Posted on 11/30/2020 3:45:57 PM PST by naturalman1975
Defence Chief Angus Campbell has backed away from a pledge to strip meritorious service awards from 3000 Afghanistan veterans to mark their “collective responsibility” for alleged war crimes, after he was publicly rolled by Scott Morrison.
General Campbell said more than a week ago when he released the Brereton war crimes report that he would write to the Governor-General asking him to revoke the Meritorious Unit Citation for special forces soldiers who served in Afghanistan from 2007 to 2013.
But, after the Prime Minister overruled the edict, the Chief of the Defence Force fell into line.
(Excerpt) Read more at theaustralian.com.au ...
I have been consistent in saying that I believe any serviceperson proving to be guilty by a fair process should pay the penalty - and I do think there is a real chance that will be appropriate in some of these cases.
But they are all individually entitled to the presumption of innocence and the idea that thousands (including some who died for their country) should lose an honour because of - at most - the actions of one percent of their number - is very problematic.
Looks like the lunatics are running the asylum down under, as well.
Because collective punishment is ethical. Right.
Liberal lunacy has infested Aussie culture as well. Thanks to their Draconian gun laws car theft and home robberies are practically at epidemic proportions and Melbourne has the dubious distinction of being nicknamed STAB CITY
“Publicly rolled”...is that an Aussie term?
Collective punishment is a military tradition.
That said, I’m glad unit citations weren’t cancelled because of individual wrongdoing. In today’s environment, that would be much more likely to discourage everyone than to encourage better behavior.
Possibly - I don’t know if it is only Australian, but we certainly use it here.
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