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As I’ve been writing, the persecution of Australia’s most decorated war hero, Ben Roberts-Smith, reads like a travesty of justice, from the start to the latest enormities. Everything about this lawfare stinks, from the drawn-out process-as-punishment, extended as a slow torture by authorities and the legacy media for nearly two decades.
The fishing for complainants – in 2018 investigators published notices in Afghani newspapers in Australia calling for details of ‘rumours’ about possible wrongdoing – and the exorbitant baksheesh paid to people who have made very clear that they absolutely hate ‘infidels’. The readiness of judges to believe illiterate Afghan villagers, whom even translators could barely understand, over a highly decorated elite soldier.
There also remains the fact that at least two of the alleged ‘victims’ have never even been identified. Australian Office of Special Investigations director Ross Barnett already revealed that investigators have no crime scenes, no access to the deceased, no bodies, no post-mortem report, no official cause of death, no recovery of projectiles to link to weapons that might have been carried by members of the ADF, no photographs, no site plans…
The more we learn about the current criminal case, the more it stinks to high heaven. For four years and $300 million, the Australian Federal Police have dedicated a full-time unit to surveilling and pursuing Roberts-Smith. Yet the Muslim father and son, a known ISIS cell member, were allowed to travel to a known jihad-training hotspot, and amass an arsenal of weapons, without the AFP taking the least notice. Sixteen Jewish Australians died while the AFP apparently had all eyes on a single war hero.
Even more questions are being raised about the publicity-seeking arrest of Roberts-Smith.
Arresting authorities should “explain” why they needed to apprehend Ben Roberts-Smith on the tarmac of Sydney’s domestic airport, opposition defence spokesman James Paterson says […]
One of Australia’s most decorated soldiers, Mr Roberts-Smith was this week charged with the war crime of murder after being hauled off a plane bound for Brisbane this week in front of children.
The outrage has only grown since it emerged that Roberts-Smith had made multiple offers to turn himself in. Yet, these were rejected by the AFP, in favour of a humiliating public arrest. An arrest which the AFP commissioner seems to have seen more as a PR stunt than administration of justice. Even AFP ranks are questioning the commissioner’s judgement.
Unrest is brewing inside Federal Police ranks about how former soldier Ben Roberts-Smith was arrested this week, with members criticising a decision to video the event and even mocking the Commissioner for wearing more service medals than the war hero […]
This week the Nightly revealed the Victoria Cross recipient had made multiple previous offers to hand himself into the Australian Federal Police if they intended to charge him with war crimes.
A source close to the former SAS corporal said his lawyers had offered in writing to make him available to authorities “at any place, at any time” to be arrested, but the AFP has declined to comment on the claim.
Serving figures inside the AFP are now privately questioning why their organisation arranged for a videographer to record the dramatic arrest and then distribute the vision to news organisations.
Worse, to quite clearly tip off the media. Does anyone really believe it was coincidental that the media – including a hijab-clad Muslim reporter – just happened to be on hand?
AFP insiders are also questioning the apparent sense of grandiosity of a commissioner who seems more obsessed with babbling about ‘diversity’ than protecting Australians.
The Nightly has also seen several derogatory messages and images that are being shared between AFP members criticising the Commissioner’s press conference after Tuesday’s arrest and mocking the number of medals she has worn on her uniform.
One image circulated widely among AFP members shows [Commissioner Krissy Barrett] displaying at least 10 medals earned during her twenty-five-year career, compared to Ben Roberts-Smith wearing half as many decorations following his Afghanistan service.
Even more pertinent are questions as to why Roberts-Smith was arrested in Sydney, rather than his residence in Brisbane, or in Perth where he was born and the Special Air Service Regiment is based?
We can take a guess: At the time of the 2021 Census Sydney was 54.2 per cent Australian-born and 6.9 per cent Islamic, compared to Brisbane’s 64.4 per cent and 2.3 per cent, and Perth’s 59.5 per cent and 2.5 per cent, while Sydney also has Australia’s second-largest Afghan population after Melbourne.
It’s almost like the AFP is banking on the odds of stacking the jury pool.
One well-placed source suggested investigators might have waited to arrest Roberts-Smith in NSW because they wanted access to a wider and more diverse jury pool.
In other words: more Muslims.
