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David Hicks receives Sentence

category international | rights, freedoms and repression | other press author Saturday March 31, 2007 06:17author by dingo

Notice the use of language -- Australian news radio (12 noon) today broadcast that “convicted terrorist, David Hicks, receives nine month sentence...” – shame on ABC news radio, one can only wonder whether the choice of wording reflected the fundamentalist conservative, evangelical christian values of the Howard-loving producer, who will remain nameless in this report. Unlike American loving evangelical christians, most Australians accept “convictions” as a result of fair trials and due legal process NOT sordid kangaroo court 'determinations'.

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http://cleaves.zapto.org/clv/newswire.php?story_id=454

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