs in her boogie board bag.
On David Hicks:
He was a well-trained terrorist, an al-Qaeda "golden boy" who had watched footage of the September 11, 2001, attacks which killed 3000 innocent people, including Australians, on a friend's TV in Pakistan, who "approved of the attacks" and went back to Afghanistan to fight the US and its allies with his terrorist mates. He was the enemy traitor when Australian troops were on the ground.
Heh. The first one is such a wankfest it almost reads like a piece of erotic fiction.
2 comments:
Well they can hardly give him time served. Because all that time served isn't really time served. Given he wasn't charged officially for most of that time. So time is needed. But in prison. Where he belongs. Apparently.
Miranda Devine is a festy mol of the right. Not physically, mentally. I think as many people have said she doesn't believe half what she writes, but does it for shock and because she's paid a wedge of cash to shock. She's like a brunette version of Ann Coulter.
Ever since I started reading the SMH in highschool I've always thought that the purpose of Miranda Devine's employment was solely to elicit as many responses to the Letters page as possible, and that if people stopped responding then perhaps they'd fire her. Probably too much to hope for.
Still, whether she believes what she's spouting or not, her expressed views are often quite disgusting.
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