Posted on 06/04/2023 10:56:23 AM PDT by Navy Patriot
Australia’s most decorated living war veteran Ben Roberts-Smith quit his corporate job Friday after a civil court blamed him for unlawfully killing four Afghans, escalating calls for the tarnished national hero to be stripped of his revered Victoria Cross medal.
Roberts-Smith, who retired from Australia’s elite Special Air Service Regiment a decade ago, quit his job as state manager of Seven West Media after losing a landmark defamation suit Thursday against newspapers that had accused him of an array of war crimes.
The 44-year-old had taken leave since 2021 to focus on his federal court case, which has been financed by the company’s billionaire executive chair Kerry Stokes.
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> escalating calls for the tarnished national hero to be stripped of his revered Victoria Cross medal <
The Victoria Cross has been forfeited in the past. In 1920 King George V issued a statement regarding that:
The King feels so strongly that, no matter the crime committed by anyone on whom the VC has been conferred, the decoration should not be forfeited. Even were a VC to be sentenced to be hanged for murder, he should be allowed to wear his VC on the scaffold.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Cross#Forfeited_awards
Breaker Morant revisited?
Why would anyone believe anything in the newspapers?
Normally, no, however this article is about reporting the Court Record, which is a verifiable Public Record of the judge's decision.
Said decision may be incorrect and biased, however it is the record until overturned.
Kerry Stokes sounds like a George Soros.
It’s hard to tell the difference between Muslim civilians and militants (terrorists) since they don’t wear uniforms. Not saying they were militants disguised as civilians, but it happed all the time when we were in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Or a knife in their back, if it suits the government stuffshirts.
“We shot them under Rule 303”
“Shoot straight, you bastards, don’t make a mess of it!”
Did he shoot afghan civilians that were busy raping little boys? Because if so, he should have been more respectful of these savages’ “culture” /s.
“The Australian War Memorial has an obligation to tell the whole truth about Australia’s involvement in Afghanistan,” he added.
Thank you for your service.
Sorry, I meant “we” as a country. I was never in Afghanistan or Iraq myself.
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