“I can say hand on my heart I don’t regret a single thing:” Ben Roberts Smith
West Australian schoolboy Ben Roberts Smith joined the army on November 11, 1996 after finishing high school and went to war in East Timor aged 20. He became a SASR member at age 24.
Ben said his early childhood grounding by his parents had always given him a good understanding of what is expected of a person and how you behave at the very highest level. “They have demonstrated that to me through their actions,” he stressed.
Ben’s father Len is a lawyer who was appointed a Supreme Court judge in Western Australia in 2000. The Honorable Len Roberts Smith RFD, QC later was nominated as Chairman, Defence Abuse Response Taskforce because of his position and standing in the Reserves.
The Defence Abuse Response Taskforce (DART), led by Major-General Len Roberts-Smith, eventually found 1,723 “plausible” complaints of sexual abuse at the Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA), resulting in more than $60 million in “reparation” payments at a maximum of $50,000 per individual complainants. The final DART report in 2016 says a total of 133 complaints comprising 191 separate abuse allegations “that could constitute a criminal offence” were referred to state and territory police forces.
Similarly Ben’s dedicated mother Sue grew up in Papua New Guinea where her father was the last European Police Commissioner before Independence. Her family too had a long history of military members. Len Roberts Smith was the first public prosecutor in PNG after Independence.
Coming from a long family lineage of those serving their country Ben relished his newfound niche in the army. “We had a long history in the military and I grew up around family members talking about the service, Anzac Day and Remembrance Day.
“We had three direct family members who served in Gallipoli.”
He said he expected lots of action on the front line when deployed to East Timor in a peace-making capacity where he saw the SAS in action and remarked that was his destiny.
After listening to a smart, articulate former soldier such as Ben, whose years of strict family and military training taught him that every task in life had to be carried out correctly, beyond reproach, it is hard to imagine this capable soldier would have engaged in any unlawful activities such as killing five civilians in Afghanistan as alleged by the Office of Special Investigator attached to the Brereton Inquiry.
The Taliban, the recognised enemy of the Afghanistan war did not wear uniforms and every civilian was expected to assist their Muslim brothers engaged in guerilla warfare with American,Australian and Canadian forces.
Fifteen years later both Liberal and Labor governments want to scapegoat Australian soldiers who loyally served their country in order for western governments to surreptitiously preserve the status quo of the world’s largest, illicit opium producer.
How far will a devout duty bound man go to achieve the ends of a task set for him?
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“So Noah did everything precisely as God had commanded him.” — Genesis
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In Roberts Smith I get a glimpse of the character of Moses and the Templars.
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Was the self confessed Catholic, the moustache man a poor fellow soldier of Christ, the pink list killer had a cosy connection with the Vatican? Exchanged plundered gold teeth for Swiss Francs, Swiss Guard Mercenaries protecting the Pope, and Swiss tunnels for smuggling goods between Italy and Germany under Swiss threats of detonation that would have destroyed German supply chains.
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Octagon temples were a favourite of the Templars. — the Eagles Nest, Father Waltzmann‘s video link.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eevs84P6XfU&t=537s
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Commenter duck
Swissy has the best timers and the most resilient, out of reach for we the commoners
Father Waltzmann if the building was UNESCO listed I could understand why it was set on fyeeer; still being pre United Nations it is of historic significance.
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Joe, is it possible for a precision Swiss watch, to be used as a timer on an incendiary device?
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Crooked ABC-TV has done a little hit piece on BRS framing him as tried and convicted, the reason is Pauline Hanson said she would make the ABC “subscription only”. I’m not expecting this to happen, just mass sackings of producers would fix it, they obviously need a new CEO, but ABC is terrified anyway, BRS is now used as a proxy for Orange. The same 15 minute show “Media Watch” also tried to debunk the climate debunkers with personality politics, since they have no interest in science, just what people they choose to like, say is the science – the definition of a religion. “Media Watch” hit an all time low today, cherry picking one bit of rubbish after another, and putting a firm twist on it every time. Definition of a propaganda outfit.
Our shitty M$M has bypassed the Eagle’s Nest story in favour of trying to play politics with the local orange drama involving a psychotic and a ClimateChange apologist. Too bad for Hitler who got lots of stuff destroyed but no doubt a happy retirement in Argentina, funded by who, Swissy of course
Some readers might be interested in the arson at the Kehlsteinhaus (Eagle’s Nest): a truly magnificent building and setting.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw9flt76tsc
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It will be rebuilt
Women should never have had the obligation or possibility of becoming warmongers.
They that enter this field have lost their self esteem and replaced it with a desire to have a penis….my name should be ‘Adam’ . !!!
Not really but maybe he Hertzog should be.
If Robert Smith is being pursued by Australian authorities for alleged war crimes…
Why earlier this year did Australian toads give safe haven to the President of Israel, Isaac Herzog, wanted by the International Criminal Court, to answer questions about his actions regarding allegations of crimes of genocide in Gaza?
Then Howard’s International Court Act 2002 (Cth) that established I.C.C. jurisdiction in Australia is a joke.
I got about halfway through this interview so far and I like to look at not what people say they are doing but what is the outcome. BRS says a lot of soldiers go through an enquiry process of this sort and go on to suicide so that is the outcome. How can I be sure the outcome is not what is sought. The invasion of Afghanistan was done for a bogus story about Taliban arranging 9-11, which is so far fetched it’s off the scale. The money was the opium which soldiers at the time reported they were positioned to protect. The war there ended when synthetic opium was developed, which is how Trump signalled the end of the war but it was ended in the early says of the Biden term, presumably because they wanted to get the synthetic product fully online before they shut down the Afghanistan operation. So the humanitarian aspect of fighting the Taliban may well be real but it’s a side issue and part of the cover-up and all the girls in schools etc were dumped as soon as the opium was no longer needed.
So the Australian government is spending a vast amount of money prosecuting these soldiers, from the bot:
“Office of the Special Investigator (OSI) spending, January 2021–March 2026 $231 million
OSI funding allocated through 2025–26 $320.5 million
Brereton Inquiry into alleged ADF war crimes, 2016–2020 $7.24 million
Additional OSI funding in the 2026–27 Budget $50.4 million”
Going purely by the background, the DeepState efforts and the actual outcomes, this seems like a way to get rid of witnesses to me, and shifty Andrew Hastie of the UnaParty’s endangered seat is working to get it done.
Well I will listen to the second half a bit later.
President Truman had a painted glass sign on his desk saying, ‘The Buck Stops Here’. Contrast his principled view with the ADF, which believes that passing the buck to the lowest ranks while excusing senior officers from responsibility is acceptable policy—a shameful episode in our military history.
I also detect a logic to the existing practice of leaving old public commands to wear “one’s” mask hanging around without being countermanded and the similar lack of follow-through with an ostensible wish to have everyone using credit cards and not cash. It appears an ideal way of “separating the sheep from the goats”, providing a permanent barometer to detect the level of political awareness in individual “citizens”. Those resolutely determined to keep their transactions in cash become immediately identifiable as a potential threat to malevolent political power. People still wearing “their” masks similarly identifable as potential allies to malevolent power. How these different groups are treated can be regulated from the top in accordance with the “elite’s” momentary political requirements.
That sounds quite plausible to me.
The vendetta against Ben Roberts-Smith is a mainly mozzie-inspired campaign to discourage real men joining the army. That would leave an army of mainly trannies and chicks, a pushover for the coming LibLabGreenTeal inspired takeover of Australia.