I think if Hicks could spin that would mean he had his wits about him and he wouldn't have ended up in the situation he was in. I'll be interested to read this, mostly because I've always thought it was a case of someone tripping off looking for something idealistically without actually arming themselves with information from a number of perspectives. People who are happy to be told stuff and believe it without checking it out critically for themselves tend to land themselves in all sorts of hot water. This is just one very extreme case of that.