A Canberra Times Editorial asserts that Russia wrongly convicted & imprisoned USans & forced the US to free vicious criminals in return for their release.
AM I missing something? How does the Canberra Times know that ‘Western’ individual(s) convicted in a closed courts are innocent & that Russians convicted under US "rules based" law are guilty?
The Canberra Times Editorial of 4/8/24 says, without evidence, that Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich & a former marine, Paul Whelan, were wrongly convicted & imprisoned in Russia & only released in return for the release of vicious Russian criminals returned to Russia.
The Editorial also asserts, without evidence, that “people held on false premises in Russian prisons” were only freed in return for Western governments freeing people convicted of real & vicious crimes in Western nations.
The Editorial bemoans the fact that Gershkovich was the first Western correspondent arrested on espionage charges in 23 years & that he was held on false charges of collecting information for the CIA without evidence being produced, resulting in his being sentenced, in a closed trial, to I6 years jail. This ONE instance was said to make a mockery of the “global rules-based order” because “a wrongly convicted journalist” was released in exchange for ”a convicted assassin”.
AM I missing something? How does the Canberra Times know that a ‘Western’ individual convicted in a closed court was innocent under Russian law & that the Russians released were guilty of serious crimes? President Trump was recently falsely convicted of felony in a US Kangaroo court so what chance does an ordinary Russian have of a fair trial in the US?
Australians are tried in CLOSED COURTS for alleged breaches of national security so why is it somehow unacceptable & unjust for Russian courts to try espionage matters involving the CIA in closed courts? Australia was prepared to try the McBride & Witness K, (Bernard Colleary) cases in closed courts & even to exclude pertinent evidence in those proceedings.
Our governments & courts constantly gaslight us about adherence to “the rule of law” while consistently flouting natural common law as typified by Justice Mossop’s judgment in the McBride case. Mossop forced McBride to plead guilty to infringement of an unjust rule (law) by ruling that McBride could not plead that his disclosures could serve a public interest going beyond his duties as a military officer.
Australian “rules based” law now allows judges to close courts & to direct that evidence be presented in the absence of defendants. National security legislation now also denies any element of public interest defence & some “agencies”are empowered to secretly detain Australians & compulsory “interrogate” them. In what respects are Russian legal proceedings less fair than Australia's?
The cases involving Witness K, Bernard Colleary & David McBride are prime examples of the deliberate policy of Australia’s governments & judiciaries to falsely use & abuse the concept of “national security” in order to continue their illicit control of this nation.The court ruling in David McBride’s case necessarily implies that McBride & ALL military officers must be silent & hence complicit in any and all criminal activities coming to their attention in their military service.
So why is the Canberra Times “POT” calling the Russian “kettle” BLACK?
Australians are under belligerent occupation by foreign entities masquerading as our governments, courts, Police & military forces. Mossop’s judgment makes that explicit as does the federal government legislation he enforces. Our governments are all private, for profit corporations as are our courts, Police forces & all organs of governance. They do not serve the Australian population’, they serve their corporate controllers and foreign owners.
The “National Security” meme which postulates that Australian governments can validly make “rules”, i.e. so-called “laws”, preventing the population from even knowing let alone expressing an opinion about or seeking to change covert criminal government activities & policies, is unlawful.
Our governments can only survive with the connivance of the legacy media and bogus court systems & compromised Police & military forces. Australia is a criminal enterprise pretending to be a nation. The irony is that as George Carlin said of the US: “Nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care”.
In Australia THAT is obviously due to gaslighting & disinformation promulgated by the MSM.
Sincerely,
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