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    Breaking: Ben Roberts-Smith arrested over war crimes allegations

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    2. mickey_kneecaps on

      🥳

      Hopefully he is convicted. I imagine prosecutors would have to be relatively confident to go through with this.

    5. Expensive-Horse5538 on

      About time – no doubt he will just drag this through every appeal if he is convicted though.

      Either way, given his track record, he will be spending a long time behind bars, if not the rest of his life.

      Also no doubt Kerry Stokes will again fund his legal defence team.

    10. AgentBluelol on

      Another “Went back for his hat” mistake?

      >The former special forces soldier’s arrest comes after a mammoth defamation trial against Nine Newspapers which ended in a court finding that on the balance of probabilities, allegations he was responsible for, or complicit in the deaths of four detainees in Afghanistan were substantially true.

    11. HiccupAndDown on

      Good. Fuck this scumbag. Actually nail him to the wall this time. You can have no pride in your own armed forces if they cant be held accountable for their actions.

    13. DuskHourStudio on

      Queue all the pissed off racist bogans screaming *”He’s an Australian hero!”*

    14. Large-one on

      As justice becomes increasingly rare in modern society, I am so glad to see BRS get his time in court. No matter the outcome, I am proud that Australia still hold people like him to account.

      Well done to the media organisations that took the brave steps to expose him, and shame on the billionaires who tried to protect him.

    15. EddieBae58 on

      One does have to wonder if all this would have come to the degree of attention is has if Roberts-Smith hadn’t tried to silence it so hard. The Streisand effect in action.

    18. Tinea_Pedis on

      That saying, “the dildo of consequence rarely comes lubed” springs to mind

    19. 123chuckaway on

      Good to see the comments here so far don’t have a bunch of “fog of war” and “but taliban is worse so idc” justifications like the now deleted Aus Pol thread.

    20. Radioburnin on

      Facebook is full of people who seem to think that doing warcrimes is unavoidable and that caring about such things is left wing.

    22. BrightStick on

      Future One Nation candidate material 

      I’m loving Yumi Stynes comments about him, they aged very well.

      > On the 28 February 2012 episode of The Circle, along with George Negus, Stynes made comments about a photo of former soldier Ben Roberts-Smith coming out of a swimming pool, saying, “He’s going to dive down to the bottom of the pool to see if his brain is there”.

      Stynes was incredibly accurate given Robert’s-Smith was out killing innocents and committing war crimes in the months following her comments.

    24. hillbilly_dan on

      anyone checked on Yumi Stynes? that level of schadenfreude could be hazardous to your health

    27. MrBobbyFreakout on

      As others have correctly predicted the Facebook comments are worrying about this.

    28. fishdoghat on

      Anyone else find this a bit weird given that our government has basically cheered on the genocide in Gaza? I’m struggling to rationalise the state of the world at the moment.  (Im all for punishing him for the crimes he committed btw, bloke is a scumbag who can rot in prison). 

    31. shorrrno on

      It amazes me how many people blindly support him, despite the fact all of the evidence has been provided by his own teammates. If that doesn’t tell you everything you need to know about the bloke, I don’t know what will

    33. distinctgore on

      If this fuckwit had just shut up and buckled down the hatches after his military career – busting out the medals once a year for the Anzac jerkoff – he would likely have come out untouched. But luckily, his dogshit personality and unhinged moral compass raised the biggest red flag ever for the media to follow.

    36. racingskater on

      Hopefully the length of the investigation means that they were making absolutely sure the case was iron-clad.

    37. maybeslightlyinsane on

      Didn’t we, as a country, place him on a pedestal as a hero for some time?

    41. gigoran on

      I’m still shocked at what he became. He was just a goofy kid that joined the army when I knew him.

    42. floorshitter69 on

      We have to thank BRS for their relentless efforts to bring a war criminal to trial.