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If you believe the rabid left, David Hicks has been tortured, locked in solitary confinement for years on end….. And yet lets read the SMH coverage of Hick’s court appearance today:

“Rather than being pale from long stints locked inside the maximum security prison, Hicks’s skin looked as tanned as that of his American military lawyer Major Michael Mori, sitting beside him in court….Prison food had added about 10kg to Hicks’s small, 167cm-tall frame,His father described Hicks as looking “puffy”.”

Now that sounds like a man who has been tortured, starved and kept in solitary confinement, NOT. How the f*ck do you put on 10kg if you’re being tortured? how the hell do you get a sun tan if you’re locked in solitary confinement for 23 hours out of 24, or even more as has been alleged by some.

BTW Hicks pleaded guilty after a lot of noise about him pleading innocent. Of course the Hick’s apologists are saying he was forced to admit guilt, without recognizing the fact that he’s proven and admitted to being an Islamic warrior, having fought the Western infidel armies in Kosovo, and being captured in Afghanistan. God help us if the Americans let him come home to Australia, we’re fighting to keep the jihad away from our shores, not within it.

NineMSN: Anthony Callea admits he’s gay

Australia’s Clay Aitken. Will the front page of The West read “Callea Gay Shock” tomorrow? unlikely, more like “Another Eagle caught taking drugs”, but expect a line in the Entertainment Section.

Great to see one back at Gore:

Next to the Reuters story mentioned in my last post about the women turning up to the Madrid Training Bombing trials in a Mohamad cartoon T-Shirt:

Reuters via HotAir covering the Spanish trial of the alleged Madrid Train Bombers:

A woman who lost her husband in the 2004 Madrid train bombings displayed an infamous cartoon mocking the Prophet Mohammad on her T-shirt in front of 29, mostly Muslim, suspects on trial for the attacks on Monday.

The woman?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s white T-shirt showed Mohammad wearing a bomb as a turban ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äù one of a series published by Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten which unleashed violent protests by some Muslims last year?¢‚Ǩ¬¶

The woman sat in the front row of the court wearing the T-shirt for around half-an-hour before getting up, walking up to the glass cage containing the defendants and finally walking out of the court, judicial sources said.

Now that’s a hero.

Chris Pirillo puts some perspective on the whole Kathy Sierra death threats meme. I totally avoided the issue in my post on Scoble’s chicken reaction at 901am because it’s difficult to talk about perspective when some one is legitimately upset about what has happened (as I have no doubt that Sierra is) without sounding like you’re either denigrating the victim or siding with the people making the death threats.

I’ve had death threats before, although none I’ve ever taken seriously, but unlike others I’ve actually been attacked with a Kitchen Clever. Luckily my friend and I backed right away on that fateful day about 10 days prior to the 1996 Australian Federal Election and the nutter Labor Party member swung the clever widly at us as he sought to steal the “Mutch for Cook” banner we’d strung on a highway overpass. I didn’t piss my pants, but I’ll admit I was pretty close to it, and it took me at least an hour to stop shaking. I’ll never forget that day till the day I die, and unless you’ve been the victim of any sort of crime like this it’s impossible to relate the feelings something like this brings up. But I digress, because I do sympathise with Kathy’s position, but others need to put it all in perspective, and actually stand up for free speech online, not back away from it. If you’re angry about the death threats, double your blogging efforts.