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David McBride: former army lawyer sentenced to five years for stealing and leaking Afghanistan war documents (www.theguardian.com)
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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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[โ€“] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm saying it's better a fucked up secret is kept than 10 people die not the other way around

[โ€“] Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 points 6 months ago

Ok, but that's not what your earlier comment said. It's quite the opposite of your earlier comment.

Anyway, even if we do take it that way, as others have said, it just doesn't work that way. Keeping these secrets is enabling more deaths to occur. The "fucked up secret" was "people are getting away with murdering noncombatants and prisoners and covering it up". By revealing this "fucked up secret", McBride was helping to save lives.

Ironically, this is kinda what you seemed to be acknowledging in your earlier comment. You said that keeping the secret leads to deaths ("keep a fucked up secret then have 10 men die").