Ben arrested

[Bobby]

Are they gunna hang em and hang em high?


https://edition.cnn.com/2026/04/06/aust ... s-intl-hnk

Australia’s most decorated soldier arrested over alleged war crimes

Story by Reuters

27 min ago




Reuters —  Australia’s most decorated living soldier has been arrested over five counts of the war crime of murder while on deployment in Afghanistan, local media reported on Tuesday.
The man, whom police identified as a 47-year-old former Australian Defence Force member and media named as Ben Roberts-Smith, was arrested at Sydney Airport on Tuesday morning.

He will be charged with five counts of war crimes in connection to the murder of five people in Afghanistan between 2009 and 2012, Australian Federal Police (AFP) said. The maximum penalty for each charge is life imprisonment.

Roberts-Smith was hailed as a national hero after being awarded several top military honors, including the Victoria Cross, for his actions during six tours of Afghanistan from 2006 to 2012.

He has consistently denied allegations of wrongdoing during his service, some of which were first reported by Nine Entertainment newspapers in a series of articles starting in 2018.

Among the accusations reported were that Roberts-Smith had shot dead an unarmed Afghan teenager and kicked a handcuffed man off a cliff before ordering him to be shot dead.

[Black Orchid]

I don't like this!

[Bobby]

I don't like this!

He's like Breaker Morant.

[Bobby]

Now he'll get rule 303 -

[Black Orchid]

Andrew Hastie is a disappointment. He stabbed BRS in the back in court so I'm now glad he didn't get the Liberal top job. I thought he was a decent choice for awhile. I was wrong.

Leftist media and pathetic leftists have wasted over $300 million on trying to jail Ben Roberts-Smith. It's pathetic and embarrassing.

We send our men off to war to fight the murdering, unscrupulous, violent and immoral mussies and decorate them. Only to try to strip them and shame them over a dozen years later.

We send them to places where the mussies pretending to be on our side aren't. Where you just NEVER know when they will turn around and bomb or shoot you. Luckily BRS has many powerful people on his side.

It's shameful.

[tllwd]

For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' Chuck him out, the brute!"
But it's "Saviour of 'is country" when the guns begin to shoot;
An' it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' anything you please;
An' Tommy ain't a bloomin' fool - you bet that Tommy sees!