Ben Roberts-Smith Versus The Freak Show. By David Archibald.
Mr Roberts-Smith is being persecuted because he is the antithesis of the freak show that is currently running the Department of Defence since at least 2005.
Dresses:
The sort of person they prefer to associate with is another Army captain, Captain Jesse Noble, the Darwin-based subject of the title of this article:
From that article, this is a photograph of Captain Noble wearing his dress, lippy and painted fingernails to work:
This is the sort of man that the Armyโs high command would prefer to have defending Australia, not the fearless Corporal Roberts-Smith. Senior officers backed a bid by Captain Noble that he be allowed to wear a dress to work. That means that those same senior officers are social engineers, who would rather remake society in their own image than be combat-effective. A captain runs a company of about 100 soldiers. In the life and death business of soldiering, soldiers put their trust in their officers to do the best by them, or not if the officer is a bloke in a dress. None could take him seriously. The high command would also be suppressing normal people and promoting their own kind instead.
The importance of trust in having an effective army is mentioned by long time defence analyst Paul Dibb:
The dearth of professional non-commissioned officers means that totalitarian armies are unable to fight effectively because NCOs provide the vital link between officers and soldiers about battlefield decision-making. Military command and control culture boils down to trust, including at the operational level.
You may think that just because a bloke wants to wear a dress to work doesnโt necessarily mean that he thinks he is woman trapped in a manโs body. Which, if that were the case, would be a bad thing because it would mean he has gender dysphoria. This is the worst mental illness to have, because it has the highest suicide rate โ 50%. He may look pretty in his dress, and he may feel pretty, but looks can be deceiving. So, if he doesnโt have gender dysphoria, what particular condition might it be? A possibility is transvestic fetishism as described by the American Psychological Association:
Transvestic fetishism is a psychiatric diagnosis applied to men who are thought to have an excessive sexual or erotic interest in cross-dressing; this interest is often expressed in autoerotic behaviour. It differs from cross-dressing for entertainment or other purposes that do not involve sexual arousal. Under the name transvestic disorder, it is categorised as a paraphilia.
Whatever it is, expecting normal people to put up with it is poking them in the eye with a burnt stick. The high command of the Australian Defence Force would have been squealing with glee in forcing a cross-dresser on the lower ranks.
If it makes you feel any better, it is not just the Australian Defence Force that was afflicted. Until recently, West Point, where the cream of the U.S. Army officer corps start their careers, had a course entitled โUniformed Perspectives: The Evolution of Cross-Dressing in the Military and Gender Normsโ.
Proscriptions against cross-dressing in public are sensible. Because of my attendance at Bible Study, I am aware that this offence against society was mentioned 3,400 years ago in Deuteronomy 22:5:
A woman shall not wear a manโs apparel, nor shall a man put on a womanโs garment; for whoever does such things is abhorrent. …
Cookbooks but no drones:
Australia has made no effort towards using drones in warfare, or defending against them, even though drones are causing over 90% of the casualties in the Ukraine War. We will be wiped out by any aggressor using them, as was shown by a recent NATO exercise in which 10 Ukrainian drone operators destroyed two battalionsโ worth of armour in a day. We have made baby steps towards the prior overarching technology by assembling missiles in Australia.
The bloke put in charge of this missile project is Air Marshall Leon Phillips. The first thing he did, before any missile was assembled, was to produce a โharmonyโ cookbook:
Phillips in his cosplay as a military officer, the cookbook paid for by taxpayers, and being transfixed by an attachment to his blender.
Screwdriver assembly of missiles in Australia is useless because production stops when the supply of the parts stops. We are going to make missiles for the HIMARS launchers in Australia, but all the parts will come from Lockheed in the U.S. If Australia is going the wrong way about it, what is the right way to make missiles? The Russians make a lot of missiles and this is how they go about it at the Krasnoyarsk machine building plant that makes intercontinental ballistic missiles … Some 40% of the effort involved is machining of castings in CNC lathes and another 23% is assembly. The only real specialist knowledge is in designing the castings. Assembly is so simple that Russia imported Ugandan females to do that (the average IQ in Uganda is 76).
Recruitment: would you want to join an army with dresses but no drones?
That fact reminds us of another consequence of Captain Nobleโs dress, fingernail polish and lippy. People have resigned from the Australian Army because, in their words, they โdidnโt join the army to salute a bloke in a dressโ. For that same reason, parents are discouraging their children from joining the army.
Our armed forces arenโt meeting their recruiting numbers. Our high command interprets this as being due to Australians not wanting to defend the country anymore. So, they concocted a scheme in which soldiers from Papua New Guinea could transfer to the Australian Army and be rewarded with citizenship. One problem with that is that, like Uganda, Papua New Guinea has an average IQ of 76. The US Army found out back in WW2 that there was no role in the army for anyone with an IQ less than 83. In Papua New Guinea, only 32% of the males would have an IQ of 83 and higher. There is another problem with mercenaries that Machievelli pointed out more than five hundred years ago:
Now, mercenary and auxiliary forces are useless and dangerous; and any ruler who keeps his state dependent upon mercenaries will never have real peace and security, for they are disorganised, undisciplined, ambitious, and faithless.
The U.S. Department of Defense solved its recruitment problem by firing all its kooks and tranny-lovers. Their recruitment numbers then went through the roof. Ours will too once we do the same.
Batteries will save us:
Next up in the freak show is the bloke in charge of the Army, Lieutenant General Simon Stuart. In the Army he is considered to be an intellectual because he wrecked a Bushmaster truck by replacing the diesel engine with batteries. General Stuart must live in a world of magic in which you can wish things into existence. Because there is no way of recharging electric trucks on the battlefield. The Army is now considering towing a generator behind it. (Humans normally blink every five seconds or so. This is a video of the general reading from an autocue. This takes so much brain power that his autonomic processes shut down to cope and he doesnโt blink for minutes on end.)
Of course the Australian Defence Force has a Net Zero strategy. It is a completely stupid, useless thing to do. The Bushmaster was born diesel but identified as electric. Lieutenant General Stuart sensed this need to transition. …
Woke witch doctors pay for “evidence”:
The next piece of evidence that the higher ranks of our Australian Defence Force is unfit for command is the fantasy fiction of a Canberra sociologist, a Dr Crompvoets. Itโs a small literary nicheโthe high commandโs need for lurid stories about how unspeakably beastly Australian special forces are. But it pays well.
According to the previous defence minister Dutton, Dr Crompvoets was paid $6 million over a few years. It started in 2016 when General Angus Campbell commissioned a secret report on SAS culture.
Members of the SAS, past and present, were encouraged to contact Dr Crompvoets anonymously and tell tales of what went on in the regiment. Some of the lurid tales were included in her report as fact. For example:
โThe inquiry has found that there is credible information that junior soldiers were required by the patrol commanders to shoot a prisoner, in order to achieve that soldierโs first kill, in a practice that was known as โbloodingโ. โThrowdowns would be placed with the body, and a โcover storyโ was created for the purposes of operational reporting and to deflect scrutiny. This was reinforced with a code of silence.โ
As several thousand Australian troops have rotated through Afghanistan, you would expect at least several hundred of those to have undergone the โbloodingโ initiation. But none were named in the subsequent Brereton Report, which repeated some of Dr Crompvoetsโ other fantasy fiction. Take this example from page 120 of the Brereton report:
Clearance Operations. Dr Crompvoets was told that, after squirters were โdealtโ with, Special Forces would then cordon off a whole village, taking men and boys to guesthouses, which are typically on the edge of a village. There they would be tied up and tortured by Special Forces, sometimes for days. When the Special Forces left, the men and boys would be found dead: shot in the head or blindfolded and with throats slit.
The implication was that there are a lot of villages in Afghanistan with only women and girls left because Australian soldiers killed all the males. But no such village was named in the report. And none have been found since. Yet the high command of the Australian Defence Force believed these fairy tales. Nobody even raised the possibility that these stories could be fabrications. They read what they wanted to believe, that ordinary Australian soldiers are sadistic murderers.
The fact that the Departmentโs senior management believed the Brereton Report means that they have no understanding of the troops they are commanding, and precious little grip on reality otherwise. And most likely loathe the troops under their command.
Brereton couldnโt get the stories on atrocities that he wanted until he started paying Afghans to tell them. Basically, Brereton had insufficient mental acuity to understand that if he wasnโt getting stories of the atrocities he wanted, perhaps there hadnโt been any atrocities. Eventually the Afghans twigged to what Brereton was about and made up stories in order to be paid for the effort.
That is the context of the persecution of Ben Roberts-Smith. Others have also seen the darkness in the Australian Defence Force. Defence journalist Kym Bergman wrote last year,
Defence culture has changed into something secretive, suspicious of the outside world and thoroughly unpleasant.
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