Thread: DPP to rule on Hicks book profits

Stuff him. Give the money to Legacy....my 2 cents..

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I actually voted yes, as hell we live in a morally corrupt western world where anything contraversial like this s#@t sells!

Quite interesting, as my wife and I came up with the same comment last night that "thought he was not allowed to profit on this as part of release conditions?"

everone bags wiki,
buts its a good jump off point


terrorists terrorising terrorists , go figure

I read his book & altho' I think he is an idiot and in the wrong place at the wrong time. I do believe tha John Howard, Alexander Downer & GW Bush have a lot to answer for. He was tortured and they trumped up a charge against him.

I say give him his money & before you make a profound decision, you should read the book.

Originally Posted by Sanity

I have been in that myself a few times in life, but never in a war zone fighting for an extremist organisation against my own country.

I wouldnt read his book, I dont pay terrorists.


I cant believe the amount of people that feel sorry for his boo hooing. " Mess with the bull, you get the horns ". And he did. It's a pity the US didnt do a us a favor and put a bullet in his head. We will have to listen to the pissing and moaning from civil libertarians, the PC and lefties till the day he dies now Slater and Gordon will probably launch a law suit for him now.

I don't support Hicks but read the book which was an eye opener. He was too stupid to be a terrorist. He is a dumb shit.

Freedom of speech and the right to profit from your actions are inherent rights.
Though having said that if you make money from your crimes, then the profits of crime should be confiscated.

BUT....

Making money from the story of your life which involved those crimes is not a crime in it's own right.

I don't care if Steve's a moron. I do not hold him any sort of regard nor do I believe he was just holidaying in Afganistan.

But, the point that his rights were clearly violated and continue to do so.
Either he's an enemy combatant in which case he was not treated like a prisoner of war.
He was treated as a prisoner of crime.

He was held indefinitely without trial and his trial was certainly not public and open to scrutiny nor was he judged by a jury.

It's just ####ing rotten to the core. He's either a POW which he should have been treated as such OR he's a criminal and subject to criminal proceedings and all the rights associated with it.

Ok, so lets just play devil's advocate and assume he's a dirty rotten terrorist, found guilty and served his sentence. The punishment is not ongoing. That's double jeporady.
You cannot be tried or punished more than once for your crime.

If you rob a bank, you're sentence is decided up front. At the end of your sentence as you're walking out of the jail, the judge cannot decide that your sentence was not long enough and send you back to serve more time.
A sentence can be appealed, but that is a legal process, and it cannot be retrospective.

If you are even with the house, the house cannot impose interest on your now cleared debt.

If Dave has to give up the cash, well I want to see Choppa-fvckin-Reid hand over all cash he has gained from his fame which is a 100% direct result of his life of crime.

Basically, I wouldn't buy Dave's book and I don't think many other people will bother either. If he makes $20k from his book, well I doubt he's going to use it to buy some ammonium nitrate.