High Court, Can the President Order Citizens and Legal Residents Detained Indefinitely Without Charges?

This what America has come to. The Bushes has almost ruined our Nation.

We the People have almost no rights. When the New World Order takes place vary soon thy will come to our homes take our gun's put us in Prison for no reasons. The coming of the Lord is near be ready. Study the Bible to see whats coming God Bless. Michael

An AUSTRALIAN CITIZEN in GUANTANAMO: DAVID HICKS

Mary, your story of abuse of Presidential power reminds me of the unjust, non-human treatment dealt out to an Australian citizen - imprisoned from 2001 until 2007.

The following describes how this Australian disappeared. It was only through the persistance of his father that David's plight was made known to all at home in Australia. The Australian public were stunned, then sickened to think that this injustice was happening, and eventually realized that it could happen to any one of us.

When President Bush attended Australia's Parliament during this time, two Parliament Members ignored the protocol and questioned the American president about David Hicks.

Bush laughed and made some snooty remark about 'freedom of speech' ...hinting no doubt that certain Australians ought not have freedom of speech. It was televised into all Australian homes. Australia's relationship with America was questioned.

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It was suggested in Australian media that David Hicks' father should be made "Father of the Year". He never gave up on his son.

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The following is from Wikipedia where sources are supplied.

David Hicks is an Australian who undertook combat training in al Qaeda-linked camps and served with the ruling Taliban regime in Afghanistan in 2001. He was then detained by the United States Government in Guantanamo Bay until 2007 when he became the first to be tried and convicted under the U.S. Military Commissions Act of 2006. Hicks's treatment, the evidence tendered against him, his trial outcome, and the newly created legal system under which he was prosecuted, drew widespread criticism and political controversy.

In 1999, Hicks converted to Islam and took the name Muhammed Dawood. He was captured in Afghanistan in December 2001 by the Afghan Northern Alliance and sold for a $1,000 bounty to the U.S. military. He was transported to Guantanamo Bay where he was designated an enemy combatant, during which time he alleged he was tortured.

Charges were first filed against Hicks in 2004 under a military commission system newly created by Presidential Order. Those proceedings failed in 2006 when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, that the military commission system was unconstitutional. The military commission system was re-established by an Act of the United States Congress.

Revised charges were filed against Hicks in February 2007 before a new commission under the new Act.

The following month, in accordance with a pre-trial agreement struck with convening authority Judge Susan J. Crawford, Hicks pleaded guilty to a single newly codified charge of "providing material support for terrorism". Hicks's legal team attributed his acceptance of the plea bargain to his "desperation for release from Guantanamo".

In April 2007, Hicks was returned to Australia to serve the remaining nine months of a suspended seven-year sentence. The nine month period precluded media contact and drew criticism for delaying his release until after the 2007 Australian election. Former Pentagon chief prosecutor, Colonel Morris Davis later alleged political interference in the case, by the Bush administration in the U.S. and the Howard government in Australia, and said that Hicks should not have been prosecuted.

Hicks served his term in Adelaide's Yatala Labour Prison and was released under control order on 29 December 2007.