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Dave’s been in jail for 64 days. Due to immediate concerns for his safety, we can’t say more except to say his situation is grim. He has no access to natural light & restricted contact with his daughters. Help #FreeMcBride by donating to his fundraiser👇🏼🙏
McBride’s intention was not to leak to expose war crimes, it was to show how troops were being unnecessarily hounded by legal etc , ie ‘over-zealous investigations of special forces’
The ABC discovered war crimes in the leaks and went down that path, ignoring McBride’s initial reason for leaking the information.
Now McBride is allegedly playing a hero being victimised for exposing the war crimes.
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His intent or whether he is a real “hero” is not relevant to his conditions of imprisonment or his status as a whistleblower. The information he disclosed was clearly in the public interest and the ABC certainly seemed to agree when it used the information to publish a seven-part series. Isn’t it funny how the tune changed under threat of prosecution?
It’s important to recognise the mechanism is more important than the intent. If people cannot blow the whistle safely, then the “government” can freely keep secrets. “Government” is in air quotes here because often it’s the spooks or the military who get to keep secrets, often from the elected officials. This means that MPs are often kept in the dark (and sometimes on purpose, in a Berejiklian-style “I don’t need to know about that” sense) and this means that a bunch of people who we pay taxes for can do what they like with impunity.
If the secrets are kept, then the people keeping the secrets are not accountable to anyone. This is a serious problem if they start to violate the rights of people on Australian soil. You might feel like it’s not going to be you, but it well could be. There is no safety on that gun. The only way around it is to make whistleblowing safe.
Regardless of David’s original intentions, he is being victimised for exposing war crimes. There is nothing just in his incarceration.
You’ve commented the exact same thing in a previous post on this. Please actually engage with the counter-arguments and materials I responded with here .
I’d really like to know what else was in the bags of documents David McBride handed the AFP and what else was in the documents he gave to journalists including ABC’s Dan Oakes.
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