Saturday, March 31, 2007
We'll let you go if...
... you promise to say it's okay that we're holding you.
"Hicks agreed to say that he was never "illegally treated" by anyone while he was in U.S. custody, and he promised not to file lawsuits against anyone in the U.S. government.
He also agreed not to talk to the media about his actions, his capture or his detention for at least the next year. He is forbidden by Australian law to ever profit financially from his ordeal."
The only good thing about this is I get to relish once more the words of US law professor Joseph Margulies (said when the US government tried to stop Guantanamo detainees from telling their lawyers about interrogation techniques used on them in the prison).
The prisoners “can’t even say what our government did to these guys to elicit the statements that are the basis for them being held. Kafka-esque doesn’t do it justice. This is ‘Alice in Wonderland.’”
"Hicks agreed to say that he was never "illegally treated" by anyone while he was in U.S. custody, and he promised not to file lawsuits against anyone in the U.S. government.
He also agreed not to talk to the media about his actions, his capture or his detention for at least the next year. He is forbidden by Australian law to ever profit financially from his ordeal."
The only good thing about this is I get to relish once more the words of US law professor Joseph Margulies (said when the US government tried to stop Guantanamo detainees from telling their lawyers about interrogation techniques used on them in the prison).
The prisoners “can’t even say what our government did to these guys to elicit the statements that are the basis for them being held. Kafka-esque doesn’t do it justice. This is ‘Alice in Wonderland.’”
