Matthew Levinson

A kangaroo court

Published on 20/02/07
by matt

The hastily rebuilt military tribunal for Guantanamo Bay inmates including David Hicks was cut apart on SBS’s Insight tonight

Where else but Insight could you get key trial participants like US Colonel Moe Davis, Major Michael Mori, Attorney-General Philip Ruddock, Hicks’s father and step-mother Terry and Bev Hicks, and constitutional lawyers, as well as a cast of expert and interested players in to debate?

The farcical court (and Australia’s five years of lame response) was repeatedly exposed to ridicule – Ruddock’s brandishing of an Amnesty badge, his hilarious comment that Hicks would appreciate having the case resolved in the US court rather than just come home, Davis’s attempts to sidestep Jenny Brockie’s questions. It’s become an election issue here in Australia, which is why things seem to be moving at long last, but the end result is still anyone’s guess.

Check Robert Richter QC’s ranty but excellent piece for The Age.

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