David Hicks documentary; The President Versus David Hicks

June is torture awareness month, but naturally, once aware, you cannot limit yourself to one designated time to raise awareness as becoming aware is like peeling an onion; people need constant exposure, here and there to warm up to the idea that torture is actually occurring. Americans in general are so removed from the day to day military activities, in Iraq, Afghanistan and in the facilities such as Guantanamo Bay, that, news goes in one ear, and out the next.

Yes, 'torture' is not exactly water cooler talk, small talk when at the park with the kids and having a conversation with another parent..dinner conversation, anyone? I do believe that people who function at a higher level of morality, e.g., seek to place the whole wild world in a greater context than the narrow confines of their own little existence, will naturally gravitate towards wanting to learn about this. The majority of people, having to eak out a living or just having other things on their minds, are the ones that need to become more aware of their political and social environment. The world is bigger than their own cosmos. And outside their cosmos..ugly things have occurred in the name of... .


Take David Hicks, sold by the Northern Alliance to the US. Read about him on the site fairgofordavid.

David was captured in Afghanistan in January 2002. Since then, David has been a prisoner at the American naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. No charges have been laid against him, no date has been set for a trial

Read David Hicks facts here.


Terry Hicks, David's father has always said the following, which is what most people want for all the prisoners taking by the US;

Since he learned his son was in the military jail, Terry has maintained that all he wants is for the Americans to charge David, if they have any evidence, and give him a fair trial..

Terry and others, including David's laywers argue that the Guantanamo Bay trial will not be fair because it will be a military tribunal in which the normal civil rules of law do not apply. For example, evidence obtained under interrogation will be admissible. The Pentagon has also recently stated that prisoners may be kept at the jail indefinitely if they are believed to be a threat to the US.

He's been campaigning for this ever since. Terry Hicks protesting his son's indefinite imprisonment, replicating the space his son David was in for solitary confinement, here seen in New York City.

Please read one of the very few interviews Terry Hicks has given.This one dates the year 2002.

I like the point that Terry Hicks has taken. If my son is guilty, put him on trial where there is accountability. However, the Bush administration has gone about from day one in pursuing war, pursuing legal changes, trying to undermine everything that could possibly hold them to the high standard that elected officials are supposed to be held to. The reason this is not a real democracy is that the majority of people have abdicated taking part in it. It's the only way to keep government officials (including any President), honest.