Tested and Found Wanting. By David Archibald.
Ben Roberts-Smith:
I expect that I am one of the few people in Australia who has read the Brereton Report in its entirety. I read it on the day it came out. Nobody who has read the whole thing could take it seriously after getting to page 120. …
Class warfare:
Now comes his current trial. There are interviews with other SAS troops on the internet. It turns out that it was the judge in the defamation trial was selective about what he accepted as evidence. He accepted the story of one bloke who hadn’t seen Ben Roberts-Smith shoot anyone, but had a feeling, and did not accept the evidence of the colonel in charge of the regiment who had been on site at the time and said that nothing had happened.
So the judge had been in error, at best. Not impartial. He had wanted Ben Roberts-Smith to go down. Some $300 million has been spent on the persecution of Ben Roberts-Smith to date. The persecution had four blokes who had committed war crimes and traded those four for a shot at Ben Roberts-Smith. We have not been told what the four did. They have been told that if they perjure themselves, they won’t go to prison. None of the four have a public profile as a hero.
Getting a conviction on any of them won’t suit the persecutors’ interest, which is kulturkampf against authentic Australian culture and the notion that Australia is worth fighting for. Which is the same reason that Cardinal Pell was persecuted. …
Testing, testing:
From time to time we have moments that test us. For Australia’s political parties, it was the Farrer by-election. where each party had the opportunity to weigh in on Ben Roberts-Smith.
Only One Nation passed that test. Remaining silent wasn’t an option. If you couldn’t see that a perfectly fine, almost flawless Australian was being persecuted by evil people with an unlimited budget, then you know nothing about how Australia is being run now. The political parties that did not come out in support of Ben Roberts-Smith have disqualified themselves from government by their silence. …
Anybody can rabbit on about migrants and economic management and change their mind once they actually get into government, as Julia Gillard did with the carbon tax. But only those who have the right values — shared, common, decent Australian values — will do the right thing in government because it is the right thing to do.
The details of the Ben Roberts-Smith case are mostly irrelevant to what is really going on. Woke Australia wants to tear down traditional Australia, and BRS is a hero and defended traditional Australia. It’s the same as defacing statues of Captain Cook, or persecuting Cardinal Pell over made-up sexual charges.
It’s class warfare conducted by the woke ruling class, against the deplorable rest of us. Notice how everyone almost immediately knew which side they were on? None of the ruling class wondered out loud about whether BRS was in fact guilty or whether it was a witch-hunt — no, they screamed “guilty” and wanted to prosecute him, straight away. And the rest of us knew immediately that something was off about the whole exercise, even before any details of the case came out.
Like the prosecution of Cardinal Pell, the details and what actually happened do not matter. BRS and Pell, like the statues of Captain Cook, are our symbols, so they want to denigrate them to make the new woke ruling class look better.