Craig Kelly:🇦🇺Foundation for Economic Education
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It’s been widely reported that 21 former SAS soldiers lined up to testify against Roberts-Smith during the civil defamation trial.
Because what is routinely ignored is that the defamation case was not just about alleged war crimes—it also centred on claims of “bullying” within the SAS.
How many of these twenty one testified about the bullying allegations and how many about the war crimes?
And “Bullying”?
In elite combat units?
By commanders in war zones?
By that standard, you could indict most of the officers in the history of the Australian and British armies.
And let’s not forget—this was a civil case, not a criminal one—where powerful interests opposing Roberts-Smith were secretly paying witnesses hundreds of thousands of dollars in exchange for their testimony. That’s not justice. That’s a stacked deck.
And those that testified that he killed people ?
That was his job.
That’s what he was awarded the Victory Cross and Medal for Gallantry for.
Read the citations;
ordered to "kill or capture"
"resulting in the death of an insurgent"
"killing two"
"engaged and killed further enemy"
"locate and neutralise the Militia"
"effectively employ his sniper weapon"
So you bet he killed people - it was kill or be killed.
But Taliban or "civilians" ?
This wasn’t a conventional battlefield. The Taliban didn’t wear uniforms. They blended in. They hid among the population.
So what exactly was an Australian soldier supposed to do—wait until a weapon was pointed at him before acting?
So some killings were worthy of a Victory Cross - but others were "war crimes" ?
Any fair-minded Australian should see this for what it is—a grim, dispiriting moment for the country. A Victoria Cross recipient dragged through a process that raises more questions than it answers, while Defence Force morale sinks and recruitment struggles deepen.
And if he is to face trial, then it must be exactly that: a fair trial. Not a show trial. Not a political spectacle. But already we’ve seen Channel 9 cameras placed at the airport ready to film his arrest.
And any fair trial—must be by a “jury of his peers” , people who have experienced the brutal reality of combat, not those whose greatest daily risk is a nasty paper cut.
https://x.com/craigkellyAFEE/status/2041998520366821627
He is everything the left hate, the very image of masculinity.