Jack Waterford (Canberra Judges jailing the wrong people CT 8/5/24) says ADF is one of the most secretive military forces in the world & our courts treat national security leaks as worse than murder.

Ron: Jack's right.Which raises the question of "What IS national security”? And: Why do Australian governments & judiciaries USE IT to justify intimidating & prosecuting Australians.

Jack Waterford (Canberra Judges jailing the wrong people CT 8/5/24, p. 28) says the ADF is one of the most secretive military forces in the world & that the judiciary treats leaking of information on matters of alleged national security as worse than murder. He is not wrong.

That raises the question of "What IS national security”? And: Why do Australian governments & judiciaries USE IT to justify intimidating & prosecuting Australians who expose corrupt & criminal behaviour by politicians & government bureaucrats in the Attorney General’s Department, ASIO, ASIS, the ADF & elsewhere.

Let’s be clear about the situation. Those asserting the need for secrecy about their activities because of “national security” are saying that exposing what they do will imperial all Australians, That is utter nonsense. Soldiers murdering civilians in foreign lands harm our national image & could cause retaliation, as could stealing the resources of foreign nations like Timor Leste. See eg:

BUT the resentment & possible retaliation against Australians & our national interests occurs because of those attacks on foreign nations NOT as a result of our subsequent knowledge of them because an honest Australian seeks to prevent such criminal behaviour by our government & its employees. Such foreign retaliation, if it occurs, would not result from actions in Australia that seek to prevent or correct our government’s criminal activities.

Concealing from Australians the misdeeds of our military & bureaucrats overseas actually harms us & our national interests because those misdeeds go uncorrected which encourages further criminal activity by Australian governments, bureaucrats & the ADF.

The involvement of our judiciary in the suppression of informers who seek to prevent these criminal activities & to inform Australians about them is particularly concerning. Our governments constantly gaslight us about adherence to “the rule of law” while consistently flouting it as typified by Justice Mossop’s judgment in the McBride case. Mossop forced McBride to plead guilty to infringement of an unjust 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 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 & compulsorily “interrogate” them.

The cases involving Witness K, Bernard Collaery & 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.

THINK ABOUT THAT.

Perhaps that’s not surprising given that Australian governments routinely direct the nation & its military to commit war crimes in the service of the US empire.

Be aware that Australia’s military involvement in Afghanistan & other US invasions & occupations of sovereign nations are major WAR CRIMES committed by Australian governments condoned by the national judiciary and abetted by the federal bureaucracy.

In effect 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 owners and foreign controllers. That’s why the ADF was in Afghanistan at all. See eg:

Women’s Rights in Afghanistan “Before And After” America’s Criminal Military Agenda

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The only threat to Australians’ national security comes from within & is created & typified by the use of the bogus “National Security” meme which postulates that Australians are NOT entitled to know what their governments, & their servants & agents are doing. That is BOLLOCKS. The only justification for having governments is to serve the needs of the general population.

The “National Security” meme which postulates that Australian governments can validly make 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 ludicrous. 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”.

BUT they will.

Eventually Australians will notice that the special interests of governments & their owners, security services & senior bureaucrats are BOGUS, a narradigm put out by the owners of our government corporations.

Australian troops have repeatedly travelled many thousands of kilometres away from our shores to attack nations like Sudan, South Africa, Turkey, Germany, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria & others with whom we had no quarrel. Such military interference in the affairs of other nations has been the only cause of the ONE military attack on Australian soil, namely the Japanese bombing raids on Darwin, Cairns & Sydney during WWII, after we attacked Japanese troops in Malaya thousands of kilometres from Australia, because the British empire required us to do that. Once you ignore our government’s Anglo-US propaganda & local MSM gaslighting about ALL of our military invasions of foreign nations the mythical “National Security” meme disappears.

THAT exposes Australian governments & some of their employees & lackeys in the MSM, various institutions, & political commentators, as the real threat to Australians’ national security interests.

Sincerely,