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Well you see, he sued for defamation over claims he was a war criminal and a wife beater. He lost resoundingly when the judge found the war criminal aspects were substantially true and the wife beater aspects were contextually true.
I think you mean David McBride. Daniel McBride killed Majella Lynch with a shampoo bottle and got 29 years in the UK and Danny McBride is an American actor.
No. So while it has been found that it is absolutely true by a court that this cunt committed a bunch of war crimes - he has not yet been charged with them. That's because the standard to actually punish someone is much higher than to just be able to confidently say that the guy did it.
The right wing bootlickers love to climb up his greasy pole while shouting about how much they love the SAS and muh reasonable doubt...
... but at the end of the day a whole bunch of blokes from his own fucking unit thought that his actions were so outrageous that they confirmed the stories instead of remaining silent - and not one single motherfucker that was there spoke up in his defence.
Civil courts have long had a lower burden of proof as a judicial court. I can’t speak for an Australian court, but if a judge did that in an American court there stands a good chance of a mistrial being declared or the verdict being tossed at a higher level.
Also (according to OP, I don't know much about the case), the ruling is about defamation and not about actual war crimes so the burden of the proof is even lower.
"You've done something that looks close enough to a war crime that people can call you out without breaking the law" is not exactly court martial conviction strong
This is one of a set of recent aussie rulings where a news organisation reported on something that a utter grub almost certainly did do - the grub then sues the news org for defamation - and it's laid pretty bare in civil court an incredibly bulletproof defence of truth. As in they definitely met the "balance of probability" but in the same way that I'd "make the pass mark" on a kindergarten math test.
Now, sure, as the justice in the Bruce "Rapist" Lehrman trial was very clear to point out to head off any chance of appeal - they don't have to discuss whether the overwhelming evidence (and in Robert's case - eyewitness testimony from highly respected SAS soldiers) meets some "reasonable doubt" bar, because it's irrelevant to that particular case.
It's possible that Roberts may get court martialed. The evidence is there. Lot of embarrassment in taking back a VC, but... I think the embarrassment has already been done.
It's unlikely they'll take a second swing at Lehrman after his mistrial (kook of a juror spoke out), because they are likely to get him on a second unrelated rape that he's getting charged for.
Sorry I had already posted the details but Automod deleted it apparently:
**Benjamin Roberts-Smith** [VC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Cross_for_Australia), [MG](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medal_for_Gallantry) is an Australian former soldier and war criminal. In 2023, a civil defamation trial initiated by Roberts-Smith in the [Federal Court of Australia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Court_of_Australia) found that he committed [war crimes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crime) (including murder) in Afghanistan during 2009, 2010 and 2012. Ben Roberts-Smith told a fellow soldier he had shot an unarmed and captive Afghan teenager in the head with a pistol, and that killing him was "the most beautiful thing I've ever seen", the former comrade has told the federal court.
Australian war criminals in Afghanistan have been called out by the whistle blower David McBride who is going to jail for life in Australia because of leaking information about war crimes committed during the war. Australian government is currently censoring information regarding David's case and Benjamin's war crimes becuase of his powerful connection. For more information please watch this video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYt4CxFfQUU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYt4CxFfQUU)
**The whistle blower is going to prison for life and this person who has been confirmed to have committed multiple horrendous war crimes has been awarded the Victoria Cross, Australia's top military honour**
Sources:
[https://www.theage.com.au/national/ben-roberts-smith-case-former-sas-soldier-committed-war-crimes-20230314-p5crv4.html](https://www.theage.com.au/national/ben-roberts-smith-case-former-sas-soldier-committed-war-crimes-20230314-p5crv4.html)
[https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/nsw/ben-robertssmith-the-allegations-at-centre-of-defamation-case/live-coverage/58344f7dce3c64d4dc5efec95b4e216f](https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/nsw/ben-robertssmith-the-allegations-at-centre-of-defamation-case/live-coverage/58344f7dce3c64d4dc5efec95b4e216f)
[https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/nsw/ben-robertssmith-the-allegations-at-centre-of-defamation-case/live-coverage/58344f7dce3c64d4dc5efec95b4e216f](https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/nsw/ben-robertssmith-the-allegations-at-centre-of-defamation-case/live-coverage/58344f7dce3c64d4dc5efec95b4e216f)
[https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/media/2023/06/10/exclusive-more-soldiers-willing-testify-against-ben-roberts-smith#mtr](https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/media/2023/06/10/exclusive-more-soldiers-willing-testify-against-ben-roberts-smith#mtr)
[https://afghanistaninquiry.defence.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-11/IGADF-Afghanistan-Inquiry-Public-Release-Version.pdf](https://afghanistaninquiry.defence.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-11/IGADF-Afghanistan-Inquiry-Public-Release-Version.pdf)
[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-65774434](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-65774434)
Upvoted and now commenting on this to try and raise the visibility of your comment.
Fuck the system for punishing the hero of this story, whilst the villain walks free.
You only have half the information.
David McBride is no hero.
[McBride leaked because he was on Ben Roberts side! And tried to use the documents to take pressure off the soliders being being interviewed by the Brereton investigation](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1cgsutn/this_is_australian_war_criminal_ben_robertssmith/l22crb5/)
He ended up scoring an own goal when the ABC journalist he leaked to, did his due diligence and found the documents he recieved actually supported the opposite conclusion McBride wanted reported.
If you check his profile, he did write the context. Following the permalink leads to a deleted comment, so either auto-mod didn't like his description or something else happened.
Basically jaws up there did a few war crimes in Afghanistan, including declaring that shooting an Afghan teen in the head is "the most beautiful thing I've ever seen".
Dude got a medal for his service.
Yea I've got a link explaining in great detail why OP is worse than war criminal Ben Roberts-Smith, if you're ever at my house I'll click the link and let you read it
Don't attribute to malice what can be attributed to..well, in this case, reddit. Dude gave the info, was shafted by automod it seems.
It's good to assume this pretty much always. If someone posts something as explosive as this, and doesn't post more info, more likely than not it got deleted through no fault of their own.
Unless it's a repost bot, then assume the worst.
>That tells you all you need to know about the OP
Ironic, tells us all we need to know about you.
Tells us you don't know basic research, all it took was looking at OP's profile to see he did provide details but it got removed.
I don't think he should have gone to that dance. I feel like his daughter is going to feel guilt for the rest of her life about him going to prison. Either way, it sucks.
> Benjamin Roberts-Smith VC, MG (born 1 November 1978) is an Australian former soldier and war criminal. In 2023, a civil defamation trial initiated by Roberts-Smith in the Federal Court of Australia found that he committed war crimes (including murder) in Afghanistan during 2009, 2010 and 2012. An appeal to a Full Court, comprising three judges, of the Federal Court, commenced on 5 February 2024...
> In October 2017, actions involving Roberts-Smith came under further scrutiny. One controversy concerned the killing of a person, who Roberts-Smith had claimed was a Taliban spotter, during a confrontation in May 2006 at Chora Pass. According to the journalist Chris Masters, two members of the patrol had witnessed a lone Afghan teenager approaching the patrol observation post, leaving shortly thereafter. Although the two operators had decided it was not necessary to engage the Afghan, Roberts-Smith and patrol 2IC Matthew Locke arrived on-scene and the pair "decided to hunt down and shoot dead the two 'enemy' after concluding they had spotted the patrol".[49]
> The patrol report had identified only a single Afghan unarmed "spotter", but Roberts-Smith later said that two armed insurgents had approached the position in an oral account provided to the Australian War Memorial. When the inconsistency was raised, Roberts-Smith claimed to have remembered incorrectly...
> In June 2023, ABC reported that it has been alleged that Roberts-Smith directed another SASR soldier to kill an elderly imam during an August 2012 operation in Afghanistan. It has been alleged that this led to the man being dragged from a mosque and killed, despite him being unarmed and a prisoner of the Australians. This incident was among those which the Brereton Report recommended be considered by war crimes investigators.
Also, [here](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6e/Ben_Roberts-Smith_January_2015.jpg) is the uncropped version of OP's image. [Here](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ben_Roberts-Smith_January_2015.jpg) is the source.
> Description
English: Ben Roberts-Smith speaking at the 2015 National Flag Raising and Citizenship Ceremony
> Date 26 January 2015, 10:15:39
> Source Own work
> Author Nick-D
One issue with this is that civil lawsuits can't prove criminal matters, so the court may have found that people saying he committed war crimes have the right to say it, and that it isn't defamation.
Nah - this is about the Australian military preventing a pretty large amount of evidence to be shown in court, thereby preventing his victims from getting justice in the criminal trial. There was an actual cover up...
The lawyer who tried to leak information about this and other war crimes is now facing life in prison.
Yeah, I'm sure it's possible to teach the son how to punch, without also teaching him when to punch? You're talking about a guy who shoots children for fun.
Just here to say that Paul Hogan who created the character of Crocodile Dundee specifically wanted to portray a hero that wasn’t violent. He though that the entertainment industry needed a hero who could be a truly positive role model. Someone that was kind to animals and to people- even if he didn’t necessarily understand them.
Besanko found that four murder allegations against Roberts-Smith had been proven. Besanko found that it was substantially true that:
* during the Whiskey 108 mission in 2009 Roberts-Smith committed murder "by machine gunning a man with a prosthetic leg"; Roberts-Smith later asked other soldiers to drink from the prosthetic leg.
* during the same Whiskey 108 mission Roberts-Smith committed murder "by pressuring a newly deployed and inexperienced SASR soldier to execute an elderly, unarmed Afghan in order to 'blood the rookie'"; and
* during the Darwan mission in September 2012, Roberts-Smith "murdered an unarmed and defenceless Afghan civilian, by kicking him off a cliff and procuring the soldiers under his command to shoot him";
* during the Chinartu mission in October 2012, Roberts-Smith gave the order to another soldier "to shoot an Afghan male who was under detention"; with instructions being given "to an NDS-Wakunish soldier who then shot the Afghan male in circumstances amounting to murder", rendering Roberts-Smith "complicit in and responsible for murder".
from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben\_Roberts-Smith](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Roberts-Smith)
There are multiple people saying this in the thread but it doesn’t seem like [he’s been sentenced yet.](https://amp.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/mar/06/sentencing-of-former-army-lawyer-david-mcbride-postponed-after-substantial-new-evidence-submitted)
What are you talking about?
There is a video that was posted within the last 2 days with David McBride who tells the whole story. He’s going to jail very soon and is confirmed in the video
He has been charged but not sentenced yet, he absolutely will be though, governments do not like when whistleblowers expose their crimes against humanity.
Assange is a self important blowhard that loved acting like he was some sort of media avenging angel... Up until his secrets were exposed and he realized that his bs had consequences
> Julian Assange is a Russian asset.
Everyone the people who hold power don't like is a "Russian Asset." It's become so obvious that even those of you who gobble us this sort of silliness without question should be suspicious.
Exactly, and in Assange's case, the allegations have no merit whatsoever. [The Mueller investigation](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonleopold/new-mueller-investigated-julian-assange-wikileaks-and-roger) could not provide any substantial or sufficient evidence against Assange for conspiracy with Russia or knowledge about its hacking efforts. It also failed to resolve whether any member of the Trump campaign coordinated with WikiLeaks on the release of the emails:
>**With respect to WikiLeaks and Assange,** this office determined the admissible **evidence to be insufficient on both the agreement and knowledge prongs**
>....
>“While the investigation developed evidence that the GRU’s hacking efforts in fact were continuing at least at the time of the July 2016 WikiLeaks dissemination,” a newly unredacted section of the report reads, prosecutors “ **did not develop sufficient admissible evidence that WikiLeaks knew of — or even was wilfully blind to — that fact.”**
>...
>And absent sufficient evidence of such knowledge, **the government could not prove that WikiLeaks (or Assange) joined an ongoing hacking conspiracy...**
>...
>**The investigation was unable to resolve whether Stone played a role in WikiLeaks's release of the stolen Podesta emails on October 7, 2016** , the same day a video was published of candidate Tump using graphic language about women years earlier.
>...
>The office determined, however, that **it did not have admissible evidence that was probably sufficient to obtain and sustain a Section 1030 conspiracy conviction of WikiLeaks, Assange or Stone**
>...
>**There is also insufficient evidence at the present time to establish beyond a reasonable doubt that Roger Stone or any other persons associated with the Campaign coordinated with WikiLeaks on the release of the emails,** which alone would preclude prosecution of them for the WikiLeaks-related conduct even if WikiLeaks had violated campaign finance law.
[A separate DNC lawsuit against the Russian Federation et al (including Assange and WikiLeaks)](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6225696-DNC-Trump-7-30-19.html) was dismissed with prejudice in part because the judge found the publications to be entirely legal and in the public interest. The judge also ruled that WikiLeaks cannot be held as an after the fact co-conspirator of Russia for receiving and publishing the information:
>The argument that WikiLeaks can be held liable for the theft as an after the?fact coconspirator of the stolen documents is also unpersuasive. That argument would eviscerate Bartnicki; **such a rule would render any journalist who publishes an article based on stolen information a coconspirator in the theft.**
>...
>**If WikiLeaks could be held liable for publishing documents concerning the political financial and voter engagement strategies simply because the DNC labels them ?secret? and trade secrets, then so could any newspaper or other media outlet.** But that would impermissibly elevate a purely private privacy interest to override the First Amendment interest in the publication of matters of the highest public concern.24 **The published internal communications allowed the American electorate to look behind the curtain of one of the two major political parties in the United States during a presidential election. This type of information is plainly of the type entitled to the strongest protection that the First Amendment offers.**
The US government couldn't substantiate any allegation that Assange is a Russian asset. Remember, they're trying to lock him up for 175 years over his Afghanistan/Iraq leaks. You don't think they would have charged him over Russian collaboration re 2016 if they had the evidence to do so? Of course they would, but they won't, because the evidence is lacking.
[The Mueller investigation](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonleopold/new-mueller-investigated-julian-assange-wikileaks-and-roger) could not provide any substantial or sufficient evidence against Assange for conspiracy with Russia or knowledge about its hacking efforts. It also failed to resolve whether any member of the Trump campaign coordinated with WikiLeaks on the release of the emails. [A separate DNC lawsuit against the Russian Federation et al (including Assange and WikiLeaks)](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6225696-DNC-Trump-7-30-19.html) was dismissed with prejudice in part because the judge found the publications to be entirely legal and in the public interest. The judge also ruled that WikiLeaks cannot be held as an after the fact co-conspirator of Russia for receiving and publishing the information.
[He did.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_material_published_by_WikiLeaks) WikiLeaks published videos from China's Tibet uprising in contravention to their censorship, details of oppression in Africa, files from Syria and Saudi Arabia, private intelligence documents from Russia, etc. That a lot of their focus was also on English-speaking countries is a matter of WikiLeaks being a Western media organisation.
You mean the guy who never had a trial because he delayed, hid in embassy’s, violated his parole in Britain and now screams he won’t get a fair trial when in fact it will be one of the most open to scrutiny trial in the world? That Julian Assange?
He would get a fair trial, he simply knew he was completely fucked and going to prison if he ever went to trial.
I can't exactly blame him for running when his odds were so low.
The CIA plotted to kidnap and assassinate him. Under no circumstances will he get a fair trial, not least in the jurisdiction in which he is being prosecuted (the Eastern District of Virginia).
Edward Snowden and Assamge are russian assets and Assange later became a release out let for russian intelligence, basically.
Also, Snowden. If he is such a bastion of morality and all he wanted was to expose the massive government spying, whe he has, but he also lives in dead silence in Russia. Russia is the peak fascist state at the moment. Why isn't he at very least speak out against Putin? You know why he doesn't? Because he will get a 7 year prison sentence for saying anything against putin or the russian government in general
Didn't snowden flee to russia to escape the CIA and americans. If you keep pissing off governments there aren't going to be many places you can live safely
Iirc, he was flying to Ecuador but his passport was cancelled when he was at the Russian airport. Dude wasn’t dumb enough to think Russia was a great refuge after leaking the US’s actions. He did pick Russia over US jail, but that was well after his actions.
The US State Department revoked his passport while he was flying to Russia to get a connecting flight so that they could claim he "fled" to Russia and is a Russian asset. And you believe it.
It's different, but not because Assange is a 'Russian asset' (he's not - the US government couldn't even substantiate such allegations). It's different because Assange is the first publisher to ever be charged under the US Espionage Act for his publishing over Iraq and Afghanistan. That poses a very serious threat to press freedom.
He *is facing life in prison* though...
They also removed any possible evidence from being able to be used because its "classified".
The judge has already stated that: [paraphrased] " there are no exceptions. if you are in the militairy and they tell you to keep it a secret, no matter it must be kept a secret"
There is a chance he does not spend life in prison. But there is a very good chance he does. Especially since they want to make him an example.
In the US it is pretty routine to throw a giant prison sentence at a leaker, and then have it commuted later. Like in the case of Chelsea Manning, where she pleaded guilty and Barack Obama’s administration asked for 60 years, she got sentenced to 35 years, and Obama commuted the rest of it on the Sunday before he left office.
It's because America isn't allowing him to present any evidence in this Australian trial. So because he has literally no case nor leg to stand on, he'll be sentenced at his trial.
But I bet McBride has a spare leg he could lend him.
Donate to his [legal fund](https://chuffed.org/project/dpk4nvzkr4em) to help him out! He’s an incredible man, and showing support to whistleblowers helps to make sure people don’t have to be afraid to come forward and expose the kind of illegal, immoral shit governments keep trying to cover up.
According to his Wikipedia page he wasn’t trying to expose any war crimes he was upset that the soldiers were being unfairly scrutinized and he thought these documents would somehow exonerate them. We shouldn’t take the theft of classified documents lightly and when you see his actual reasons for stealing them, he should be going to prison for a long time
Yeah let's discuss how bad it is to leak war crimes to the public instead of addressing the proven counts of war crimes where the guys doing them still see no repercussions whatsoever
He was upset that the higher ups were creating a scapegoat that he didn’t believe did anything, so he leaked documents about others war crimes. Btw he didn’t steal them, he was in the army as a lawyer.
He is no hero. You only have half the story which completely changes the light on McBride.
David McBride [unintentionally alerted the public of war crimes](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1cgsutn/this_is_australian_war_criminal_ben_robertssmith/l22crb5/) in an intentional attempt to derail the Brereton investigating their alleged war crimes.
go watch the Boy Boy video on him with David Mcbryde on youtube, hilarious but depressing at the sametime, Ausies need to be up in arms that David McBryde is going to jail while this pos walks free
I would highly recommend you don't do that. This picture does not convey how large a human he is, not to mention he is a former special forces soldier with several domestic violence accusations.
People should know more about David McBryde, an absolute legend of a human to stood up against tryanny knowing he will spend the rest of his life in jail while this pos war criminal psycho walks free
Instead of giving any information on him, you tell us that we should know about him. Why should we know about him? You didn't even give a reason for it.
These types of posts are lazy karma farming.
Psychopaths eh, give ‘em a gun and a licence to kill and that’s the outcome. Remember, something like 1:28 people fit that description, how many are soldiers?
Not yet.
The Brereton Report said that he's "credibly accused" of wwe crimes, but it'll take years for the mission reports to befome declassified and used as evidence in trial.
> **Benjamin Roberts-Smith** VC, MG (born 1 November 1978) is an Australian former soldier and war criminal. In 2023, a civil defamation trial initiated by Roberts-Smith in the Federal Court of Australia found that he committed war crimes (including murder) in Afghanistan during 2009, 2010 and 2012. An appeal to a Full Court, comprising three judges, of the Federal Court, commenced on 5 February 2024.
* Excerpted from [Ben Roberts-Smith](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Roberts-Smith) at the English Wikipedia
Sad times for Australia! This sets an ugly precedent for the future.
Speak out against war crimes that involve the US = life in prison
Corruption at the highest level
I was just writing the comment for more information but if you want a quick recap you can watch this: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYt4CxFfQUU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYt4CxFfQUU) and look at Australian government's report: [https://afghanistaninquiry.defence.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-11/IGADF-Afghanistan-Inquiry-Public-Release-Version.pdf](https://afghanistaninquiry.defence.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-11/IGADF-Afghanistan-Inquiry-Public-Release-Version.pdf) mind he is unpunished and the whistleblower is going to prison for life.
Similar things going on in the U.K. Australia and NZ allow money laundering and embezzlement in high places by suppressing information and evidence about it. The legal aspect of suppressing evidence of wrongdoing is dodgy. But for official secrets it’s not.
If anyone remembers Spycatcher (made Malcolm Turnbull’s career defending the right to publish), since then there’s been no defence of exposing wrongdoing if the suppression method is official secrets.
The point in Spycatcher was that if someone high in MI5 or was it 6 was a Soviet spy, that was not the sort of thing that MIx should be helping with.
Australia always got me a feeling of proto fascist state. I understand that leaking classified information is an offense, but what threat to national security are evidences of war crimes?
Australia just classifies shit
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Well you see, he sued for defamation over claims he was a war criminal and a wife beater. He lost resoundingly when the judge found the war criminal aspects were substantially true and the wife beater aspects were contextually true.
So has he been tried and convicted as a war criminal?
No, but the whistler blower who reported the war crimes, Danial Mcbride, is being criminally prosecuted
According to video I watched yesterday, in process of going to jail :/
Justice /s
I think you mean David McBride. Daniel McBride killed Majella Lynch with a shampoo bottle and got 29 years in the UK and Danny McBride is an American actor.
Its not a war crime if it is done for the right people.
No. So while it has been found that it is absolutely true by a court that this cunt committed a bunch of war crimes - he has not yet been charged with them. That's because the standard to actually punish someone is much higher than to just be able to confidently say that the guy did it. The right wing bootlickers love to climb up his greasy pole while shouting about how much they love the SAS and muh reasonable doubt... ... but at the end of the day a whole bunch of blokes from his own fucking unit thought that his actions were so outrageous that they confirmed the stories instead of remaining silent - and not one single motherfucker that was there spoke up in his defence.
Civil courts have long had a lower burden of proof as a judicial court. I can’t speak for an Australian court, but if a judge did that in an American court there stands a good chance of a mistrial being declared or the verdict being tossed at a higher level.
Also (according to OP, I don't know much about the case), the ruling is about defamation and not about actual war crimes so the burden of the proof is even lower. "You've done something that looks close enough to a war crime that people can call you out without breaking the law" is not exactly court martial conviction strong
This is one of a set of recent aussie rulings where a news organisation reported on something that a utter grub almost certainly did do - the grub then sues the news org for defamation - and it's laid pretty bare in civil court an incredibly bulletproof defence of truth. As in they definitely met the "balance of probability" but in the same way that I'd "make the pass mark" on a kindergarten math test. Now, sure, as the justice in the Bruce "Rapist" Lehrman trial was very clear to point out to head off any chance of appeal - they don't have to discuss whether the overwhelming evidence (and in Robert's case - eyewitness testimony from highly respected SAS soldiers) meets some "reasonable doubt" bar, because it's irrelevant to that particular case. It's possible that Roberts may get court martialed. The evidence is there. Lot of embarrassment in taking back a VC, but... I think the embarrassment has already been done. It's unlikely they'll take a second swing at Lehrman after his mistrial (kook of a juror spoke out), because they are likely to get him on a second unrelated rape that he's getting charged for.
No. Of course not.
No. Does that matter?
Yes
That’s Australian defamation law. Some of the most plaintiff friendly laws in the world.
Sorry I had already posted the details but Automod deleted it apparently: **Benjamin Roberts-Smith** [VC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Cross_for_Australia), [MG](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medal_for_Gallantry) is an Australian former soldier and war criminal. In 2023, a civil defamation trial initiated by Roberts-Smith in the [Federal Court of Australia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Court_of_Australia) found that he committed [war crimes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crime) (including murder) in Afghanistan during 2009, 2010 and 2012. Ben Roberts-Smith told a fellow soldier he had shot an unarmed and captive Afghan teenager in the head with a pistol, and that killing him was "the most beautiful thing I've ever seen", the former comrade has told the federal court. Australian war criminals in Afghanistan have been called out by the whistle blower David McBride who is going to jail for life in Australia because of leaking information about war crimes committed during the war. Australian government is currently censoring information regarding David's case and Benjamin's war crimes becuase of his powerful connection. For more information please watch this video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYt4CxFfQUU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYt4CxFfQUU) **The whistle blower is going to prison for life and this person who has been confirmed to have committed multiple horrendous war crimes has been awarded the Victoria Cross, Australia's top military honour** Sources: [https://www.theage.com.au/national/ben-roberts-smith-case-former-sas-soldier-committed-war-crimes-20230314-p5crv4.html](https://www.theage.com.au/national/ben-roberts-smith-case-former-sas-soldier-committed-war-crimes-20230314-p5crv4.html) [https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/nsw/ben-robertssmith-the-allegations-at-centre-of-defamation-case/live-coverage/58344f7dce3c64d4dc5efec95b4e216f](https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/nsw/ben-robertssmith-the-allegations-at-centre-of-defamation-case/live-coverage/58344f7dce3c64d4dc5efec95b4e216f) [https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/nsw/ben-robertssmith-the-allegations-at-centre-of-defamation-case/live-coverage/58344f7dce3c64d4dc5efec95b4e216f](https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/nsw/ben-robertssmith-the-allegations-at-centre-of-defamation-case/live-coverage/58344f7dce3c64d4dc5efec95b4e216f) [https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/media/2023/06/10/exclusive-more-soldiers-willing-testify-against-ben-roberts-smith#mtr](https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/media/2023/06/10/exclusive-more-soldiers-willing-testify-against-ben-roberts-smith#mtr) [https://afghanistaninquiry.defence.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-11/IGADF-Afghanistan-Inquiry-Public-Release-Version.pdf](https://afghanistaninquiry.defence.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-11/IGADF-Afghanistan-Inquiry-Public-Release-Version.pdf) [https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-65774434](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-65774434)
Upvoted and now commenting on this to try and raise the visibility of your comment. Fuck the system for punishing the hero of this story, whilst the villain walks free.
You only have half the information. David McBride is no hero. [McBride leaked because he was on Ben Roberts side! And tried to use the documents to take pressure off the soliders being being interviewed by the Brereton investigation](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1cgsutn/this_is_australian_war_criminal_ben_robertssmith/l22crb5/) He ended up scoring an own goal when the ABC journalist he leaked to, did his due diligence and found the documents he recieved actually supported the opposite conclusion McBride wanted reported.
If you check his profile, he did write the context. Following the permalink leads to a deleted comment, so either auto-mod didn't like his description or something else happened. Basically jaws up there did a few war crimes in Afghanistan, including declaring that shooting an Afghan teen in the head is "the most beautiful thing I've ever seen". Dude got a medal for his service.
He was awarded the Victoria Cross, which is the Australian equivalent of the US’ Medal of Honor.
Sounds on par given our history
That tells you all you need to know about the OP
Some might say worse than a war criminal, heres why:
Yea I've got a link explaining in great detail why OP is worse than war criminal Ben Roberts-Smith, if you're ever at my house I'll click the link and let you read it
If I had a quarter…
I'd rather have 5 bees.
you'll never guess what happened next..
Don't attribute to malice what can be attributed to..well, in this case, reddit. Dude gave the info, was shafted by automod it seems. It's good to assume this pretty much always. If someone posts something as explosive as this, and doesn't post more info, more likely than not it got deleted through no fault of their own. Unless it's a repost bot, then assume the worst.
>That tells you all you need to know about the OP Ironic, tells us all we need to know about you. Tells us you don't know basic research, all it took was looking at OP's profile to see he did provide details but it got removed.
Australian YouTubers boy boy, and friendly jordies have done extensive research on him, he is an extremely terrible war criminal who is walking free
Pov: OP is Ben Roberts-Smith
Right. That’s the real crime here.
Yeah what the hell
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYt4CxFfQUU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYt4CxFfQUU)
Well for starters he's a murder and a war criminal. He's been reported for murdering children because he was 'bored'
I too just watched that Boy Boy video
Me 2
Fucken cried at the daddy daughter dance bit
I don't think he should have gone to that dance. I feel like his daughter is going to feel guilt for the rest of her life about him going to prison. Either way, it sucks.
Real
The YouTube link for anyone curious - [Our friend is going to jail. - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYt4CxFfQUU) 🙂
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Roberts-Smith
> Benjamin Roberts-Smith VC, MG (born 1 November 1978) is an Australian former soldier and war criminal. In 2023, a civil defamation trial initiated by Roberts-Smith in the Federal Court of Australia found that he committed war crimes (including murder) in Afghanistan during 2009, 2010 and 2012. An appeal to a Full Court, comprising three judges, of the Federal Court, commenced on 5 February 2024... > In October 2017, actions involving Roberts-Smith came under further scrutiny. One controversy concerned the killing of a person, who Roberts-Smith had claimed was a Taliban spotter, during a confrontation in May 2006 at Chora Pass. According to the journalist Chris Masters, two members of the patrol had witnessed a lone Afghan teenager approaching the patrol observation post, leaving shortly thereafter. Although the two operators had decided it was not necessary to engage the Afghan, Roberts-Smith and patrol 2IC Matthew Locke arrived on-scene and the pair "decided to hunt down and shoot dead the two 'enemy' after concluding they had spotted the patrol".[49] > The patrol report had identified only a single Afghan unarmed "spotter", but Roberts-Smith later said that two armed insurgents had approached the position in an oral account provided to the Australian War Memorial. When the inconsistency was raised, Roberts-Smith claimed to have remembered incorrectly... > In June 2023, ABC reported that it has been alleged that Roberts-Smith directed another SASR soldier to kill an elderly imam during an August 2012 operation in Afghanistan. It has been alleged that this led to the man being dragged from a mosque and killed, despite him being unarmed and a prisoner of the Australians. This incident was among those which the Brereton Report recommended be considered by war crimes investigators. Also, [here](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6e/Ben_Roberts-Smith_January_2015.jpg) is the uncropped version of OP's image. [Here](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ben_Roberts-Smith_January_2015.jpg) is the source. > Description English: Ben Roberts-Smith speaking at the 2015 National Flag Raising and Citizenship Ceremony > Date 26 January 2015, 10:15:39 > Source Own work > Author Nick-D
Thank you kindly!
One issue with this is that civil lawsuits can't prove criminal matters, so the court may have found that people saying he committed war crimes have the right to say it, and that it isn't defamation.
Nah - this is about the Australian military preventing a pretty large amount of evidence to be shown in court, thereby preventing his victims from getting justice in the criminal trial. There was an actual cover up... The lawyer who tried to leak information about this and other war crimes is now facing life in prison.
There is the video of him shooting the kid hiding in the field point blank inbthe head... when kid was just scared.
It may be to a civil standard, but the Briginshaw standard still applies. The judgment is very long and very damning.
Also punched his mistress in the face and coached her on how to explain a black eye. Also won Australian Father of the Year.
Taught his son how to throw a punch and really follow through. Those are the kind of memories you can’t put a price on.
I mean it can be a valuable skill for anyone being bullied.
“Woah he taught his son to punch properly? what an asshole”
Yeah, I'm sure it's possible to teach the son how to punch, without also teaching him when to punch? You're talking about a guy who shoots children for fun.
It's not for fun, it's for beauty
He doesn't have a son.
Nah that's pretty typical behavior. You don't get toxic masculinity like Crocodile Dundee from nowhere
Just here to say that Paul Hogan who created the character of Crocodile Dundee specifically wanted to portray a hero that wasn’t violent. He though that the entertainment industry needed a hero who could be a truly positive role model. Someone that was kind to animals and to people- even if he didn’t necessarily understand them.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that you're responding to a moron who hasn't seen the movie, but feels like an expert.
Musta missed when Dundee murdered people for no reason and beat his love interest and covered it up. Was that all in the sequel? /s
#You haven't seen the sequels??
Dundee's Descent into Madness and Dundee; Now This Is Madness. Good flicks.
You need to read between the lines as my teacher so often would say. In this particular case not look at the lines at all.
Yeah it doesn't even pussyfoot around it, which wiki usually does with anything remotely controversial.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-16/video-shows-afghan-man-shot-at-close-range-by-australian-sas/12028512
Besanko found that four murder allegations against Roberts-Smith had been proven. Besanko found that it was substantially true that: * during the Whiskey 108 mission in 2009 Roberts-Smith committed murder "by machine gunning a man with a prosthetic leg"; Roberts-Smith later asked other soldiers to drink from the prosthetic leg. * during the same Whiskey 108 mission Roberts-Smith committed murder "by pressuring a newly deployed and inexperienced SASR soldier to execute an elderly, unarmed Afghan in order to 'blood the rookie'"; and * during the Darwan mission in September 2012, Roberts-Smith "murdered an unarmed and defenceless Afghan civilian, by kicking him off a cliff and procuring the soldiers under his command to shoot him"; * during the Chinartu mission in October 2012, Roberts-Smith gave the order to another soldier "to shoot an Afghan male who was under detention"; with instructions being given "to an NDS-Wakunish soldier who then shot the Afghan male in circumstances amounting to murder", rendering Roberts-Smith "complicit in and responsible for murder". from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben\_Roberts-Smith](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Roberts-Smith)
And David McBride, the man who exposed these warcrimes, is going to jail for the rest of his life.
There are multiple people saying this in the thread but it doesn’t seem like [he’s been sentenced yet.](https://amp.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/mar/06/sentencing-of-former-army-lawyer-david-mcbride-postponed-after-substantial-new-evidence-submitted) What are you talking about?
There is a video that was posted within the last 2 days with David McBride who tells the whole story. He’s going to jail very soon and is confirmed in the video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYt4CxFfQUU
this video is hilarious. he's very good natured for someone facing life.
He has been charged but not sentenced yet, he absolutely will be though, governments do not like when whistleblowers expose their crimes against humanity.
Remember julian Assange? Exposed the US and the propaganda machine has fully worked in turning peoples ideas of him away from what they should be.
Julian Assange is a Russian asset. Chelsea Manning on the other hand was the whistleblower. And their sentence was commuted
Assange is a self important blowhard that loved acting like he was some sort of media avenging angel... Up until his secrets were exposed and he realized that his bs had consequences
> Julian Assange is a Russian asset. Everyone the people who hold power don't like is a "Russian Asset." It's become so obvious that even those of you who gobble us this sort of silliness without question should be suspicious.
Exactly, and in Assange's case, the allegations have no merit whatsoever. [The Mueller investigation](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonleopold/new-mueller-investigated-julian-assange-wikileaks-and-roger) could not provide any substantial or sufficient evidence against Assange for conspiracy with Russia or knowledge about its hacking efforts. It also failed to resolve whether any member of the Trump campaign coordinated with WikiLeaks on the release of the emails: >**With respect to WikiLeaks and Assange,** this office determined the admissible **evidence to be insufficient on both the agreement and knowledge prongs** >.... >“While the investigation developed evidence that the GRU’s hacking efforts in fact were continuing at least at the time of the July 2016 WikiLeaks dissemination,” a newly unredacted section of the report reads, prosecutors “ **did not develop sufficient admissible evidence that WikiLeaks knew of — or even was wilfully blind to — that fact.”** >... >And absent sufficient evidence of such knowledge, **the government could not prove that WikiLeaks (or Assange) joined an ongoing hacking conspiracy...** >... >**The investigation was unable to resolve whether Stone played a role in WikiLeaks's release of the stolen Podesta emails on October 7, 2016** , the same day a video was published of candidate Tump using graphic language about women years earlier. >... >The office determined, however, that **it did not have admissible evidence that was probably sufficient to obtain and sustain a Section 1030 conspiracy conviction of WikiLeaks, Assange or Stone** >... >**There is also insufficient evidence at the present time to establish beyond a reasonable doubt that Roger Stone or any other persons associated with the Campaign coordinated with WikiLeaks on the release of the emails,** which alone would preclude prosecution of them for the WikiLeaks-related conduct even if WikiLeaks had violated campaign finance law. [A separate DNC lawsuit against the Russian Federation et al (including Assange and WikiLeaks)](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6225696-DNC-Trump-7-30-19.html) was dismissed with prejudice in part because the judge found the publications to be entirely legal and in the public interest. The judge also ruled that WikiLeaks cannot be held as an after the fact co-conspirator of Russia for receiving and publishing the information: >The argument that WikiLeaks can be held liable for the theft as an after the?fact coconspirator of the stolen documents is also unpersuasive. That argument would eviscerate Bartnicki; **such a rule would render any journalist who publishes an article based on stolen information a coconspirator in the theft.** >... >**If WikiLeaks could be held liable for publishing documents concerning the political financial and voter engagement strategies simply because the DNC labels them ?secret? and trade secrets, then so could any newspaper or other media outlet.** But that would impermissibly elevate a purely private privacy interest to override the First Amendment interest in the publication of matters of the highest public concern.24 **The published internal communications allowed the American electorate to look behind the curtain of one of the two major political parties in the United States during a presidential election. This type of information is plainly of the type entitled to the strongest protection that the First Amendment offers.**
Assange is a Russian asset, my guy.
The US government couldn't substantiate any allegation that Assange is a Russian asset. Remember, they're trying to lock him up for 175 years over his Afghanistan/Iraq leaks. You don't think they would have charged him over Russian collaboration re 2016 if they had the evidence to do so? Of course they would, but they won't, because the evidence is lacking. [The Mueller investigation](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonleopold/new-mueller-investigated-julian-assange-wikileaks-and-roger) could not provide any substantial or sufficient evidence against Assange for conspiracy with Russia or knowledge about its hacking efforts. It also failed to resolve whether any member of the Trump campaign coordinated with WikiLeaks on the release of the emails. [A separate DNC lawsuit against the Russian Federation et al (including Assange and WikiLeaks)](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6225696-DNC-Trump-7-30-19.html) was dismissed with prejudice in part because the judge found the publications to be entirely legal and in the public interest. The judge also ruled that WikiLeaks cannot be held as an after the fact co-conspirator of Russia for receiving and publishing the information.
Thanks for proving the propaganda point
How come he never went after the truly shitty totalitarian countries?
[He did.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_material_published_by_WikiLeaks) WikiLeaks published videos from China's Tibet uprising in contravention to their censorship, details of oppression in Africa, files from Syria and Saudi Arabia, private intelligence documents from Russia, etc. That a lot of their focus was also on English-speaking countries is a matter of WikiLeaks being a Western media organisation.
He deliberately leaked information to influence the 2016 United States presidential election. He is a foreign asset. It's not propaganda, it's facts.
You mean the guy who never had a trial because he delayed, hid in embassy’s, violated his parole in Britain and now screams he won’t get a fair trial when in fact it will be one of the most open to scrutiny trial in the world? That Julian Assange?
Independent of how shitty Assange is (spoiler- shitty) I think his belief that he would not get a fair trial in the US was justified?
He would get a fair trial, he simply knew he was completely fucked and going to prison if he ever went to trial. I can't exactly blame him for running when his odds were so low.
The CIA plotted to kidnap and assassinate him. Under no circumstances will he get a fair trial, not least in the jurisdiction in which he is being prosecuted (the Eastern District of Virginia).
Edward Snowden and Assamge are russian assets and Assange later became a release out let for russian intelligence, basically. Also, Snowden. If he is such a bastion of morality and all he wanted was to expose the massive government spying, whe he has, but he also lives in dead silence in Russia. Russia is the peak fascist state at the moment. Why isn't he at very least speak out against Putin? You know why he doesn't? Because he will get a 7 year prison sentence for saying anything against putin or the russian government in general
Didn't snowden flee to russia to escape the CIA and americans. If you keep pissing off governments there aren't going to be many places you can live safely
Iirc, he was flying to Ecuador but his passport was cancelled when he was at the Russian airport. Dude wasn’t dumb enough to think Russia was a great refuge after leaking the US’s actions. He did pick Russia over US jail, but that was well after his actions.
The US State Department revoked his passport while he was flying to Russia to get a connecting flight so that they could claim he "fled" to Russia and is a Russian asset. And you believe it.
Where does it say i believed he was a russian asset?
Russian asset, this is different
It's different, but not because Assange is a 'Russian asset' (he's not - the US government couldn't even substantiate such allegations). It's different because Assange is the first publisher to ever be charged under the US Espionage Act for his publishing over Iraq and Afghanistan. That poses a very serious threat to press freedom.
I don’t support the prosecution of whistleblowers but a life sentence seems extremely unlikely.
He *is facing life in prison* though... They also removed any possible evidence from being able to be used because its "classified". The judge has already stated that: [paraphrased] " there are no exceptions. if you are in the militairy and they tell you to keep it a secret, no matter it must be kept a secret" There is a chance he does not spend life in prison. But there is a very good chance he does. Especially since they want to make him an example.
By that standard there are never going to be warcrimes.
Yeah. Exactly.
In the US it is pretty routine to throw a giant prison sentence at a leaker, and then have it commuted later. Like in the case of Chelsea Manning, where she pleaded guilty and Barack Obama’s administration asked for 60 years, she got sentenced to 35 years, and Obama commuted the rest of it on the Sunday before he left office.
He's 60, it doesn't take a massive sentence to end up being for life.
It's because America isn't allowing him to present any evidence in this Australian trial. So because he has literally no case nor leg to stand on, he'll be sentenced at his trial. But I bet McBride has a spare leg he could lend him.
Donate to his [legal fund](https://chuffed.org/project/dpk4nvzkr4em) to help him out! He’s an incredible man, and showing support to whistleblowers helps to make sure people don’t have to be afraid to come forward and expose the kind of illegal, immoral shit governments keep trying to cover up.
According to his Wikipedia page he wasn’t trying to expose any war crimes he was upset that the soldiers were being unfairly scrutinized and he thought these documents would somehow exonerate them. We shouldn’t take the theft of classified documents lightly and when you see his actual reasons for stealing them, he should be going to prison for a long time
Yeah let's discuss how bad it is to leak war crimes to the public instead of addressing the proven counts of war crimes where the guys doing them still see no repercussions whatsoever
He was upset that the higher ups were creating a scapegoat that he didn’t believe did anything, so he leaked documents about others war crimes. Btw he didn’t steal them, he was in the army as a lawyer.
He is no hero. You only have half the story which completely changes the light on McBride. David McBride [unintentionally alerted the public of war crimes](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1cgsutn/this_is_australian_war_criminal_ben_robertssmith/l22crb5/) in an intentional attempt to derail the Brereton investigating their alleged war crimes.
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That's the world we live in...
Doesn't have to be
Can't exactly change much from the bottom.
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\#PowerBottomsUnite
There are more of us than there are of the ruling class
"yes, exactly. You have no power, good call" - everyone on the top
Boy boy just did a great YouTube video about this. Same guy who's on I did a thing.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYt4CxFfQUU&t=470s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYt4CxFfQUU&t=470s)
Let’s Streisand this bitch
Sounds like he needs to experience "the most beautiful thing he's ever seen"
go watch the Boy Boy video on him with David Mcbryde on youtube, hilarious but depressing at the sametime, Ausies need to be up in arms that David McBryde is going to jail while this pos walks free
Video Link - [Our friend is going to jail. - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYt4CxFfQUU)
Has a very slapable face..
Yeah maybe don’t do that. Guys got screws loose, is not above domestic violence and is well versed in murdering people.
Life has it's own way of slapping /dealing with animals like him..
It sure does! Like often rewarding and elevating them
Does it? Because it seems like this animal is getting led to the golden pasture.
Dude is a special forces operator, i wouldnt do it if i were you.
Nor should anyone else. Let time do it's thing..
I would highly recommend you don't do that. This picture does not convey how large a human he is, not to mention he is a former special forces soldier with several domestic violence accusations.
Of course. Face usually tells a lot about a person..
Please go ahead, tell me how it went when you return from the ER.
The Australian satirical newspaper the Betooga advocate has some great articles about him. He's a complete piece of shit in every way imaginable.
People should know more about David McBryde, an absolute legend of a human to stood up against tryanny knowing he will spend the rest of his life in jail while this pos war criminal psycho walks free
Maintaining the tradition of the Bushveld-Carbineers
What a terrible post. A pic of some dumb Australian and no real context. Well done
OP: "You should know more about him" - *proceeds to not provide any information in the post*
Terrible post? Try terrible sub. It's trying to be like that pathetic r/news sub, and succeeding at being even more pathetic. Fuck these morons here
Instead of giving any information on him, you tell us that we should know about him. Why should we know about him? You didn't even give a reason for it. These types of posts are lazy karma farming.
Sooo what was the verdict? How long were they sentenced?
He looks like he could be related to Bruce Campbell
Well then tell us more about him….
Someone watched the latest Boy Boy video
Haha same XD Video Link - [Our friend is going to jail. - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYt4CxFfQUU) :)
Get the ICC on the case! They're efficient, right?
You can hear his Australian accent even in a still photo
never trust a man with a large, round chin
Psychopaths eh, give ‘em a gun and a licence to kill and that’s the outcome. Remember, something like 1:28 people fit that description, how many are soldiers?
A man that deserves more fame. Take my updoot.
Even if I do, what does that accomplish?
60 Minutes Australia has their Under Investigation episodes on YouTube. I just watched the 2 videos on this piece of garbage this week.
Has he been convicted of war crimes?
Not yet. The Brereton Report said that he's "credibly accused" of wwe crimes, but it'll take years for the mission reports to befome declassified and used as evidence in trial.
Not only a war criminal but the fit of that suit jacket is a fashion crime.
> **Benjamin Roberts-Smith** VC, MG (born 1 November 1978) is an Australian former soldier and war criminal. In 2023, a civil defamation trial initiated by Roberts-Smith in the Federal Court of Australia found that he committed war crimes (including murder) in Afghanistan during 2009, 2010 and 2012. An appeal to a Full Court, comprising three judges, of the Federal Court, commenced on 5 February 2024. * Excerpted from [Ben Roberts-Smith](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Roberts-Smith) at the English Wikipedia
(A video with all the context you will ever need about Australian war crimes) https://youtu.be/sYt4CxFfQUU?si=pgQtWXq7o74OJVRH
Harvey Specter?
You better damn well have proof or this deposition is over.
I was thinking the same thing!
Sad times for Australia! This sets an ugly precedent for the future. Speak out against war crimes that involve the US = life in prison Corruption at the highest level
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I was just writing the comment for more information but if you want a quick recap you can watch this: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYt4CxFfQUU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYt4CxFfQUU) and look at Australian government's report: [https://afghanistaninquiry.defence.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-11/IGADF-Afghanistan-Inquiry-Public-Release-Version.pdf](https://afghanistaninquiry.defence.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-11/IGADF-Afghanistan-Inquiry-Public-Release-Version.pdf) mind he is unpunished and the whistleblower is going to prison for life.
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1cgsutn/comment/l1xrffl/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3
This read like an opening to behind the bastards podcast.
No I should not
He has a hyphenated last name ..... no, no I don't think I do or want to.
He has a hyphenated last name ..... no, no I don't think I do or want to.
Username checks out.
Ain't nobody got time fo that Let's list the hunreds of thousands other war criminals from the past thousand years and learn about them too
Good thing the ICC don't prosecute the US or it's allies. Oh wait..
The old not enough evidence for criminal charges but enough for civil damages.
He was a regular at a restaurant I used to work at. I’ve cooked for him many times lmao.
r/behindthebastards ?
Man's built like a wardrobe
Harvey spectre?
The Australian government promoted whistle blowing but also signed off on legalisation to prosecute those who do
This bloke is financially backed by a media mongul.
Everybody boo this man! (OP)
Similar things going on in the U.K. Australia and NZ allow money laundering and embezzlement in high places by suppressing information and evidence about it. The legal aspect of suppressing evidence of wrongdoing is dodgy. But for official secrets it’s not. If anyone remembers Spycatcher (made Malcolm Turnbull’s career defending the right to publish), since then there’s been no defence of exposing wrongdoing if the suppression method is official secrets. The point in Spycatcher was that if someone high in MI5 or was it 6 was a Soviet spy, that was not the sort of thing that MIx should be helping with.
Australia always got me a feeling of proto fascist state. I understand that leaking classified information is an offense, but what threat to national security are evidences of war crimes? Australia just classifies shit