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LEFT WITH NO DEFENSE, McBRIDE PLEADS GUILTY (consortiumnews.com)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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On the street outside the courthouse immediately afterward, Davis told reporters: “We received the decision just this afternoon, which was in essence to remove evidence from the defense. … The Crown, the government, was given the authority to bundle up evidence and run out the backdoor with it. He is no longer able to put it before a jury.”

McBride said: “I stand tall and I believe I did my duty and I don’t see it as a defeat, I see it as a beginning of a better Australia.”

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

You hear that, defence forces? The government says you're goons for the ruling class, not defenders of the people.

They have also implicitly admitted that the interests of the ruling class are at odds with those of the people.

Any sense of moral duty you have in your jobs is unfounded.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

To hell with the Nuremberg Principle. Just follow your orders!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

And in case anyone wants to split hairs about how they are only required to follow lawful orders, I'm pretty sure the Nuremberg defendants were also following lawful orders. Plus I don't know how you follow lawful orders to either commit or cover up war crimes. Sounds like that sort of thing should be unlawful.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I bet if the govt hadn't pinched their evidence and it had actually gone to trial, that would have been one of McBride's arguments; that it wasn't a lawful order as evidence of murder can't be classified. But that's what Dreyfuss's lackeys did with the approval of the judge.

How can you have a trial when the relevant evidence in defence is suppressed. You can't.