here come de judge

Yesterday's big spread in the Australian about what a small time, and apparently incompetent, player David Hicks was couldn't go unchallenged when you need to keep the fear factor up all the way to election time. So here 'Attorney-General' Philip Ruddock does his bit. What a good soldier for the cause he is, when you can't get a good jury you can also be the judge.

And coincidentally in the background is the current TV ad for taking out Australian citizenship, it's "more than just a ceremony". Which of course it was under Labor, I guess. And you can get "full consular assistance." Well, you used to, now it depends (on bits that I can't recall from the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations).

Really, words do not describe, do they?