GetUp! who has been campaigning for tortured and detained prisoner David Hicks [a political scapegoat for the John Howard government] has now delivered 65,000 protest letters to the war criminal Prime Minister's Sydney electorate office.

GetUp! says the letters criticise the Government's handling of the case.

GetUp! has also brought more than 10,000 postcards, signed by voters in John Howard's seat of Bennelong, questioning the fairness of the US military commission system in Guantanamo Bay.

Bennelong resident Barbara Ford says Hicks's nine-month sentence has not done anything to correct the system he was held under.

"Mr Howard may be feeling quite satisfied now that this has ended satisfactorily but for us it hasn't," she said.

GetUp! is accusing the Federal Government of "diminishing Australia" by allowing Hicks to be imprisoned for five years without trial, despite reports of mistreatment and abuse.

The group says Australians have now lost faith that the Government will come to their aid if they are treated unjustly overseas.

Source:  http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200704/s1890677.htm

Related:

Silence Broken David Hicks tells all - Afghanistan, Guantanamo, politics, guilt...

1. Why I made a guilty plea 2. The guilty plea: how I advised David 3. My island home: first weeks at Guantanamo 4. Ten torture techniques in 12 months 5. Solitary confinement was one thing, just don't get me started on the food 6. I never met a DFAT official I didn't like. Come to think of it, I never met a DFAT official

 http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/04/143103.php