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Australians Get Their Licks In!
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Thu, 23 Oct 2003 14:42:49 GMT
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Protesters to Bush: How dare you?
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/10/22/1066631506479.html?from=storyrhs
In Sydney yesterday, the crowd, estimated by protest organisers to be 5000
people and by police at between 3000 and 4000, filled Town Hall square during
peak hour.
Senator Bob Brown of the Greens was greeted with wild cheers and applause before
he called on Mr Bush to release two Australians held in the US military jail in
Cuba.
“How dare you lock up Australian citizens in Guantanamo Bay?” Senator Brown
said.
He demanded that Mr Bush repatriate Mamdouh Habib, of Sydney, and David Hicks,
of Adelaide, to Australia “the same as you repatriated the Americans to
America”.
A federal Labor MP, Harry Quick, repeated his wish to turn his back when Mr Bush
addresses Parliament today, despite strict instructions from his party leader,
Simon Crean.
“They told me I have to be respectful, respectful of the US President,” he told
the rally.
“But I will tell you, why should we respect this duplicitous conniving and lying
President of the United States?”
The Greens -- a multinational party for a multinational world.
-- Hop-Frog
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