David McBride pleaded guilty to stealing military secrets, but said he felt a moral duty to speak up.

David McBride is the first Australian to be jailed over the war crimes allegations his disclosure helped expose.

Archived version: https://archive.ph/e9uiW

  • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today
    203·
    6 months ago

    To be clear, he isn’t being jailed because he negatively impacted security of his country. Far from it. He is being jailed because he made his country aware of crimes that their soldiers were committing overseas.

    • stoy@lemmy.zip
      14·
      6 months ago

      This allways confuses me, if you don’t want a huge mountain of dirty clothes to be seen, do the laundry from time to time.

      I get it, in war/combat bad shit happens, but when it does happen investigate it properly and analyze the cause of the bad shit.

      Only when you have that knowledge can you hope to do better.

      Soldiers commiting crimes in other nations, that shit needs to be stamped out and the soldiers need to understand how their behavior affects their own ability to their job.

      • unexposedhazard
        2·
        6 months ago

        Usually they are “in too deep”. If you start investigating properly then you wont just have to jail some low level soldiers, you will have to jail high ranking leaders and maybe even some politicians.

        Anyone that has been covering for these criminals will also need to be punished. So their only option is to never admit anything happened because the consequences are just too big.

          • unexposedhazard
            1·
            6 months ago

            Oh yeah absolutely, im just trying say that they are corrupt through and through, thats why it will never happen unless the goverment drastically changes.

  • Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works
    15·
    6 months ago

    What a fucking shameful embarrassment that the only punishment to come from the exposure of war crimes committed by our soldiers is that of the whistleblower.

    Absolutely fucked and makes me ashamed to be Australian.

    • Deceptichum@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      93·
      6 months ago

      I’m not ashamed to be Australian. I’m ashamed to be under a “democracy” that relies on corrupt representatives and a legal system around enabling them.

      The country needs a revolution, it’s the head that’s the problem.