David Hicks ask John Howard a question on Q&A.
Context: David Hicks is tortured, denied due proccess and kept for a long time without trial. David Hicks then pleads guilty.
Howard’s answer seems to suggest that because Hicks pleaded guilty his treatment was justified. You can probably put together the gaping logic in Howard’s answer. Its bitterly sad that the second longest serving PM can laud Australia on being a democracy, then in the same breath, justifies denying one of our own citizens due process, full access to the justice system and the right to be free from torture.
