The life of David Hicks is nothing to write home about. He doesn’t get to write home much On Thursday, though, I have no idea whether Hicks is guilty or innocent, whether he’s a terrorist or a captured It won’t do any good, but you can vote on whether Hicks should be returned to Australia — The life of David Hicks is nothing to write home about. He doesn’t get to write home much anyway. He’s been detained for 20 months at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by the U.S. military. He used to be held in Camp X-Ray. But they closed that place down — something to do with inhumane conditions — […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-388","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-6g","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nanyway. He’s been detained for 20 months at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by the U.S. military. He
\nused to be held in
\nclosed that place down — something to do with inhumane conditions — and transferred all the
\nsuspected terrorists held there to
\nwith maybe 600 or more other prisoners. I can’t be sure exactly. Like I say, he doesn’t get
\nto write home much.<\/P>
\n
\nX-Ray<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> will be staged as a play in a small theater in Adelaide,
\nAustralia, his hometown. The playwright wants to show 1) what it’s like living in a cage under
\n24-hour surveillance, and 2) what it means to be a non-person,
\ntitled “X-Ray,” will be seen by only about 180 people over a three-day run. But it’s also
\nmeant to publicize
\n(Australia is the only one of 40 countries “that has not formally objected to the U.S.’s
\ntreatment of its nationals” held at Camp Delta, the Adelaide Advertiser
\nreports.)<\/P>
\n
\nsoldier or neither. Maybe he’s both. The playwright, Chris Tugwell, probably doesn’t know either.
\n(“X-Ray” is fictional, but uses direct quotes from camp guards taken from statements to the media
\nby the U.S. Army.) Hicks’s father, who recently
\njumpsuit and standing in a cage on Broadway in the heart of Manhattan, has said: “If he’s guilty, I
\naccept that. But … I don’t believe he is guilty of anything. David’s an adventurer, not a terrorist.”
\nAll Terry Hicks is asking for (besides a fair shake) is that his son, who is 28, receive better
\ntreatment than a dog gets in the pound.<\/P>
\n
\nwhere, presumably, he would face legal proceedings. So far
\na majority who voted here<\/EM><\/FONT><\/B><\/A> say (by 59
\npercent to 41 percent) that Hicks should be returned. It doesn’t say how many people have voted.
\nNor does it say the poll accurately reflects popular opinion. I’d venture that it doesn’t and that a
\nmajority of Americans would prefer to let him rot, just like the Australians.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"