Mamdouh Habib has arrived back in Australia after spending more than three years in Guantanamo Bay. Although he's been described as a 'suspected terrorist' neither Australia nor America has produced evidence that stands scrutiny. He comes back a free man but at what cost to him, his family, and all people of Middle Eastern background, and those Australian citizens who have challenged this detention in this and other countries? His wife Maha and his children have solidly stuck by him as has the family of the other Australian detainee David Hicks. Many Australians also have stuck by these people despite the fact that our government has done NOTHING to help these Australians and despite the fact that by both US and Australian law their detention has been more than illegal. Today there is a welcome home in a local park and songs will be sung that will recall the history of struggle, good songs that we've all sung, but for Mamdouh, Maha and their children at what cost will be this homecoming when they will pay for the rest of their lives for the slur of 'terrorism' and outcomes of the demonising of being Arab/Middle eastern. Don't get me wrong - I think terrorism is the most dreadful thing - always has been. But I believe in the idea of justice and a fair go and it is shameful that our government doesn't even give it the slightest lookin. Now lets get David Hicks back home and all the other Guantanamo Bay detainees where the 'evidence' hasn't stood the scrutiny of legal requirements,      and put up or shut up about whether Hicks and others are guilty or not. A fair, open/transparent process of justice is not only necessary, but vital to our faith in the processes that we rely on, and without it we are all vulnerable. So, welcome home for what it's worth, Habib, and hope the songs that have meant so much over time, give you some strength and hope.