It is established fact that Australian soldiers in Afghanistan committed war crimes. Today, the man whose courageous act of whistleblowing brought these crimes to light has been sentenced to almost 6 years in gaol.
This is a dark day in Australian history. Democracy needs people to stand up when they see wrongdoing being committed by powerful people. We should be thanking and celebrating David McBride, not imprisoning him.
@timhollo The story behind this is wild. It's fucked on so many levels: from the adversarial conditions of his work in the military, to the PR stunt of choosing a single soldier as a scapegoat while the most vile war criminals got medals of honor, to the fact that the journalist he leaked the documents to turned on McBride.
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