Anyone defending Ben Roberts-Smith VC’s alleged murder of Afghan prisoners is betraying more than twenty other Special Forces soldiers. They are Australia’s finest who had the courage and integrity to report BRSvc, men like Australian SAS medic Dusty Miller and commando Kevin Frost.
Anyone demanding BRSvc’s prosecution is abandoning every soldier wearing a uniform today, repeating what was done to Australian officers Breaker Morant and Peter Handcock by the British Empire during the 1902 Boer War. Just like BRSvc in Afghanistan, Morant and Handcock were following the unwritten orders of their most senior British commanders when they executed Boer prisoners. And just like in Afghanistan most of the soldiers in 1902 South Africa protested the order to execute prisoners but it still happened because it was an unwritten policy implemented from the very top. Morant and Handcock were tried and executed to placate the Germans, aid negotiations with the Boers, and to protect the truly guilty party – General Kitchener, aka The Butcher. Kitchener earned that nickname for this scorched earth policy that included concentration camps for Boer women and children, tens of thousands of whom died of disease and starvation.
BRSvc won’t get executed but is still being sacrificed to protect the most senior commanders who did implement a policy of extra-judicial killing of Afghan prisoners. I’ve identified those commanders in my report SAS Death Squads: NATO’s Phoenix Program? It goes all the way to the British Crown: both Britain’s old queen and its new one endorsed the instigators and perpetrators of those extra-judicial killings. BRSvc’s arrest on a commercial flight and his perp-walk across the tarmac of Sydney International airport stinks of an Establishment cover-up underway, setting up a mistrial and pre-loading public opinion. And that’s a public that should not accept another Australian soldier being sacrificed to protect the British Crown and their corrupt Generals.
