Kenny, Stephen - short clip - TheGuantanamoBayStandard
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- | I thought the military should take a greater interest | 0:00 |
in the David Hicks case because they might care to | 0:04 | |
realize the implications for their service men and women, | 0:10 | |
that if this was how the Geneva convention was being treated | 0:15 | |
that they need to understand that if America interprets | 0:22 | |
the Geneva convention in this way, our ally | 0:26 | |
of the highest standing, one of the leading democratic | 0:29 | |
countries in the world, how did they expect other countries | 0:33 | |
that we might go to war within the future? | 0:38 | |
What standard did they want, the Guantanamo Bay standard | 0:40 | |
or did they really want the Geneva convention? | 0:44 | |
Now I addressed a military convention | 0:47 | |
and copped some serious flack about why would I bother | 0:51 | |
about a terrorist like Hicks from a woman dressed in blue. | 0:54 | |
So she was obviously in the air force, have lots of things | 0:58 | |
on their shoulder. | 1:00 | |
And I went, "Ma'am, you're in the air force aren't you?" | 1:01 | |
She went, "yes I am." | 1:05 | |
And I went, "your job is to send young Australian men | 1:06 | |
and women in airplanes, | 1:10 | |
and they go over to other countries and they | 1:12 | |
drop bombs and sometimes those bombs, when they fall out | 1:16 | |
they cause collateral damage as well". | 1:23 | |
"What's that got to do with it?" | 1:26 | |
And I went, well sometimes when they go over | 1:28 | |
to these other countries and they drop bombs | 1:32 | |
and they cause collateral damage. | 1:34 | |
Sometimes those other countries shoot back, don't they? | 1:37 | |
And sometimes those young Australian men and women that you | 1:40 | |
send over there to drop bombs and cause collateral damage | 1:43 | |
have to land in that country. | 1:48 | |
And when they land in that country would you | 1:50 | |
like the president of that country to apply | 1:54 | |
the Guantanamo Bay rules to those young Australian men | 1:58 | |
and women and have the power of life or death over them? | 2:02 | |
Irrespective of what court in that country may say, | 2:08 | |
or would you like the Geneva convention to apply. | 2:12 | |
Yeah, that changed the tone | 2:18 | |
of the discussion that that went after. | 2:19 | |
And they started to see | 2:22 | |
that this was actually a bit of a problem. | 2:23 |
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