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David McBride: former army lawyer sentenced to five years for stealing and leaking Afghanistan war documents (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Complete bullshit. Regimes that punish whistleblowers harder than war criminals reveal themselves as dreaming of tyranny.

The entire trial was cooked, and I'm furious :(

That non parole period is nuts too, pure revenge. What danger does this man represent? If he's out on the streets some war criminals better watch their backs?

edit: I should add, it's also quite frustrating that at the end of all this top brass has had no light shone on them, which was his initial goal on leaking. He thought the SAS was being investigated overmuch as a distraction from leadership failures. I guess we'll never know. A slap on the wrist for the executioners, no systematic investigation, and an inconvenient man in gaol.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah that's fair, I mean I hate Boeing as well because of their dodgy safety record. But getting UQ to dissociate with Boeing is hardly likely to actually achieve anything in the context of war. Weapons companies don't give a shit about morals - otherwise they wouldn't exist. When students protest something it makes the news, and making the news is not something David McBride has been doing

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

getting UQ to dissociate with Boeing is hardly likely to actually achieve anything in the context of war

Absolutely fair. But it's the one thing UQ students have the most ability to affect, and if Boeing and other weapons manufacturers lost their associations with every research institution because of similar protests, that would have a much more sizeable impact.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Indeed, even if you don't care about the war, I don't like the idea of foreign companies influencing our taxpayer-funded research