By Dr Dan Mealey, Former Army doctor, Afghanistan veteran, veteran advocate
They were unarmed.
They were off duty.
They were murdered in 2012 by Hekmatullah, an Afghan National Army soldier and Taliban infiltrator who turned his weapon on Australian troops he was meant to stand beside. Hekmatullah was captured, convicted and sentenced to death, but he didn’t remain where justice placed him.
In betrayal of the families he killed, he was released as part of the US-Taliban process, returned to Afghanistan and, according to reports, housed comfortably as a hero under Taliban protection in Kabul’s former diplomatic quarter.
Hugh Poate’s son, Private Robert Poate, was murdered by Hekmatullah. Hugh relates:
“Some of the alleged breaches in the rules of armed conflict by BRS and other SASR soldiers occurred… during the hunt for Hekmatullah.
“Despite frequent requests by the three families to Australian Ministers for Defence and Ministers for Foreign Affairs to apply diplomatic pressure for Hekmatullah’s sentence to be carried out, they refused.”
That’s the moral backdrop against which Australians are now being asked to watch Ben Roberts-Smith face the full force of the state.
Hekmatullah, a confessed killer of unarmed Australians, charged and sentenced in legitimate courts of law, walks free, and lives like a national hero.
Ben Roberts-Smith, and actual national hero, risked his life in Australia’s uniform, and has been left to defend himself against a machinery of investigation, prosecution, media hostility and institutional abandonment, so vast that its cost is in the vicinity of $300 million.
Where is the balance here? Where is the decency? Where is the elusive Australian “fair go?”
The Ben Roberts-Smith VC MG Trust exists because good people have clearly seen something is profoundly wrong:
“I don’t understand how it can be justified to spend more than $300 million to try for years to bring SAS veterans, who have served our country, towards criminal proceedings, and most recently the arrest of Ben.” — Mrs Gina Rinehart AO
Clearly, the world was shocked by the arrest of this war hero. However the state has marshalled staggering resources. Media organisations have been backed by corporate money, insurance arrangements and the practical advantage of deep institutional pockets. Politicians have spent public money. Bureaucracies have spent public money. Journalists and publishers have litigated behind structures that ordinary people could never access.
But the man in the dock, and the family standing beside him, are expected to pass the hat around an already overtaxed public.
That should trouble every Australian.
Because if justice becomes a luxury item, it is no longer justice. If only politicians, billionaires, government agencies and media companies can afford the years-long fight required to preserve their name, liberty and future, then the courts cease to be a forum for truth and become a weapon wielded by those who can afford to outlast, outspend and exhaust the truth itself.
That is why supporting this Trust isn’t merely about one soldier. It’s about whether the presumption of innocence still has practical meaning. It is about whether an Australian can realistically defend himself when the resources arrayed against him are almost limitless. It is about whether due process belongs to citizens, or only to the powerful.
Cydonee Mardon — award-winning, veteran Australian journalist and Chief Reporter for news.com.au reported that the Ben Roberts-Smith VC MG Trust was established by Adam Veale, a long-time friend of Roberts-Smith, with the blessing of the family, as “the only legitimate platform” for public support. Veale told the publication: “There has been an overwhelming amount of support for Ben, with Australians from all walks of life reaching out and wanting to know how they can help.” He described the Trust as “a simple and safe way for Australians to rally behind Ben as he undertakes his monumental battle, and ensure his family is supported.”
Those words matter because they reveal what this moment has become. It is no longer simply a legal contest. It is a national test.
If the state can spend sums approximating $300 million pursuing Australian soldiers through the Afghanistan war-crimes machinery, then the generosity of ordinary Australians becomes more than charity, it becomes a statement of national conscience. Every contribution, large or small, helps answer an imbalance that should trouble us all. Not because any man is above the law. He isn’t. Not because courts should be bypassed. They must not be. But because when one side is backed by the vast resources of the state, and the other is left to carry the personal cost of defence, the contest is no longer equal and fair. It becomes less a search for truth than a test of who can endure the longest.
The same country that sent soldiers into Afghanistan cannot later abandon them to fight alone against the machinery of government, the media and their egregiously misinformed status quo
This point reaches beyond Ben Roberts-Smith. It reaches every Australian soldier now wearing the uniform, and every young Australian considering whether to put it on. What rational soldier will deploy for a country that may one day spend hundreds of millions pursuing him, while expecting him to beg fellow citizens to pass the hat around for the means to defend himself? What soldier will trust a nation that asks him to make life-and-death decisions in war, then years later judges those decisions through the cold safety of hindsight, political fashion and media theatre?
No military can survive that breach of trust.
Australia cannot ask its soldiers for courage overseas and treat them with cowardice when they come home. It cannot demand obedience in war and provide abandonment in peace. It cannot honour medals on Anzac Day, then allow the men who earned them to be consumed by a process so expensive, that only the state and the very rich can endure it.
The charges against Ben Roberts-Smith must be tested in court, under law, on evidence, and to the criminal standard. That’s the point. A charge isn’t a conviction. A headline isn’t proof. A civil finding isn’t a criminal verdict. The difference matters, and any country that forgets this, has already begun to lose the justice it claims to defend.
The Trust is therefore not an act of defiance against justice. It’s an act of faith in justice.
It says the court should decide, not the mob.
It says evidence should prevail, not reputational destruction.
It says the state’s power should be met by citizens who still believe in fairness.
It says no Australian family should be financially destroyed merely trying to survive a process the government can fund indefinitely.
And it says that truth, justice and decency cannot be reserved for those with bottomless pockets.
Ben Roberts-Smith now faces the fight of his life.
His family faces it with him.
Those who believe in fairness must not look away.
If Australia can’t get this right, it will not merely fail one soldier. It will send a message to every future soldier: your service may be honoured while it is useful, questioned when it is inconvenient, and abandoned when it becomes expensive.
That isn’t a country worthy of its soldiers.
Our soldiers have borne the cost of our national decisions. Soldiers like Ben Roberts-Smith VC MG obeyed our leaders into harm’s way, into war zones most Australians will never see and circumstances most Australians will never be asked to endure.
Some soldiers, like Private Robert Poate, Sapper James Martin and Lance Corporal Stjepan Milosevic never came home.
Now it is our turn to wear the cost of our national decisions, not with blind loyalty, but with fairness, gratitude and national conscience.
We can help level the field.
We can support the Ben Roberts-Smith VC MG Trust.
More weird shit from nanny state
The cops must be pissing themselves laughing as they dream up more and more stuff about Dezi Freeman, now they say he was making child-porn videos and they jumped in the window of his bus (?) when he started shooting them but their cameras all stopped working at precisely that time. The cops have got child porn on the brain from watching it all day, trying to get it in some category or whatever they pretend to be doing. I had them grab my phone to look through it once. What’s your password they said, no password I said. They went through all the photos in about 2 minutes, they are experts at spotting child porn. There must be a lot of mental illness by now. Imagine putting a guy on trial and convicting him when you already shot him to death, according to your own report, and we are supposed to believe your report because the cameras went off at that moment. What’s so scary about “sovereign citizen” so-called that you have to shoot first and cook up the evidence later. Will they start shooting flat-earthers next. They had a similar story for the Bondi joo shooting, the ASIO computers broke down exactly when the shooters showed up, something along those lines. The eastern states cops are going nuts at the moment. It must be easy to make them snap. Watch out flat earthers, MH17 and 9-11 theorists, UFO societies, etc etc, could be you next. Don’t mention Port Arthur or a busload of cops will show up and plant child porn all through your house. From where I’m sitting the whole government has become a dangerous mental case, their controllers must be delighted. What a freakshow.
What, no WMD again ???
What, not even weapons inspectors ???
What, just go in and start bombing ??? ??? ???
Too Honest Tulsi Gabbard
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Before the resignation, one of the biggest recent controversies involving Tulsi Gabbard was reportedly her disagreement with the Trump administration over Iran.
In Senate testimony earlier this year, she reportedly stated there was no evidence Iran was actively building a nuclear weapon, which conflicted with harder-line positions inside the administration. Multiple reports later suggested she became increasingly sidelined afterward.
Another major controversy tied to her tenure was the “Signal chat leak” incident, where discussions among senior officials about U.S. operations in Yemen were accidentally exposed to a journalist in a group chat. Gabbard faced criticism during congressional questioning over the handling of classified communications.
She also drew attention for:
involvement in investigations related to the 2020 election
firing intelligence officials who contradicted administration claims
earlier comments on Russia, Syria, and Ukraine that critics said echoed Russian narratives.
Do we need more evidence that the government by any normal measure is insane.
The one who should be on trial is W Bush for invading Afghanistan, poppy Bush and the Republican Party also culpable, not sure if poppy is dead or faked it, they said he went to Gitmo along with McCain, who knows what the hell happened, but we do know Cheney made a motza from the wars, also the Darwin railway line perhaps.
Our government minions are basically salespeople, sent to moderate the Globalist Policy handed down via G-G, RBA and other such outfits. The political minions’ job is to make it palatable and sell it to us with titbit size bribes and big porkies. They have failed so miserably they should be kicked out. The G-G should sack them, the blue party should block supply. The blue party should have already blocked supply but they know half of them would be out of a job.
Today in “The West” which is a daily newspaper, they did TWO full page spreads on Andrew Hastie vs BRS. Whatever the issues with the muslim hating BRS, Andrew Hastie should be smarter and not get involved any further. The whole thing is like a train wreck. It goes back to HW Bush and the profiteers, it goes back to Bibi and his crowd, the Global elites are at the core of all such things. Who cares what BRS did on this bizarre mission. Compared to HW Bush it amounts to nothing. HW got his son to get his hands dirty, and Afghan patriots got killed all over the place, because they didn’t want poppy fields, or foreign invaders. This UnaParty powered government is so stoopid it is right off the scale. They should be asset-stripped, tarred and feathered and made to live in a pit for the rest of their days. They have no value to Australia. They are wreckers, liars, saboteurs, traitors. They have no redeeming qualities whatsoever. They are much worse than useless.
Editor : Do the sums for us and inform us how much it is going to cost on a daily basis to employ a blood sucking lawyer with the legal qualifications to take on the prosecution lawyers who are paid for with our tax money .
Gemini is my AI , she investigated Adam Veale so have a think where it is on a public record that he may not be who he is claiming to be .
Why I am careful with donations is because I have been stung by fake charities that looked squeaky clean .
Wrong Nev we say it is ready to donate now. We are in regular contact with BRS supporters and it is quite good and safe to donate. Who is Gemini? Editor
‘Without harmony in the State, no military expedition can be undertaken. Without harmony in the army, no battle array can be formed.’
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(The Art of War. Sun Tzu, VIII:2. Chang Yu’s commentary).
The Ben Roberts-Smith VC MG Trust ; Adam Veale is the sole director of Veritas Equity Holdings Pty Ltd corporation ,he has no official connection with the BRS Trust so says Gemini Ai .
It would be wise not to donate yet .
“What was the end goal?”
I quote Mahmoud OD
“It is not just Palestine now. It’s about GLOBAL DOMINANCE that are being run by this group of people, a very influential people through blackmail, through money to spread corruption and destruction all across the world.
People are asking nowadays, who is running my country?
Why is my country so friendly to people who murder children?……….……”
That says it all.
All of this has got me thinking… ( just thinking)
The amount of deckchairs involved in this shuffling is confusing. (on purpose I guess)
Australia is heading for oi-vey paradise..(it’s close now)
If ‘They’ can sacrifice ‘Their’ own people over there in Israel of late.. (because that is what it looks like)
What else would ‘They’ do?
Hamerica is ‘Their’ promised land… (which looks to be going through a type of sterilising scenario right now)
What would be ‘Their’ next move.???
Oh that’s right…
The Whitehouse just released some ‘official’ but rather pathetic UFO files…
Looking at how ‘They’ are shuffling the deckchairs… I reckon that we’ve got about 2 years to see ‘Their’ plan come into fruition…
Trump is looking to be dumped atm (according to the press) .. the Iran war looks to have been a step up from the start..
The yanks knew what was going to happen ..
Nutenyahoo and cabinet had already been relocated to Cyprus …
What was the end goal?
Cause a worldwide financial collapse ?…
(which could happen happen tomorrow if the Iranians cut the massive undersea cable over there.. undersea cable that carries the main banking routes = end of the Swift monopoly)
But that would put China into the drivers seat…
(and I don’t think Iran would do that… But the Israelis would if it somehow suited the Gnomes of Zurich types)
Anyway…
My money is on the Alien agenda…
Coz Swizzy knows the Iranians have the anti- gravity thing sorted out and what better way of Poo Pooing the Iranians… “Look. .. They are getting help from the Aliens!!!” sort of thing…
Trump could then enforce some sort of emergency declaration and hold onto his throne…
And then we might get to see Trump’s ‘Space Force’ in action…
All of this from the Ben Robert Smith debacle.
And there are lots of deckchairs that haven’t been moved yet ..
Well it’s easy to see who’s behind this farce…
Bondi and the Ben Robert Smith prosecution/persecution has the same effect…
Disarming…
‘They’ can’t have any interference in ‘Their’ upcoming or reason for public (By The People) uprising…
For years I’ve been trying to work out what could trigger such an uprising since ‘They’ did Port Arthur…
The only thing that I could come up with is stopping the people accessing their own money…
And with the Digital ID hovering above our heads it now looks to be closer to reality…
Think about it…
We Aussies don’t go around trying to shoot anyone in the PTB in Oz even after all of the bullshit that has been thrown at us over the years… We don’t even punch them in the mouth or mob attack them…
So I thought ” What is it that the PTB are planning that would cause anyone with a gun to take up arms ?”
It must going to be serious…
Specially now that they are going for the well trained military patriots that can organise themselves in a Guerrilla type offensive against any oppressors…
The Dezi Freeman debacle looks to be a brainwashing tactic that would get our police to shoot their citizens if the PTB conjered up some story. .
So ‘They’ are sterilising (castrating) ANY future possibilities of the People verses the PTB being successful. .
It’s that simple.
My gut tells me that the ‘Safe and Effective’ business is tied into this…
As I’ve said before. The mRNA and Spike Protein blurb is misdirection…
It’s a metallic based liquid chip…
And if (let’s say) there is an uprising and those people are smart enough to use short wave radios and leave their mobile phones at home the PTB can still identify the naughty people using ai via cell towers and satellites…
Australia seems to be ‘Their’ goldmine in that respect…
‘Their’ massive contingency plan..
Israel has now about 2 million people left there now…
Where did the the rest go … ???
Apparently countries like Japan etc won’t let anyone with Israeli passports enter their countries..
Ahhh Ha .!!!
Australia just passed the anti-Semitism laws…
Are we ‘Their’ big out bag. ???
By the look of it Victoria is ripe for the picking except for the weather..
Queensland seems to be a trouble maker…
Tazzy is out cause ‘They’ like warm weather…
That leaves WA…
Warm and isolated.. but expensive… But ‘They’ have got the dough haven’t ‘They’.
I wander what is going on there atm.?
I just went to the contribution page, hoping for an easy method like PayPal (well, the only one I use, being technically challenged) However it seems I have to do it bank-to-bank, so will defer till the weekend when I’ll have more time to sort it out.
Even with with deep-pocket supporters like Gina Rinehart – and others – that should ensure Ben gets the best representation, I’ll be putting in my few dollars and we all should, as a ‘middle finger’ to those orchestrating this malicious & disgusting persecution of our finest.
And remember who is behind it, including slimy Nine & it’s associated leftist publications like the SMH…and, of course, ‘your’ ABC…nothing more needs to be said there, the ABC is run by the left for the left – on the tax-payer dollar.
As for the SMH I haven’t read it since the early 80’s when its letters editors & ‘journalists’ took it hard over to the left, excluding the rest of us (well, look at it now!). Nine TV & its radio station are banned in my household; it may be a token, but it’s my way of expressing my disgust…and that I won’t watch/listen to them, their views, or the ads that finance them.
Ben is a tough man, physically & mentally, but this persecution could drag on for years and must inevitably have a debilitating effect. It’s potentially life changing in the most negative way, and he & his family don’t deserve that.
Whilst our financial support is necessary, I suggest a full-on campaign to drop the charges; I’m quite sure decent lawyers can find multiple, sound reasons for that. And why don’t ‘we, the people’, express our concern, our anger & disgust at this unnecessary persecution by a rally, by a march or two? I went to all the Sydney anti-vaxx, covidcon rallies in Sydney and I’d be there again, rallying for Ben.
And you?
Judging by last night’s Current Affairs, it seems that the Police Hierarchy is prepared to spend millions in fighting a compensation case rather than doing the right thing by a dedicated Police Officer.
So tell me why anyone should join the Police Force or the Military?
One good point would suffice.
Always remember, that when you vote in a genuine Patriot Party to government, a patriotic supreme court and teams of patriotic lawyers can very easily reverse this current state of affairs.
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A patriotic government can also spend $300 million hunting down and prosecuting its treacherous lawyers. Never forget this.
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Pat “WTF are Australia’s supposed “Defence Force” doing getting entangled in FOREIGN WARS that we have no business being involved in, over and over and over again? All to serve the malevolent Games of Empire of FOREIGNERS?”
Well, we are off doing it again. Our military have joined an International force, I think on a battle ship,
to play our part in an ILLEGAL WAR against Iran. Apparently they will not be firing on them. So why a battleship? (Perhaps showing they have hairs on their chest). Maybe they will form another blockade to the American blockade and also on the Iranian blockade. A blockade on a blockade on a blockade. History if there will be such a thing, will be rolling around the floor splitting their sides with laughter. I am convinced that the West is governed by children who cannot even manage their own affairs.
I’m going to go over there in my rubber Duckie and watch the spectacle of foolishness. It won’t be the Iranians who send me to a watery grave.
And while I am asking questions, why on earth are we sending our Spy Plane to again take part in an ILLEGAL WAR? And why are we sending millions of dollars to Afghanistan? Are we paying war reparations?
Correction : Dr Dan Mealey for chief medical officer of Australia
I nominate Dr.Dan Murphy to be Chief medical officer of Australia , who seconds that ?
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I hope this man gets some real vindication.
Next time there’s a stupid war that has nothing to do with Australia send the politicians, the bureaucrats, the media shills, the top brass and the judges that are prosecuting BRS to the front lines.
Send them, their wives, the children, their trannies and every other woke “do gooder” who is persecuting BRS.
After all they want to be so inclusive and diverse I think it’s about time they all got a big dose of their own medicine.
Let’s see how they cope with the wars they create for everyone else to fight.
I say those who want the wars should fight them and everyone else can stay home.
We will probably rid ourselves of a lot of problems if we do that.
Well folks,
All sympathy to Ben Roberts Smith and others just like him, but I hate to say it, I really do, you lie down with dogs, you get fleas.
And the entire machinery of fake corporate “governance” here in Australia is INFESTED with dogs, craven sold-out paid-off TREASONOUS dogs on the payroll of foreign interests.
WTF are Australia’s supposed “Defence Force” doing getting entangled in FOREIGN WARS that we have no business being involved in, over and over and over again? All to serve the malevolent Games of Empire of FOREIGNERS?
OF COURSE characters like Ben Roberts Smith are treated like shit, OF COURSE they’re expendable for the sake of political expedience and vested interests and petty grudges, the entire Australian military establishment exists ONLY to satisfy foreign mercenary expeditions and NOTHING ELSE. They are ALL emphatically EXPENDABLE.
They’re a disposable COLONIAL ASSET for whatever Empire has the contemporary ascendance. Maybe take some time out to watch that classic hit movie “Breaker Morant”, folks, because nothing has changed, repeat, NOTHING HAS CHANGED.
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