I started another thread .... at what cost this homecoming ... about the Australian coming home. I dunno, but it seems to me that all our governments are accepting the right of American to decide how we run our countries, our legislation, and our laws. In Australia I value very much the idea of equal justice for all, AND heabeous (wrong spelling!!!) corpus - innocent until proved guilty. In a world that has so many inbuilt inequities which make so many marginalised, no power, discriminated and so on, this seems like the one thing that we can work towards, believe in, and is enshrined within all of our governments. Any of us could be a 'suspected terrorist' under much of the legislation now - its only a matter of is 'they' want us and what they want to gather together to imprison - AND in most cases they don't need anything beyond a suspicion. Å suspicion is, it is clearly stated, anyone who acts or supports terrorism in any way. If you feel sorry for the bloke/s from G.Bay that can be seen as an act of support for terrorism despite the fact that none of the arrivals either to GB or Åus in actual fact has be proved to be terrorist. And David Hick's dad is a legend, a father who loves his son and loves justice, an ordinary bloke who risks imprisonment daily in his fight for his son's release. Thankfully there are many Åustralians and others who actively support him. I welcome home all the poor buggars who've suffered detention in G.Bay and pray that despite the fact that they will be harrassed, discriminated against, and probably hounded beyond endurance despite lack of evidence or a fair trial, that their lives have some happiness.